Differences between portrait and macro mode
 

Hi,
I am working on an open source clone of the camera-ui (close to finished).
While comparing the image results, I am wondering, are there any differences between macro and potrait mode.

For me, neither zoom levels nor the focus capability shows
any differences.

regards
Nicolai

Re: Differences between portrait and macro mode
 

macro mean the distance while you capture photos has limit to range 10 cm to 60 cm, meanwhile macro only lock 1 focus object that is. As far as i know.
Any way, its great u make clone camera ui clone, anyway, while open camera cover or press full shutter will it send dbus to your clone camera i hope u fix some terrified bug, anyway is you clone include camera recorder just guessing.
When will it realease?
Sorry for many question.

Re: Differences between portrait and macro mode
 

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Re: Differences between portrait and macro mode
 

Hi cloud596

Thank you. But I know what a macro mode is supposed to be. My question is,
is there a difference in maemo's camera-ui. For me, both modes
behave absolutly the same.
The plan is to replace the builtin camera-ui fully.
It does react on lens cover and cam shutter buttons, the same way as the builtin does.
But I want to make this configurable, so the user can enable and
disable this function.

Yes the video recording function is included.

Re: Differences between portrait and macro mode
 

nicolai , i want to add some comments but from photographer experience and not any n900 code

macro need special optics because is hard to achieve reasonable deep of field small aperture always help macro lenses have optimizations for close to lens light directions

portrait need also special optics large aperture to fade wrinkles and blur the background ( small DOF ), focal long enough to not distort the nose , good human skin color balance and modern times automatic red eye reductions

so ( my opinion ) the only optimization for n900 with fixed optics is aperture value : small on macro, large on portrait

Re: Differences between portrait and macro mode
 

Thank you blue_led,
but as far as I know the aperture is fixed.
All photos I made have an aperture of 2.8 regardless
of the scene mode.

nicolai

Re: Differences between portrait and macro mode
 

I hope this won't at all interfere with cl-launcher and/or Flashlight Extra (I use cl-launcher, but gotta not make the common mistake of focusing on only the software that matters to me)?

So, when you say "configurable", do you mean just a on/off toggle for whether camera lens and camera button launch it? Or full blown cl-launcher style configurability, where you can chose to either have the camera-ui, another program, or a pop-up list of programs to chose from, get launched? (I'm thinking, simply the first is fine. Then cl-launcher and flashlight extra should still work fine with the normal camera-ui and this one, since they respond to the camera lens opening, and then send a kill command to the camera-ui process before it can load, as I understand it.)

Re: Differences between portrait and macro mode
 

It configures only the camera behavior.
You can enble and disable
if the camera should open when the lenscover open
and/or the focus button is pressed.

Re: Differences between portrait and macro mode
 

Hm, no hobby photograph using the n900 and wonders for
what the macro mode is good for?

Re: Differences between portrait and macro mode
 

This is just guessing as I haven't been comparing the two modes but could there be a difference in the colour rendition between the two modes?

Since portrait mode is intended for photographing people, the colour rendition could perhaps be slightly different compared to macro mode in order to create more 'pleasing' shots of people?!

Re: Differences between portrait and macro mode
 

i use my 900 to replace my memory

Re: Differences between portrait and macro mode
 

@nicolai, i dunno it finish or not but what about more touch user friendly, u can copy from samsung or iphone style position but with default nokia icon or gnome icon, since nokia has bad UI on touch device.
I have a favor to ask,nokia lock down iso sensitivity to 400 whereas it can boost so it will increase perfomance during cloudy or low light

Re: Differences between portrait and macro mode
 

Yeah I second cloud's request.please dont clone the camera UI, like MAG's plan with Media player UI. The media player UI is good, but Camera UI is clunky and difficult to use.
And thanks for this initiative!

Re: Differences between portrait and macro mode
 

Hi,
the first version will mostly look like nokias camera application.
It is nearly feature complete (just finished geotagging support).

But as soon as it is working, you or anybody else can take the
code and can add new features or change the UI.

regards
Nicolai

Re: Differences between portrait and macro mode
 

So, can we expect this as part of the CSSU soon, or will it be downloadable from extras just like any other app?

Also, I am not a coder, but I can put up mock UI ideas if you want ;-)