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#1285 Shutter speed cap

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2025-11-12
2025-09-19
Anonymous
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Hi, I am new to Open Camera, but I think this will be a love. :) I have a Sony Xperia 1 VI, and the built-in camera app is horrendous.
Open Camera does a much better job with focusing, but there's only one thing I cannot figure out, if I can limit the shutter speed to a maximum value, like 1/60s, anything longer than that is a challenge to hold still and thus results in blurrier images. Manual mode works, but that's not what I am looking for, I don't want to set both shutter speed and ISO every time, the idea is to have a MAX shutter speed, and ISO should compensate if that's not sufficient for the light conditions. Is there a feature like this which I have overlooked or may I hope it will be added later?
Thank You,
Karoly

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  • Mark

    Mark - 2025-10-11

    Thanks for the info. I'm afraid that the decisions on shutter speed and ISO in auto mode is controlled by the device rather than the application, and there isn't a way as far as I know to set a maximum value. Android 16 does introduce a way to have manual shutter speed with auto ISO (on my TODO to support), although that still doesn't seem quite what you're after.

     

  • Mark

    Mark - 2025-10-11
    • status: open --> closed
     

  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2025-10-11

    Hi Mark, Thanks for your reply! I am not a expert of this field, but since we have manual mode where we can set both shutter speed and ISO manually, cannot we just improve this logic by letting people set one of these manually and let an algorithm decide about the other? Or does not Android system provide You with light measurement information..? Manual shutter with auto ISO is one step closer but indeed I hoped to have just a reasonable cap, so shutter speed cannot go above a set value like 1/60s.. Might be a poor decision by Sony (in my case), but 1/15s shots taken from hand is not a guarantee for sharp pictures. Thank You for looking into this!
    Karoly

     

    • Mark

      Mark - 2025-10-12

      Hi, yes having one of these set manually and the other set to auto is a new feature available in Android 16, it's on my todo to add support for this.

       

  • Marius

    Marius - 2025-10-14

    Wouldn't it be better to leave this issue open until the feature is there? (At least thats what i would do :) )

     

    • Mark

      Mark - 2025-10-14

      Sure, have reopened for the feature of having manual shutter with auto ISO (or vice versa).

       

  • Mark

    Mark - 2025-10-14
    • status: closed --> open
     

  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2025-11-12

    Hi Mark. Piggybacking on this one. I desperately need this feature for a footpath survey. I'm currently getting a lot of blurring issues occuring as I cant manually set the minimum shutter speed and allow automatic ISO to adjust the exposure. Instead im either forced to use auto (causing the blurring) or then set a manual ISO and shutter - which results in it being fine in bright spaces and too dark in dark or vice versa. Do you know what settings there are I could play with now? Also, any update on when you plan to include this feature?

    Thanks a lot for your hard work!

     

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