Three minutes to level pictures

The gyro function is great "out of the box", but like others I had immediate image quality issues. Three minutes of learning later and I wonder why more digital cameras dont have a feature like this. What a great idea.

Cutting to the chase, use "Gyro Clip" and "Large Shot" modes as your defaults. For my ramblings, read on.

As an imaging guy in a prior life, I almost always say "no" to interpolation, so I switched to "Gyro Clip" mode right away. Unlike "Gyro Fill" which scales a leveled image up to a stock size by inserting what amounts to as fake data into the image, "Gyro Clip" doesnt mess with what the camera captures and simply stores a leveled image that is cropped to an appropriate size for the angle of correction. Imaging purists will note that there is some interpolation happening when the image is rotated to the level position, but that is a far cry from what happens in "Gyro Fill" mode.

Second, a new installation of the app defaults to "Small Shot" mode for some reason and that causes it to take low resolution pictures. Not initially realizing this, it made me think there was something wrong with the software, too. Switching to "Large Shot" mode did the trick; more pixels equates to more data, and in general improved quality. Now I have images that are both on par with the stock camera app and more importantly, automagically level.

Spend three minutes exploring all of the features of gyroCam and I bet youll come to depend on it.

@smaedli about gyroLens