Then & Now: Auto-Align Camera

Take the same photo, from the same spot, again and again — and watch things change. A tree through the seasons. A renovation from bare walls to finished room. A street corner over the years. The hard part of this kind of photography was never the camera. It's lining the shot up exactly, and remembering to come back. Then & Now takes care of both. IT LINES UP THE SHOT FOR YOU • Your reference photo is overlaid on the live camera, with adjustable opacity. • The app compares the live view with the reference in real time and tells you what to do: move right, step back, rotate a little clockwise. • Three bars show how well position, angle and distance match. • When everything lines up, the frame turns green, you feel a tap, and the shutter fires by itself. The shutter button always works too. • If a scene can't be matched automatically — at night, or facing a blank wall — the app says so and…