Sailfish Camera app wishlist

Excuse-me for the delay.
Indeed, one needs a tripod or any car roof/post/rock for long exposure.

The camera needs to be 100% steady.
You sometimes make minutes long exposures:
If it’s really dark like a black sky with stars (in that case they will produce circled lines)
or if you wait for a special event like thunder.

Great possibilities…

Here a comparison with features founded on a Samsung Galaxy S23:

Flash: Disable, Auto, On
Timer: Disable, 2’, 5’, 10’
Size: 3:4, 9:16, 1:1, Full
Megapixel: 15M, 50M
Night mode
Zoom: 0.6, 1x, 3x

Shooting mode

  • Portrait: Adjust the background of your shots for portrait photos.
  • Photo: Allow the camera to determine the ideal settings for pictures.
  • Video: Allow the camera to determine the ideal settings for videos.
  • More: Choose other available shooting modes. Tap Add to drag modes into or out of the shooting modes tray at the bottom of the Camera screen.
  • Expert RAW: Download the Expert RAW shooting mode.
  • Pro: Manually adjust the ISO sensitivity, exposure value, white balance, and color tone while taking pictures.
  • Pro video: Manually adjust the ISO sensitivity, exposure value, white balance, and color tone while recording videos.
  • Single take: Capture multiple pictures and video clips from different angles.
  • Panorama: Create a linear image by taking pictures in either a horizontal or vertical direction.
  • Night: Use this to take photos in low-light conditions, without using the flash.
  • Food: Take pictures that emphasize the vivid colors of food.
  • Super slow-mo: Record videos at an extremely high frame rate for viewing in high quality slow motion. You can play a specific section of each video in slow motion after recording it.
  • Slow motion: Record videos at a high frame rate for viewing in slow motion.
  • Hyperlapse: Create a time lapse video by recording at various frame rates. The frame rate is adjusted depending on the scene being recorded and the movement of the device.
  • Portrait video: Adjust the background of your shots for portrait videos.
  • Director’s view: Access advanced features such as lock onto a subject in view, change between different rear camera lenses, and more.

Other options

  • 360 audio recording: Capture immersive 3D sound through your Bluetooth headphone with 360 audio recording.
  • Scan documents and text
  • Scan QR codes
  • Shot suggestions. Get on-screen guides to help you line up great shots.
  • Intelligent optimisation
  • Swipe shutter button to: Take burst shot or Create GIF
  • Watermark
  • Save selfies as previewed. Save selfies and selfies videos as they appear in the preview without flipping them.
  • FPS: Auto, Off, Use for 30 FPS videos only, Use for 30 FPS and 60 FPS videos
  • Video stabilisation
  • Video Format: HEVC, H.264
  • High Bitrate videos
  • HDR10+ videos
  • Zoom-in mic
  • Tracking auto-focus
  • Grid lines
  • Location tags
  • Shooting methods: Voice commands, Floating shutter button, Show palm (show your palm to the camera to take selfies or start recording selfie videos)
  • Vibrations feedback

Settings to keep

  • Camera mode: Start camera in the last used mode, such as Video, instead of always starting in Photo mode.
  • Selfie angle: Keep the angle you last used for the front camera. The camera will no longer switch between normal and wide angles based on the number of people in the selfie.
  • High picture resulations: Keep 50 MP resolution applied instead of switching to the default resolution when you close Camera.
  • Filters: Keep the filters you’ve applied to each mode instead of removing them when you chose camera.
  • Super steady: If super steady is on in video mode, keep it on instead of turning it off when you close Camera.
  • Portrait zoom: Keep the zoom you last used for rear camera Portrait mode instead of always starting in the default zoom.
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Not in Sony Android however.

How about getting the Sony (android) camera app to run? We have already paid for it after all.

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To approach what a real camera can do,
I’d still add RAW and manual controls of exposure time and focus.

Not only for night pictures, but also for movement controlled blurs (sports/cars/waterfall/whatever)

Auto-focus and auto-exposure are features.
Manual focus and exposure are not even features, so, let’s keep them!

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My camera app wishlist:

  1. Work

Everything else is just extra at this point :laughing:

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  1. Always sharp pictures
  2. Improve light sensitivity
  3. Better pictures also at night or in the dark