Windows Phone App Review: Turbo Camera

Turbo Camera for Windows Phone

Hither's a neat camera app for your Windows Telephone. Turbo Photographic camera brings a burst mode of sorts to your Windows Phone camera by taking pictures in the neighborhood of 14-16 frames per second. The app also has a timer feature and a delay for those times you don't need the high speed shutter.Turbo Camera has room for improvement but as is, it'southward a decent camera app for your Windows Phone.

Turbo Camera viewfinder

The app itself is your typical Windows Phone photographic camera viewfinder with button controls along the right edge of the screen and a picture counter at the bottom left corner.

Button controls provides admission to Turbo Camera's settings, a dump for the photos taken, a button to view the photos taken, and a help push button. Just line your shot upwardly in the view finder and hitting the shutter button. The number of shots is only limited by your memory buffer.

As y'all capture the images, the counter in the left corner will keep track of how many frames take been captured. When you are ready to review your pictures, hit the "view" button (third from the acme). The nice thing well-nigh Turbo Camera is that you lot merely save the images y'all want, everything else volition exist deleted when you exit the app or striking the delete button.

Turbo Camera as well supports the front camera and if you lot want to tedious things down, at that place is a delay setting. Turbo Camera is a neat photographic camera app but in that location are a few downsides.

Turbo Camera Settings

Commencement, the app captures images at the everyman resolution. Images are captured at 640x480. The low resolution helps speeds things up but restricts your prototype quality. Co-ordinate to the developer, the next update will offering resolution settings. It may slow things down a bit but image quality volition improve.

Next, to switch betwixt the front and rear cameras you lot have to go into the settings. It would exist nice to accept an extra push button on the main view to switch between the cameras.

Lastly, Turbo Photographic camera doesn't default to a fast enough shutter speed to freeze or stop activeness. My guess it defaults to the in-firm exposure controls for the Windows Phone camera. The consequence is a good bit of motion mistiness in your photos. The best way to reduce the motion blur is to shoot in bright calorie-free then the camera will automatically use a faster shutter speed for proper exposure. You lot still get a little blur just not equally much as you would in shooting in lower lighting situations.

Turbo Camera Test Strip

Operation wise, I was able to shoot as fast every bit 14.five fps with the Nokia Lumia 900 and xv fps with the HTC Titan Two. I'chiliad able to capture about 50 frames on either Windows Phone before the buffer fills.

All in all, Turbo Camera is an interesting camera app for your Windows Telephone. I'm not sure if Turbo Camera'south objective exceeds the Windows Phone cameras' potential. If you lot tin notice a way to increase the resolution, utilize a faster shutter speed while maintaining proper exposure, and maintain a high frames per second and then I tin see the app really shining. As is, Turbo Camera has some dainty features and under the right conditions tin can come up in handy. I don't call back information technology will let y'all capture Sports Illustrated action photos from your kids Little League games but it may help y'all chase your kids around the yard or that photographic camera shy person who always turns her head at the concluding 2nd.

At that place is gratis trial version available for Turbo Camera to allow you try it before yous buy information technology. The full version will run you $.99 and you can grab it all here at the Windows Telephone Marketplace.

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