I tried open camera, but was not able to have a variable ISO and a fix time (not sure if my phone has a variable aperture). It’s the same for the stock camera app and among friends, colleagues, and family, no phone/app seems to implement it.
I am photographing my children and they tend to move fast, so in automatic or ISO priority modes, the selected time/ISO combination do not fit most of the time.
Any ideas?
I know I could have asked at open camera forum, but am not too interested in an SourceForge account. Furthermore, the topic is very general.
Gotta tell you, the answer to that question in my case led me here, now with a few cameras, lenses, and a homemade raw processor program to show for it…
Thanks for pointing to xda-developers, didn’t think about them.
Hm, I found some more hints at https://www.camerafv5.com/. This app seems to have time/shutter/speed priority (at least if that are equivalent names for that feature), but it seems device dependent. The topic becomes more and more mysterious. While fix ISO variable shutter speed seems incredibly difficult to implement, there seems to be no issue the other way round. Hm, let’s wait here for some more time, but eventually I might have to ask the open camera devs. If they only were on github/-lab and not on SourceForge …
Hm, unfortunately I cannot find scene modes in the menu, the last entry is about colour effects. Any advice how to get this, do I have to activate it? I am using the latest version of open camera that is available on f-droid (1.45.2) .
Since you can shoot in raw with open camera, Camera2 API is activated. However, Samsung is known to restrict Camera2 API support to the third party apps. You can check the the level of support of Camera2 API by apps like Camera2 API Probe. You should have a Level 3 activation.
Here is a screen shot of using that app on my phone
Guess that test program is not free software? I only have access to f-droid and cannot find it there. But it seems you are correct with your assumption. Too bad, this is my last Samsung phone. Even the stock app does not have this feature.
Hm, this tells me “Scene modes: none”. That shutter priority is only available by scene modes is already weird, this is obviously already the 2nd version of this API, but then scene modes not available on some devices? That’s extra weird.
Definitely my last Samsung. Unfortunately I tend to use smartphones >4 years and this one I started to use 4 weeks ago.
These are the details that should be in the data sheets of the devices but even years after introduction of the device there is no resource that clearly tells the facts. Only thanks to this smart community here I have a clue what’s going on. Thanks for all the insights and tips.
I meant free (FLOSS). To make it clear: that is not about paying for software, it’s all about the code, the control over my devices, the communities and the (expected/implied) impact on mankind.
Hm, I have no access to google play store and do not want it. I try to use free software in my private life exclusively, and I am 99% there. As it turned out (see above), open camera delivers these informations as well.