i just downloaded Cool Camera. I think its great but i dont know where its storing the pics when i save them. Plus how do i get rid of the default windows camera i.e. make sure that pics i take with cool camera are stored in Pictures and videos tab. Any help would be much appreciated. ***edit*** ok i found out how to do everything....sorry for wasting forum space,ha!
I'm a photographer who wants to get good quality images when they have to be shot with a mobile phone (maybe because it's the only camera I have with me at the time). The camera isn't the most important thing I consider when selecting a phone, but it's still important.
Megapixels are not that important to me - even if I was to display my images on a 1000 x 1000 display screen, that image would have only 1000 x 1000 = 1000000 pixels..... 1 megapixels. Unless I want to print or crop my photos, I might as well use a 1 megapixel camera. Bottom line for me, 4 or 5 megapixels is more than I need.
The quality of an image depends on many more things, the quality of the lens, the camera sensor, the ability of the camera-phone to focus properly, the software that determines the camera settings (ISO speed, shutter speed, f/stop), and the software that processes the image that has been captured, creating the image file that gets stored on the phone. (I realize a lot of the above is not too important to most people - they just want to capture a snapshot, possibly apply filters to the photo to give it a different look, and send it to friends or social networking sites. Fortunately, there are lots of "apps" that do this very nicely.) What I'm concerned with, is the quality of the captured image, not how it might be modifed.
My question here, is to ask what is the best way to do threethings:
First, to take control of the camera, and adjust the settings manually (ISO speed, shutter speed, lens aperture, focusing distance).
Second, to save the image to a file as an un-compressed file, even if this makes the file size very large, and
If possible, to save the image data, in "raw" format, so that all the information from the camera sensor is saved in a file.
It is unlikely that a mobile phone can process an image as well as a dedicated computer. Anyone who has ever worked with "raw" images knows how much hidden detail is included in those files, much of which is lost as soon as the files are saved as "jpg" images. I'd like to be able to do that, but maybe it's too much to ask for - for that to happen, the camera would need to save the "raw" file, and the camera manufacturer would need to release the information on how a computer program could "read" that data.
I've been doing some of the above, using the app "Camera FV-5". On my HTC One Google Edition, it seems to help get images that might be as good as what the phone hardware allows. What I would really like though, is a way to capture ALL the data from the camera sensor as a photo is taken, transfer it to my computer, and use a program such as Lightroom or Photoshop to transform that "raw" data into the best image possible from the captured data. I know this isn't possible using the standard camera functions, but I was thinking that maybe I could somehow get the camera data by using some "development" features.
Any suggestions?
Hi guys,
I use the Z5 for a lot of photos and some of the edits I do it on the camera itself because the app is powerful enough - I use the Built-In Photo editor instead of the Google Photos.
I am facing two issues and I was wondering if there is any solution under Android 5.0 or if the newly released update could solve any of the issues below:
- Edited photos as saved under Local Storage as opposed to SD Card, where original photos are saved. Not so bad but I need to move them periodically back to SD Card. Not sure why this happens because I am using all native photo apps (Sony Camera + Album + Photo Editor)
- Big Issue: edited photos completely lose EXIF info, like time taken and camera info. Big time problem for photographers. What is going on here?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
PS. The phone runs extremely well and stable, so I was NOT planning to update to 6.0 for the fun of it, but I need a solution for the issues below.
Any one else facing this issue with the EXIF file?
This morning I updated to Android 6.0 via Sony PC Companion 2.1 and tried editing a photo and same issue with saved file losing EXIF data. This is a bit ironic coming from a phone marketed as a Camera phone.
Any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Does anyone else have an issue when they press the photo preview in the camera app where it stays pixilated for a while, the screen goes black, then I crashes back to the camera?
I also have the same issue if it loads correctly but I then delete a photo. It hangs for a while and does nothing. Sometimes it deletes, sometimes it doesn't.
Whilst I do like Google Photos, it'd be nice to change the default app to open with.
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JonesWTF said:
Does anyone else have an issue when they press the photo preview in the camera app where it stays pixilated for a while, the screen goes black, then I crashes back to the camera?
I also have the same issue if it loads correctly but I then delete a photo. It hangs for a while and does nothing. Sometimes it deletes, sometimes it doesn't.
Whilst I do like Google Photos, it'd be nice to change the default app to open with.
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Yes, and it's horrendous. If you save photos to microSD and the image happens to be HDR, it can take 10-20 seconds for the picture to properly load (and reload and flash, etc, until it's done loading) from the camera app using Photos (I think it's faster if images are saved internally, but I really prefer being able to transfer my photos from device to device on microSD, and I often don't have access to the cloud to view uploaded photos). I have no idea why Google Photos is so slow, because if you take the picture and immediately open ANY other 3rd-party gallery app, the image is instantly viewable at the same quality, so you can't blame microSD speed. I think this is Android's doing, though, since it was also this way on my HTC 10 since the Nougat update (before that update, you could set the default gallery app to something else, so I always used 3rd-party galleries and had the luxury of seeing my photos instantly). Now, after taking a picture, if I want to review, I close the camera app and open my own gallery app. It's annoying to add so many steps, but it's still infinitely faster than waiting for Google Photos to load. Personally, I absolutely despise Google Photos and think it's a prime example of trash programming, but Android (which is becoming more and more a closed system every day) has spoken, and we have to use it, moles and warts and all.
I know other ROMS have worked around Android forcing you to use Photos from the camera, but I prefer to stay on stock for stability. But if anyone knows where in the code this is kept, I'd love to tweak the system to enable a different default gallery app. I just don't know where it is.
itiskonrad said:
I know other ROMS have worked around Android forcing you to use Photos from the camera, but I prefer to stay on stock for stability. But if anyone knows where in the code this is kept, I'd love to tweak the system to enable a different default gallery app. I just don't know where it is.
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I want this to, would love to use my preferred gallery app. I tried removing google photos and use another gallery as default but then you can not view your photos from the camera app directly.
U have to be rooted so u can install gallery apk to system
itiskonrad said:
Yes, and it's horrendous. If you save photos to microSD and the image happens to be HDR, it can take 10-20 seconds for the picture to properly load (and reload and flash, etc, until it's done loading) from the camera app using Photos (I think it's faster if images are saved internally, but I really prefer being able to transfer my photos from device to device on microSD, and I often don't have access to the cloud to view uploaded photos). I have no idea why Google Photos is so slow, because if you take the picture and immediately open ANY other 3rd-party gallery app, the image is instantly viewable at the same quality, so you can't blame microSD speed. I think this is Android's doing, though, since it was also this way on my HTC 10 since the Nougat update (before that update, you could set the default gallery app to something else, so I always used 3rd-party galleries and had the luxury of seeing my photos instantly). Now, after taking a picture, if I want to review, I close the camera app and open my own gallery app. It's annoying to add so many steps, but it's still infinitely faster than waiting for Google Photos to load. Personally, I absolutely despise Google Photos and think it's a prime example of trash programming, but Android (which is becoming more and more a closed system every day) has spoken, and we have to use it, moles and warts and all.
I know other ROMS have worked around Android forcing you to use Photos from the camera, but I prefer to stay on stock for stability. But if anyone knows where in the code this is kept, I'd love to tweak the system to enable a different default gallery app. I just don't know where it is.
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How fast is you micro SD card. Maybe is the speed of the card.
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How fast is you micro SD card. Maybe is the speed of the card.
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As I said, other apps open the image instantaneously. Only Google Photos takes forever, so it's not the microSD speed.
I also save directly to the internal memory, so I can confirm, it's not an SD card issue.
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FYI this problem or bugg, is from the Google Photo software, it's not a hardware issue, because even on my Samsung phone it did exactly the same thing, that annoying lag is terrible when switching between Camera and Gallery in the Google Photo App.
Wanted to ask if anyone had knowledge of any app that can be used to override the call for the native camera app on apps that specifically ask for a picture to be taken of a QR code or documentation for verification. I was able to email pictures to myself and simply want to use them when it prompts me to take pictures of them.
I see how this is made harder by needing to line up the image in the parameters that the app gives you to take a picture of the image you desire, just wanted to see if it was possible though.
Apologies if my question is confusing, to put simply, I just want to replace the native camera with a static image when an app automatically accesses the camera for things like a QR code or identification verification.
This is for a Nexus 6P, running rooted 7.1.2 with Xposed, if that makes any difference.