New iPhone Photo App: Camera XL - Megapixel Doubler
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 3:00PM | Glyn Evans 
Description from the AppStore: Double your megapixels. Camera XL converts your photos to give you twice the normal resolution. See details in your photos more clearly. Make larger prints with higher resolution. Get more from your iPhone camera. Perfect for anyone using Flickr, Facebook, Twitter or MySpace.
iPhone & iPhone 3G
- Megapixel conversion: 2MP > 4MP
- Image dimensions: 1600 x 1200 > 2263 x 1698
- 100% pixel increase
iPhone 3GS
- Megapixel conversion: 3MP > 6MP
- Image dimensions: 2048 x 1536 > 2896 x 2172
- 100% pixel increase
FEATURES:
- Quick and easy to use
- Photograph yourself easily with full screen button option
- Live preview (what you see is what you get)
- Work in both landscape and portrait
- Shoot photos at your camera's highest quality
- View and share your photos
AppStore Link: Camera XL - Megapixel Doubler - Price £0.59/$0.99
Editors comments: This looks like quite an interesting app, that appears to be using interpolation to increase the effective megapixels.
I have not had chance to carry out a full test, but the app definitely increases the output and file size, and on a recent photo taken of Lewis Hamilton at the Westfield shopping centre in London (see below) you can see I have been able to crop to an acceptable 500 x 500 pixels size without any lose in quality. That said, as I only used this app to take the snaps I can not do a comparative test.
The above 4 megapixel photo was taken on the iPhone 3G (2 megapixel) using Camera XL. Click the photo to see the full size version.
The above photo was cropped to 500 x 500 with no visable lose in quality.At the moment the jury is out on this app, but if I get time I will investigate it in more depth, but if anyone else has bought and used this app, then please leave your feedback in the comments section.
Reader Comments (2)
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