[maemo-users] FCamera - 640x480 only?

[From: Rick B.]

On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 10:24 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Nils Faerber
> <nils.faerber at kernelconcepts.de> wrote:
> > Hello!
> > I *love* FCam and FCamera - already as they are. The nearest thing to a
> > real camera for a mobile.
> >
> > So I went off and took some pictures and today for the first time loaded
> > them onto my PC and recognised they are all "just" 640x480!?
> >
> > So I tried to find the resolution setting in FCamera but there was none.
> >
> > Is there a way to have the full 5MP in FCamera?
> >
> > I would be pretty disappointed if this wasn't possible...
> >
> > Pressing thumbs!
> 
> I remember reading some discussion of this, and the explanation that
> it's not actually 640x480, but some applications are reading it wrong.
> Something like this. :)
> 
> What is the filesize? You should be able to figure out the resolution
> roughly from that. If it's truly 640x480 the file should be less than
> 1 megabyte I think. If it's full-sized then it should be closer to 10.
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If memory serves, FCamera use dng format. I've not found any maemo or
linux software that allows one to view dng format images in their full
resolution.