The camera on the Brax3 phone seems good, but its default size is set to some massive file size. Is there a setting somewhere to reduce the default image size to something reasonable? Its currently giving me images that are like ~25MB ea, which is ginormous.
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Download “OPEN CAMERA by Mark Harman” (not the IODE version) from F Droid. It allows you to not only choose a ton of different image resolutions, but has a huge number of options missing in the base camera that came with IODE on the Brax 3.
Here is the help information website for the app:
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I also found Open Camera to be by far the most configurable camera app, that also happens to work well with the BraX3
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I likewise DLed the “open camera” and it seems to be far more capable than the one that comes w/ the device. Thanks very much for the suggestion, its cured my bloated file size!
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One odd curiosity I find with Open Camera on the BraX3 is its very laggy when you push the shutter button - in fact painfully slow.
Haven’t got around to posting about it on the iodè community as yet…
Pre-exposure latency is tied to how much you are asking the camera to do prior to the actual moment of capture. Things like facial recognition, focus optimization, preview shots, high image quality, Noise reduction, etc., all put a demand on the processor before writing the image. My camera is almost instantaneous when I push the “shutter” button, but I have most of these settings minimized or turned-off.
Also, recognize most digital cameras are optimized in software, not hardware so images in lower light require much more processing prior to capture activation. This camera is not really all that natively sensitive and gets laggy outside of bright, outdoor scenes in my experience.
I realize a lot of people think their phones are a “Jack of all Trades”, but it often makes them “master of none” because of limits on simultaneous processing power…
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Cheers - yeah, like you I’ve got as much of that turned down as possible (but I will revisit)…
Yes, this may be part of it - most of the pics I’ve taken so far have been indoors, in the car in the garage, outside in shady areas (that’s as in shaded from light, not dodgy neighbourhoods), etc… I haven’t really had time to play around with it properly nor make the effort to take and ‘serious’ photos or landscapes or anything…
Indeed!
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