Warning, beware the Zoomer Cam

I don't normally post app warnings, but after wasting £0.59/$.99 on an app that shouted ZOOM at me, I felt it was only right to warn the rest of you.

Now I know digital zooming apps for the iPhone are not really a good idea, after all essentially all you are doing is cropping the photo, which on a 2/3 megapixel camera is not a good idea. The reason for buying this app was to compare it with Camera Zoom, which is currently the UK number 1 selling photo app (don't ask me why this app has managed to get to the number 1 spot, and stay there for several weeks)

Anyway back to this app, which all it does is launch the iPhone camera app, then when you have taken your shot, passes the photo in to the app where you have a slider to allow you to ZOOM to the center of the photo. This app does not allow you to compose, zoom, and then take the photo, no it just lets to crop in a very poor way the finished photo.

If the developer of this app is reading this post, then I would like to know how you can use the word ZOOM in the app title, when this app is clearly not a digital zooming app.

If you really must have a zooming app for your iPhone, then avoid Zoomer Cam and go for Camera Zoom, although I would recommend not using either, and instead use a cropping app, of which there are plenty, both free and paid for.

Comments

[hendrik]

I predict there will be a flood of nearly identical zoom apps once OS 3.1 is released.

[Glyn Evans]

hendrik, you're right, and I have news about one coming up very soon, although from what I have seen it seems to work pretty well, compared to the current crop.