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we've been working for the past year on a new camera app called Pecan. it's going to go live in android marketplace in the next week or two (by end of april 2011) and i'd love to hear any feedback from users who are looking for new camera apps.
i'll send a message to the forum when the app is live, but in the meanwhile you can see some screenshots on our website, here: http://projectpecan.com
thanks!
chief pecan - chief (at) projectpecan.com
There are a few things I'd like to see in there that I haven't found in other camera apps. Set the default picture folder (PhotoSnap just lets you name a custom sub-folder in its unchangable default directory). Some sort of sync with DropBox would be nice. Right now I use DropBox and DropSpace to sync pictures from my camera folder to a DropBox folder.
I still have to find a picture viewer that lets me set the scanned folders. Default Gallery on my HTC TB doesn't let me.
Camera Advance Lite is very very nice... shoots up to 3.2MB before you need the $2.99 pay version. The controls seem very natural and more like that of a better camera.
Big Camera Button Lite is nice when having to take a backwards shot so that you can easily find the button as it becomes the whole screen.
I really like pudding camera. The UI is nice and it takes great photos. You have the options of using different camaras and different film. The one downside is the app is written in Korean. It doesn't affect it too much since the camara/film selector is a gui. It also doesn't compress the pictures.
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I would really love to see a camera app dedicated to taking pictures of friends whilst out at night. The stock camera on my Desire HD is disgraceful at this, no matter what settings I use, due to lack of shutter speed control. All pictures in bars, nightclubs, restaurants, etc are overexposed and blurred. Ridiculous.
The Nightclub camera should have the following features:
LED on before taking the picture to allow shot composition and focus.
Shutter speed, iso and white balance settings optimised for close, moving subjects with flash.
Press to focus, take picture on release.
Dedicated self portrait shutter button for phones without front facing cameras, which recognises faces, focuses and takes the shot automatically.
If a camera exists with any of these features, I'd love to know about it!
I like vignette. Has nice features and photo effects. Can also set your volume rocker as a take picture button if you don't like tapping the screen or are trying to take a self portrait
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I like vignette. Has nice features and photo effects. Can also set your volume rocker as a take picture button if you don't like tapping the screen or are trying to take a self portrait
I have seen that advertised. I'll have a look. Fed up downloading pants apps and not getting the effects or zoom capability.
since our post here about Pecan, a smart new camera app for Android, more than 200 forum readers subscribed to our private beta. that's just awesome! we didn't imagine we'd get so much traffic from AndroidForums!
i just wanted to update that we're now in full swing and have shared the private beta with the first 50 persons.
if you're reading this and fancy taking our app for a ride and providing valuable feedback, be sure to visit us at projectpecan.com
Still not found any of these to be any better than the basic camera I had on the Nokia N82! vignette is ok but the auto focus and zoom are not great. 360 is very much the same
I would be as bold as to say the basic HTC camera is better than either of these.
I would really love to see a camera app dedicated to taking pictures of friends whilst out at night. The stock camera on my Desire HD is disgraceful at this, no matter what settings I use, due to lack of shutter speed control. All pictures in bars, nightclubs, restaurants, etc are overexposed and blurred. Ridiculous.
The Nightclub camera should have the following features:
LED on before taking the picture to allow shot composition and focus.
Shutter speed, iso and white balance settings optimised for close, moving subjects with flash.
Press to focus, take picture on release.
Dedicated self portrait shutter button for phones without front facing cameras, which recognises faces, focuses and takes the shot automatically.
If a camera exists with any of these features, I'd love to know about it!
An app with more control could help, but this is basically a limitation of phone cameras. The lens is pretty small and can't get all that much light in resulting in either blurry or dark images in low-light situations.
Really? Vignette is way better on my htc inspire i actually took a pic of a motorcycle moving while I was driving and there was no blur unlike any moving pic I take with the stock camera having blur
Really? Vignette is way better on my htc inspire i actually took a pic of a motorcycle moving while I was driving and there was no blur unlike any moving pic I take with the stock camera having blur
I just find the zoom a bit of a pest in all honesty. Not very clear and I regualrly use it for work. I could see it being a pain, but I'm going to see how it goes.
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I like, Vignette which is paid app Camera Illusion when come to FREE app.
I just wrote a post about best android camera apps . This article might help you.
Good camera app with lots of image quality controls rather than fancy effects: Camera Advance
Panoramic pics: Photaf (or if you have a Sony Ericsson phone their Panorama app is really good - it's for the X10 but with root access and a bit of tweaking it can be made to work on the Arc or the Neo)
Also - i've seen lots of people recommending camera360. I really recommend you DO NOT INSTALL IT. Have a look at the scary and excessive list of permissions that this app uses if youre wondering why (specifically, phone state and identity, sensitive log data, retreive running applications). I really cannot see why a camera app would need all this information, so the only conclusion i can come to is that theyre harvesting the info for dubious purposes. UNINSTALL. AVOID.
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Ever since upgrading to GB, my cam settings don't hold, the camera is so sluggish etc etc, we've all heard this by now. My family went to the air force museum the other day and my son took his ipod touch. He's over there clicking away and quickly zing zing zing. I'm trying to load my camera, change settings and zing zing zing he's flyin along.
I am simply looking for a camera app that allows for 8MG cam capture and quick recovery to the next picture. Filters and all that aren't as important to me as most of that I can do on the PC itself. Tried Pudding cam in Korean, Camera 36, Fast burst but they all don't seem to allow for the MG experience. Camera advance does it seems but the free version only let's you roll with 3.2 MG. Not sure how the higher resolution will perform.
Anyone have the same situation? I don't need 100 features, just the ability to snap pictures and start the app normally.
Our most-used feature is the automatic Facebook uploads.
You can create a FB album on the fly, and then every photo you take in the album gets uploaded there immediately.
We also have a nifty Album mode that lets you manage your photos in albums.
For the time being the app is 100% FREE, so feel free to download it now.
Would love to hear your thoughts, suggestions and feature requests - just email us at chief@projectpecan.com.
Can you explain why the app has the permissions list it does please? It seems to have the ability to access all your accounts, inc passwords, and all contacts data. Why does a camera app need this?
I emailed the project about this when I got the beta invite, but never got a reply which is poor and worrying considering it's subject.
[QUOTE=Dan LXIX;3076825]Can you explain why the app has the permissions list it does please? It seems to have the ability to access all your accounts, inc passwords, and all contacts data. Why does a camera app need this?
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The GPS permission is in order to record the location on each photo and in the tagging options.
The Contacts permission is in order to let you tag automatically who's in the photo (and upload that to Facebook).
I'm checking now regarding what Google displays as the 'Accounts' permission. We let you sync with Facebook and your GMail account but of course there's no reading/writing of password. I'll update briefly once we investigate further.
Can you explain why the app has the permissions list it does please? It seems to have the ability to access all your accounts, inc passwords, and all contacts data. Why does a camera app need this?
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The GPS permission is in order to record the location on each photo and in the tagging options.
The Contacts permission is in order to let you tag automatically who's in the photo (and upload that to Facebook).
I'm checking now regarding what Google displays as the 'Accounts' permission. We let you sync with Facebook and your GMail account but of course there's no reading/writing of password. I'll update briefly once we investigate further.
YOUR ACCOUNTS
ACT AS AN ACCOUNT AUTHENTICATOR
Allows an application to use the account authenticator capabilities of the AccountManager, including creating accounts and getting and setting their passwords.
ACCESS OTHER GOOGLE SERVICES
Allows applications to sign in to unspecified Google services using the account(s) stored on this phone.
YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
READ CONTACT DATA
Allows an application to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your device. Malicious applications can use this to send your data to other people.
PHONE CALLS
READ PHONE STATE AND IDENTITY
Allows the application to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like.
This is a small copy and paste of some of the permissions, and when compared to most other apps has serious access to personal data, if this list is taken at face value.
I welcome clarification though, because I'd love to have a better camera
This is a small copy and paste of some of the permissions, and when compared to most other apps has serious access to personal data, if this list is taken at face value.
I welcome clarification though, because I'd love to have a better camera
We've just removed a bunch of permissions we've not used at all - thanks folks!
We kept:
Read Contact Data - we let users add tags of people in photos. You need access to contact data to do that. If Google had some sense, they'd add a more limited option (e.g permission to just show names). Unfortunately they don't, so we have to use that one.
Read Phone State - you can set Pecan to upload photos only when the phone's on WiFi, or not roaming. We need the permission for that. We're now checking if we an switch to a less demanding permission.
Authentication - we removed them in v1.0.1. And we deducted a few cookies off the Pecan dev who's added them.
Again - thanks so much. We've done zero marketing and already had over 500 downloads. Ain't bad. Still working on fixing lots of crashes due to the plethora of Android phones out there.
Any more feedback? Do email us at feedback@projectpecan.com.
We're trying to be one app that's actually built for our users, so don't be shy and send over your thoughts. We take criticism well, too.
Just like the turn by turn navigation won't compare to a dedicated GPS unit
Just like the mp3 player won't compare to a dedicated mp3 player
I have yet to use a dedicated GPS navigation system (from Garmin, TomTom or the likes) that will compare to Google Maps and Google Navigation on my phone. They simply don't.
And I use my phone as a music player and audio book player and prefer it over anything else.
You know what I would like Photo apps to do in these Smartphones? To turn off data services and lower the electronic interference in that tiny sensor that they have. I been noticing that the lack of zoom on devices, or the mpixel limitation (5mp) is not nearly as bad as the banding effects, and other issues caused by who knows, electronic looping, radio waves, inside the phone. Sure, I'd rather wait 10 secs instead of 1, if the photo comes out that much better.
In my opinion as a photographer, the phone camera makes up in opportunity, what it lacks in quality. While I carry my dslr everywhere, the phone is a much more politically correct tool to snap candid and other events as they unfold, without attracting any attention at all. Something a full featured DSLR will often fail to do.
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Got this free at Amazon the other day: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dama.papercamera&feature=search_res ult It's about the only thing I use a phone camera for now. PicSay Pro has all the "needed" effects, but I really don't use a phone to take "good" pictures. But Paper Camera is so simple and makes nice unique pictures that are actually worth sharing.
I read a little about MIUI camera app.It's seems like a very good hands on app that replaces the stock.But it's from the MIUI ROM for HTC phone and has been extracted from it though.Anyone know if there will be a Galaxy S2 compatible version?
Update:It's available as a Clockwork MOD. http://androidspin.com/2011/03/28/quick-look-app-miui-camera-working-great-on-the-vibrant/
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Best gimmick cameras I've got are Lightbox (somehow the photo quality is actually better than the stock camera as well) Picsay Pro for editing and Retro Cam for taking off the cuff photos.
I also really like Magic House because it lets users upload their own filters so there's gazillions to choose from.
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You might try your browser, search "water drop" images, you get this. I don't think many phone cameras are that capable of taking good water drop photos, most have a macro setting, but typically sux.
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i want to picture of water drop ...... any one plz sugggest me the application .. which is suitable for it....
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All I want is a camera that allows me to preset date/time stamp as well as save in my pre-choice of MP size... I really REALLY used the hell out of my Droid Incredible camera and it was perfect for my business needs, but because a sensor started going wonky and darkening everything as I watched, I upgraded. Razr Maxx is a great phone, but the camera app SUX...only 6 or 8 MP, unable to time date stamp pre or post photo... I tried ProveIt and Photo Evidence, but they are unwieldy and are post individual photos...no good when I am takig 20-100 photos at a site. HELP please, before I end up returning my Droid Raze Maxx!
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Introducing Pecan, a new smart camera app
