Short status update. No image comparison between 820 and 640, sorry :)
My 640 was on WP8.1 for a few days. Lumia Camera is good, but living images on/off setting is stuffed in settings - stupid place. If I want to take still image, I don't want living part in each and every capture showing my wobbly aiming ;) If living is off, the situation will be well over before the setting is changed to on...
When the 10586.29 came out I jumped "back" to preview (as I was running W10M on my 820). WP8.1 just was not going to rock me anymore... But the Windows Camera is even worse. Living images toggle is still in settings BUT the camera may decide to take just single still image - and I have no way to know what will be taken! Moving kid - 2 out of 6. Waves - no. Family + playing with wide and fish-eye lens - 1 out of 4. Macro from eye (opening) or laptop LCD (no movement) - yes. It's like the camera is out of it's mind. Rich capture - most of the time amount of the flash can be adjusted afterwards, "HDR" very seldom: hitting "Select best lighting" is ignored. What is even worse, camera allows screen to lock when in preview... So far it seems best to keep all fancy featues off unless there is plenty of time to tinker and re-shoot.
I hope they'll get the camera right,
Don't know where, don't know when,
But I know it'll be right, some sunny day.
I've been studying a bit if it would be possible to make living images the right way: hit finger on camera button -> acquire focus and exposure lock + start buffering preview frames (5 frames / s for 3-4 seconds = 15-20 frames); lift finger -> capture and save still image. Then create mp4 video clip from buffered preview frames (e.g. align them, create 200ms clip from each frame and create final clip by combining - using imaging/media SDK) and rename it to mp4.thm. Mission accomplished. I have no idea if I will ever have enough free time and good nerves to try it out, but it doesn't look like rocket science.
Another "fun" project could be "Full-all glance" - show lock screen (using notification or something else to turn display on) when display is off and proximity sensor detects close->far change.
Both ideas are free to implement ;)
12-09-2015 01:43 PM