[maemo-users] Camera app slow, locks up?

[From: Neil MacLeod]

David Hagood wrote:
> Does anybody else find that the Camera application is slow, and
> occasionally locks up the unit?
> 
> What I see is that for the first several seconds after starting, the
> camera app's update rate is fairly fast (though not as fast as the video
> call app - about one-half as fast). After a few seconds, then the video
> update rates slows down to about an update a second. Then after a few
> more seconds it stops, and the unit is pretty much locked up. Sometimes
> I can close the camera app, sometimes I have to reboot the unit (by
> holding down on the power key for several seconds).
> 
> 
Yeah, it's unusable here. The OS quite often offers to close the Camera application as it has stopped responding. The application consumes massive amounts of CPU and the low frame rate (~5fps, sometimes less than 1fps) makes framing a shot next to impossible.

Definately needs more work as it's not currently usable - but even if it were, the camera image quality when indoors is frankly awful (this applies to internet web video too).