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Facebook Camera App [UPDATED]

Facebook just announced a camera app, Facebook Camera, with the intention to make sharing photos easier.

According to Dirk Stoop, a Facebook product manager for photos, the app is much faster than the current Facebook app for iPhones, (Obviously. the Facebook iPhone app couldn’t be any slower…) and photo sharing is the centre focus.

Stoop, “We can basically show you more photos on the app, so we can make a more immersive experience around your photos…On the side of publishing these photos, Facebook Camera lets you load much higher resolutions photos at up to 2048X2048 pixels wide.”

On top of that, Facebook will implement some of Instagram’s context to Facebook Camera as well. It will offer 15 filters, including tools for cropping, straightening, and a variety of photo editing tools.

Derick Mains, a spokesman for Facebook, “As you can imagine, people love to share and view photos on Facebook, so giving people a great photo experience has been a really big priority for us…We spent a lot of time making the app very fast. The whole viewing experience is faster. The app launches really fast and it scrolls like butter.”

Time to try it out!

Speaking of speed, Facebook should really fix their iOS Facebook app. It seriously couldn’t be any slower. It felt like we are back in the 90s.

Let us know how you like the Facebook Camera app after you try it!

[UPDATE:] I tried to download the app on my iPhone, and I couldn’t even find the app. For those who really want to try out the app right now, they can install the app in iTunes, and then sync it to their iPhone.

The app is actually really well done! Fantastic.

Another Critical Camera Feature- Eliminating People In Background

Wow, shortly after my recent post about Lytro Camera Field Technology,

We got another feature that allows us to remove the people in the background!
I am pretty sure we all been through it. People or friends ruining doing stupid stuff ruining beautiful pictures, now we can finally just simply remove them.

This came from Scalado’s Remove feature.
We are not exactly too sure when will this be made available to the public. But lets hope it won’t be too long of a wait.

Here’s the video of it, enjoy.

The Future Camera- Choose Where You Want To Focus After Picture Taken.

Ren Ng, CEO and founder of Lytro, came up with an revolutionary idea that will dramatically change the way we take pictures.
We no longer need “focus” while taking pictures. We can choose exactly where we want to focus after pictures are taken.

Switching the Focus

Conventional camera only captures a single plane of light, but the Lytro camera would capture the entire light field- all the light traveling in every direction in every point in space.
Check out this video to view how it would revolutionize the way we take pictures!

On top of that, there has been rumours surrounding Steve jobs meeting with Ren Ng, shortly before Steve’s Job’s death.
Will Lytro’s technology come to iPhone, and iPad? That would instantly outsale all other smartphones out there!