FCam for Nokia N900

FCam is an open-source platform for digital photography for our Nokia N900, according to its developers, eliminate some limits on mobile photography.

The researchers have already created three applications for N900, these three will be available from FCam project pages:

• FCamera is an example camera application that uses FCam libraries and drivers. It is released in source code to serve as a starting point for programmers to create their own camera applications.
• Low-light Assistant helps in situations where there is not enough light to avoid the choice between a quick exposure that will look sharp, but dark and noisy, and a long exposure that will have enough light, but likely be blurry. Instead, the app captures two images in rapid succession and then automatically combines them, resulting in a photo that is both bright and sharp.
• HDR Capture helps in situations where there is too much light, such as a portrait of a person with a bright sky behind her. The camera takes up to three images with different exposure settings and combines them to an image that shows the details of both the foreground and background objects, without under or over-exposing any of them.

Another application that will be presented, will capture the position and trajectory of playing cards thrown into the air with complete clarity through the use of two flash units, each behaving independently

FCam is available in the Extras-Devel repository. To learn more about repositories, click here. You can also download and install it from here.

Link | FCam project pages