Skidoo,

I agree on the Camera PRO warning. I have recently tried every camera app on the Android Market using my Droid.

There is no question to me one stands out above all the rest. PRO Zoom Camera is my favorite. It has the right combination of speed, great easy to use interface and many creative effects. I mean you can even add text to your photo!!

Seriously, try it folks. PRO Zoom Camera is the bomb.

Camera **PRO**?? Pshaw. No mention of a timer. No mention of a continuous mode. No mention of rear or slow flash sync modes, flash strobiing, or continuous flash illumination.

All of the white balance and many (perhaps all?) of the other “custom” settings are built into the device’s camera ALREADY and exposed as simple API parameters.

Hello. You can set custom WB and “scene” filters (e.g. mono and sepia) in the Moto Droid’s default camera app (ref. 2.1).

Camera “Pro” indeed. Buyer beware of fool’s gold.

Kinda funny when you stop and think that we’ve evolved quite a bit over the past 170 years the inception of the camera and thus photography, yet despite all our technology it still takes a damn long time to take a picture…

It is good to see the develpers of the application commenting on this review. It shows that they are trying to see what people want and make the changes needed.

I like that. I will check it out as I like the camera app the LEAST of anything currently.

While trying out this app, I tried to switch from a negative to solarize photo effect and this app froze up my phone so completely, I had to remove the battery to be able to reboot it.

It did some nice, fast test shots, but this ability to totally lock up my phone was not a nice feature.

Thank you very much for writing this great review about our Camera Pro app!
We recently released a new version with new features such as brightness / contrast control and color balance.

Thanks,
Swiss Codemonkey Team

Snapphoto is better IMO as well. I can really be seen that it has been around since day one, because it is constantly improving. It’s nice to have new features like zoom, but frankly, zoom sucks and gives crappy pictures. Snapphoto’s quality lies in the fact that it aims to make good pictures instead of making an app for people to play around with (no one will actually want to use the zoom for example).

Snapphoto ftw!

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I use SnapPhoto Pro and it works great for me and has all these features. just no Zoom. but id rather have no zoom than a fake one.

This article has completely missed the fact that it was a different camera app that did zoom first on Android – Camera Zoom. Camera Zoom also has some pretty cool shutter animation effects which are skinnable and now has custom borders too.

Startup times are very fast.