Some iPhone 3Gs owners are unhappy with the image quality of the native camera. Part of the problem is the 3Gs’ auto-focus feature. Say you want to take a picture, you will need to touch an area on the screen to re-focus on it (unless you’re ok with the camera’s original focus area). So ultimately we are only able to focus on one specific area to photograph.
In rolls TrueHDR (iTunes link), which enables you to take two photos and merge them. In the first photo, you focus the camera on the lightest part of the image. On the second photo, you focus the camera on the darkest part of the image. You are then presented with both images, and the option to “merge” them. What results is the image of the darkest area, combined with the image of the lightest area. The result is images with much higher color saturation, without looking edited. Note that the app is only fully functional on the iPhone 3Gs. Here’s some screenies:
Image taken with original iPhone 3Gs camera
Same image but taken with TrueHDR
As you can see, the image on the right has much deeper color saturation, because we combined both the light and the dark images. I’ve been having a ton of fun with this app, well worth the $1.99 price tag.
