HDR Camera for Windows Phone 8 updated, bugs fixed?

HDR Camera

The other day we took at look at the Windows Phone 8 photography app HDR Camera. The app had potential for creating HDR images with your Windows Phone camera but was plagued past several bugs that messed up epitome alignment, had the app crash frequently and distorted the camera viewfinder.

An update was released today for HDR Camera, taking the app to version 1.02. The update inverse the Exposure Compensation terminology from "steps" to "EV" and contained problems fixes. Non actually certain what the pressing demand to change "steps" to "EV" (which I presume is short for exposure value) but we were curious if the bug fixes addresses the alignment, stability and distortion issues we experienced with HDR Camera.

Quick recap on HDR Camera is that the app takes 3 images of the aforementioned picture at unlike exposure levels. The bracketed exposure images are and then stacked or merged into a atypical image that should accept greater dynamic range for colors. It should requite your colors a footling more popular and pull more than colors out from the shadows.

The previous version of HDR Camera failed to align the iii images and even if you manually aligned the three images, you concluded upwardly with photos that looked similar this.

HDR Camera alignment issues

The other two major issues we had with HDR Camera is that after creating an HDR image, when you would go to create a second image the app would crash. Secondly, every and so oftentimes the viewfinder would seem compressed as if the app was struggling to initialize the camera.

Well... the update seems to have corrected the alignment issues. I took about a dozen HDR images and each were aligned correctly. Granted a trivial work on the saturation and brightness levels would aid, the alignment was good and held throughout the post-processing.. I did try to tweak the saturation and brightness in the processing screens but the image faded too quickly to a grayscale paradigm. I think if the app dialed down the saturation levels on the initial processing just a tad that would assist.

HDR Camera post-update alignment

The update as well appears to correct any compression with the viewfinder.

What the update doesn't address is the stability. After each HDR image was saved, the app crashed when I attempted to create a second image. This occurred with both the Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC 8X.

While the update does ameliorate the app with regards to alignment, it's even so very frustrating to have the app crash later every photo. Without a trial version, HDR Camera is probably i update away from being worth a shot.

HDR Camera is currently running $1.99 and is available for your Windows Phone 8 device here in the Windows Phone Store.

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