From the looks of it, pretty well. This is by and large the same Snapture you'd have found in Cydia or Installer last year: It lets you zoom and pan in liveview with multitouch, shoot three-shot bursts, snap a photo by tapping anywhere on the screen, and file photos to a picture-in-picture tray in the corner of the screen, from which you can review, delete or save them. A reticle-like overlay helps you keep your hands level, while Snapzones let you prime shots so that releasing your finger—not tapping it—can trigger the shutter.

As far as I can tell, the only capabilities ceded to Cupertino are the real-time color adjustments and camera timer, which were never the banner features anyway. Autofocus-by-touch seems to have been lost when using the app on the the 3GS, too, but auto-autofocus, for lack of a better phrase, still works fine. And hey, now that iPhone OS supports hardware accessories, and Snapture has traversed Apple's approval process, that promising flash attachment Snapture Labs had been working on seems like it might have a future.

Snapture now resides in the App Store, looking uncomfortable and feeling slightly out of place, for a limited-time introductory price of two dollars, after which it'll rocket back up to eight. It's not showing up in searches for the time being, but you can find it at this link. [Snapture Labs]

iPhones.ru took side by side photos with new iPhone firmware and old iPhone firmware. That lead comparison photo is not the result of a single snapshot, but 30 that produced similar results: Firmware 2.2.1 blurred the cat, then 3.0 blurred the cat ever so slightly less.

In the gallery below, you'll see an even more striking example at full resolution. Here, dark detail is still fairly grainy (but noticeably improved), the firmware seems worlds better at exposing the bright light sources of the soda machine and street light.

Frankly, the additional dark detail in the 3.0 shot that makes me a little skeptical. But updated firmware could easily be better at handling bright light by recognizing when overexposures/blow-outs were happening...which might affect the darkest parts of the image as a corollary.

Updated firmware, in general, can make a huge difference in the SLR world, so the theory isn't complete mad science. Time will tell if these results are duplicated elsewhere. Until then, anyone running 3.0 is free to share their own anecdotal evidence in the comments. [iPhones.ru]

OmniVision, a known quantity in the industry, beat out Apple's current CMOS supplier, Aptina, for the contract. But the reporting one this is extremely brief and spares us virtually any details. One gets the feeling that this particular rumor was held to a lower evidentiary standard than, say, a rumor about an Apple tablet, because it's just so plausible—most of us would be surprised if the next iPhone doesn't boost its camera resolution to 3.2 megapixels or beyond.

Oh, and there's the throwaway secondary rumor attached to this whole thing too: Apple has apparently also ordered a 5-megapixel CMOS sensor for "another product" set to be launched this year. Despite being able to fully ascertain that the 3.2MP sensor is meant for the "next-gen iPhone", Digitimes' source evidently couldn't tell them what the other sensor is for. Hence the salt. [Digitimes via iPhoneBuzz]

Because the iPhone has a plastic case, a self-adhesive ring with a magnet must first be affixed to the area around the camera lens. After that, it's a simple matter of bringing the add-on lens in contact with the magnet. In fact, the wide angle, telephoto and fish-eye lenses can be used on just about any device with appropriately-sized webcams and cameras. How well the lenses work is unknown, but at least they won't break the bank at $17 apiece. [USB Fever via Gear Diary]

This is one is composed of an incredible 142 separate shots. I wish I had that kind of patience. [p0psharlow via Flickr via Cult of Mac]