Re: First stab at the Capture API (aka Camera API)

that's what i meant, also ISO of course and eventually RAW/Jpeg choice  
(maybe)

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch
Nokia



On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:13 PM, ext Tran, Dzung D wrote:

> If you meant are "white balance" and "resolution" basic functions in  
> photography, then the answer is "YES"
>
> Thanks
> Dzung Tran
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frederick Hirsch [mailto:frederick.hirsch@nokia.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 02:04 PM
> To: Oksanen Ilkka
> Cc: Frederick Hirsch; ext Robin Berjon; Tran, Dzung D; public-device- 
> apis; 'Ingmar.Kliche@telekom.de'
> Subject: Re: First stab at the Capture API (aka Camera API)
>
> Aren't setting white balance and resolution pretty basic to meaningful
> photography?
>
> regards, Frederick
>
> Frederick Hirsch
> Nokia
>
>
>
> On Dec 2, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Oksanen Ilkka (Nokia-D/Espoo) wrote:
>
>> ext Robin Berjon wrote:
>>> On Dec 2, 2009, at 11:27 , Ilkka Oksanen wrote:
>>>> One clear missing feature is setting of preferred settings,
>>>> especially preferred image/video resolution. Currently it's
>>>> possible get the supported camera resolutions but not select which
>>>> of them is preferred when images or videos are captured. If
>>>> possible this is something I would like enhance still during this
>>>> week.
>>>
>>> In general, how strongly do you feel that this is a required feature
>>> for v1? I certainly agree that it's useful, but off the top of my
>>> head the most useful use cases don't strictly require it (and since
>>> the size is returned, it can be enforced in script).
>>>
>>
>> For me it's difficult to imagine a realistic use case where just
>> getting
>> a list of supported resolutions and formats is enough while setting
>> the
>> preferred resolution and format is not possible. That is what the
>> draft
>> allows currently.
>>
>> Therefore I believe there are two options. Either remove
>> supportedImageFormats, supportedVideoFormats and  
>> supportedAudioFormats
>> variables from the API or complement those with ability to set the
>> preferences based on values of these variables. If the second option
>> affects to overall schedule of our v1 work then I'm ready to consider
>> resorting to the first option.
>>
>>     -ilkka
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

Received on Friday, 4 December 2009 14:44:19 UTC