Life in LoFi: iPhoneography

LevelCam 1.0 screenshots and size reduction from cropping

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LevelCam
Version 1.1
Price $1.99

Bottom Line: Good automatic crop and straighten and the new interface tweaks make it a good shoot-from-the-hip camera.

I hate to leave a review online after a developer has fixed so many of the things that I’d originally whined about. LevelCam is one of those apps.

Shortly after I’d posted my original review of this shoot-from-the-hip camera, developer Mark Bublitz quickly addressed most of the issues and posted an update to the App Store. He’s fixed most of the issues I’d raised and kept or improved upon what worked in LevelCam. You can’t ask for much more than that.

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LevelCam screenshots and size reduction from cropping (click to enlarge)

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LevelCam
Version 1.0
Price: $1.99 USD

Bottom Line: Good automatic crop and straighten, but needs some interface tweaks to work as a shoot-from-the-hip camera.

There are camera apps with built-in levels or artificial horizons. There are a lot of apps that crop. LevelCam by Marc Bublitz is the first camera app to do both at the same time. LevelCam bills itself as the world’s first unrestricted AHAC (Automatic Horizon Adjustment Camera). That’s a fancy way of saying this app automatically straightens your image and then crops it before saving to the camera roll.

For the most part, LevelCam works as well as taking a photo and manually straightening in an app like Photogene, only because it’s doing all the work in the app and much of it behind the scenes, the process goes much quicker.

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Both Crop Suey and Straighten Image by appingo are free in the App Store right now. Both Life In LoFi and iPhoneography.com recently recommended Straighten Image. Glyn Evans also recommends Crop Suey as well (at this moment, we haven’t reviewed the app yet).

Straighten Image is a no frills, one trick pony app, that lets you quickly and easily realign the horizon, and straighten out any crooked photos. Besides its simplicity, what I like about the app is that it resamples images back to their original pixel dimensions even after it’s shaved a few pixels off the edges. Crop Suey is more full featured. In addition to straightening the image, you can also crop, flip and rotate images.

Recently, both apps sold for $0.99 USD. These are simple, but great utilities. Grab them both now while they’re free.

App Store links: Crop Suey |   Straighten Image

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