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Mobile phone app with manual settings?

Started Nov 14, 2020 | Discussions thread
I2K4
I2K4 Senior Member • Posts: 1,441
Re: Mobile phone app with manual settings?

My old ZTE permitted ISO changes, and FV-5 provided some shutter control - it's up to manufacturers what they choose to allow on Camera1 API phones. On my current Moto, like others FV-5 has normal shutter speed settings and a "synthetic exposure" algothithmically lengthening it, a kind of night mode. I've always really liked the Camera FV-5 user interface, but have to say given the difficulty of using phones out in sunlight sometimes, the clunky large icons on Hedgecam2 can be easier to see.

You don't mention if you tried Snap's HDR mode. It works surprisingly well on old Camera1 phones. I think it allows up to 7 shots on the trial version and 15 shots on the paid current version, and you can set milliseconds of time along with exposure parameters and sharpening for the multishot output - as well as saving all the single shots. It's like exposure bracketing on steroids.

Huawei makes among the best phone cameras, and if you want to be ambitious with photography you have to get Camera2 API. Not sure if Huaweil will continue to be banned from using Google services and other American apps under a Biden administration. There is another thread about some issue with RAW/DNG processing, with comment from the developer of Photo Mate r3 software.

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