Camera+ Legacy

This update brings bug fixes.

This update brings bug fixes.

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Editor launch issue fix.

Fixed a crash when using iOS 12.

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

In this release we added iOS 14 and iPhone 12 support, and fixed some bugs.

In this release we have fixed an issue with capturing slow shutter pictures.

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

In this release we have further improved iOS 13 support and fixed several other issues.

In this update we have added iOS 13 along with the new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro line.

In this update we have added iOS 12 and the new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max support.

If you love Camera+ 2 but didn't want to clutter your Photo Library with the contents of your Lightbox, you can now easily migrate all your photos to their spiffy new home!

Simply tap on the migration button that automatically appears or select the new migration option in the Menu. This will copy your photos with all of their edits intact into a temporary secure storage. Then Camera+ 2 will launch automagically and recover them all.

As with every release, we have also taken the opportunity to squishify a few more bugs and improve some technical aspects of the app to make sure it runs buttery smooth.

If you love Camera+ 2 but didn't want to clutter your Photo Library with the contents of your Lightbox, you can now easily migrate all your photos to their spiffy new home!

Simply tap on the migration button that automatically appears or select the new migration option in the Menu. This will copy your photos with all of their edits intact into a temporary secure storage. Then Camera+ 2 will launch automagically and recover them all.

As with every release, we have also taken the opportunity to squishify a few more bugs and improve some technical aspects of the app to make sure it runs buttery smooth.

Improvements
* RAW shooting is now compatible with Flash if you have iOS 11.3+.
* Greatly improved copy performance.

Fixes
* Editing a depth picture and exporting it to the photo library now correctly renders the filters. We fixed a problem where only the original was saved, if the app was configured to use Revertible Edits and any of the High Quality image formats.
* Fixed an occasional crash in iOS 11.2 that could happen when visiting the Lightbox. It took us a long time to discover it, as it was a rare incompatibility with iOS versions earlier than 11.3, and regretfully the system did not generate a crash report for us.
* Fixed another occasional crash when copying photos from the Lightbox, when TIFF was the selected quality setting. This one was fully our fault.
* When the square crop was selected, sometimes the images produced were not exactly square but one-pixel off. Our square cropping calculation should now be precise. We have our share of OCD developers, but this problem still slipped through somehow.
* In the Chinese and Spanish localizations, HEIF had been mistakenly translated as TIFF in the export dialogs, possibly creating confusion among those fine folk. Our apologies.

No more Macro crashes in iOS 10

Attempting to shoot Macro pictures in TIFF quality caused a crash in iOS 10, which has been fixed. Thanks to Meri (@iphoneartgirl) for pointing this out!

Better low-disk space handling

We have improved the way Camera+ deals with devices that have very little free space left. It will now refuse to perform certain actions (exporting your photos) if you are low on free space. That's better than blindly attempting the operation and making things worse.

Other fixes

. The Lightbox film sprockets were displaying inconsistently. They now behave as expected, even for photos that have a RAW representation.
. A couple of other very infrequent crashes have been fixed.

This update is about reliability, for the most part: we have fixed a number of issues you guys have reported, and have tried to do it carefully so we don't break anything else. Fixing bugs and testing is only so much fun, so we couldn't help but to squeeze a couple of other niceties along the way. Details below.

Copy & Paste Edits

Want to transfer your carefully applied edits to another photo? Select the edited photo in your Lightbox, long tap the Edit button and then select Copy Edits. Select another photo, long tap Edit, and then Paste Edits. Compatible edits will be transferred, but things like Portrait mode will only attach if the destination photo was captured with depth information.

Assorted UI & Workflow Improvements

. The editing extension has been improved to display better in iPhone X. It was serviceable before, but it's nicer now.
. When sharing multiple photos to Files in iOS 11, a nasty repetitive dialog appeared to confirm the name of the transferred files. We got rid of that.
. Also in the sharing department, sharing unedited photos to WhatsApp failed if the photos had been captured in wide color, because apparently WhatsApp gets confused with the extended color information.
. About color spaces: a badge indicating the color space is now displayed in the summary Info of the photo. It's been always there for JPEG photos, we added it to HEIFs and TIFFs.

Bug Fixes

. We fixed the crashes we found.
. When shooting RAW, we were always saving the DNG representation combined with the JPEG/HEIF asset, even if you had chosen to save it as an independent file. The setting is now correctly honored. However, please note that this only applies to photos being saved to the Camera Roll; the Lightbox always uses the combined representation.
. We forgot to include the translation for a couple of error messages in the last update, so they always appeared in English. Those translations have been incorporated now.
. Sometimes the UI would end up in a weird state after adding a new sharing service. Fixed.
. We have optimized the memory usage in the iPhone 6, specially when shooting TIFF and macro.

This is a bug fix release.

Camera+ 10.10.10 (or 10.X.X, as we call it affectionately) is our iPhone X release. We have extended depth capture to the front-facing TrueDepth camera, so you can now take depth selfies and apply edits based on depth. We have also adapted the UI to take full advantage of iPhone X's new form factor, its gorgeous screen and its unique gestures.

While we were at that we took the opportunity to revamp the import screen -for all devices, not just the new one-, so it is much clearer, faster and visually appealing now.

In addition to that, we squashed some bugs and polished a few bits to make your experience more fluid and reliable.

Also, with Camera+ 10 you get with full depth support, HEIF, accurate viewfinder and smiles!

Fixed that iOS 10 crash! Sorry about that!

The UI has been adapted to take full advantage of iPhone X. Camera+ 10.10 (or is it 10.X?) feels at home with the device's new form factor, its gorgeous screen and its unique gestures.

While we were at that we took the opportunity to revamp the import screen -for all devices, not just the new one-, so it is much clearer, faster and visually appealing now.

In addition to that, we squashed some bugs and polished a few bits to make your experience more fluid and reliable.

Also, with Camera+ 10 you get with full depth support, HEIF, accurate viewfinder and smiles!

The UI has been adapted to take full advantage of iPhone X. Camera+ 10.10 (or is it 10.X?) feels at home with the device's new form factor, its gorgeous screen and its unique gestures.

While we were at that we took the opportunity to revamp the import screen -for all devices, not just the new one-, so it is much clearer, faster and visually appealing now.

In addition to that, we squashed some bugs and polished a few bits to make your experience more fluid and reliable.

Also, with Camera+ 10 you get with full depth support, HEIF, accurate viewfinder and smiles!

Camera+ 10 arrives with full depth support, HEIF, accurate viewfinder and smiles!

We love the Portrait mode that Apple introduced in the dual-lens iPhones - y’know, that feature where you take a close-up and the background is nicely blurred and faded to draw attention to your main subject. Under iOS 10 we weren’t allowed to read depth information from the system so we couldn’t do anything like that. This all changed in iOS 11 - we are very happy to report that you can now capture Depth photos inside your favorite shooting app.

Note that we said "Depth" and not "Portrait" above. That's because you can use that information not only for portraits, but for a variety of other creative purposes as well. Most of the editing tools in The Lab have been enhanced to support Depth. This means you can now desaturate the background so the foreground pops in vivid color, or apply exposure compensation to a distant area of the image. We can't wait to see what you’ll be able to do with it. Oh, and for those of you wondering, it works for pictures taken with the system camera too - if you have Portrait photos in your album, feel free to import them into Camera+ and see what you can achieve in The Lab.

All-new Camera Design

In Camera+ 10 we turned our attention to the camera itself. We came up with a new design that feels completely at home in iOS 11 but, more importantly, we’ve made sure that the most frequently used features and settings are closer at hand and easier to find. A new shooting bar is always present at the top of the screen, giving you quick access to the new Portrait/Depth mode, to the beloved Macro mode, and to frequently used controls such as the flash and the camera switcher.

By tapping on the small (+) button next to the shutter you'll have easy access to tons of useful settings. You no longer need to open the menu to toggle the grid or the horizon level, and you can also quickly enable RAW capture. Additional shooting modes have been made available in that same place. Since it was getting a little crowded in there, we decided to introduce a 3D carousel you can flip to access whatever mode you want to try. One of the additions we are most proud of is the new Smile mode - it works like the stabilizer, but for smiles. Have you ever found yourself in a position where you are trying to shoot a selfie and got the framing just right, only to find you can't reach the shutter? Now you can simply smile, and the photo will be shot. It doesn't need to be selfies, it works for the back camera too, and for any number of people - just point the camera at them and tell a funny joke.

One last important detail in the camera is that now your viewfinder is always accurate. No matter what device you use, what your settings are or what controls you have on screen, the viewfinder will always show the exact area that will be captured. This was important for those photographers among you that like to carefully frame their photos, so we made sure that you get what you see.

HEIF format

Camera+ 10 supports the efficient HEIF format across the board. This image file format promises better efficiency than the more well-known JPEG. This means that if you do nothing, your photos will magically take up less space and will look the same or even better. Personally, we recommend you leave it on! The only downside is that HEIF is a relatively new format, so it still does not enjoy as much support as the venerable JPEG does. If you need to transfer your photos to a computer to continue working on them and are worried about compatibility, you can always choose to save your files in JPEG.

Camera+ 10 arrives with full depth support, HEIF, accurate viewfinder and smiles!

We love the Portrait mode that Apple introduced in the dual-lens iPhones - y’know, that feature where you take a close-up and the background is nicely blurred and faded to draw attention to your main subject. Under iOS 10 we weren’t allowed to read depth information from the system so we couldn’t do anything like that. This all changed in iOS 11 - we are very happy to report that you can now capture Depth photos inside your favorite shooting app.

Note that we said "Depth" and not "Portrait" above. That's because you can use that information not only for portraits, but for a variety of other creative purposes as well. Most of the editing tools in The Lab have been enhanced to support Depth. This means you can now desaturate the background so the foreground pops in vivid color, or apply exposure compensation to a distant area of the image. We can't wait to see what you’ll be able to do with it. Oh, and for those of you wondering, it works for pictures taken with the system camera too - if you have Portrait photos in your album, feel free to import them into Camera+ and see what you can achieve in The Lab.

All-new Camera Design

In Camera+ 10 we turned our attention to the camera itself. We came up with a new design that feels completely at home in iOS 11 but, more importantly, we’ve made sure that the most frequently used features and settings are closer at hand and easier to find. A new shooting bar is always present at the top of the screen, giving you quick access to the new Portrait/Depth mode, to the beloved Macro mode, and to frequently used controls such as the flash and the camera switcher.

By tapping on the small (+) button next to the shutter you'll have easy access to tons of useful settings. You no longer need to open the menu to toggle the grid or the horizon level, and you can also quickly enable RAW capture. Additional shooting modes have been made available in that same place. Since it was getting a little crowded in there, we decided to introduce a 3D carousel you can flip to access whatever mode you want to try. One of the additions we are most proud of is the new Smile mode - it works like the stabilizer, but for smiles. Have you ever found yourself in a position where you are trying to shoot a selfie and got the framing just right, only to find you can't reach the shutter? Now you can simply smile, and the photo will be shot. It doesn't need to be selfies, it works for the back camera too, and for any number of people - just point the camera at them and tell a funny joke.

One last important detail in the camera is that now your viewfinder is always accurate. No matter what device you use, what your settings are or what controls you have on screen, the viewfinder will always show the exact area that will be captured. This was important for those photographers among you that like to carefully frame their photos, so we made sure that you get what you see.

HEIF format

Camera+ 10 supports the efficient HEIF format across the board. This image file format promises better efficiency than the more well-known JPEG. This means that if you do nothing, your photos will magically take up less space and will look the same or even better. Personally, we recommend you leave it on! The only downside is that HEIF is a relatively new format, so it still does not enjoy as much support as the venerable JPEG does. If you need to transfer your photos to a computer to continue working on them and are worried about compatibility, you can always choose to save your files in JPEG.

Introducing Camera+ 9.1 with more RAW POWER… and more POP!

For you photographers who want total control over your photos and wish to attain the best possible quality in doing so, you’ll be very pleased to hear that in Camera+ 9.1 we’ve enhanced the RAW capabilities that we recently added in Camera+ 9 to help you do just that.

Specifically, when you have Camera+ set to save the RAW photos when you shoot, we’ve added options to enable you to either keep together or separate the JPEG/TIFF and RAW portions of your photos when you go to save them. So you can now either save them as single combined photos or separate each into two, with one being the RAW DNG (digital negative). Separating the photos can make it easier to deal with them if, for instance, you move them to a computer for further processing.

Additionally, we’ve added options so that you can export either just the JPEG/TIFF portions or just the RAW portions to your Camera Roll. You can access these new export features via the action button in the RAW Lab, and via long press or 3D Touch on the Save button in the Lightbox.

Did somebody just say 3D Touch??

Along these lines, we’ve also added 3D Touch capabilities to several areas of Camera+. Most notably, you can now 3D Touch the Lightbox icon right from the camera screen to access the most recent photo in your Lightbox. So now you have zippy access to the last photo you’ve shot and you can do things like copy it… save it… or share it without having to jump into the Lightbox. You can now even quickly delete those inadvertent thumb shots and unwanted photobombs right from the camera screen. Nifty, eh?

But we caught the 3D Touch Fever and didn’t stop there… so you can now 3D Touch various elements in the Lightbox, too. “Precisely what?” you ask? Well, where would the fun be in that if we just told you. For those of you with 3D Touch-capable devices, you know that 7/8 of the fun of 3D Touch is the mystery-meat aspect of it where you just start jamming your thumb on various things and hope that something magical will peek and/or pop. So we won’t ruin that experience for you by telling you anything further. Consider it an early Easter Egg hunt. Enjoy!

Moving back into the 2D realm where there are far less mysteries & surprises… we’ve renamed the AutoSave section of the menu to Save because we’ve added some save-related functionality and it all lives nicely under that heading now. The new functionality is a feature that enables you to choose between either revertible or non-revertible edits when you save your pics to your Camera Roll. Revertible pro: you’re able to undo any edits to your photos, even after saving them. Revertible con: saved photos take up more space on your device. And vice-versa for non-revertible, of course. Sidenote: Autocorrect has been beaten to submission regarding trying to change “revertible” to “reversible”. WIN!

For you metadata geeks who like to be all in-the-know, we’ve added a few niceties, along with some spit & polish to the ever-informative Info panel.

And finally… coming to you directly from the Department of When You Remove Existing Features, It’s Guaranteed to Bite You in the You Know What, No Matter How Insignificant You Think They Are: we’ve added a “new” JPEG Downscaled quality option to compensate for the recently removed Optimized option. Or you can look at it as us “re-introducing” it with a different name and better functionality. Or mayyybe even “un-retiring” it? Take your pick. We’ll just be over here growling, but with our tail between our collective legs…

If you peer over the horizon, you just might be able to catch a glimpse of Camera+ 10 making its way toward you. One word for now: AMBITIOUS

9.0.2

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A new Update to see
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Our finest Apps we bring
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And fix the Broken Things
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Now I need Rum.


What’s new in Camera+ 9

iPhone 7 Plus dual lens support

For those of you with big pockets (both in the literal and figurative sense) who are fortunate enough to have a shiny (in the literal sense if you opted for Jet Black™), new iPhone 7 Plus, you’ll be very happy to hear that Camera+ now has extensive support for the dual lenses it sports. You’re now able to explicitly choose to shoot with the wide angle or telephoto lens so you can get exactly the lens you desire for the given shooting situation. If you prefer the simplicity of not having to think about those sorts of things like lens pickin’, you can just keep the lens switcher set to Duo mode and let your iPhone 7 Plus do its magic.

One thing worth knowing along these lines is that in Apple’s Camera app, the 2× zoom button sort of implies that it behaves as a wide angle / tele switcher, but it’s actually not (sometimes it’s a wide/tele switcher… sometimes it’s a 2× digital zoom button… and sometimes it’s something else altogether). The “tell” here is if you set it to 2× then put a finger over the tele lens (the one on the right side if you’re looking at the back of the phone). If you’re expecting to snap a pic of your finger, you’ll be surprised in some situations… when lighting conditions are relatively dark, the system will use the wide angle lens (to prevent an underexposed photo, since the tele lens has a higher ƒ-number of 2.8 than the wide angle lens’ ƒ-number of 1.8… in other words, this somewhat confusingly means it has a smaller aperture, which therefore lets in less light). Now to make a long story even longer, one of the benefits of the dual lenses is that the system can combine info from both lenses, resulting in a better photo than one taken with a single lens. In any case, we’ve implemented our Duo lens mode to be consistent with Apple’s Camera behavior, but we’ve also enabled you to choose precisely which lens you want. Hopefully at least some of you will have found at least some of this informative. Undoubtedly, some others of you have had a flashback to some high school science class, have fallen asleep by now, and are drooling on your desk. The More You Know :STARSWOOSH:


RAW shooting

If you’re using an iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, SE, 7, or 7 Plus, you now have the privilege of shooting in RAW. You’ll find this new setting in the (newly renamed) Quality & Format menu. For those of you not in the know, shooting in RAW can provide you with the highest quality shots your iPhone camera is capable of taking. RAW photos actually store more information than normal JPEG or TIFF photos, so when you edit these photos, you’ll have the opportunity to pull out otherwise lost details to help you achieve the perfect photo.


RAW editing

To go hand-in-hand with RAW shooting, we’ve added the capabilities for you to make adjustments to the pics you’ve shot in RAW. The way to look at this in the world of Camera+ is that the photos that come out of your camera sensor have some processing applied to them by the system. The items that end up in your Lightbox right after shooting are the “developed” versions of these photos. You can then edit them using Camera+’s suite of editing tools like The Lab and apply our various filters to them. But now, with RAW thrown into the picture (bad pun’d), you have the opportunity to “re-develop” the pics fresh from your camera using a new suite of editing tools we call the RAW Lab.

9.0.1 Emergency Bugfix Alert

We interrupt your Camera+ 9 shooting adventures to let you know that we’ve just put out a Camera+ 9.0.1 emergency bugfix release. What’s new: we removed various thingies that were causing the app to crash and make this holiday season a little less pleasurable than it should be. Happy Holidays from all the elves on the Camera+ team!


What’s new in Camera+ 9

iPhone 7 Plus dual lens support

For those of you with big pockets (both in the literal and figurative sense) who are fortunate enough to have a shiny (in the literal sense if you opted for Jet Black™), new iPhone 7 Plus, you’ll be very happy to hear that Camera+ now has extensive support for the dual lenses it sports. You’re now able to explicitly choose to shoot with the wide angle or telephoto lens so you can get exactly the lens you desire for the given shooting situation. If you prefer the simplicity of not having to think about those sorts of things like lens pickin’, you can just keep the lens switcher set to Duo mode and let your iPhone 7 Plus do its magic.

One thing worth knowing along these lines is that in Apple’s Camera app, the 2× zoom button sort of implies that it behaves as a wide angle / tele switcher, but it’s actually not (sometimes it’s a wide/tele switcher… sometimes it’s a 2× digital zoom button… and sometimes it’s something else altogether). The “tell” here is if you set it to 2× then put a finger over the tele lens (the one on the right side if you’re looking at the back of the phone). If you’re expecting to snap a pic of your finger, you’ll be surprised in some situations… when lighting conditions are relatively dark, the system will use the wide angle lens (to prevent an underexposed photo, since the tele lens has a higher ƒ-number of 2.8 than the wide angle lens’ ƒ-number of 1.8… in other words, this somewhat confusingly means it has a smaller aperture, which therefore lets in less light). Now to make a long story even longer, one of the benefits of the dual lenses is that the system can combine info from both lenses, resulting in a better photo than one taken with a single lens. In any case, we’ve implemented our Duo lens mode to be consistent with Apple’s Camera behavior, but we’ve also enabled you to choose precisely which lens you want. Hopefully at least some of you will have found at least some of this informative. Undoubtedly, some others of you have had a flashback to some high school science class, have fallen asleep by now, and are drooling on your desk. The More You Know :STARSWOOSH:


RAW shooting

If you’re using an iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, SE, 7, or 7 Plus, you now have the privilege of shooting in RAW. You’ll find this new setting in the (newly renamed) Quality & Format menu. For those of you not in the know, shooting in RAW can provide you with the highest quality shots your iPhone camera is capable of taking. RAW photos actually store more information than normal JPEG or TIFF photos, so when you edit these photos, you’ll have the opportunity to pull out otherwise lost details to help you achieve the perfect photo.


RAW editing

To go hand-in-hand with RAW shooting, we’ve added the capabilities for you to make adjustments to the pics you’ve shot in RAW. The way to look at this in the world of Camera+ is that the photos that come out of your camera sensor have some processing applied to them by the system. The items that end up in your Lightbox right after shooting are the “developed” versions of these photos. You can then edit them using Camera+’s suite of editing tools like The Lab and apply our various filters to them. But now, with RAW thrown into the picture (bad pun’d), you have the opportunity to “re-develop” the pics fresh from your camera using a new suite of editing tools we call the RAW Lab.

iPhone 7 Plus dual lens support

For those of you with big pockets (both in the literal and figurative sense) who are fortunate enough to have a shiny (in the literal sense if you opted for Jet Black™), new iPhone 7 Plus, you’ll be very happy to hear that Camera+ now has extensive support for the dual lenses it sports. You’re now able to explicitly choose to shoot with the wide angle or telephoto lens so you can get exactly the lens you desire for the given shooting situation. If you prefer the simplicity of not having to think about those sorts of things like lens pickin’, you can just keep the lens switcher set to Duo mode and let your iPhone 7 Plus do its magic.

One thing worth knowing along these lines is that in Apple’s Camera app, the 2× zoom button sort of implies that it behaves as a wide angle / tele switcher, but it’s actually not (sometimes it’s a wide/tele switcher… sometimes it’s a 2× digital zoom button… and sometimes it’s something else altogether). The “tell” here is if you set it to 2× then put a finger over the tele lens (the one on the right side if you’re looking at the back of the phone). If you’re expecting to snap a pic of your finger, you’ll be surprised in some situations… when lighting conditions are relatively dark, the system will use the wide angle lens (to prevent an underexposed photo, since the tele lens has a higher ƒ-number of 2.8 than the wide angle lens’ ƒ-number of 1.8… in other words, this somewhat confusingly means it has a smaller aperture, which therefore lets in less light). Now to make a long story even longer, one of the benefits of the dual lenses is that the system can combine info from both lenses, resulting in a better photo than one taken with a single lens. In any case, we’ve implemented our Duo lens mode to be consistent with Apple’s Camera behavior, but we’ve also enabled you to choose precisely which lens you want. Hopefully at least some of you will have found at least some of this informative. Undoubtedly, some others of you have had a flashback to some high school science class, have fallen asleep by now, and are drooling on your desk. The More You Know :STARSWOOSH:


RAW shooting

If you’re using an iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, SE, 7, or 7 Plus, you now have the privilege of shooting in RAW. You’ll find this new setting in the (newly renamed) Quality & Format menu. For those of you not in the know, shooting in RAW can provide you with the highest quality shots your iPhone camera is capable of taking. RAW photos actually store more information than normal JPEG or TIFF photos, so when you edit these photos, you’ll have the opportunity to pull out otherwise lost details to help you achieve the perfect photo.


RAW editing

To go hand-in-hand with RAW shooting, we’ve added the capabilities for you to make adjustments to the pics you’ve shot in RAW. The way to look at this in the world of Camera+ is that the photos that come out of your camera sensor have some processing applied to them by the system. The items that end up in your Lightbox right after shooting are the “developed” versions of these photos. You can then edit them using Camera+’s suite of editing tools like The Lab and apply our various filters to them. But now, with RAW thrown into the picture (bad pun’d), you have the opportunity to “re-develop” the pics fresh from your camera using a new suite of editing tools we call the RAW Lab.


Haptics Majicks

One of the most underrated features in the new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus is haptic feedback. It’s a taste of the future of mobile device user experience and it’s surprising that Apple hasn’t done more to promote it. So we’re helping do just that by tastefully including haptic feedback throughout Camera+ 9 and letting you know about it. Haptic feedback brings new life to elements like the Camera+ shooting control wheels and once you’ve experienced it, you’ll definitely miss it when you’re using a device that hasn’t been blessed with this very cool, new feature.

What’s new in Camera+ 8.0.2

A short tale of Sibling Rivalry…

There was once a young whippersnapper. His name was 6 Plus. When he was born, he got all the attention. Then around a year later, his parents gave birth to his brother, who was given the name 6S Plus. Sadly, most of the attention given to 6 Plus started to shift over to 6S Plus. This made 6 Plus very angry and petulant and made him act out in ways somewhat unbecoming of a young lad… like crashing when using Camera+ 8. Because sometimes even negative attention is better than no attention at all. But Camera+ didn’t like all the negative attention that was bestowed upon itself… in the form of 1-star reviews. So Camera+ had a little chat with 6 Plus and helped it work out its grievances. And everyone lived happily ever after in a perfect 5-star world!

~ THE END ~


What’s new in Camera+ 8

Slow Shutter
By far, the biggest addition to Camera+ 8 is an innovative slow shutter feature. When you’re shooting in the manual modes, you can now have effective shutter speeds as long as 30 seconds. So now you’ll be able to do things like take those kinds of amazing, misty, creamy waterfall photos that you see in magazines. And you’ll be able to do some creative night photography. It opens your iPhone photography up to so many new possibilities that are only limited to whatever your imagination can conjure up.

Ultra-low ISO
Working hand-in-hand with the new extended range of shutter speeds is an extended range of effective ISO values. With this range, you’ll be able to get down to unbelievably low apparent ISO values to make it possible to take long exposure photos without having to resort to using things like ND filters to prevent your photos from blowing out. And throughout the extended shutter speed / ISO range, the preview you see in your viewfinder is a very good indicator of what you’ll be capturing as far as exposure goes, so there’s little to no guesswork when you’re doing long exposure photography… not even the most expensive DSLR cameras can make that claim.

Please note that these new slow shutter / low ISO features aren’t available on the various flavors of iPhone 5.

New Import Options
We’ve added a couple of import options to help you get your latest photos from your Photo Library and into your Lightbox. Now you can easily import the last photo you shot… and you can even import your whole last moment with just a couple of taps.

A new share thingy
When you have a share sheet open in an app, those square, rounded-cornered, monochromatic icons in the bottom row are called Action Extensions. The nomenclature might leave a bit to be desired but it’s hard to debate the usefulness of these items. And on that note, we’ve added a Camera+ Action Extension so that you can now easily send photos to your Lightbox right from the share sheet of most apps.

Notification Center Widget Import Option
There’s a new option for the Notification Center Widget that enables you to quickly import photos from your Photo Library to your Lightbox.

Bug Fixes
As always, with new features inevitably come new bugs. And with new releases, we always do our best to squarsch as many known bugs as we can. In this release, many of the lifeless arthropodæ can be found in the vicinity of the Apple Watch.

What’s New
And finally, there’s a new “What’s New” section in the menu to make it easy for you to see, um… what’s new. You know… this thing that you’re actually reading right now. We would’ve inserted a screenshot here to show it, but the warranty on your iPhone doesn’t cover the damages that’d be caused by the black hole created by doing so.

What’s new in Camera+ 8.0.1

( ´o｀) Emergency Bugfix Release bomp shomp aloobomp

Seems like we mixed up our Kelvins and our Kevins. Which caused some crashes for some of you experimenting with manual controls. Oh, and the ghost of iOS 8 came back to haunt our attic. Kelvin’s doing much better now and the ghost has been busted.


What’s new in Camera+ 8

Slow Shutter
By far, the biggest addition to Camera+ 8 is an innovative slow shutter feature. When you’re shooting in the manual modes, you can now have effective shutter speeds as long as 30 seconds. So now you’ll be able to do things like take those kinds of amazing, misty, creamy waterfall photos that you see in magazines. And you’ll be able to do some creative night photography. It opens your iPhone photography up to so many new possibilities that are only limited to whatever your imagination can conjure up.

Ultra-low ISO
Working hand-in-hand with the new extended range of shutter speeds is an extended range of effective ISO values. With this range, you’ll be able to get down to unbelievably low apparent ISO values to make it possible to take long exposure photos without having to resort to using things like ND filters to prevent your photos from blowing out. And throughout the extended shutter speed / ISO range, the preview you see in your viewfinder is a very good indicator of what you’ll be capturing as far as exposure goes, so there’s little to no guesswork when you’re doing long exposure photography… not even the most expensive DSLR cameras can make that claim.

Please note that these new slow shutter / low ISO features require a decent amount of processing mojo, so these features aren’t available on the various flavors of iPhone 5. We vaporized a 5c or two in early testing so we felt the need to disable it on those devices. With great power comes great responsibility… to not melt phones.

We’re really excited and very much looking forward to seeing what kinds of creative photography you’re able to achieve with these new extended shutter speed and ISO ranges in Camera+ 8!

New Import Options
We’ve added a couple of import options to help you get your latest photos from your Photo Library and into your Lightbox. Now you can easily import the last photo you shot… and you can even import your whole last moment with just a couple of taps.

A new share thingy
When you have a share sheet open in an app, those square, rounded-cornered, monochromatic icons in the bottom row are called Action Extensions. The nomenclature might leave a bit to be desired but it’s hard to debate the usefulness of these items. And on that note, we’ve added a Camera+ Action Extension so that you can now easily send photos to your Lightbox right from the share sheet of most apps. Be sure to peruse the Extensions section of the menu for the 411 on how to enable this nifty, useful new feature.

Notification Center Widget Import Option
There’s a new option for the Notification Center Widget that enables you to quickly import photos from your Photo Library to your Lightbox. Check-out the Extensions section of the menu to square away how to do it.

Bug Fixes
As always, with new features inevitably come new bugs. And with new releases, we always do our best to squarsch as many known bugs as we can. In this release, many of the lifeless arthropodæ can be found in the vicinity of the Apple Watch.

What’s New
And finally, there’s a new “What’s New” section in the menu to make it easy for you to see, um… what’s new. You know… this thing that you’re actually reading right now. We would’ve inserted a screenshot here to show it, but the warranty on your iPhone doesn’t cover the damages that’d be caused by the black hole created by doing so.

Slow Shutter
By far, the biggest addition to Camera+ 8 is an innovative slow shutter feature. When you’re shooting in the manual modes, you can now have effective shutter speeds as long as 30 seconds. So now you’ll be able to do things like take those kinds of amazing, misty, creamy waterfall photos that you see in magazines. And you’ll be able to do some creative night photography. It opens your iPhone photography up to so many new possibilities that are only limited to whatever your imagination can conjure up.

Ultra-low ISO
Working hand-in-hand with the new extended range of shutter speeds is an extended range of effective ISO values. With this range, you’ll be able to get down to unbelievably low apparent ISO values to make it possible to take long exposure photos without having to resort to using things like ND filters to prevent your photos from blowing out. And throughout the extended shutter speed / ISO range, the preview you see in your viewfinder is a very good indicator of what you’ll be capturing as far as exposure goes, so there’s little to no guesswork when you’re doing long exposure photography… not even the most expensive DSLR cameras can make that claim.

Please note that these new slow shutter / low ISO features require a decent amount of processing mojo, so these features aren’t available on the various flavors of iPhone 5. We vaporized a 5c or two in early testing so we felt the need to disable it on those devices. With great power comes great responsibility… to not melt phones.

We’re really excited and very much looking forward to seeing what kinds of creative photography you’re able to achieve with these new extended shutter speed and ISO ranges in Camera+ 8!

New Import Options
We’ve added a couple of import options to help you get your latest photos from your Photo Library and into your Lightbox. Now you can easily import the last photo you shot… and you can even import your whole last moment with just a couple of taps.

A new share thingy
When you have a share sheet open in an app, those square, rounded-cornered, monochromatic icons in the bottom row are called Action Extensions. The nomenclature might leave a bit to be desired but it’s hard to debate the usefulness of these items. And on that note, we’ve added a Camera+ Action Extension so that you can now easily send photos to your Lightbox right from the share sheet of most apps. Be sure to peruse the Extensions section of the menu for the 411 on how to enable this nifty, useful new feature.

Notification Center Widget Import Option
There’s a new option for the Notification Center Widget that enables you to quickly import photos from your Photo Library to your Lightbox. Check-out the Extensions section of the menu to square away how to do it.

Bug Fixes
As always, with new features inevitably come new bugs. And with new releases, we always do our best to squarsch as many known bugs as we can. In this release, many of the lifeless arthropodæ can be found in the vicinity of the Apple Watch.

What’s New
And finally, there’s a new “What’s New” section in the menu to make it easy for you to see, um… what’s new. You know… this thing that you’re actually reading right now. We would’ve inserted a screenshot here to show it, but the warranty on your iPhone doesn’t cover the damages that’d be caused by the black hole created by doing so.

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For this update, Camera+ is now ready for iOS 9 and those of you fortunate enough to have a brand new iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus!

And specifically for the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, we’ve taken advantage of 3D Touch by adding the following handy set of Quick Actions…

• Take Photo
• Take Selfie
• Take Macro
• View Lightbox

[CREATIVE PROTIP: Take unboxing pics of your new 6s / 6s Plus using your old phone… then take boxing pics putting your old phone away using your new phone… then share them on your favorite social networking service on the interwebs. For increased dramatic effect, share them live as you take them.]

Since we’ve added the “View Lightbox” Quick Action, we figured it’d be the perfect time to add a similar button to the Today Widget. So we did exactly that.

And finally, we’ve added the ability to open a photo in our new app, Filters, which includes over 800 lovely filters.

[APP STORE SEARCH PROTIP: If you’re unable to find Filters in the App Store because your search results are being overrun with apps related to coffee, try searching on “Filters for iPhone”.]

So what’s new in Camera+ 7 you ask? Honestly, not much this time. So why the big leap to version 7? That’s a very good question…

Do you know those friends and family who just don’t buy apps? Yeah, you know the ones… they sit around playing Clash of Candy a good chunk of the day, waiting for their next rupee to appear. Well, we’ve created a whole new version of Camera+ just for them: it’s called Camera+ Free.

So now when they ask you about what apps you like, you can proudly mention Camera+ to them and not have to worry about hearing their, “I don’t pay for apps” response. And the world will become a better place through the magic of photography. Or something like that.

And not to worry… we’ve got a lot coming around the bend for your beloved, not free Camera+. While we don’t disclose specifics ahead of time, we’re more than fine putting out a list of codenames for upcoming versions for those of you sleuths who like guessing what we’re up to…

• Camera+ 7.1: codename Peek & Poke
• Camera+ 7.2: codename Show Slutter
• Camera+ 7.3: codename Leguminous Green Manure
• Camera+ 7.4: codename Picasso Looked an Awful Lot Like Mr. Roper
• Camera+ 7.5: codename Fume Hood

As for what’s actually new for you in this version of Camera+, we’ve added a handy Macro button to the Today Widget, along with a bunch of nifty swiping, pinching, and tapping gestures to improve your overall experience when you use Camera+. It’s not a lot, but it makes your favorite camera app feel a lot nicer to use.

Stay tuned for more because we’ve got A LOT coming up for you…

Leaving placeholder text in an app is the developer’s equivalent of walking out of a bathroom stall with toilet paper stuck to your shoe. No harm done, but a bit embarrassing if anyone notices… which some of you did.

Camera+ Watch app

For those of you gadget freaks who’ve acquired an Apple Watch, we’ve created a Camera+ Watch app for you. With it, you’re able to snap photos remotely, along with triggering shots via the timer.

For those of you without an Apple watch, we leave you with a few phrases to recite until you get one…

• Milanese Loop
• Irish Wristwatch
• Bob Loblaw Law Blog


Selfie Widget button

Selfie emergency? We’ve got your back. You can now instantly get to the front-facing camera from the Camera+ Today Widget.

What’s that… you haven’t yet enabled the Today Widget?! Well, check out the detailed instructions in the Extensions section of the Settings menu right within Camera+.

Camera+ 6.2.1
Emergency bug fix update. Ugh… it’s always something, eh?

/grumblegrumble

Camera+ 6.2
First up is the new Today Widget where you can get handy Photo Tips, read inspirational Photo Quotes of the Day, and most importantly, easily open Camera+ from anywhere. That’s right… with a simple swipe & tap, you now have lock screen access to Camera+! In order to comply with the guidelines, we felt a bit like a Bichon Frisé jumping through a series of flaming hoops, but our singed fur was worth it to get this nifty feature into your hands. If you’re not familiar with how to enable widgets, simply follow the instructions in the Camera+ settings menu in the Extensions section.

Next up is the new advanced white balance control. What’s more enlightening than 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon? Howzabout 7000 degrees of kelvin white balance? For those of you who care about these sorts of things, you’ll be happy to hear that you can now dial the white balance in to whatever kelvin temperature value you’d like. Kelvin (or bacon) not your thing? Not to worry… there are still the easy-peasy white balance presets to make your life simple.

For those of you with an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus, Camera+ 6.2 now sports a completely native UI for your ginormous phone. Automatic scaling was ok, but there’s just no substitute for a pixel-perfect, custom UI designed specifically for your megaphone.

For you Instagram fanatics, with Camera+ 6.2, we’ve included direct Instagram sharing so you no longer have to go through the generic “Open In…” thingamajig. Saving steps is always a good thing. It’s just too bad that we didn’t get this feature in before Aaron Schock resigned. :(

And as always, we’ve iced a bunch of bugs. No mercy.