Overview

To celebrate the launch of our huge 2.5 update to Camera Plus Pro, we figured it would be fun to throw a contest for a variety of awesome prizes. After all, it’s summer and it only comes once a year!

The “10 Days of Summer: The Best Camera is the One With You” Contest will allow you to use Camera Plus Pro in ways you haven’t imagined before.

Starting today, we’ll gradually roll out missions for you to execute. These missions are open-ended themes that you’ll need to capture a photo or video for. There is no wrong or right way to point, shoot and share your creativity through Camera Plus Pro.

To get started, download Camera Plus Pro here: iTunes Link

Grand Prize

Leica D Lux 4

The best entry, voted by you all, will win this ridiculously awesome Leica camera.

How great are Leica cameras? Steve Jobs said it best describing the iPhone 4, “This is beyond the doubt, the most precise thing, the most beautiful we’ve ever made. Glass on the front and back, and steel around the sides. It’s like a beautiful old Leica camera.”

The best of the best will be offered up in a poll, featured here on this blog.

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The Camera Plus Pro is all about self-expression, through photography and video. Each mission below will feature an open-ended prompt to execute. Whether you execute the mission literally, symbolically or metaphorically, there are no creative handcuffs. The only direction we have for you is to have fun and be original!

To learn more about the 10 Days of Summer Contest and Prizes, click here.

Remember that every entry gets you one step closer to winning iTunes Gift Cards and the grand prize of the Leica D Lux 4 Camera!!

Mission #8 - Timeless

To enter, send in a picture or video based on the theme “Timeless”

For inspiration, here’s a photo of the timeless views of Maui:

Send in your picture or video executing this mission using any of the delivery methods below:

Mission #7 - Relief

To enter, send in a picture or video based on the theme “Relief”

For inspiration, here’s a photo of our way of getting caffeine-powered relief from the morning blues:

Send in your picture or video executing this mission using any of the delivery methods below:

Mission #6 - Shadows

To enter, send in a picture or video based on the theme “Shadows”

For inspiration, here’s a photo from our office jazz-man:

Send in your picture or video executing this mission using any of the delivery methods below:

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Wow! That is all we have to say here at Global Delight. 10 Million Downloads in less than nine months is quite a feat and something we are immensely proud of. We thank you all for trying out Camera Plus and loving it so much. First out in the App Store on 1st, October, 2009, Camera Plus was designed as an app that extended the functionality of the default iPhone camera. with Zoom and Soft Flash. Further updates included addition of features such as Video Recording and Video Filters (In-App) , Bing Search, simultaneous Share and more, making it a must have application on every iPhone. Camera Plus made iPhone users love their iPhones more, and taking pictures even more.

With the release of the iOS 4, we have been frantically working on a compatible version of both Camera Plus and Camera Plus Pro. They have been submitted to the App Store and we are eagerly awaiting their approval. We are also working on improving the overall experience while using Camera Plus on your iPhone. Newer features and better performance are in the works.

On this occasion, we would also like to let you into a ‘lil secret. We are working on another fun application, something that you are going to love and enjoy. Of course that is the only hint we are letting out yet. But be assured that you will not be disappointed. If you wish to be the first one to know about this application, do subscribe to our newsletter. Our monthly newsletter is a fun way of communicating with you about our new releases, updates coming up, contests, offers and more, through your in-box. Do subscribe and keep yourself updated.

-Vaishnavi

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It’s that time of the year again, when Apple releases a major new firmware upgrade for the iPhone and scores of iPhone users hit the Update button in iTunes. It’s also the time when iOS developers scramble to test their apps on the new version of the operating system and push out updates to fix anything that may have broken.

Although usually that just means tweaking a few lines of code here and there to optimize things or not having to do anything at all, the scope and enormity of the new features that iOS 4.0 brings have a much deeper impact on the fundamental architecture of some of the underlying elements that we developers use in our apps.

This posting is intended to make you aware that, as of their most recent versions available in the App Store today, Camera Plus and its older sibling Camera Plus Pro are not very friendly to iOS 4.0. We have been testing the apps out on iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS units here in the secret underground bunkers that form the Global Delight headquarters and working furiously to make it play nice with the new OS on the block.

The Problems

• An extra helping of zoom: You know how Camera Plus Pro gives you a zoom slider to allow you to capture that tiny butterfly that seems just a little out of reach? With iOS 4.0, Camera Plus and Camera Plus Pro customers who upgrade to the new OS on existing iPhones (and those who purchase the iPhone 4, presumably) will find two zoom sliders, one overlaid on top of the other. While that does quadruple the amount of zooming our apps will now allow you to do, the outcome is not exactly pleasing to the eye.

• Displacement of sharing: Customers who upgrade to iOS4 will find that the screens that allow you to enter details when sharing images are displaced when the keyboard is put away. It’s not pretty but, hey, it works.

• So many tasks, so little time: Needless to say, all pre-iOS 4.0 apps, including ours, were designed without multi-tasking in mind. With iOS 4.0, your applications keep running in the background in a nascent state, even if its main feature is one that does not work in the background (like, say, taking a picture). Therefore, if you press the Home button while Camera Plus Pro is clicking away in burst mode, waiting for the timer to get done or uploading media, it gets downright confused about what it should do and clams up. You’ll have to quit it from the multi-tasking dock and relaunch it to nurse it back to full health.

• The great video meltdown: If you have Camera Plus Pro configured to use the default Apple-supplied video capture UI and try to use it after upgrading to iOS 4.0, you’ll experience something you do not expect from a high quality application like ours: a crash. We are deeply apologetic about the fact that this bug exists. While the others on this list are problems we couldn’t have foreseen, this particular one could have been avoided, at least in theory.

The Solution

We’ve been working sixteen-hour days ever since we realized that these problems would rear their ugly heads for Camera Plus and Camera Plus Pro customers upgrading to iOS 4.0 and will be submitting a version with all the necessary fixes for the latter within a couple of days. We’ll also get an updated version for Camera Plus out there as soon as possible. We expect Camera Plus Pro version 2.4 to be out in the App Store before the end of June and Camera Plus version 2.2 to follow soon thereafter.

The Recommendation

If you cannot live without Camera Plus Pro for a second and the idea of going up to a week without it is enough to give you nightmares, we request you not to upgrade to iOS 4.0 until we’ve released the updates, which will make them as compatible as a pair of nesting penguins! We suspect there may be some other developers out there as well whose apps may be caught in the cross-hairs of iOS 4.0 and its whiz-bang features and your holding out for a week will give them a chance to bring their apps up to speed as well.

As for those of you who cannot wait an extra second to get onto the iOS 4.0 bandwagon and multi-task till your precious iPhone 3GS begs for mercy, we recommend that you not press the Home button while the app is in the middle of something and set it up to use our custom video recording interface if you have it set otherwise (you’ll also get to use our excellent video filters as an added bonus). We realize that this is not ideal but, at the moment, it’s the best we can do.

The Future

All the problems we have outlined here and the steps we are taking to solve them pertain to iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users. However, we have no way to test our applications on the iPhone 4 yet and cannot predict with any certainty what additional problems, if any, they will exhibit on the new hardware. Once it is released, we will have an iPhone 4 in our hands as soon as it’s possible to do so and will get cracking on optimizing our apps for it as well.

We hope that you’ll bear with us while we tirelessly work to get these issues fixed and we look forward to your continued patronage. As always, if you encounter any other bugs in the Camera Plus apps, we encourage you to drop us a line via email.

-Aayush

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When Camera Plus crossed the 7.5 Million downloads landmark, we thought we need to do something to show you our appreciation. Thus Camera Plus v2.1 is our way of saying Thank You! Armed with amazing new features, this version is sure to sweep you right off your feet. The Video Recording feature which is an in-app purchase, has cool new enhancements such as Video Pause, Time Lapse to create interesting videos, and 12 awesome filters such as Mirror, Sin City Red, Vintage and more. The price for the in-app purchase still stands at $0.99, which is a steal for all these cool features. It is of-course free for those who have already bought the video recording feature.

Apart from this, we have also added an option for you to Mail your photos to your family and friends. As you snap a picture, you will be surprised to find Bing among the options. We have included this search engine, so that you can search for interesting pictures, apply Black and White effect, Crop, or Flip them and then share it for everyone to see. The incredible fact is that you don’t even have to leave the app to do all this!

We have also had numerous requests to make Camera Plus, iPod touch compatible. With the new version, you can import pictures from your Camera Roll, in your iPod touch, apply Black and White Effect, Crop and Flip them to give them an interesting look. And once you have worked your magic, you can share it instantly with the world via Facebook , Twitter and Mail. Camera Plus v2.1 is coming soon to the App Store. Be sure to get it on your iPhone.  Camera Plus is available on the App Store for free and you can buy the awesome Video  Recording option for your iPhone 2G, 3G and 3GS, via in-app, for just $0.99. Get it today!

-Vaishnavi

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