anon(5370748)
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I am pretty disappointed with it myself, especially after seeing the verge post the nice shots. I hope it's only software and it certainly does seem to be the case. It's either bad jpeg compression or they are trying to do too much processing on the photo. Personally I'd like to see a raw option. I haven't looked at the camera API or the new lens API enough to know if quality issues happen at that level or not.
I took a quick peek through Nokia and MS's API documentation (I know enough about code to be dangerous, but not enough to be useful), and it looks like you do have access to the raw data, so creating a lens that just allows you to capture raw _should_ be a relatively easy thing. Again, there might be something I'm missing, but I'm pretty hopeful that we'll see a more feature-filled camera app at some point. I'd be happy to work with any devs on the idea and design of the app if someone wants to do the bulk of the coding
The camera hardware in this thing is impressive, and I'm sure with the right software (assuming there's access to all the switches and knobs), it could be fine-tuned to any number of uses.