Re: BlessN900 - better camera for N900
 

Still only seeing version 35-1... tried both development and testing. :/

Is there anything I need to do to see the newer version?

Re: BlessN900 - better camera for N900
 

Hello all!

Many thanks to Eugene for this terrific application! I have been using it for quite some time now and have been pleased with the results.

However, with the most recent version I suspect the option "side-by-side with standard image in HQ mode" to be faulty. Activating this setting gives me three pictures overlayed. A big one (presumably the HQ version) overlayed by two quarter sized ones covering the upper and lower left quarter (presumably two different exposures). However, they do not show the full picture either but only the center part.

This cannot be expected outcome or else there should be a better explanation of this feature. I had expected a true "side-by-side" without overlay. The way it works at present actually ruined some pictures I had taken when documenting some procedure because not the full picture is visible since it is overlayed by some other partial pictures as explained above.

Am I the only one to mis-understand this setting?

Cheers!
St. Mueller, Switzerland

Re: BlessN900 - better camera for N900
 

Maybe we'll add that feature in future, but it's not in the nearest plans.

Re: BlessN900 - better camera for N900
 

It seems that we have found the problem, it will be fixed in the upcoming release.

Re: BlessN900 - better camera for N900
 

Just uploaded new version (0.43) to extras-devel.
Changes:
- Fixed: Viewfinder freezing after opening the lens cover
- GPS EXIF tags corrected
- Photos saved to the phone when there is no SD card.
- Fixed: Application crash on startup when GPS & geo-tagging are enabled
- Compatibility with black&white theme
- Fixed: User name saving in settings
- Fixed: Crash when saving standard photo in 'shallow focus' mode

Sad news for PR1.2 users: BlessN900 is not compatible with PR1.2 anymore. You will need to upgrade to PR1.3 or use older versions of BlessN900.

Re: BlessN900 - better camera for N900
 

i updated to the version in extras testing and it promptly crashes, also stops my normal camera working too. I uninstalled and rebooted and the default camera worked again, so i reinstalled, rebooted, same problem. Having to uninstall again.

Re: BlessN900 - better camera for N900
 

Okay, this may be beyond the scope of Blessn900, or it may be there and I'm just not finding out how to set it but....

I am interested in taking some pictures of the Leonid meteor showers. To do this, I would normally set a very long exposure time. Any way of doing this with BlessN900 (or any other camera app?)

Re: BlessN900 - better camera for N900
 

First I must admit i don't do this, but all the imagers in my Astro club that use CMOS detectors {I'm not talking about the hugely expensive chilled CCD users} take short exposures (e.g. 100-200 seconds) and stack the images. This reduces the thermal noise and, for telescope use, improves the effective seeing.

Re: BlessN900 - better camera for N900
 

I see no way to do this in blessn900. We plan to introduce manual setting of exposure in future versions, but now I think the only way is to use exposure bracketing mode, set ev corr to +2, and take most exposed picture. However, for astro photography you will normally need to take a number of photos and then stack them (for example, with our desktop product PhotoAcute Studio)

Re: BlessN900 - better camera for N900
 

Do you have PR1.3? Standard kernel?
Did you use 0.41 (previous) version of BlessN900 with no problems?
What happens to the standard camera - does it also crash?
When uninstalling BlessN900 did you uninstall fcam-drivers also?