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Simulating a long exposure with Android- is it possible?

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MacM545 Contributing Member • Posts: 780
Simulating a long exposure with Android- is it possible?

I used an app before for an iPod, called Gorillacam, which I've found quite useful in the past. If anyone's familiar with it, is there something such as Gorillacam, for Android? It was basically possible to simulate long exposure by merging individual frames in real time. Yes, I'm aware it is possible to do normal long exposures, but for my photography, I've also wanted to use real time.

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bastibe
bastibe Senior Member • Posts: 1,232
Re: Simulating a long exposure with Android- is it possible?
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Some phones have a long exposure mode that does this. Newer Pixels, I believe, have this, for example.

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Re: Simulating a long exposure with Android- is it possible?

MacM545 wrote:

I used an app before for an iPod, called Gorillacam, which I've found quite useful in the past. If anyone's familiar with it, is there something such as Gorillacam, for Android? It was basically possible to simulate long exposure by merging individual frames in real time. Yes, I'm aware it is possible to do normal long exposures, but for my photography, I've also wanted to use real time.

I bought an a6000 back in 2017.  It had a feature where you take numerous single fast exposures and it would use software to combine them into something you couldn't tell apart from a long exposure with an ND filter.  I assume it's possible on phones as well.

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