[Update: tap tap tap has shown how they used the volume button as the shutter button on their blog. It’s a good explanation and seems like an honest mistake.] The short-awaited update to Camera+ ($1.99) arrived earlier today, and it is almost as awesome as I thought it would be. Don’t get me wrong: the […]
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Camera+ 1.2 for iPhone: new exposure and focus controls added, shoots even faster

Jul 21st 2010 by

[Update: tap tap tap has shown how they used the volume button as the shutter button on their blog. It’s a good explanation and seems like an honest mistake.]

The short-awaited update to Camera+ ($1.99) arrived earlier today, and it is almost as awesome as I thought it would be. Don’t get me wrong: the separate exposure and focus controls are really incredible, but I was wrong to expect that tap tap tap had somehow magically mapped the shutter button to one of the volume buttons. I’m actually still not sure about how photographer Lisa Boyle snapped the shot in the original 1.2 preview video, but it certainly didn’t look like she was using the image stabilizer, since activating that features causes the shutter button to blink red and glow green when it’s about to shoot (none of which was shown in the video, as far as I saw).

Camera pics are now processed faster (so you can fire off more shots in the same amount of time) and the app now correctly adds metadata, although only if you upload to Flickr from within the app.

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