[maemo-developers] 'camera' application on Nokia N810

[From: Andrew Daviel]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Mrukant Popat wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> I am working on an application that uses the photos clicked by camera
> ('camera' application version 3.5 on N810 ) and sends it over the network.

There is already an app "gpscamera" which uploads photos over the 
network. But I was unable to rebuild it, though the binary works on my 
N810.

I made an app from the code in the example directory, just to take a 
photo using the F5 key on the N810 (usually mapped to fullscreen), as the 
camera faces the same way as the keyboard and screen and I want a picture 
of something that's not my face.
But it's not as fast as "camera", which is annoying.
http://andrew.triumf.ca/N810/repository/dists/chinook/user/sources/f5camera.c
http://andrew.triumf.ca/N810/repository/dists/chinook/user/binary-armel/f5camera.deb

(N810 workaround for "camera" - slide out the keyboard, select "take 
picture" in the file menu, position your finger over the middle 
button on the joypad, point the tablet at the subject as best you can, 
and depress your finger. But the camera is pretty awful, really - mine 
comes out yellow in low light, apart from being only 300kpix. Only 
sometimes any camera is better than no camera.)

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