On Oct 13, 2012, at 1:30 PM, steve harley wrote: > on 2012-10-13 24:58 William Robb wrote >> On 12/10/2012 5:25 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> I bet >> the interest in what you want is approximately one person world wide. > > are you trolling? there's huge interest in manual camera control on > smartphones
I did a quick search and found several people looking for one, didn't find any answers with a quick search. I figured that people here might have been more likely than most to look for one already. I wish I knew someone that was in a position to affect what features were available, and could at least have it available in the API, if not the standard app. > > i can't help specifically, Larry, but i know several apps on iPhone have > focus- and exposure-lock capabilities (iPhones have fixed apertures, so > exposure is just shutter speed and ISO); that's as close as i think the APIs > let you can get to manual focus on iPhone, and i have reason to believe > Android's APIs are similar > > after brief research it looks like the default camera app on S3 will lock > focus and exposure (both at once, unfortunately) if you press and hold the > shutter button, then reframe; with cyanogenmod you may be able to get true > manual focus Yeah, I know about selecting the focus point, didn't know about the hold to lock. It has a slider to adjust zoom, I wish it had one for focus too. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
