Will it be possible (once root comes) to adjust the shutter speed of the camera or better sync it with the flash? Is that something that could be adjusted in the software?
Sent from my HTC Evo
I rooted and flashed CyanogenMod7 my EVO 4G & MyTouch 4G. IF shutter speed control is possible, it isn't built into the standard Android camera program. You might want to look for other programs that have that feature. But it may either not be controllable or not something any developers have bothered to add as a feature into their programs. However since the camera is so small & simple, it may not a hardware limitation and simply not possible.
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I notice CM6 has quite a lot of options, however, is it possible to add more options like enabling torch to assist auto focus, manual focus, adjustable shutter speed and aperture.
And for the video cam, force framerate and disabling auto ISO would be good.
tatsit said:
I notice CM6 has quite a lot of options, however, is it possible to add more options like enabling torch to assist auto focus, manual focus, adjustable shutter speed and aperture.
And for the video cam, force framerate and disabling auto ISO would be good.
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thats smth you have to ask in the cyanogen thread
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I need only video touch focus(as on Desire camera)
but I support you
nicandris said:
thats smth you have to ask in the cyanogen thread
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i tried.. they told me to get a digital cam
tatsit said:
i tried.. they told me to get a digital cam
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ouch!!
I also would like to see those options available. I think our hardware can support it, just doesn't out of the box on the software end of things. Likely those options would all be very difficult to replicate. I have tried looking into third party alternatives (Camera 360, Vignette, etc..) but none of them actually do what you need -- they just process the image to make it look like you had done it with a good camera..
tatsit said:
i tried.. they told me to get a digital cam
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ba ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
tatsit said:
i tried.. they told me to get a digital cam
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LMFAOOO i found this super funny loool .. xda humor can be so harsh at times lol
fiftyclick said:
ouch!!
I also would like to see those options available. I think our hardware can support it, just doesn't out of the box on the software end of things. Likely those options would all be very difficult to replicate. I have tried looking into third party alternatives (Camera 360, Vignette, etc..) but none of them actually do what you need -- they just process the image to make it look like you had done it with a good camera..
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but cyanogen has managed to come out with exposure, iso, metering, brightness, contrast, saturation and sharpness settings. i think it would be great if he adds a few more settings to give users full manual control over the camera
additional features like torch auto focus assist and exposure lock would be good. and also disabling auto iso and reduce frame rates for video cam at low lights would be good.
All the settings above - exposure, metering, etc - are included in HTC camera application, which is probably the one used on CM (didn't check CM), or that's where they come from. I don't know if original SW was rewritten to get them, but if so - it was definitely rewritten basing on HTC camera.
Having manual controls of the camera / focus assist / etc might require deep HW knowledge and documentation of features that are probably not available to the public. Focus assist might be easy, but other functions aren't. I wouldn't be waiting for the day this request is fulfilled, because this day will most probably never come.
An alternative way would be porting the HTC Camera in desire to CM6 ,then at least we will have touch to focus.
Hi all, as we all know the HTC Hero has it's weak spot in the camera.
On many ROMs that go beyond the official 2.1 Release it is very variing wether it work or not and wether it has certain features or not.
What I know and speculate so far.
-To use the camera, Android needs a camera driver.
-Apparently these drivers are kexts (kernel extentions) witch are only compatible with certain versions of the Linux kernel.
-On CyanogenMod/AOSP based ROMs the camera app gives us more raw images with less post processing as there are no information about the sensor color proprieties.
-On HTC Sense ROMs photos are more saturated, contrasty as HTC knows about the sensor and has engineers who optimised the post processing algorithms accordingly.
So why can't we have HTCs camera apk everywhere? at least it relyes on some HTC Sense (that reside inside at least one external APK) frameworks to do some UI/UX shenanigans. I suppose also that HTC uses a dedicated camera driver and not a generic AOSP one additionaly.
What I don't know and want to know is where all the features in the little settings overlay in the AOSP Camera App come from. At first I thought it was a hardware capability but all of the sudden came FroydVillain (at least for me) and had touch to focus etc.
So my question is: can we decouple camera development to make(and keep up to date) the ultimate, full featured camera driver/app for the hero that works up to 2.3.4 ?
t.l.d.r. : I want touch to focus and spot metering in all ROMS up to 2.3.4
Previous Questions in the forum have been answered pretty vagely and unsatisfactory, so I try to gather as much info as I can here. Please complete, correct and link me to what I'm missing out here.
Try using the WildHeroWWE-1.2 rom by erasmux, Its got a working camera but the camcorder doesn't seems to be working.
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Try using the WildHeroWWE-1.2 rom by erasmux, Its got a working camera but the camcorder doesn't seems to be working.
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Camcorder does work you have to change the it from 640 480 to 320 240 in the settings
Thanks, I love this rom but the only setback for me is the SMS + prefix issue that I m experiencing with this rom, let me know if you have a fix for it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1097334
Just recently tried 360 Camera app. Looks pretty cool, however I'm not certain it has full control of the camera.
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The app has the ability to save photos as high quality, medium quality, ect... I see the saved image size is in fact larger, but the PQ doesn't appear to be any different. I'm wondering if this is due to NR or that the camera app isn't able to provide any advantage to the built in app. because it doesn't have real control over the image captured. Meaning the camera applies compression NR internally.
Does the camera app. have the ability to avoid or reduce picture compression?
I also noticed the camera app. doesn't provide macro photo capabilities and the EXIF data is lacking. Not the same level of detail captured by the default camera app.
Anyone know of a better app. or if the app truly has control of the camera?
Any input would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Mike
I've never used this 360 camera app. Where did you get this?
https://market.android.com/details?id=vStudio.Android.Camera360&hl=en
You could try this: lgCamera by RubberBigPepper https://market.android.com/details?id=rubberbigpepper.lgCamera&feature=search_result
I checked the link, and I decide to save my comments after I actually used it.
Nice links and I went ahead and tried some of these other options.
However, none of this answers my original question. Does the software have full control over the camera, to the point it can actually apply the Jpeg conversion to the RAW image?
Mike
what title says
i find that camera apps from android are lacking compare to the iphone. the cameras on our phone are pretty good but i feel that the apps arent even putting the camera to its full potential.
are there any apps that allow multi touch to focus and lock exposure?
anyone know?
Hello, i was wandering, how come noone has developed an app or a tweak for the camera that will give us full control of the settings (shutter etc - i know aperture is a hardware thing).
I mean to give us the ability to choose for example shutter times for up to 30" or even more, since this is a software related issue. The main purpose of something like that is for nightsky portraits, that would give pretty good results, because of the camera's low f ratio and focal length
try Camera FV-5 in the play market
actually, that's a kick-a$$ app! just tried it, and works like a charm, even though, due to hardware limitations, long exposure is limited to 640x480