Camerabag Review: Bring it with you!
-Photo focused interface
-Numerous effects
-Not so useful on iPod Touch
-No auto-save
As we have mentioned in previous posts, the iPhone’s camera is really sub-par. To rectify this you could bring the pictures you take into Photoshop or your favorite image editing application, but why not use an application on the phone itself.
Camerabag is an application from an unlikely developer, Nevercenter, whose claim to fame is actually a 3D modeling application. Camerabag itself is a relatively simple application. It is very obvious that they are focused on your photos and not a “delicious” interface, which I find pleasing. Camerabag allows you to take a photograph and apply one of several effects. The effects revolve around styles of older cameras, such as Holga and Lolo, as well as photographers like Ansel Adams.
To apply these effects you merely import the photo into the application and swipe through the various effects and save the ones that you like.
Nevercenter is constantly adding new effects and tweaking the ones that are currently included. In the time I have been using it (about a month), they have added an Instant (polaroid) effect and tweaked the Infrared effect.
Camerabag also allows you to take photographs from within the application but if you do not tell it to save the photo with any of the effects it will not be saved at all. Unfortunetly, due to its heavy reliance upon the camera Camerabag is not very useful on the iPod Touch. But if you do store photos on your Touch, Camerabag is capable of modifying them.
Currently Camerabag is listed on the iTunes App Store for $2.99 here (iTunes link).
Yup,I agree with the not useful on the iPod Touch con. Is there any screenshot of the interface?
This is one of my favorite apps and I really like the fact that the developer updates and adds new effects quite regularly.
This is a must have app for the iPhone 3g. It’s a steal at $2.99. I think it would be better priced at $4.99 but I understand that the App Store is a brutal tightwad-ish market.
@Chris, so right on the frequent updates. There are similar apps in the iPhone store that provide one filter for $.99. If you bought “lenses” this way you would have tons of screen clutter, whereas this is a one stop shop. I get giddy everytime I see a camerabag update, because I know I’ll have a sweet new effect to apply to all my photos.