Pocketbooth

Cost: $0.99

Developer: Project Box

What the Developer Says:

Turn your iPhone or iPod touch into a vintage photobooth with Pocketbooth: the photobooth that fits in your pocket.

Pocketbooth perfectly replicates the intimacy, spontaneity, and hilarity of a traditional photobooth. Take it to your next party and watch as your friends’ inner-divas emerge.

And with new AirPrint capability, you can complete the photobooth experience by printing your strips directly from the app. (requires compatible device and printer)

Meticulously designed to emulate the experience of a 1950s-era Model 11 Photobooth, Pocketbooth is as beautiful to look at as it is fun to use. The interface makes taking self-portraits a snap – even if you’re using the rear-facing camera.

Features:

✔ AirPrint enabled (print directly from app with compatible device and printer)
✔ Compatible with iPhone 4, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and the 4th-gen iPod touch
✔ Choose between front-facing or rear-facing camera (note: only iPhone 4 and 4th-gen iPod touch have a front-facing camera — all other devices utilize only the rear-facing camera)
✔ Now uses flash (rear-facing camera of iPhone 4 and iPod touch)
✔ Share photostrips via Email, Twitter, and Facebook
✔ Automatically saves strips to the app but can also export them to Camera Roll
✔ Customizable with different effects (b&w, color, sepia, antique), pose options (3-pose, 4-pose) and paper stocks (glossy, matte)
✔ Laugh-out-loud fun!

What I Say:
The application is the kind that will definitely catch your attention if you’re into taking pictures. For people who love photography just for the heck of it, you will find this no doubt entertaining—from the moment you start posing and taking pictures to the time you see the photostrips. For the professionals who are nostalgic about old-school photography, you will probably appreciate this app that gives your picture the vintage look you love.

In my experience, the app crashed once after I have adjusted the settings but nothing major. I was able to launch and use it again without any problem. I recently updated the app and mine now has antique effect and border options. Yesterday I was trying to upload some of the photostrips to my Facebook album and failed. I don’t get why. I suppose it has something to do with the size of the image, or with the way I was uploading it—I saved it first in my computer before uploading it on Facebook instead of using the direct upload feature of the app.

Overall, the application is fun, clean and simple to use. It doesn’t take an Einstein to get what it requires to take great pictures. Also, it is appropriately priced—not free since it’s worth buying anyway and not too expensive.

Final Verdict: Rocks!

12.0 Mega Camera-ALL IN ONE

Cost: $1.99

Developer: jun shen

What the developer says:

After 6 months of developing, we make this amazing app for you! Turn your iPhone camera into a amazing powerful camera with 12.0 Mega resolutions and zoom! If you get this app, you will have the best phone camera in the world!

Functions:
Camera
– 12.0 Mega (iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4)
– 8.0 Mega
– Software flash function
– 7 photo filter function
– Guide Lines:3×3 or 4×4 grid for better shots
– 5x Digital Zoom
– Countdown Mode
– Voice Shutter Mode
– Self-Timer shutter Mode
– Continuous Mode
– Time stamp

Image editor
– Rotate Image
– Screenshots
– 18 kinds of photo effects
– Tilt-shift
– Add text on Image
– Brightness adjustments

What I say:

First of all, I don’t think this app was developed for 6 months. But if it were, then I’d say Jun Shen wasted time creating it. Second of all, what the hell does 12.0 Mega or even 8.0 Mega means? It’s a big fat lie because it’s MISLEADING! I bet a lot of people who downloaded this application thought that it would transform images into 12.0 or 8.0 Megapixels. And the 5x digital zoom is just crappy!

If you’re giving this application a benefit of the doubt that maybe it’s still worth buying because you think this whole “mega” thing is the only part that sucks about it, think again. Who needs a rotate image function when you can rotate the camera (landscape or portrait) prior to shooting the image. If you’re after the 18 kinds of photo effects and 7 photo filter function, well they can also be found in some FREE apps, so why buy?

On the up side, you can still use this iPod Touch or iPhone application to rotate, adjust brightness, and tilt-shift images, add text to images, and use 3×3 or 4×4 grid.

Final verdict: Sucks!