#camera app

Decided to draw Basketball in the camera app

A follow-up to this post from last night.

In my reblog I said I'd installed the app, so I went out today with both cameras and did a test shot.

The subject is firethorn blossom in our hedge, time 18:34 / 6.34PM, sky almost-cloudless blue, lighting optimal.

First, a Nokia G21 (released February 2022): here's a shot with its native camera app, and a crop for close-up detail.

Here's a shot with the Open Camera app with installation-default settings, and a crop.

IMO, Open Camera makes a serious improvement.

Now an HTC U11+ (November 2017). I bought this older phone last year, old stock NIB, just for the sake of its camera, after seeing the quality pix @dduane was getting from hers.

First, the native app and a crop.

Next, Open Camera at installation default settings, and a crop.

It looks to me as if Open Camera works best when installed in a phonecam whose native app runs excessive image processing as a matter of course.

The Nokia pics are a case in point, while the HTC, a far better native camera app (and I suspect a far better camera full stop) shows much less improvement.

Now I get to find out what happens with Open Camera in the HTC once I start tweaking settings. That, however, is for later.

Photography App Recommendation:

「EE35 Film」

Randomly stumbled across this app through a post written by another fellow internet friend. As someone that goes crazy for imitation camera apps, I decided to take a bet and purchase it for the price of $2.79 Canadian.

I have to say, out of a lot of the photo apps I’ve tried and downloaded before, this one really impressed me. Through its design to process to filter to end product, this app does a great job in imitating a true film camera with it’s advance to shutter to flash to developing. It great the user with having to load the film, and then a friendly guide on how the camera operates, closely similar to a real film camera.

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