Introducing Facebook Camera. By Dirk Stoop Today, we’re introducing Camera, a new mobile app that makes using Facebook photos faster and easier. See friends’ photos all in one place When you launch the app, you’ll see a feed of just great photos from the people you care about. You can swipe to see more of any album or tap to enlarge an individual photo.
Share multiple photos fast Now you can quickly share multiple photos all at once instead of having to post one at a time. Just select the shots you want to share by tapping the check-mark on each photo and then hit post. It’s also easy to edit photos with new tools like the ability to crop, rotate and add filters to any picture in your camera roll. Facebook Launches A Standalone Camera App - Mike Isaac. Facebook Releases a Photocentric App for Apple Devices. FB Launches Facebook Camera – An Instagram-Style Photo Filtering, Sharing, Viewing iOS App. Insta-who? Today Facebook begins rolling out Facebook Camera for iOS to English-speaking countries, a standalone photos app where you can shoot, filter, and share single or sets of photos and scroll through a feed of photos uploaded to Facebook by your friends.
Developed by Facebook’s photos team without the help of Instagram because the acquisition deal hasn’t closed yet, Facebook Camera looks a lot like the app TechCrunch leaked images of a year ago, and is designed for quicker publishing than Facebook’s multi-featured primary mobile app. Facebook Camera lets you rapidly pick one or more photos, apply filters, tag friends and locations, add a description, and post. While its 14 filters, batch uploads, and streamlined interface are a big step up from Facebook for iOS, the design isn’t as beautiful as Instagram and neither are the photos you’ll see in it. [Update: See why I think Facebook Camera could backfire and get us using all of Facebook's apps less] How It’s Better Than Instagram. Why Facebook Needs Two Photo Apps. Facebook released Camera today, an iPhone app that lets you take photos, add filters to them, and share them on Facebook. Hey, wait a second. Isn’t that what Instagram does, which Facebook just smartly agreed to acquire for $1+ billion?
Yes and no. To us geeks who follow everything that’s going on in the tech industry, it might initially seem a little odd that Facebook would have, want, or need two camera apps. But it actually makes sense. Facebook Camera is for creating photos, sharing them on Facebook, and seeing your Facebook friends’ photos.Instagram is for creating photos, sharing them on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Foursquare, via email, etc., and seeing your Instagram friends’ photos.
So yes, there’s some overlap. The majority of my Facebook friends don’t use Instagram, and I’m not Facebook friends with the majority of the people I follow on Instagram.