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Originally Posted by wotevah View Post
I was going to suggest ufraw or the recently-made-free rawtherapee, which appears to be a great program (also uses modified dcraw code with some new demosaicing algorithms). But both crash at this time with the Fcamera files. Going to try again after a new Fcamera release.
I'm a nerd but waay too practical to use anything but Lightroom. It's my go to program. I think fCamera really has potential. I spoke with the developer and apparently it is a TIF but it is RAW as well. Not exactly sure what that means but I guess as long as its 16-bit TIFF that's ok, pre-8-bit colorspace conversion.

In Lightroom (and I presume Adobe Camera RAW) you have to use the 2003 development algorithm instead of the 2010 (released with LR 3). I verified it works, but still would rather have 2010 because the 2003 algorithm isn't strong enough to really denoise (chroma) noisy smartphones. The 2010 would do wonders but that isn't working yet. Not sure if its a file metadata thing or an Adobe thing. My guess is the file.

BTW I still like my idea (obviously ;-)) of a software button. The touch sensitivity means you don't have to press hard which means reduced camera movement. It would be nice to have an icon that indicates the camera is in motion so at least we have visual cues. That could definitely use the accelerometer to detect. If they can visually indicate motion only when the motion exceeds that which the shutter speed is able to handle that'd be insane. Different shutter speeds will exhibit blur with different amounts of movement.

The problem with the camera waiting for no motion is that it assumes I never want to pan. There are some shots where I am deliberately in motion or able to maintain motion in a way that is still able to maintain a sharp photo. I'd rather get a shot that's somewhat blurry than no photos at all.