Thanks antiochian2010 for those comparison shots! I'd been trying to see if ProShot is better than ProCam with White balance or not, and I'm glad to see that it is!
RiseUpGames: Glad to hear that progress is being made! I really like ProShot and really want to use it as my default camera app. The inability to set it as default for the button is really annoying, so I hope that gets fixed soon. I'm personally going to try and learn the WP API to see if it can be hacked at all, though I doubt I'll be able to do what you couldn't. Would you be able to suggest some good resources? I already have a dev account, so I can use those resources.
Depending on how experienced of a coder you are what type of learner (visual, aural, hands-on, etc), these videos could be a good start (mainly for beginners, but they do provide a good overview of things):
Building Apps for Windows Phone 8 Jump Start | Channel 9
They do perhaps a little too much fluff talk at times, but I personally learn best by watching others, and then diving right in to sample apps, breaking things, and figuring out how to make them work again. I also pretty much live on Stack Overflow.
Best of luck! If you can figure out the API call to integrate ProShot as a selectable default lens, please please please share
I'm pleased to see that the ProShot dev is so active! I intend on buying the app later today on the strength of the trial (it seems to give a cleaner/more accurate version of what I am seeing prior to taking the photo, whereas the Nokia apps seem to do lots of post processing which alter the picture markedly).
Before I purcase, could anyone confirm whether ProShot does post processing - or whether the image on the view finder is the image that ends up in the camera roll? My 920 always looks like it is about to take an AMAZING picture, then Nokia's post-processing comes along and mutes all of the colours!
Features I would love to see (in order of preference);
- Being able to set ProShot as the default camera app!
- Touch to focus ONLY (rather than touch to focus and take a photo)
- One of those left/right arrow buttons that allow us to select other 'lenses'. It's a chore having to exit the app in order to re-enter ProCam just to use the video function
- HDR photos! Or at the very least, exposure bracketing (HDR built-in would be fantastic though).
All in all though, a tremendous app -- particularly if it saves the photo exactly as it was shot...
Glad you hear you're enjoying it so far!
Just FYI, you can view the image that gets saved to the camera roll, even in the trial version. Just swipe to the right
It's there in ProShot's memory, you can zoom in and inspect the details. The only thing is it doesn't get saved to the camera roll.
One unfortunate thing about the Amber update is that it muddies images captured at higher ISOs (800+). Everything turns yellow and it will affect all camera apps. I haven't tested to see if the effect in ProShot is as extreme as ProCam, but it's a firmware thing that can't be avoided. Only Nokia can fix their color processing, any other fix would have to be done in post.
Speaking of which, ProShot does not do any post processing (unless you want it to by adjusting the contrast / saturation values).
For the feature requests
1) It really saddens me that this isn't possible with third party lenses yet, especially since it's there with Nokia's apps. Petition here:
Allow camera button to launch a Lens app
2) Coming with or just before v3.0
3) I'd like to add this, too, but there's no public API for it :/
4) Definitely plan on adding this, but I haven't looked into it yet. Have other good stuff I'm working on first
Edit
Side note: you can 'hack' a bracketing mode in ProShot by using the self-timer. Go to the self-timer, select "multi-shot". Multi-shot will take 3 exposures in a row, with a 3 second delay. During the delay between shots you can quickly adjust the exposure slider to 0, -2, +2. It actually works if you're using a tripod
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