Camera Zoom FX for Android Gets a Major Update
Every phone today comes with a camera, including even the most basic handsets.  But if you use a smartphone, be it Android, iPhone or Windows Phone, then you have a lot more choices because there are camera apps that improve on the built-in  feature set and add different types of functionality.  I have a weakness for camera apps and one of my favorites happens to be Camera Zoom FX.  Over the past couple of days a major update has been rolling out to all of the users of the app.
Camera Zoom FX packs in a lot of features, including 6x zoom, burst mode with up to 10 shots per second, silent camera, support for a front-facing camera, timer, integration with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and other services, as well as a lot more.  The update adds plenty of new features, but also there is better support for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and also for tablets.
Features in version 4.0
- Brand new UI
- Portrait mode
- Faster
- Brightness, exposure
- Iso, metering
- Horizon indicator
- Stable indicator
- Golden spiral grid
- New timer UI
- Pinch zoom
- Set review durn
- Prevent screen timeout
- Light leaks + bokeh
- New frames: elegant
- Gallery to view, share and delete
- Video switch
- H/w acceleration
- Support for xhdpi
- New custom actions
- Facebook sharing
- Flip photo
- Only new permission is to prevent wakelock
- Dropped 1.5 support
The app isn't free, but the $2.99 price tag isn't particularly high given the feature set.  Plus there are a number of add-on packs, such as Props, Frames, Composites, Shutter Animations and more, and all of these packs are free.  It carries an overall 4.4 rating from users, but it's still probably not the only camera app that you will want on your phone.  For instance, Camera Zoom FX doesn't do HDR images.  For that you may want to grab Camera 360 or Pro HDR Camera.  It also doesn't excel at time lapse, but that's a specialty thing and you will probably want an app like Lapse It Pro along with a special tripod made for phones.
On the whole, Camera Zoom FX is worth the $3 it will set you back and the new updates bring a vast amount of improvements to the app. Â The add-on packs set it apart from other camera apps and, given that they are all free, make this a great value for any Android user.
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Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?