App description needs clarity...
I just used this app with a friend and she says the term "HDR" isnt self-explanatory to everyone, so if youre reading this review: this app is basically a replacement for the standard camera app. Its a fully featured, dual photo (over/under exposure), true high dynamic range program, not some auto-levels thing or psychedelic hippie filter. This makes taking shots in otherwise impossible lighting very very simple. Casual scenes with terrible backlighting that you wouldnt bring a separate camera for—like the beach at sunset or inside a nightclub, etc—require only a few more taps than with the standard camera app.
You line up your shot, drag one box to the darkest area of the frame and the other to the bright spot, and take the pic. The program takes one calibrated to see the dark areas and one to see the bright areas, then merges them so you have one pic that looks normal and has all the detail from the light and dark. They show up on Photostream if you have it on, and you can email or post them to Facebook (etc) as normal.
This app is extremely useful, and it has an attractive icon that looks good on the iPhone (most authors totally underestimate how important the icons appearance is…personally, Id change the interface fonts to look iOS-native so it seems like a total Camera app replacement). Adding a few features like depth of field or image stabilization could (imo) pull a nice price; Im really lucky I got this free. Its worth paying for as it is (and very few apps are).
**Edit: PS, Im on an old 3GS and its about 10-15 seconds from starting the app, to picking the shot, to having a saved image on Photostream. The filters let me correct for the color and graininess of this old cam more than adequately for Facebook pics. The output looks better on the newer phones far superior camera, and its faster.**
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HDR Foto