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Camera FV-5 vs Open Camera

2018-09-20
2018-10-04
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2018-09-20

    Hi. I've been testing out some camera apps for night time shooting and found the FV-5 to be superior in ways (but not the low bitrate support on it). It was made with better filming in mind and has some handy guide layout. But it has one feature I could not find in opencamera, a manual shutter time control. I can get much clearer pictures this way. But I've had other night vision like apps with some other common video set which get insane exposure with extreme noise and only a smaller useful circle. However, I found in open camera if I set things to auto (or was that iso3200) it can auto adjust reasonably. The trick is electronic exposure, but not too high, which causes a shrinking clearer circle of picture, and setting the contrast control down in picture controls. However, there is some bug, where setting iso3200 may loose brightness but then setting iso50 gets more but more washed out. But it is obvious, that even though iso3200 is the highest manual setting, the auto iso uses at least up to iso6400. I think FV-5 might have been the one with immersive veiw function to get all those glarey icons, like in opencamera off the screen, but that could have been the permissions heavy best camera which has noise filter etc, and was rather good except fur some failings I can't remember. It, like some other cameras, had software processing for noise and lowlight (at least on their low light camera version). Another opencamera versions have the exposure under the iso tab, which is useful. I remember at least one day t these, setting hdr in a scene mode lead to much better night time pictures.

    So, anyway, the difference you see could be simply how it is setting up and controlling exposure in camera, or processing functions. The gain over slower shutter would lead to more noise but crisper edges on motion, versus the opposite.

     
  • Mark

    Mark - 2018-09-20

    Open Camera supports manual shutter time, but you need to enable Settings/"Use Camera2 API". Then go to the "-/+" icon, and select "M" to switch to manual mode.

    Regarding different quality, is there still a difference between them when Open Camera is in Camera2 mode? If so, can you post an example from Open Camera and Camera FV-5 please?

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2018-10-04

    ThanksThanksThanks

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2018-10-04

    Sorry editing window bug.

     

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