ProCamera

There are a lot of photography apps on the App Store but I'm pretty confident that ProCamera is my new favourite. It offers an awful lot of features in order to enhance the iPhone's camera to the next level.

At first it looks a little scary, which is understandable when you consider the wealth of options. A click click of the user manual, though, and all makes perfect sense. It's then apparent just how much you can do with the app. At its simplest, you can set ProCamera to anti-shake, instantly aiding anyone with a shaky hand or who happens to be in a less than ideal location for sudden jolts. Besides this though there are options to set the zoom to full-res zoom, thus enabling the app to offset the camera's hardware. ensuring that using the full zoom produces a better photo than the regular camera app normally does. It's not a magic solution. Using the maximum zoom still isn't as perfect as a 'real' camera but using the zoom to halfway works quite well, certainly more so than using the Camera app.

Expert mode offers the ability to set exposure times and focus which you can lock in separately - a particularly vital feature for wannabe photographers. You can also adjust the white balance and colour temperature thus getting your photo just how you want it. Brightness, contrast and black and white settings can also be set just how you want.

Besides the still photographic tools at your disposal, you can also record video through the app which saves the effort of switching back to the built in camera app just for this one feature.

ProCamera also likes to educate, offering a tips and tricks section which teaches you such useful concepts as the rules of thirds and other bits and pieces that you wouldn't think of normally. Also, as the name suggests, ProCamera includes Geotagging facilities which is certainly handy if you want to keep track of where and when you took your photos.

ProCamera offers a lot for the price. It offers both an excellent app for taking photos and videos, and a good app for editing these images directly. The photography market is competitive on the App Store but this is certainly worth a look.