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Camera 360 - Art in your Pocket!
Tested version: 0.9.76
Latest version: 1.5.00
Summary
Whether on a beach or in the mountains – nothing can beat a relaxing summer vacation. It’s great to experience new people, new cuisine and beautiful landscapes. That’s why I thought my summer break would be the perfect time to test out Camera 360. Find out about Camera 360 and check out my vacation snapshots in today’s test.
Features & Use
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It’s hard to describe a camera app using words. You really have to see it for yourself to get a good understanding of how it works. I’ve added a couple of test pictures to help me illustrate how this app performs. The first picture I took using the normal shooting mode. As you can see, it’s nothing special. The colors are pale and the picture looks really dead.
Normal Mode - I've seen better
Effect Mode
There's a huge variety of different modes available that use filters, borders and effects to give your pictures a little more flavor.
Enhanced Mode - Automatically improves color and contrast
Lomo Cyan: Retro-look
Lomo Cinematic
Commercial: Looks anything but professional!
Light Cyan
Reversal Film
Commercial | HDR-Mode (Heavy)
Normal Shooting Mode
Effect Mode also offers you the following options:
- I’m Feeling Lucky
- Black and White
- Night
- Scenery Mode
Pictures that look like paintings. In scenery mode you can snap pictures using the templates available. You can, for example, take a photo that looks like you painted someone. You can download these templates here for free.
Funny Mode
Four Color Poster: Nice retro design
Surrealist Color Painting
Additional effects included:
- Surrealist Painting
- Line Sketch
- Fish Eye
- Ghost
- Vertical Left Symmetry
- Vertical Right Symmetry
- Horizontal Left Symmetry
- Horizontal Right Symmetry
Tilt-Shift Mode
In this mode you can keep some things in focus while leaving the rest blurred. It works both horizontally and vertically. A really classy filter!
The settings for this mode leave you a lot of room to have fun and be creative.
Shift-Color Mode
Here you can make a certain color disappear! Something that could only be done with Photoshop is available on Camera 360.
Shift Color Mode: Focus on the roof
You can get rid of colors using the eyedropper tool
Normal Mode
- Mono – black and white effect
- Negative
- Solarize – Add sunshine
- Sepia – Antique colors
- Posterize
- aqua
It may look nice, but not a single one of these effects worked in normal mode on my HTC Desire – free and paid version alike. If this is just some glitch with my phone, please leave me a comment at the bottom.
Basic functions like flash, shutter delay, focus, night mode and white balance only work in normal mode. Geotagging has become a standard in the industry and is also included with Camera 360.
You can’t use several effects all at once on a single picture or touch up already taken photographs. In the market comments there’s a common theme about Camera 360 depleting the battery. Therefore make sure to close your app with the back button instead of just pressing the home button.
The paid version offers you these extra perks:
- No ads
- Quick navigation via the homescreen
- More effects & updates
Bottom Line:
Camera 360 isn’t quite good enough for the excellent category, but it’s still a lot of fun to use. The effects and filters are obviously the highlight of this app. I would’ve enjoyed seeing a couple of additional functions that would’ve made investing money into the paid version worth my time.
Screen & Controls
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The look & feel of the app takes a while to get used to. As soon as you figure it out, it’s really easy to get the app to do what you want it to. The bottom menu button is used to select the different modes (effect mode, scenery mode, etc.). You can optimize the specifics of the selected mode with a button at the top right.
Speed & Stability
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The app is extremely fast and reliable, although start-up can take a while with the free version. Other than that - no complaints.
Price/Performance Ratio
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Camera 360 is available for free from the Android Market. This app is really amazing given the fact that’s it free. The only limitations are that you have to skip through an ad for the pro-version at start-up.
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Market Comments
I, Feb 22, 2011
What happened to random mode? It was in the old version but not in the new one.If it was scrapped then that sucks and will uninstall!
Benson, Feb 22, 2011
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Courtney, Feb 22, 2011
Takes way better pictures than my stock camera for the lg optimus...has some really cool effects too
Jehovah, Feb 21, 2011
Why are the icons in settings column is empty? Anyone faced the same problem here? Using it with x10 here.. Nice app but I cant change my settings..
stacy, Feb 21, 2011
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robert, Feb 20, 2011
this is a nice app. make sure you have enough memory on your sd card because it froze up on me. rob android incredible
Alex, Feb 20, 2011
Very cool app but makes chomp sms force close every timeand saving pictures gets complicated.
Gadgetman McNeil
sound great