A very strange thing happened during the three months I tested the revamped Camera app in iOS 7. I started out relying, as usual, on Camera+. It's been a mainstay on my iPhone for several years. But as the weeks went by, I found myself using that popular app less and less until it's now sitting a bit lost on the home page of my iPhone.
While the built-in Camera app isn't that far removed from its iOS 6 counterpart, there are a number of changes that make it better than what it was.
Option buttons that were once on the picture itself now rest on a semi-transparent panel that overlays the image. In Square mode, these bars are black. You're presented with four camera modes that you swipe among: video, camera, square and pano for panorama. Those who get the iPhone 5s will ge