Camera Timer

Swain Valasek | Mar 8, 2009 Photo & Video

User rating: (10 votes, average: 2.90 out of 5)
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If you threw a pebble at the app store, it would bounce off about 10 camera apps before coming to rest.  So how does Camera Timer from Nuno Carvalho Entertainment stack up against the glut?  Well, it does exactly what it’s namesake implies…and nothing more.  This app allows you to specify whether the iPhone will take a picture in 15, 30 or 45 seconds.  Optional SFX will let you know when it’s just about to snap.  In what is easily my shortest review ever, that’s it, the end.

I have a couple gripes while we’re all here.  First a generalization; there are 2 types of camera apps out there if you loosely categorize: those that add value to the native camera app and those that strive to be a replacement for it.  Camera Timer has positioned itself as the former when to me it makes much more sense to shoot for the latter.  What you get is something in between that I think would be a struggle to find a permanent home for on your iPhone.  There’s no stabilization feature using the accelerometer.  There’s no autosave option.  The camera roll is accessible from the app but the author inexplicably overlays his logo on each one, reducing the viewable image area for no justifiable reason.

When apps exist that do what Camera Timer does plus considerably more and for less jack (such as Darkroom Premium), it’s impossible to recommend this app unless you simply must have an extra icon on your iPhone that serves the singular purpose of timing the camera shutter release.

Version reviewed – 1
Reviewed on – iPhone 3G 8G 2.2.1

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Good way to self-advertise...or an irritation to the user...you decide
Good way to self-advertise...or an irritation to the user...you decide
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  • Michael (Admin)

    My problem with an app that does nothing but work as a timer is that I can’t use it… I can’t mount my iPhone on a tripod and the odds of finding a good place to lean the camera so that I can go stand in front of it aren’t very good.

  • Swain Valasek

    Good point Sir Admin, the iPhone has no tripod (or any other) mount so at *best* you’re leaning your precious phone against a wall or propped up in some precarious way. Which makes it all the more ironic that the 1 thing this app does is a thing that most people don’t do. Dev if you’re listening, if you want this app to walk at this price you really gotta give it some legs.

  • John Q.

    The app has been updated and now has autosave and there’s no logo on camera roll. Still no stabilizer…