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Here’s another of those great applications that make the best out of the iPhone’s camera: this one applies the same kind of filter to your image as CameraBag does (in the “Helga” or “Lolo” settings), with a new addition: it doesn’t stop with reproducing the Lomo look of the picture, but emulates the multiple-lens ActionSampler cameras, which take a timed series of several small pictures on a single filmroll exposure.

I’m not very fond of the application’s interface — the shutter button is needlessly small even though you should only have to touch the screen anywhere, and there is no visual feedback of when each snapshot is taken and when it’s done (the viewfinder keeps displaying the camera’s video long after the last exposure, while the application processes the image) — but the images look cool, and you can change the number of frames on each picture (I left it on four because it’s the classic choice) or the delay between each shot. Definitely worth the purchase.

I’m really surprised this application(and others such as Darkroom, which activates the camera continually and takes a snapshot when your hand is still) has managed to pass App Store moderation: this is fundamentally the same thing as capturing live video, and I’m pretty certain there is no way to achieve that without calling private API functions.

But I guess the Store moderators don’t know that, and their checklist of forbidden functionalities only mentions “capturing video.”

Or they just thought QuadCamera was cool.