#138 Request: Camera2 API RAW file saving capability

[Wyatt Ward]

With the Camera2 API comes the ability to save a raw file containing sensor information. I cannot find any FOSS programs that currently do this except for this demo, which lacks any sort of manual settings - I cannot even turn flash on or off, and there is nothing in the way of changing focus settings either.
https://github.com/googlesamples/android-Camera2Raw

So I'd like to ask for RAW file saving capability when you have the experimental Camera2 API support enabled. I am no java or android programmer (I can write Java but dislike doing so), but from what little I know about it, I'd think that this would be a reasonably easy feature to add:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/camera2/DngCreator.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/ImageFormat.html#RAW_SENSOR

[Mark]

Thanks for my links. It's on my todo, hoping to get standard on it soonish.

[Anonymous]

Any updates on this? I'd REALLY like this; my Nexus 6 has some kind of awful post-processing on everything, but RAWs look fantastic by comparison (like some overly-weighted noise reduction or something is on all the JPEGs). I also need the exposure settings and focus settings that the camera2raw demo lacks.

I'm aware the Nexus 6 camera isn't great, but the RAWs have been giving me far more detail than any JPEG I've ever gotten out of it.
http://i.imgur.com/LbAL5R7.jpg

[Mark]

RAW is working on my Nexus 6 now, the new version should be out soon. I like the photo! I had an Amiga 500 and then 1200 :)

[Wyatt Ward]

I'm a C programmer primarily (I don't really like OOP), but if this doesn't happen sometime before I get back from my trip to my desktop I'm going to try my hand at this myself. I'm sure it'll be suffering from the standpoint of a mostly functional programming perspective so I'm hoping to avoid that, but I'll make a pull request if that happens.

[Mark]

Thanks for the offer, though I've finished implementing it now - RAW/DNG for Camera2 will be in the next version, hoping to release over the next week.