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(REQ) Manual Focus Mod

Hey All,
This Has been mentioned before, and gained moderate insterest. but, it's been a while, and i thought I'd bring it up again.
I am searching for a Mod/app that would allow me to manually focus my camera.
Not autofocus, and not 'tap to focus' but a true manual focus.
with cameras advancing these days, it becomes more accaptable to take quality fotos with your phone. And a manual focus option will allow one to control even more thier images.
my goal was to bring more depth of field into my fotos, but time and time again, i found it focusing on the wrong objcts. for example, rain on a window, it would focus on what was behond the window...
If theres anything out there already for my HD2 android or winMo, let me know.
Otherwise, leave your opinions and maybe someone more talented than I can write this up!
Thanks guys, and take it easy.

[Q] App Development Help

Thanks for the help!

SMBulls9 said:
Hi,
I am trying to develop an app, with little experience of WP7, on Visual Studio Ultimate 2010, in C#. The app I am trying to develop needs to be able to take your pulse using the flash of the camera to illuminate your finger and then detect the changes in brightness to calculate it. To do this, would I be better off recording a video for like ten seconds in the background (the UI will just be text that says place your finger over the lens) or would I need to use a while loop and have it take a picture like every 40 milliseconds then have will flip through the pictures and see how often a dark spot comes up or something? Any code examples or links would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Well, I didn't caught the idea of the app you want to develop, but if I understood you right and you want to measure pulse by taking photos/videos of a finger, it looks like some kind of science fiction. Just imagine the accuracy needed for such calculations and how will you keep you finger still.
Talking about video: if I am not mistaken all the currently existing background agents are restricted to use Camera API, may be I'm a bit wrong here.
For learning C# for Windows Phone 7 it is good to begin from MSDN and bunch of code samples stored there or a book.
Best regards.

This is actually already being done on other smartphone platforms; hell, people are using smartphone sensors for all kinds of crazy things, including a number of medical applications.
Given that the highest pulse you're ever likely to encounter is about 240 BPM / 4Hz (250ms between beats), 40ms resolution seems more than needed. That said, that's only 25 FPS, while I believe the video camera shots at 30 FPS (33ms). However, taking pictures probably won't work so well because of the need to JPEG-compress the images after taking them (I think the camera API *always* does this, though I might be wrong). Using the video stream API seems like a much better idea.
You shouldn't need the background APIs at all; not sure why the guy above me talked about them. My understanding is that these apps just sample for a few seconds, enough to get an accurate reading.
You may get better info in the App Development sub-section of the WP7 D&H forum. That said, don't expect people to write your code for you, especially for something where there's a reasonable chance of it being a commercially viable Marketplace app. I suggest you start with MSDN, but reading the docs and looking at the examples. You can also go look up tutorials and example code online for using the video APIs.

[APP][7.0+] Camera X - Simple camera application with tons of features

Description
New generation camera application builded with a proper UI/UX and updated with some non-common features has Live-preview filters, live-photos and face recognition used to take captures.
Technical description
CameraX is a camera application builded over Camera 2 API. The application makes uses of all the features provided by the API based on the hardware of the device running it. It also manages all the preview system using OpenGL instead of the native way. Being able to implement real time filters(on next release ), selfie indicator and on-preview features. It also works on some modes with Scene Detection and Face Detection using the tools provided by Machine learning Firebase tool.
Hardware limitations
Is possible that your device will not support the application. if your device is not supported it means that the Camera 2 API is not fully supported by your manufacturer. Brands like Xiaomi, Huawei and Samsung who develop their own Firmware still using the old API 1 and works over it. On this case, I can't help providing a manual apk. The API itself requires a full implementation over it.
Features
- HD Camera: Up to 4K support for video and photo if your device supports it.
- Live Photos: See your pictures come to life on Google Photos.
- Photobooth: Take selfies with your friends only smiling to the camera.
- Manual Mode: Modify your ISO, time exposure, compensation and white balance for the best pictures.
- Record in Slow-motion in supported devices.
- Create amazing Time-lapses.
- Focus: Auto & Manual.
- Burst Mode: Capture infinite pictures with out burst mode.
- Support for RAW/DNG.
- Record in multiple FPS: Choose between 30 or 60FPS.
- Gesture Management: Use your volume keys to take pictures or control the zoom .
- Frontal Mirror: Add a mirrored effect to your frontal camera pictures.
- Grid: Take the best pictures with our Grid options.
Download APK:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.camerax.camera
Feel free to leave any feedback, we are looking forward for updates and improvements on the application. Also, being a hardware related app makes it hard to test without a huge quantity of devices.
Thank you so much in advance!

Not supported by Galaxy a50 in PlayStore. Could you share an *.apk?

polomalkin said:
Not supported by Galaxy a50 in PlayStore. Could you share an *.apk?
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Hello @polomalkin
If your device is not supported it means that the Camera 2 API is not fully supported by your manufacturer. Brands like Xiaomi, Huawei and Samsung who develop their own Firmware still using the old API 1 and works over it. Even providing you an APK the application will not work properly. Thank you so much anyway! Will write this down on the description aswell

thanks!! can it compete somehow google camera in futute updates?

kos25k said:
thanks!! can it compete somehow google camera in futute updates?
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Hello @kos25k ! Yes, the idea is to compete with the actual Google Camera(the open one, not the one integrated on PIXEL devices). In the end right now apart of some really specific features. For now we want to close an stable version with all the features highlighted and then focus on more "Image processing" features, such as develop our own HDR/Nightshot etc.
Anyway, for now we are using the same API than google, and the actual application highlight a lot of the App store top applications. It lack the Manufacturer custom implementation of each in-device camera. But in the end is the cost of build an application available for tons of devices.
Any feedback or desired feature is totally welcome! Thank you so much!

nice!my inquiry always was, why noone camera apk on market has the most known spec, google hdr+! is this impossible to be implemented in a camera app?The difference is really great..

kos25k said:
nice!my inquiry always was, why noone camera apk on market has the most known spec, google hdr+! is this impossible to be implemented in a camera app?The difference is really great..
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More than do an HDR(HDR+), it's to do one that is fast enought to don't bother the user. You can easily create a HDR, Nightshot, or high processing quality images using OpenCV(FastCV on Android case), but these libraries takes seconds(10+) to process this images. Google does it using their own algorith with a huge native processing image team behind, that's why they don't need 2-3 cameras and they can do a Bokeh, HDR, nightshot and everything using a single 1, because their knowledge on that matter is amazing. Other manufacturers such as Samsung, Hauwei etc use their own system or third party libraries(from companies has Morpho).
So, in summary, yes, it's possible to do an hdr+, and we are working on it. But we want to launch something that will process under 3-4 seconds at least to give a good user experience.
Thank you so much for your feedback kos25k!

i wish the best bro! If you manage a similar hdr+ experience, i believe you will then have the 1st best custom camera app on android phones!especially if u can solve gcam phone models compatibility issues, then you will re-write the rules from scratch!!

Feature request
- manual folder selection
- one time adsfree payment
- nicer icons when switching between modes
Also
Empty .mp4 videos are created in my DCIM folder . What are them?

mijorus said:
Feature request
- manual folder selection
- one time adsfree payment
- nicer icons when switching between modes
Also
Empty .mp4 videos are created in my DCIM folder . What are them?
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Hello Mijorus,
first, thank you so much for the feedback and the request. I really though this thread was already dead.
- We are working on a folder selection feature already, it should come next month.
- Same goes with payments. We want to include the possibility for single payment to remove the ads. However, we want to finish cleaning the bugs and gathering all the feedback we are receiving recently before include the payments.
- What did you didnt like from the icons? They are too simple? We try to follow a Google Material looking with the icons, but maybe make something more fancy would be great. Any advice or idea would be great. We will take the feedback and let it know to our designer.
Thank you so much for the feedback, and feel free to send us more requests here or to [email protected]
PD: Regarding the .mp4 files you mean they are generated when you take photos with Live photos enabled. But they should be automatically deleted after add the metadata to the headers of the JPG images. We will give a look to check if these videos are not being properly deleted.

pepedin said:
Hello Mijorus,
first, thank you so much for the feedback and the request. I really though this thread was already dead.
- We are working on a folder selection feature already, it should come next month.
- Same goes with payments. We want to include the possibility for single payment to remove the ads. However, we want to finish cleaning the bugs and gathering all the feedback we are receiving recently before include the payments.
- What did you didnt like from the icons? They are too simple? We try to follow a Google Material looking with the icons, but maybe make something more fancy would be great. Any advice or idea would be great. We will take the feedback and let it know to our designer.
Thank you so much for the feedback, and feel free to send us more requests here or to [email protected]
PD: Regarding the .mp4 files you mean they are generated when you take photos with Live photos enabled. But they should be automatically deleted after add the metadata to the headers of the JPG images. We will give a look to check if these videos are not being properly deleted.
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Hi,
icons are a bit dated IMO, however that is not at all a priority, especially if you want to keep that look and feel.
Motion photos are disabled, but I see some .mp4 empty files (0 bytes) in the DCIM folder, they are scanned by my gallery app and spam the photo list with empty white files

mijorus said:
Hi,
icons are a bit dated IMO, however that is not at all a priority, especially if you want to keep that look and feel.
Motion photos are disabled, but I see some .mp4 empty files (0 bytes) in the DCIM folder, they are scanned by my gallery app and spam the photo list with empty white files
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Hello Mijorus,
The last release has already a payment option to remove ads forever. Also a fix was implemented to prevent that ghost .mp4 files to be generated. Regarding the folder picker, we will implement it on the next release.
Thank you so much, if you have any other doubt or request feel free to write a message here or send us an email to [email protected]

kos25k said:
i wish the best bro! If you manage a similar hdr+ experience, i believe you will then have the 1st best custom camera app on android phones!especially if u can solve gcam phone models compatibility issues, then you will re-write the rules from scratch!!
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Hello Kos!
I know that the post is a bit old, but just FYI we already have a base HDR and HDR+ implemented on the app. It doesn't have the quality of google camera (and its far from it), but we are working on it. Feel free to let us know any other request or suggestion.
Also, any review or Play Store punctuation really help us a lot, so if any user is happy with the application we will be really glad if you could leave us a comment!
Thank you so much

The issue with empty files being detected by gallery apps persists for me, I would suggest to move them in an hidden directory

Suggestion for hdr and bug report
1) phone Xperia x(f5122 camera is 23 MP) supports camera api 2 except Raw. The app doesn't let me click with full res (23 MP) but clicks botchy compressed 8MP which don't look good and are very small in size
2)suggestion for hdr+
So Ive used this app called hedge cam 2 and it has an option called reduced noise mode which takes several photos in burst (number can be selected) and averages them. The results are absolutely stunning. The images have no noise at all almost and in some cases better than gcam hdr+. Only problem is it takes too long to capture. So I've though of something.. There is another app called camera mx it has feature shoot the past.. If you can combine the above two we can get many images ready before you hit the shutter for hdr+ effect.
Just an idea ?!

Photo Creation with Stamps, be creative and authentic!

Hi All,
I want to take a moment to talk about the creation of photos with date-time stamps
Why Create?
These days, being in a technology-based world, where apps can simplify half of your trouble just by reminding so and so things. But, photos don’t have any reminder, we have to create it so that the exact date and time of any photo can be known at the same time when we look at it.
How to create?
Through apps, find out an app like Timesnap Camera using which, date-time stamping can be quick and easy. Using similar kinds of app helps but Timesnap camera helps with a number of different and creative stamping options along with a feature to add filters on photos.
Only these much?
No, no app serves just one thing to reach relevant people, Timesnap camera allows to add Date-time stamps on existing photos too with the facility to record video also.
Creating value for something is in your hands, so that’s it from my side
Have a nice day! EVERYONE

Question Photosphere - impossible so far on S22

I can't believe that making a photosphere in this day and age is impossible on the S22 Ultra.
I've not been able to create one with any software so far that I've tried. Google Street view for instance is useless because it doesn't have the ability to figure out the focal length of the lens so the stitching is a complete mess.
Does anyone know of a solution? Or am I wasting my time.
If not does anyone know of an assist app that will provide the guides (like) Google street view but save the individual pictures so I can use stitching on the PC?

louiscar said:
I can't believe that making a photosphere in this day and age is impossible on the S22 Ultra.
I've not been able to create one with any software so far that I've tried. Google Street view for instance is useless because it doesn't have the ability to figure out the focal length of the lens so the stitching is a complete mess.
Does anyone know of a solution? Or am I wasting my time.
If not does anyone know of an assist app that will provide the guides (like) Google street view but save the individual pictures so I can use stitching on the PC?
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Samsung used to have a camera plugin that allowed you to capture several images and stich them together. I could do it on my S8+ and Note 8. It was a little clunky, but it produced decent results.
Samsung stopped supporting it after the Note/S 9 series because I couldn't do it on my Note 10+. It wasn't a widely used feature.
Here are some PC and Mac apps that can do 3D image stitching. Not all are free.
Best Photo Stitching Software for Making Panoramas (2023)
An updated roundup of some of the best photo stitching apps for making panoramas, from free and simple to paid and powerful.
havecamerawilltravel.com

gernerttl said:
Samsung used to have a camera plugin that allowed you to capture several images and stich them together. I could do it on my S8+ and Note 8. It was a little clunky, but it produced decent results.
Samsung stopped supporting it after the Note/S 9 series because I couldn't do it on my Note 10+. It wasn't a widely used feature.
Here are some PC and Mac apps that can do 3D image stitching. Not all are free.
Best Photo Stitching Software for Making Panoramas (2023)
An updated roundup of some of the best photo stitching apps for making panoramas, from free and simple to paid and powerful.
havecamerawilltravel.com
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Hi Gernerttl,
Thanks for your reply.
Yes I had this feature on my Note 4 which did deal with spherical panoramas (or photospheres ) and it did a great job.
As I say the problem with apps that do this now fail on some smartphones due to the focal length of the lenses and the ineptitude of the software in failing to find out what that fl is.
So whilst Google and other software are good at guiding you in covering the whole sphere the stitching is poor and sadly they are so basic that they don't make the separate photos available so you can export them.
The link you gave is for stitching software and that isn't the problem for me.
Ideally I'd like to find software that would work on the phone but if not I'd like to find software that would provide the guiding process of covering the sphere and save the separate tiles so I can then put them into the stitching software.

louiscar said:
Hi Gernerttl,
Thanks for your reply.
Yes I had this feature on my Note 4 which did deal with spherical panoramas (or photospheres ) and it did a great job.
As I say the problem with apps that do this now fail on some smartphones due to the focal length of the lenses and the ineptitude of the software in failing to find out what that fl is.
So whilst Google and other software are good at guiding you in covering the whole sphere the stitching is poor and sadly they are so basic that they don't make the separate photos available so you can export them.
The link you gave is for stitching software and that isn't the problem for me.
Ideally I'd like to find software that would work on the phone but if not I'd like to find software that would provide the guiding process of covering the sphere and save the separate tiles so I can then put them into the stitching software.
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Here is what I found. Have you tried any of these?
The best 360-degree camera apps for iOS and Android | Digital Trends
A 360-degree photo lets you observe a scene from a single point of view. We show you the best 360-degree camera apps for iOS and Android.
www.digitaltrends.com

gernerttl said:
Here is what I found. Have you tried any of these?
The best 360-degree camera apps for iOS and Android | Digital Trends
A 360-degree photo lets you observe a scene from a single point of view. We show you the best 360-degree camera apps for iOS and Android.
www.digitaltrends.com
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Yes I was working off that list actually as searches are so limited this is about the only thing that comes up.
Google view and one of the others proved exactly the same - Google obviously implemented that companies version into their street view.
One is for IOS only and I have not tried (but will) the last two even though they appear to have less regard for settings. I'll look at some of the Android stitchers too in case some offer the assist to take the photos. Most expect you to already have taken them with adequate overlaps but as you can imagine doing a whole sphere and making sure you are tracking what you have covered so far is a pain.
Thanks for the help I will try the offerings here but unless they photosphere offerings allow you to change camera lens FL they will assume a standard lens and fail. I'm surprised developers did not think of this as it's a complex process and I would have thought it'd have been essential.

You're welcome. I'm not sure it'll get fixed anytime soon. Not until OEMs figure out how to make a camera module that can implement an optical zoom with ultra-wide to super-telephoto focal lengths using one lens.

Hehe, well finally I've worked my way through all the pathetic offerings. All the apps are kiddy type apps which have no complexity whatsoever, most just do circular panos and the stitchers were even worse refusing to deal with anything but circular panos.
Sadly disappointing.
I think the only solution is to get a 360 standalone camera, these do video which I'm not interested in, so expensive and the quality isn't up to the camera on the S22 Ultra. [sigh 2023 - that's what we get - LOL)

Gcam has a photosphere plug in, I've just tried it seems ok, but maybe you've already tried?

alienex said:
Gcam has a photosphere plug in, I've just tried it seems ok, but maybe you've already tried?
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No, I had a link to a table of models and versions (somewhere) and when I checked there wasn't a gcam version for the S22 range.
Can you tell me which one you installed?
My version is also with Exynos chip if that matters.

Not sure if I can link it but Google gcam s22 ultra and its the getdroidtips link but I've just checked and I'm using snapdragon model.

OK, thanks

You can capture (for now) 360° photos with Street View app from Google.

Salkrikaltor said:
You can capture (for now) 360° photos with Street View app from Google.
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As per my first post. Done that - it fails to stitch properly.

Unfortunately 360 image capture has, for the most part, gone back to being a niche genre. The Samsung 360 camera plugin worked pretty well. Then Samsung dropped support for it when it decided to market and produce a 360 camera. Unfortunately, Samsung's foray into producing 360 image capture didn't last that long. Because the market is small, it was already saturated with devices made by Ricoh, Go Pro, Insta360, etc.

GCAM :
MGC_8.1.101_A9_GV1zfix_ruler.apk
Has a working photosphere on exynos S22ultra
https://1-dontsharethislink.celsoazevedo.com/file/filesc/MGC_8.1.101_A9_GV1zfix_ruler.apk

brouwerchris said:
GCAM :
MGC_8.1.101_A9_GV1zfix_ruler.apk
Has a working photosphere on exynos S22ultra
https://1-dontsharethislink.celsoazevedo.com/file/filesc/MGC_8.1.101_A9_GV1zfix_ruler.apk
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Thank you . Will give that a try.
I actually tried Google view outside and it failed on top and bottom stitching unlike when I tried it indoors where it failed to stitch almost everything.
Hopefully this will be better.!!

gernerttl said:
Unfortunately 360 image capture has, for the most part, gone back to being a niche genre. The Samsung 360 camera plugin worked pretty well. Then Samsung dropped support for it when it decided to market and produce a 360 camera. Unfortunately, Samsung's foray into producing 360 image capture didn't last that long. Because the market is small, it was already saturated with devices made by Ricoh, Go Pro, Insta360, etc.
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Yeah, I recently got fired up because I bought a DJI mini 3 pro and the spherical panos on that are superb.
Got to thinking about them again and having access to panos on the ground.
Which makes me also wonder about the viewer.
Gallery on my S23 works fine if the meta shows a pano. I get a 360 photo button when it's recognised and it will display with several options.
I sent this to my friend and he has the S20 and his Gallery doesn't seem to support pano viewing at all.
Found that strange since I had the viewer on my Note 4 many years ago and the S20 isn't very old at all.
Oh well.