Take Fisheye to the Next Level with Snappr iPhone App

It is no mystery that you can get almost any effect or filter that you could imagine for your iPhone camera. And if you read these reviews very often, it shouldn’t be a mystery that I love the retro effects that I can get through a number of the iPhone apps that I have reviewed. Further, you should not be surprised that there is a good deal of duplication when it comes to iPhone photo effects. But sometimes you see something a little different–perhaps unique–that catches your eye. Such is the case with Snappr by Revolver.

Snappr is an app that simulates the use of five different fisheye lenses. Choices include Sunk It, Orca Liber, 4Skin, Bvlgaria 75, and Nemo. The app is simple to use. You have a large viewfinder in which you touch to take a photo. When I tested this app I expected more to happen when I took a photo but found out that only something that resembled one of those old pull down blinds that said Mike Kennamer’s iPhone showed that I had just taken a photo. In retrospect, that seems to be plenty but I can’t explain why I took some many photos of my knees while learning to use the app. Maybe I was touching it in an effort to get the camera to focus and didn’t realize that the camera would focus on its own and that I was taking pics of my knees. Anyway, it is a functional camera with flash and automatic focus that works quite well. A simple touch is all that is required to take the photo.

The fun, however, comes in the lens selection which allows you to get a number of different looks in your photos. You will see some of my test shots here and how each lens impacts the effect. Once you finish taking your photos you can view them, save them to your camera roll, and/or export them to email, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or Instagram. Depending upon which apps you have loaded on your camera, you may also export to PhotoStudio, Dropbox, Camera+, and more.

This is a fun little app, and reasonably priced at $1.99. It is definitely worth checking out if you like cool, vintage effects.

Hope you enjoy. All the best…Mike

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