Is any progress being made on a better camera app? I have been messing around with a web based inventory control system. Being able to take a picture of an item, create a new record, and attach that photo to the record all from one device would be a great bonus.

With the N800 cam's ultra-high gain and short focal range, it seems to be ideally suited for this task. I would like the ability to adjust the gain eventually but I'll settle for the camera orientation changing when it rotates from front to back.

Highly suited? Ummm... in my experience the video image quality has been very poor, so I'm not sure how good captured stills will turn out. I have occasionally acheived decent quality but the conditions had to be just right: perfect lighting, no motion, etc.

I hope that this winds up working for people eventually but I sure have my doubts...

Have you tried this Knips camera software, very basic but still good quality VGA-PICTURES! This camera in N800 is not in megapixel class.

ttexrat: it takes good enough pictures for what i would need. I just need a reference
image. I'm going to be inventorying a warehouse of model trains and it would be nice
to know what i'm hunting for on a shelf.

Markku: are you talking about the camera app posted in this thread? I'm using it but it is very rough and doesn't flip the image when the camera points away from the display. i think there is a Garage project (obscura?) with no activity yet but that's it.

There are a few budding projects:
Malomo in the Garage https://garage.maemo.org/projects/malomo/
Knips is at http://www.anderenen.de/anderenende/maemo.html
and Camera Test App is at http://gulbsoft.de/doku.php/projects/n800

I think all of them use the gstreamer infrastructure. So if you wanted to add some rudementary photo taking capability to your inventory app then you should check out the code to these. I believe that they solved the camera flipping by using gconfv4l2src instead of v4l2src. Over time these projects will get better hopefully and maybe incorporate an image smoother like greycstoration http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstoration/

Hey thanks for the app. Camera is shyt but at lest i can use it.

mwiktowy; Knips is a pretty decent app! Doesn't have a huge delay like the camera test app did and flips the image when the camera rotates away from the LCD.