By Graham K. Rogers

MY iTunes apps panel showed me Monday morning that the locally-developed Camera 500 has been updated once more and this time the developer, Chamnarn Suksai, has added another 15 filters (the last update added a dozen). This is now at version 1.49.

The new filters have been added to the FiltersFX folder - accessed through the tool bar at the bottom of the screen. FiltersFX itself was added with the 1.44 update (12 filters) and there are now 27 filters available here.

I had already thought this to be a good app, but the way this is evolving, each update improving the output, puts this right at the top of my list of photographic apps I go for first. Camera 500 is quick and easy to use, but the filters and editing make this good value for the $1.99 cost.

See Also:

• Camera 500: An Unusually Good Photo App, Developed in Thailand (original review)

• Camera 500 Updated (1.44) with More Filters - Now $1.99

Graham K. Rogers teaches at the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University in Thailand where he is also Assistant Dean. He wrote in the Bangkok Post, Database supplement on IT subjects. For the last seven years of Database he wrote a column on Apple and Macs. He is now continuing that in the Bangkok Post supplement, Life.