Thread: N86 Camera vs. N900 Camera
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2009-11-28 , 19:57
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
The one year period was just a made up interval. It might very well be that the next SSU, which should come out it less than a month includes some of these improvements. As for Maemo 6, it's a radical departure from Maemo 5 - there is no guarantee that the rewritten version of the M6 camera app will be any more feature complete than the current one.
Okay, well you used the one year period, so I was just responding to your claim. Now you're changing your claim. It's true that maybe there will be a bunch of improvements in a month. But I still think the whole idea of defending the demonstrably bad state of the current camera application and the images/video it produces, based on what might come to pass in one month or one year, is not a good reason to buy the device now if the camera is important to you. I'm probably going to wait and see.

But of course, if it does take a year and not a month, then the N900 will have the problem of competing with whatever the new devices are available then. To me it's just a a bit of apples and oranges. It makes sense to compare devices to other currently existing devices and not to future possibilities.

Also it's true that Maemo 6 will be a whole new thing, but I find it really hard to imagine Nokia won't improve the camera app themselves in the intervening year. They have to see that it's not even up to their own standards with other N series camera phones. Why would they just let in languish?

Originally Posted by attila77
Another point - inspired by the results of Moon photos, I took a glimpse at the insides of camera-related stuff. Guys, there are really cool things down there. And for some of that, you don't have to go that deep - take a look at /etc/gdigicam/gdigicam-camerabin.conf - does that wet your hacker lips or what ?

And if you're really hardcore (gdigicam/camerabin level of hardcore), I won't say you can obtain DSLR level control of things, but WAY more is possible than what the 'stock' camera app exposes. Stay tuned.
Can you post the contents of the gdigicam-camerabin.conf file? For those of us who don't have the N900 currently. What options are in it? Thanks for pointing that out. It is cool to know there's more there. And I really do look forward to seeing what might be done with this. I don't really want to have to hack the phone myself though just to achieve results already available in other phone cameras. That's great for some people. Not very realistic for the consumer marketplace.