The best camera is the one you have with you. And – possibly – the best camera software designer is a photographer. At least, that’s what Chase Jarvis hopes. Chase is the man who proves that, in the right hands, the iPhone can make an awesome camera.
Chase has collaborated on a new iPhone app called “Best Camera” which, as Strobist David Hobby told me this morning, is “like Photoshop lite for the iPhone”. Best Camera grabs pictures from you camera roll and lets you process and then share them. Many other applications do this but, to disagree slightly with David, Best Camera comes across more like a mini-Lightroom.
This is because of its approach to effects, all of which are accessed by a rolling strip of icons at the bottom of the screen. Like Lightroom, there are built-in presets — four of them, which mimic the look of Chase’s own photos. The there are several more “building block” like filters which can be stacked together and, again like Lightroom, saved as presets that can then be shared. Best of all, these filters can be removed and the order rearranged.
I have had the app on my iphone for a while and started uploading pics to the best camera site.
This is awesome as you can see live feeds of the photos being taken all over the world at that time, here is one of mine that is uploaded HERE
