On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 12:03:45AM +0530, Appaholics wrote: > I was looking to do more with the Android camera. Personally I have nothing > against the formats that are currently supported, except that a good > photographer (which I am not) would be able to get a much better image if > all the camera data is kept in a raw format for post processing.
Time to inject a couple of important points.... First, the "raw" image format you're referring to is a TIFF image. It's the highest resolution format that is in common use. HOWEVER, the digital cameras that I've seen on Android devices have all been in the 2 to 3 MP range. That stinks. That REALLY stinks. As an amateur photographer, myself, with some training by a pro, I wouldn't bother with a TIFF from any digital camera in that range. It's just not worth it. A PNG is fine. TIFFs come into play on the high resolution side...not with extremely low resolutions. And it's not just about the resolution; you also have to look at the glass; a poor-quality lens will produce a terrible image even at the highest resolution. Likewise, a low resolution digital's image will just end up being pixelated if you expand it beyond a certain size (size limited by resolution). If you want to do serious photography, you won't be using a low-res digital. (You might not be using a digital camera at all---there is still no substitute for film in some areas of photography.) Low resolution digitals have their place; it's the same place that the old Instamatic or Polaroid cameras had: memory pictures. People taking these tend not to care (or even know) about TIFFs. High resolution digital imagery has its places too. More serious photography (where digital fits) is one. I used to work with another area, as well...but since I was read out of that program years ago.... Later, --jim -- 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | DMR: So fsck was originally called [email protected] | something else. < Running FreeBSD 7.0 > | Q: What was it called? ICBM / Hurricane: | DMR: Well, the second letter was different. 30.44406N 86.59909W | -- Dennis M. Ritchie, Usenix, June 1998. Android Apps Listing at http://www.jstrack.org/barcodes.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
