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Shot Camera like app

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crossmr

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I had this great silent camera in the iPhone. It was called shot camera and had the following specific features:
1)when the phone was muted, the photo taken was silent
2)I could specify how many photos I want to take, and what the interval should be, like 3 photos 0.5second apart each
3)I could take the photo by pressing anywhere on the screen (or pressing the button, it was configurable)

Found this great for taking pictures of my baby sleeping or playing as the shutter sound would often distract/wake her up.

Is there an app like this on Android? The developer doesn't seem to make an android version and a lot of the quiet cams I've seen are stealth spy cams, and beyond being silent (which is hit or miss) doesn't have the other features.

This particular app didn't actually use the camera as well, it just basically took a screenshot of the preview of the camera, which was sufficient. But basically I need those 3 features above.
and it needs to work on an S3
 
Does it actually go silent on an S3? I've tried 3 other apps already all claiming to run silent, and the only one that ran silent was one that was garbage, it was very buggy and unintuitive.
 
Well this actually works somewhat like shot camera..it is slightly different
shot camera actually took photos as long as my finger touched the screen. So I could take 1 or 2 photos and then stop and take a couple more and finish off the set. This one just has a single touch and it'll fire off however many burst you select. It's not bad, but if you keep your finger on the glass, it doesn't fire, and you can't actually control the burst that finely. You can pick how many, but you can't set the interval, there also is a delay in the burst. You hit it, and it's almost a second later when it starts firing. But overall not bad.

It doesn't go silent on the S3 international version except in burst mode which takes screenshots of the camera preview much like shot camera.. I wish it would really go silent, but this is more or less the same as shot camera, so that's good.
 
After testing this a little more, I'd give it 6/10 in matching what i need. taking pictures is really sketchy on it. I can touch the glass anywhere to take a shot, but the reality is that it doesn't work. There must be a trick to it, but I can't get it to take pictures consistently
leave your finger too long and it'll just try and focus.
not long enough and nothing happens. Not quite the right spot and it just doesn't register anything.

Shot Camera was very responsive, as soon as my finger touched the glass it would start taking however many photos I set it up for, and i could even lift my finger off early and reposition the camera and fire the rest of the shots.


any other good contenders here?
 
sleeco said:
I just mute my s3 and no camera shot sound.
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already been through this in other threads. Not all S3s are set up the same. International S3 can't do that. Mute it, it still makes sound. Only some of the models sold in the US allow you to mute it.
 
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