Beter Camera app. Project

[aage]

I would like to start a project to make a better camera app.

In other posts there are people talking about the bad quality of the chip or the lens.
I think they are right about that, but I think the program itself could be better.
I think there is a lot of compression made in the program.
Now I'm not a programmer so that is my problem.

What I am interested about is to get a picture right from the chip. Without any compression and without any contrast, sharpness and brightness adjustment. Then we really know how bad the chip and lens are. After that we can try to adjust some things and look at compression.

Is there anybody crazy enough to create anything like this?

If it works we might be able to get real photos out of our Wizard

Feel free to react or correct me if I'm wrong

[TauTau]

I really wouldn't put any effort into a handset-camera... they generally still suck (mostly). you can't get any quality when the source is bad... And the compression itself won't change too much here (I've ripped the cam out of my wizard, if you see that 8x8mm thing you *know* that can't be any good ;))

[aage]

If you would rip the chip out of the new sony cydershop it wil also be a tiny 8X8mm chip.
It stil is a 1.3 Mpixel chip. I think the lens is our biggest problem.
making a nice contrastcurve could help a lot

[TauTau]

yep, the lenseis one of the biggest problems... I should have mentioned, that the 8x8mm thing was the *complete* camera module, including lense ;) of course the CCD in a "normal" digital camera isn't big either, but at least there's appropriate surroundings... but probably some work on the camera software could better the results...

[rob61280]

You can get add on lenses not sure how good they are from the link below
http://mobile.brando.com.hk/MobileLensCombo2.php
or
http://modtown.co.uk/mt/review2.php?id=amacroxlens


if you try them let us know how they work


Rob