The camera in the iPhone has always been "OK", not horrible, but certainly far from perfect. Chances are if you're a hardcore iPhone user then you have at least 2-3 iPhone Apps for shooting, editing and sharing your photos/video. The built-in camera App is very basic. It lets you take a photo or video (iPhone 3GS only) and share it via email, MMS or MobileMe. If you want to do any kind of editing or sharing beyond what's built-in then you'll need a 3rd party app. It's odd that Apple lets you trim video on the 3GS but doesn't offer any photo editing at all. They leave it all up to 3rd party developers. Also if you want to capture video on a previous generation iPhone you'll need a 3rd party App for sure. Camera Plus Pro attempts to give you everything you'll need in one app.
When you add this many features you also add complexity
Let's start with what you get in this App:
- Video Recording Modes on the iPhone 2G, 3G, 3GS
- Live and Smooth Zoom
- Live Filters: B/W, Sepia, Invert, Sin City Red, Hulk Green, Avatar Blue
- Upload video to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter with Title and Description
- Send video via Email
- Geotag Videos and share location on YouTube
- Password Protect your Private videos with the built-in Password Feture
- Tag videos
- Tap to focus for 3GS
- Big Button (tap anywhere on the screen to fire the shutter)
- Anti-Shake & Grid Overlay
- Timer – up to 10 seconds
- Point Zoom to a particular Point
- Geotag photos and share with Picasa and Facebook
- Tag your photos
- Adjust brightness, contrast, sharpness, hue, saturation, temperature, tint
- Add soft Flash
- Crop in various shapes like rectangle, circle, oval
- Rotate photos
- Add Watermark & Date
- Edit Geotag
- Share single or multiple photos to Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Picasa and Email
- Adjust Photo quality before sharing for faster uploading
Yep, that's a TON of features for the asking price and certainly can eliminate the multiple apps that you may be using. However, like most things with a long feature list there is a learning curve. This App is GREAT and a joy to use. There are four simple buttons at the bottom of the screen to bring up the menu for the mode you're in, show the built-in Fast Camera Roll, Shoot and toggle between still and video. My only issue with the app is that I have to constantly remember what the icons mean in each module (there is no hover state to give you popup help on a touch screen). Again, this will probably become second nature the more you use the App and you probably won't use every feature often anyway. I'm impressed with what you get for the asking price and would definitely recommend this to people looking for one App that does it all. Just be prepared to spend some time getting up to speed. For non 3GS owners this is a no brainer! It gives you all of the above AND the ability to record video. Just get it!
Here on the App Store: 
Camera Plus Pro
Camera Plus Pro is a full featured camera app that gives you more shooting options, video capture on older iPhones and photo editing all in one app.
- Global Delight
- Get on App Store
- $1.99
All info was collected on 11th May, 2010 when the app was reviewed.
About Terry White
Terry is the co-author of The Best Selling "The iPhone Book" 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions. He has been active in the industry for over 25 years and is the founder and president of MacGroup-Detroit, Inc., Michigan's largest Macintosh Users Group, host of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast and a technology writer - Terry White Tech Blog.
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