Iphone Camera Apps

antijoke · 22 Apr 2010 at 09:21

Hi,

Could someone be so kind to answer a question I have?

My boss (who is a technophobe) got the Iphone 8Gb(with the 2Mp camera) at the weekend, now today she starts going on about how she downloaded a 7Mp camera from Itunes.

How is this possible? What are these camera apps and just how do they manage to make a 2Mp camera into a 7Mp one?

Someone else who has an Iphone was also going about SLR apps for it?

Just WTF are they talking about?

djp01 · 22 Apr 2010 at 09:40

http://www.wirefresh.com/iphone-7-0-megapixel-camera-app-review-is-it-worth-it

Complete rubbish.

antijoke · 22 Apr 2010 at 09:51

Hahaha, I thought so.

But she was adamant her 59p app enhanced the camera to 7Mp, and she even had a go at me for inciting she didn't know anything. I was only trying to explain to stop her wasting more money on these kinds of things.

Blackhawk47 · 22 Apr 2010 at 17:59

I have a app called Best Camera and tend to use that for editing pics I take with the iPhone and it works really well.

As far as I know those 7MP camera app things only increase the res if anything. :rolleyes:

Kainz · 23 Apr 2010 at 09:11

They're all fake. You can't polish a turd (2mp lens). They most probably work by increasing the resolution as said, and most probably applying a preset bunch of sharpening/saturation filters.

It's pathetic tbh, and it's things like this that give the appstore such a poor rep. People will fall for anything that is thrown into that place.

antijoke · 23 Apr 2010 at 10:16

She even came in today again saying that she was playing with her 7Mp camera last night, and that it IS now 7MP.

Quint · 23 Apr 2010 at 23:06

kylew · 24 Apr 2010 at 03:15

There are some apps that make such images by stitching together multiple photographs.

Kawolski · 24 Apr 2010 at 11:06

kylew said:
There are some apps that make such images by stitching together multiple photographs.

Like so.

But 7mp it ain't.
I got a mate that believes this kind of stuff and trying to tell him otherwise is generally a futile exercise.

3t3P · 24 Apr 2010 at 22:26

plus as we all know, picture quality SOLEY comes down to megapixels

I'd take 2MP with a really good lens over 7MP and a poor lens

lens, lens, lens ppl

james.miller · 24 Apr 2010 at 22:31

3t3P said:
plus as we all know, picture quality SOLEY comes down to megapixels

I'd take 2MP with a really good lens over 7MP and a poor lens

lens, lens, lens ppl

and sensor.

Qdos · 25 Apr 2010 at 11:27

it's amazing how people fall for this, how can you covert a 2mp camera to a 7mp camera? It's obviously not possible, yet those apps are amongst the top sellers on the App Store. If you read the reviews, it's clear that it just runs a few filters on the picture to clean it up a bit (at the cost of picture quality in some cases).
Sadly, people will ***** 59p as it doesn't really matter if it doesn't really work - the pricepoint is low enough to get people buying useless apps like this.