They told us the excuse of the old hardware with a lot of features.
First they said that the continuous autofocus couldn't be implemented on old S4 chips, now we have the example of camera sight (360) that uses it and works great...
Then they told us that speed improvements for Lumia Camera won't be coming to old lumias. Same example, camera sight is quick as hell when it comes to app startup time...
They also said that old lumias wasn't getting brightness control on display settings...
I'm far pleased with my lumia 925, but I think those movements are more marketing related than the old hardware excuses...
PS: Just look at the bing vision to scan qr codes and see how it uses continuous autofocus too.
But I think MS owes us sharper jpegs, focussing as quick as MS camera, and less warming and skewed tints. The white balance is buggy and doesn't reflect proper color on jpegs. Try testing a jpeg from a 930 vs 1020 at night with same ISO, shutter, same balance preset and you can easily see the difference. Also, if you compare to the 830 the 1020 produces very soft jpegs. The 1020 also has incorrect shutter speeds for flash. It keeps the shutter speed too slow leading to yellow flash shots. If you select a manual shutter speed the issue is greatly reduced.
My point being that they have not optimized the best camera to produce photos with proper white balance, sharpening, and focusing. They can do these things, as they are all software tweaks. But they didn't. They don't care because they are focusing on the 800 chipsets and we get a device that could be even better but isn't. That leaves me with a sour taste for a device that was never fully optimized for the items mentioned above.
^Stop. You don't understand hardware limitation. :devil:
Then please explain what it is about the Snapdragon S4 Pro chips that doesn't support continuous autofocus. I can name a variety of phones with an S4 processor (HTC One X is a start) that support continuous autofocus.
An alternate explanation: the code in the Lumia Camera app only supports continous autofocus on Snapdragon 800 series chips, and MSFT decided not to include additional code for S4-based models.