Hi, thanks very much for this very professional app. However, it is let down badly by generally jerky zooming. PLEASE, smoothed zooming would give recorded zooms a much more professional appearance.
IMO the main problem is a combination of too large step size and too little screen travel, both for pinch zooming and slider zooming. Difficulty maintaining constant finger speed adds to the problem. Even when using the on-screen -/+ or volume button zoom controls, the large step size makes zooms jerky. HD Camera (based on this app) does a much better job, with smaller step size and longer screen travel (for pinch zooming at least).
Zooming could immediately be improved by implementing smaller step sizes and longer pinch zoom screen travel (with a proportionally longer zoom slider). Adding software-smoothed (inertial) zooming would be the ultimate, though. That would enable smoothed starts and stops (esp. when approaching the ends of the scale), and also smoothing of any jerky inputs in-between.
Please, this would make Open Camera perfect for me. The moment it is in, my donation will be on its way :-). Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Also see request for "progressive zooming" at real button request (although the current -/+ zoom controls probably satisfy the request for the button itself).
francois.visagie@gmail.com
Last edit: Anonymous 2016-07-27
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2019-03-15
Is there any update on this? It's something I'd love to see - zooming while recording video is jerky and spoils the end result. Would be great to have + and - buttons which, when pressed and held, smoothly zoom in or out. Like a camcorder does, or a camera with powered zoom. At least on Android, that would be a real differentiator from other camera apps, and would really enhance an already feature-packed app.
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2019-08-04
smooth zoom between previously defined zoom factor would be great
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2019-08-31
My thoughts, it's not really a 'smooth' issue, it's a zoom curve issue. Opencamera uses 'linear' zoom, which gives very unatural feeling. 'cause, for example, 1x-2x zoom is very significant(twice magnified),but 9x-10x is not really doing any thing, but in the zoom scale they take same length to do. It's much appreciated if Mark use power curve, like pow(10.0,z/10.0) , z in [0..10].
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2020-06-14
Hello. Any plans on fixing this issue?
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2023-07-08
I just installed the app and im facing this issue :')
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2023-08-21
Abandoned it seems; There must be some reasons of complications making this such a persisting and widespread issue for most camera apps; is there something we don't know which someone could explain perhaps?
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Hi, thanks very much for this very professional app. However, it is let down badly by generally jerky zooming. PLEASE, smoothed zooming would give recorded zooms a much more professional appearance.
IMO the main problem is a combination of too large step size and too little screen travel, both for pinch zooming and slider zooming. Difficulty maintaining constant finger speed adds to the problem. Even when using the on-screen -/+ or volume button zoom controls, the large step size makes zooms jerky. HD Camera (based on this app) does a much better job, with smaller step size and longer screen travel (for pinch zooming at least).
Zooming could immediately be improved by implementing smaller step sizes and longer pinch zoom screen travel (with a proportionally longer zoom slider). Adding software-smoothed (inertial) zooming would be the ultimate, though. That would enable smoothed starts and stops (esp. when approaching the ends of the scale), and also smoothing of any jerky inputs in-between.
Please, this would make Open Camera perfect for me. The moment it is in, my donation will be on its way :-). Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Also see request for "progressive zooming" at real button request (although the current -/+ zoom controls probably satisfy the request for the button itself).
francois.visagie@gmail.com
Last edit: Anonymous 2016-07-27
Thanks for the info, I'll take a look.
Is there any update on this? It's something I'd love to see - zooming while recording video is jerky and spoils the end result. Would be great to have + and - buttons which, when pressed and held, smoothly zoom in or out. Like a camcorder does, or a camera with powered zoom. At least on Android, that would be a real differentiator from other camera apps, and would really enhance an already feature-packed app.
smooth zoom between previously defined zoom factor would be great
My thoughts, it's not really a 'smooth' issue, it's a zoom curve issue. Opencamera uses 'linear' zoom, which gives very unatural feeling. 'cause, for example, 1x-2x zoom is very significant(twice magnified),but 9x-10x is not really doing any thing, but in the zoom scale they take same length to do. It's much appreciated if Mark use power curve, like pow(10.0,z/10.0) , z in [0..10].
Hello. Any plans on fixing this issue?
I just installed the app and im facing this issue :')
Abandoned it seems; There must be some reasons of complications making this such a persisting and widespread issue for most camera apps; is there something we don't know which someone could explain perhaps?