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My mate hasn't tried, couse "you must remove the filter, and it's still brand new...". I don't know anyone else in the field...

so seems like imposible to hack the camera via software

Take a look in the new user manual (which suggests new features for PR1.2) - It includes night modes for video and photo.

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=330

FYI,night mode is not night vision. Two complete different things. Night vision using infrared light and night mode using algorithm and sensoring

Oops, my bad, misread.
I am waiting for night mode for a long time, I thought I am making someone else but me happy that it's coming

Night mode can be handy but the frame drop really bad in this mode and very grainy. It won't be perfect though, take a look at Lanscape Mode for picture mode, so blurry and unusable. Automatic and Macro is the only thing that work.

I uses the N95 lanscape mode and yes was clear like a normal automated focus. N900 camera is far from finishing.

Well, It's still a cell phone, or tablet computer, I don't expect it to excel in all the features - But i'll give you an example why I need night mode.

Warning, Offtopic :
I was with some friends at a bar, someone left a bag full of crap outside, the police came, closed the whole area down, and brought a robot to take care of the bag - open it, blow it up etc.
Now, the police where I live are known to do things only to 60% extent.
They used the robot the open the bag (tear it apart) while spreading around everything that was in it, just making sure no bombs etc, and they left it on the road, blocking traffic, leaving the place messy and dirty with someone belongings ripped and tossed everywhere. This is prime news to some local news website.
If My N900 could photo that at night mode, the framerate wouldn't matter, and also the graininess wouldn't matter.

I don't carry a real camera with me. I got enough things to carry around.

is it possible to light up the camera leds one by one?? sow youj could replace one of them with a ir led... i would do the hack if its possible...

Night mode will just slow the shutted speed down, you'll have to hold extra still or put the phone on a stable surface.

When those modes are built into camera phones (unless you can control the sesnors shutter speed and ISO) its never much good for more than a slightly less blurry upclose photo of your drunk friends (ie no distance involved).

IR shooting is impossible. It is blocked by special physical filter in camera. It is needed for correct white balance in visible range. Cameras from Sony can mechanically remove it and use IR light, more light. IR flash is not important, more light is important.
It is possible to make IR shots with usual camera without removing filter, by adding black filter. But then you have get 10-12 steps darker images, so this is not suitable for night shooting.

Night mode in n900 just means, that now you can shoot crap at night. It allows you to set very high ISO and long exposure which would result in very noisy and blurred image.