Camera Zoom 1.1 app released for OS 3.0

OMG.. If you really think you can take nice fireworks pictures with a cellphone, zoom app or not, you can't be helped.. Are you one of those guys who flash the iPhone on a safari in Africa as well, "putting to shame" all those with an SLR and 400 zoom lens? :)

Those images look like crap

I agree that the time savings of being able to do the resize/crop right there in the camera are worth something, at least.

But please don't post nonsense like this:

"The other apps I tried did nothing more than enlarge the picture and crop out what is too big for the screen. This results in a blurry picture.

This thingy does a real zoom. It's not perfect but it's the only thing I've seen that does it."

especially when...

"I really don't know how it does it."

Ordinary consumers who don't know the difference between optical and digital zoom get screwed, IMHO. Like I said, the time saver is worth something. But if you don't even know that what you're getting is a resize/crop then you're going to be disappointed with the quality. I would go so far as to say that the term "digital zoom" itself is misleading.

As others have pointed out, all digital zooms do exactly the same thing: they enlarge and crop the existing image. Some interpolation algorithms may be more intelligent than others, but it is impossible to digitally zoom a photo without losing sharpness and detail.

@DrWho: iPhoto, which comes with every Mac, can crop your photos with ease.

More less than complimentary reviews at Yappler. You would think people understood digital zoom by now.
http://www.yappler.com/App/35049/Camera-Zoom-v1-1.aspx

It's about time they fixed it although it seems like it was more of a delay on Apple's part than anything. It was getting killed in the reviews for the longest time simply because the old version wouldn't launch in v3. Glad to have it back on my phone.

So, it's a cropping tool. And maybe it does a better job at cropping and optimizing. Maybe it adds sharpening, or some other trick. Maybe you could compare the crop in Camera Zoom to cropping in another iPhone app, to cropping in photoshop and reimporting. That's what I'd like to see.

For me, the $1 'investment' is not about having better picture quality (I doubt if this is the case, like other readers point out) but more about convenience. Not having to open the image in another app, cropping, resizing etc. Just a time-saver :-)

....and you always get better results by cropping and enlarging with e.g. photoshop and a specialized plugin. or just do the cropping with photogene and if you want to enlarge the picture use a good ps-plugin not this useless piece of software.

I second the other comments. “Digital zoom” means that the picture gets sized up and cropped.