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| ANDROID |
Buried deep inside Google's mobile operating are hidden two features that would make for a far more refined Android photography experience. Raw image support and burst-mode were spotted a while ago in Android source code, but have now been confirmed by Google itself.
"Android's latest camera HAL (hardware
abstraction layer) and framework supports raw and burst-mode photography,"
Google spokesperson Gina Scigliano told CNET "We will expose a
developer API (application programming interface) in a future release to expose
more of the HAL functionality."
No doubt that means it will be a
while before the new modes will actually be available on Android phones despite
the code already existing, as Google will likely give developers and
programmers a chance to tinker with it first. It would do well not to take too
much time over it, however. The camera on the Nexus 5, Google's latest flagship
phone, was widely criticised in reviews and for once Android has been pipped to
the post by a less popular operating system.
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Google is not the first company to
bake raw image support into its software -- that was Nokia's bright idea and
has been included for the first time in the Nokia Lumia 1520, which has
just gone on sale in the UK. The feature will also be added retrospectively to
the Lumia 1020 in a software update that will be pushed out in the newyear.
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| NOKIA LUMIA-1520 |
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| NOKIA LUMIA-1020 |
Raw image support won't mean much to most, but
Nokia claims that it was a much-requested feature in feedback it received from
more serious photographers after releasing its super-skilled 42-megapixel Lumia
1020. It allows for access to the unprocessed image-sensor data files, which
aren't as easy to handle as JPEGs, but are more suitable for advanced editing.
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