[Q] Adjust manually camera's shutter speed/exposure

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Hi,
I have searched from all over the web app that could change camera's exposure time. I like to take good nigh photos, or anyway as good as it's possible with mobilephone camera, but like in mine HTC Desire exposure time is way too short.

I have tried many of those camera apps from market, like camera 360, but non of them can adjust shutter speed/exposure way I wanted. Say, I want a long exposure for night photo. For example I would like input exposure value to app, so that it would expose photo for 10 seconds.

So, do anyone know app to change exposure/shutter speed?
And my Desire is not rooted and I'm currently not planning to do so.

Would love to know about this, too; any ideas for this?

Sign me up for this as well.

Long exposures would be great. Would need some sort of remote shutter release or time delay ideally and a mounting system, tripod fashion.

Problem is - you'd also need a mount or tripod of some sort to hold the camera still enought to make long exposures work

I don't know about the rest of you but I can only handhold steady my DSLR down to about 1/80th of a second

Originally Posted by Argent36

Problem is - you'd also need a mount or tripod of some sort to hold the camera still enought to make long exposures work

I don't know about the rest of you but I can only handhold steady my DSLR down to about 1/80th of a second

I have managed 1/15 and 1/8 (the latter very rarely) handheld with my Pentax (image stabilisation built into body FTW), but yeah, you would have to use a tripod or to prop it up and have a timed shutter release for the phone. This isn't a problem as such, even just being able to specify the aperture would be welcome.

Well a mount can be anything...jumper, phone leaned against a wall. Would be awesome for cityscapes and such. Anyone found anything which indicates this is possible with a software patch? New to android and just tearing through my first rom package

Exactly, it doesn't have to be anything serious, just lean it against a beer for example.

I can't see a reason why you couldn't manually control everything, I can control ISO, metering, etc on my SGS, adding aperture and shutter shouldn't be outside the realm of possibility.

Had a look around as a noob to Android dev/roms etc. and I don't think it's possible to control the hardware to that level :/

Would love to be corrected on this, though!

I don't have the SDK installed anymore, can someone test what camera.getParameters gives on a device?