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Don't overlook the fact that the source for the stock Android camera is available under a commercial-use-friendly open source license and has a quite nice nativ

Don't overlook the fact that the source for the stock Android camera is available under a commercial-use-friendly open source license and has a quite nice native android UI. You don't have to reinvent all the wheels unless you're stubborn. https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Camera.git https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Came... I would buy that in a heartbeat. Unrelated, how quickly can you alter exposure settings? Can you get 30 pictures per second with three interleaved exposure brackets? (i.e. burst of 10 HDR photos / second) That would be very, very, very, very cool.

jpap 13y ago
That's really interesting. I wasn't aware of that. I'll have a look at it once social sharing is out the door. I did consider getting into other aspects of iPhoneography, like HDR, etc. The trouble with HDR in particular is that there's no API access to direct the sensor into each of the bracketing modes. In the case of HDR, it might be more fruitful to attempt some kind of image signal processing, similar to "Clarity" on Camera+. I looked into that for a while, and I figured that Camera+ might be using some version of the Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE) algorithm. In any case, what they've done is really neat from a DSP perspective. :D
- est 13y ago
  Hi, There's also a cool technology allows you to save near the same jpeg with much, much smaller file size. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2940505 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2940505