[Announce] cameraplus, An alternate open camera application for Harmattan
 

Hi,

Cameraplus is an alternate open camera application initially developed for Harmattan.

Cameraplus captures images, records videos, has timer support, has a nice post capture page and a bunch of other features including my beloved zoom during video recording ;-)

You can also get it from OpenRepos here: https://openrepos.net/content/msameer/cameraplus

The code is here: https://github.com/foolab/cameraplus

All harmattan specific issues

Changelog

Issue tracker

Cameraplus for SailfishOS

Enjoy :)

Re: [Announce] cameraplus, An alternate open camera application for Harmattan
 

camera error . please restart the application .
do i need to reboot or something else ?

edit : it run only when root

devel-su
(pass)
cameraplus

and it should work

edit 2 : great UI much better than default camera .

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i installed the version located in this repository http://repo.pub.meego.com/home:/msam...tandard/armel/ but I get camera error like @myname24 too

but running as root as suggested gives these messages (yea, app should work as root)
just wondering, will you include front camera in future releases?

Re: [Announce] cameraplus, An alternate open camera application for Harmattan
 

My bad. I forgot to inject the aegist manifest.

I am fixing it now. Please give me some time :)

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I updated the package. Same place. Just redownload and install :)

And yes, I am planning to support front camera but I need to find a proper place for the front <-> back switch in the UI.

"Not enough space to capture image"
Still have 8GB free though :?

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The 8 GB free are under /home/user/MyDocs ? Does /home/user/MyDocs/cameraplus/ exist ?

Does the original camera-ui capture images?

Re: [Announce] cameraplus, An alternate open camera application for Harmattan
 

-yes
-yes
-and yes

:-?

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Thank you, really nice!
aNy possibility if you can include those image captured into DCIM folder? Cause my wazzap cannot access into cameraplus folder :)

Re: [Announce] cameraplus, An alternate open camera application for Harmattan
 

Could you please try the attached .deb? That should hopefully work ;)

EDIT: Package updated so no need for the attachment.

Re: [Announce] cameraplus, An alternate open camera application for Harmattan
 

Can you please add support for camera button on N950 (if it exists)? Thank you! This is aewsome!! :)

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I was a bit reluctant to do that as cameraplus is still in alpha stage. I'd be afraid of overwriting user captured images by mistake.

I can however make it configurable somehow via one of the many configuration files of cameraplus/qtcamera :)

thanks it works now :)

Re: [Announce] cameraplus, An alternate open camera application for Harmattan
 

Well, you had too much free space :P
Time to fill your phone with something :D

I'd like to but I have no means of testing that it works :(

Re: [Announce] cameraplus, An alternate open camera application for Harmattan
 

well, I have 64GB version :rolleyes:

Re: [Announce] cameraplus, An alternate open camera application for Harmattan
 

whered it go?

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upgraded in shared repo as well

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Wow!

It is really awesome!

Forced focusing (this drag-to-focus gesture) is a bit buggy though. And I think It would be more convenient to call default gallery app (and not hand-made one) when you click gallery button.

BTW, you could find cameraplus here: http://repo.pub.meego.com/home:/rzr:....0-1_armel.deb (thanks to RzR)

I found that picture captured in portrait mode is cut by 1/3 when viewed in the gallery, only when you pinch to zoom in and then zoom out will it render it back to normal.

EDIT: Also, would it help if you place photos in /home/usr/MyDocs/Pictures/cameraplus ? Because wazapp has no problem reading pictures from the “Picture” folder

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does this application use face detection?

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How buggy is it ? What's the problem ?
You can still access gallery app from menu-> captures in gallery. I haven't made a gallery app. I just made a post capture view since the gallery default post capture view needs meego touch.

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Picture cut might be because the size is not set properly. I will debug and see :)

As for changing the save location, I am being asked to dsave in MyDocs/DCIM and MyDocs/Pictures (2 different requests from 2 different users :)) because of wazapp.

I believe that wazapp should be fixed but I can also add a configuration to change the save location but I don't think I can save in 2 different places at the same time ;)

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I would vote for ~/MyDocs/DCIM as that's where the default camera app saves pictures. This way in the stock gallery app you can filter out Pictures from captured images in the second tab.

Thanks!

i mentioned “Pictures” Folder due to your reasoning that this software is still at testing stage and you don't want to mess up DCIM, otherwise I would love it to be at DCIM instead.

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As I said earlier, I am going to add an option to save in DCIM even though I believe that wazapp should still be fixed :)

BTW gallery doesn't assume pictures underneath DCIM were captured by camera. Gallery uses maker note to get all captures :)

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When you drag from shutter button to (precisely) focus area, this forced focus mode becomes "stuck". Focus area remains blue and continues to make "focused" sound with every photo taken.

Re: [Announce] cameraplus, An alternate open camera application for Harmattan
 

I don't get you here (or I cannot reproduce it) :(

Re: [Announce] cameraplus, An alternate open camera application for Harmattan
 

0.0.1 is out which puts captures underneath DCIM. It should not overwrite existing images. Worst case is it fails to capture which would be a bug in cameraplus.

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Thanks for the update; captured images show up in gallery's second tab :)

One issue is that when viewing a captured image in the viewer within the app in portrait orientation, the file name overlaps with the day/date leading to fudged numbers presumably due to the length of both strings. This isn't an issue in landscape due to the wider area.

Re: [Announce] cameraplus, An alternate open camera application for Harmattan
 

I fixed that in git. Will try to release today or tomorrow depending on how many issues I can fix :) Thanks for reporting it!

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I have seen this problem but cannot get it to happen anymore. I'd be greatly thankful if you could give me detailed steps to reproduce.

EDIT: Problem now fixed and 0.0.2 is out :)

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Would be grateful to test it for you! ;)

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Thanks for the quick update..

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Thanks for offering. However, getting timer, fast capture and front camera is of a higher priority.

Thanks for the update, I'm sorry that I couldn't reply you further, I was quite occupied by work recently. Anyway I've tested portrait mode, it displayed in proper size and orientation now.

However, when viewing the picture in the built-in gallery, I found that portrait photos tend to looked fuzzy and poorly rendered like badly resized thumbnail. No such problem for landscape photos though. Everything looks fine though using the Gallery

This leads me to a subsequent question, why do you build your own gallery instead of using the existing one? Is it because the gallery is closed?

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It's quite strange that they look different.

I know that thumbnail loading and saving is handled by libquill which is also used by me.

I didn't really build a full gallery. I just built a browser for captured images. It misses a lot of the features in gallery (Even though building a gallery alternative is easy except the face detection part).

I did that for 2 main reasons:
1) Built in gallery being MeeGo Touch based and not QML.
2) I intend to try to get camera+ working on nemo too thus I cannot depend on Harmattan gallery.

The icon is small

Actually, upon further testing, I found that portrait pictures are badly rendered all across the places on either the gallery app and your built in app. Only by zooming in and out, will it renders properly.

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Does that include the portrait images captured by the harmattan camera app?

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Which icon ? The one leading to the post capture view? If so then yes but I am planning to make it a bit bigger and add some eye candy ;)