Windows Phone App Review: Cool Camera

Cool Camera for Windows Phone

Hither's a brusk take on a new app for your Windows Phone. Absurd Photographic camera is a camera app that gives yous an culling to the native camera app. Cool Camera is a decent camera app for your Windows Phone with some very nice features. Non sure if information technology tin can overtake the native camera app on your Windows Telephone but it'due south worth a endeavor to decide for yourself.

Features of Absurd Camera include:

Wink Way Select
Resolution Select
Single shot
Continuous or timer modes
Five step digital zoom
Twelve effects filters

The viewfinder is laid out fairly simple with indicators for your flash, resolution, shutter mode, and a settings button forth the left edge. Your digital zoom controls rest in the upper right corner and a playback/view button is at the bottom right corner.

Cool Camera viewfinder

Cool Photographic camera does support impact shutter controls (tap the screen to take the shot) and if you tap each indicator, yous will be sent to that particular setting. In addition to your camera settings, yous will too find settings to turn on/off the camera sounds and turn on/off the automatic save characteristic. When turned on, the automatic save volition save a re-create of the image to your Pictures Hub.

Cool Camera Settings

Yous tin preview images by borer the review button. From the review screen you accept the option to save the prototype to your Pictures Hub or apply 1 of the twelve filters. Filters range from Sepia to Polaroid to a blue filter. Oddly, you tin't delete individual images. Your only choice is to delete all the images through the settings.

All in all, Cool Camera is a decent culling to your native camera app but with like apps, I just didn't come across anything compelling to cull Absurd Photographic camera over the native app. The digital zoom I could alive without. Personally, I think the digital zoom feature should be outlawed because information technology stresses prototype quality way too much.

I do like the settings indicators on the viewfinder. I like knowing what my camera is settings are at a glance without having to dig through the entire settings carte du jour. I as well like the ability to tap on a settings indicator and go direct to its settings page. This feature gives Cool Camera an border in efficiency over the native app.

Again, it's a nice starting point. Information technology'southward not that Cool Photographic camera is a terrible application simply I struggled to find a reason to choose Cool Camera over the native camera app. The settings indicator was a dainty touch simply that didn't give the app plenty umph to do it for me. Maybe if you lot added Skydrive support, a few more editing controls, or a few more settings and I could see Absurd Camera giving the native photographic camera app a run for its coin.

As is, requite the free trial version a shot before shelling out the $.99 for the total version. You tin notice Cool Camera hither at the Windows Phone Marketplace.

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