Phil Askey

Meh.

What a lame waste of resource, we achieve the same at dpreview with a cove, soft box strobe and umbrella strobe! He spent more time in Photoshop than shooting.

Another sunny day in Seattle.

Jaggr - if you read the API properly they are MISUSING the word RAW, it's still demosaiced.

Well of course the "hardware" and in fact Android sees the RAW data but it's demosaiced in a compiled C library which has no public interface for developers to "step in" and access the data before...

Seems a bit pointless to process RAW files from a camera on a relatively low-powered and battery driven device like an Android device.

And yes, here we're talking about the original story, an app...

Yes, from a quick dive into iOS framework I can see no way to get image data that hasn't already been demosaiced (you can certainly get "uncompressed" data, but not RAW photosite level values).

Not at all, DNG typically means RAW (as in the photosite level values untouched and unprocessed), but in this case it appears the developer is using DNG to "trick" users into thinking it's truly RAW.

Just by way of a follow-up, the only "formats" officially supported (that means without accessing the camera device directly with root) are NV21 (YUV), RGB_565 (16-bits per pixel) and JPEG.

Just by way of a follow-up, the only "formats" officially supported by the Android API (which means without accessing the camera device directly with root) are NV21 (YUV), RGB_565 (16-bits per...

There's no Android API for reading raw pixels from the sensor, you always get a pre-processed 'bitmap' which (as you stated) has been demosaiced, gamma corrected and white balanced (and whatever...

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Great to see lens reviews make a return to dpreview, to see photographs of Tower Bridge and the surrounding area again, the first review reads well and has lots of good technical data. Kudos Andy...

Meow

2nd post!

I just can't get away...

Well mostly because in a few weeks time when that story has floated off the bottom of the front page news feed it will be primarily accessed from search engines which will come into the news story...

Not a *completely* new feature ;-) http://web.archive.org/web/20000820174405/http://www.dpreview.com/misc/links.asp