New iPhone Photo App: Camera-Flash

Description from the AppStore: iPhone users may get problems of taking photos under low light, back light, night because the photo is under exposure that all pictures are totally dark and can’t tell the detail.

The root issue is iPhone didn’t have flash light built-in.

Now, we offer a application utility for you to having a soft Flash light inside iPhone Camera. “Camera Flash” can give more light to your photos or when taking photos.

By our Cutting Edge technology – “Soft iPhone Flash light”, it will add more light to the dark part but keep the same as the light part, and make the balance of your light and colors.

Key Features:

• Support unlimited Flash light source adjustment
• Support add Flash to existing photo loading from iPhone Photo Album
• Extreme fast speed preview and save
• No crash when dealing with 2MP or 3MP photos
• Output Size is 2M Pixel (3M Pixel at iPhone 3GS)

COMPARISION WITH COMPETITORS

Image Quality:

• The competitors only adjust the brightness which may make your photo out of exposure.
• We simulate the Flash source, contrast and detail is preserved or enhanced both in dark and bright areas and true color is preserved.

Application Quality:

• The competitors always crash application or reboot your iPhone because they can’t handle memory management when dealing with 2MP or 3MP photo. So every time, you have to reboot your system before using that kind of camera application.
• We have a memory protection engine which can prevent application crash and system rebooting even dealing with high resolution images. Our application quality is much better than others.

High Performance:

• The competitors need at least 10 seconds to process image and save to iPhone.
• We only need 2 seconds for image processing and saving by optimizing code for ARM platform

AppStore Link: Camera-Flash - Price £0.59/$0.99

Editors comments: As you probably know I am a fan of iFlashReady, having written about it on several occasions. Over the past weeks there have been several apps released that promise to add "Flash" to your underexposed iPhone photos, which as we all know, none of these apps can really do this including iFlashReady, although the algorithms some of these apps use do a pretty good job.

I have been more than happy with the results iFlashReady produces, despite the app crashing regularly on my iPhone 3G, but when I saw Camera-Flash in the AppStore I decided to give it a try and see how it compared to my favourite app. You may be wondering what attracted me to this new app, well it was the slider control that allows you to have more control of the "Flash" effect.

Now I know you can lighten photos in apps like Photogene, but sometimes all I want is a quick fix, and these one shot apps are able do this.

To test Camera-Flash I loaded a photo taken on a recent trip to Madame Tussauds in London, which due to the lighting conditions was too dark. I then loaded the same photo in to iFlashReady and the results can be seen below.

Above: The original photoAbove: The iFlashReady version of the original photoAbove: The original photo with the Camera-Flash slider set to half wayAbove: The original photo with the Camera-Flash slider set to maximumAs you can see from the above series of photos, Camera-Flash has produced a better result than iFlashReady, which I was surprised at, however on other photos a glow effect appeared around some of the objects.

So what do I think of Camera-Flash?

All-in-all this is a pretty good app, and almost gives iFlashReady a run for its money.  If the developer can resolve this glow effect, then with its greater control by use of a slider, Camera-Flash could well find a permanent place on my iPhone, but for now iFlashReady still does it for me.

Comments

[Catmouth]

Off subject, is that supposed to be Jim Carrey?

[Glyn Evans]

@Catmouth. Yes this is meant to be Jim Carrey, but not a very good one though!!

[Chris Maverick]

How did Jim Carrey get involved with this?

[Glyn Evans]

He was being bit of a dummy :)