Night Camera app for the iPhone automatically steadies shaky hands

Even if you have the still hands of a sleeping person, night shots with a cellphone camera will often turn out a blurry mess. Night Camera for the iPhone detects motion and pulls the trigger when your hands are at their steadiest, automatically.

Night Camera

When you press the shutter button with Night Camera, the app starts taking accelerometer readings for three seconds; when the sensor determines that you’re holding the camera steadily, Night Camera triggers the shutter at that exact instant. Accelerometer sensitivity and sensor reading time are all configurable via an options panel.

Since a harsh flash in darker situations is often your worst enemy as a photographer, this is a great feature for helping battle the blurriness brought on by hand-holding your shots at low speeds. I’d welcome this feature on my regular cameras, too.

Night Camera is $1 , but only for a limited time (no cutoff date given), so grab it ASAP if you’re big into using the camera of your iPhone.

Night Camera

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4 Comments to “Night Camera app for the iPhone automatically steadies shaky hands”

  1. on 03 Dec 2008 at 4:48 pmBryan Ribas

    Good Concept. Haven’t tested it yet but I will soon.

  2. on 17 Mar 2009 at 4:36 amGeorge Jounston

    A great idea and a bargain. I am catching some great night scenes with it.

  3. on 06 Jun 2009 at 2:02 amKasman

    This software often froze my iphone and ended up that to restart.

    Pics quality however is better.
    Bug need to be fixed ASAP

  4. on 21 Oct 2009 at 2:02 amRobert Boone

    I just purchased ” Night Camera” dowloaded it and synced it to the iphone 3g, but it doesn’t show up
    on the phone. I need some tech assist.

    540 845 9328

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