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It barely matters. The camera hardware and software lag like crazy and lack the postprocessing people are used to now -- the photos are terrible with a decent 5
by katmannthree 5y ago
It barely matters. The camera hardware and software lag like crazy and lack the postprocessing people are used to now -- the photos are terrible with a decent 5MP sensor and would probably be worse with the same weak CPU but more bits to shuffle...
- userbinator 5y agoIn my experience that's likely because of software --- there's tons of ultra-cheap cameras with Omnivision sensors in them, and they just use the default settings and reference code which suffice to give not much more than a recognisable image. But they can be run in RAW mode to produce far better quality.
- katmannthree 5y agoIf you have the bandwidth to contribute I'm sure the people working on the camera app (https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/megapixels https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/megapixels) would love any assistance you could give them on postprocessing the RAWs. From my limited experience with it, there's a huge amount of focus lag on the sensor itself, massive shutter lag, and then several seconds of postprocessing lag. I'm sure the last two can be improved in software, although the phone's CPU is so slow I wouldn't expect anything remotely in the realm of Google's GCam computational photography magic.
- MartijnBraam 5y agoThe latest version of megapixels has pretty much realtime preview now. The postprocessing still takes 30 seconds though which is why it's done in the background (just like android phones) The focus speed just won't be great, it's old-school contrast detection autofocus.
- Avamander 5y agoAny chance for built-in live image stacking to get rid of the noise in still images?
- MartijnBraam 5y agomaybe if someone writes a decent implementation
- Avamander 5y agoimagemagick?
- MartijnBraam 5y agothe difficult part is exactly aligning the images to make them stack nicely