ProCamera Pushes Out a Major Update, Introducing Steady Light and Volume-Trigger

Mannheim, Germany (PRWEB) November 08, 2011

Top rated and feature rich high-end iPhone camera app ProCamera just released a major update - version 3.3, with Steady Light, and Volume-Trigger.

As always, Apple approved the new update extremely quickly.

Volume Trigger allows users to snap photos simply by pressing the volume control button on the iPhone when using the ProCamera app. This makes the iPhone feel and function like most single purpose point and shoot cameras. Volume Trigger also offers users the option of taking photos using the earbud (headset) volume controls. This is a particularly cool function as it allows iPhone users to take pictures at arms length (length of your earbud cord) without touching the iPhone.

ProCameras creator, Jens Daemgen said: Apple has a simple API ("UIImagePickerController") for very simple camera apps to support the volume trigger out of the box; but has not created an API for advanced camera apps to support the volume trigger. Advanced apps that use the complex API (AVFoundation) don't get access to the hardware buttons the way they should. The component that most simple apps use just offers a take a photo option, and it doesnt come with any advanced features like separating focus and exposure, or white balance lock or whatever. (I suspect that Apple will provide a new API that solves this issue soon.)

Jens then added, When using ProCamera the volume control buttons have two functions: the volume controls continue to work and the display shows the current volume level; and you can also take a photo.

ProCamera offers the Volume Trigger, with all the advanced features.

This update also includes Steady Light: Users can switch their flashlight to on/off/auto and additionally combine it with steady light whenever they need it! Users can also choose the right flashlight intensity for every situation.

This feature allows users to shoot photos in dim light or even in complete darkness. With Steady Light users are able to literally brighten up the subject of the photo before using the digital flash. This solves the issue that the cameras focus can not be accurate using only the flash light.

Users can also use Steady Light when they need a light in the dark to unlock the car, when they are looking for the house-keys, or when they find themselves on a dark path at night and need to know whats ahead. Steady Light will be used for both practical tasks and creative iPhotography projects. We hope that this new user-friendly tool will become a favorite of ProCameras fans.

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COMPANY Leaps To Front of Online Art Sellers With Major Seed Funding

New York, NY (PRWEB) August 18, 2011

Silicon Alley-based startup COMPANY a social network for emerging art collectorsonline art market and social content company which also has an offline networking event series and reality cable show debuting in the fall announces their first seed funding of $ 1.6 million. The capital was raised from New York angel investors including the Reen Family Office and Ten Paces Capital Partners.

COMPANY is the only online art market offering collectors of contemporary and emerging art a curated secondary market to sell and exchange artworks from their own collections as well their recently unveiled website expansion offering Limited Edition Prints from the hot young artists exclusively.

The business was launched only this past March and already generating a profit which made for a quick capital raise. In the coming weeks, COMPANY will debut its art rental business modeled on Netflix and AirBNB catering to commercial real estate companies and hotel operators. Then in the fall its new reality show The Collector NYC debuts on cable fully underwritten by sponsors.

According to Founder CJ Follini, This investment is a game changer for online art sales by allowing us to expand our unique offline networking events and digital content creation to become the only enterprise in our space with multi-platform ad and sponsorship offerings.. Most importantly, these proceeds will catapult us into an extremely scalable art rental model for large commercial art consumers.

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