OK guys, three days of work, but I finally managed to develop a Python script
to get a full screen camera viewfinder on N70. What you see on the screen is a
crop of a VGA picture taken. Now I know the viewfinder is horrible, but this is
the only way you can do it in Python; take a picture and then display it.
I know it is not perfect and the built in camera app is alot smoother, but I'm a
rookie in programming Symbians, so take me easy on it :redface:
So, pro's and con's:
PRO:
1. Full screen viewfinder - obvious 😉
2. Details captured by camera are better because the image is saved with
100% quality
CON:
1. More noise in picture for dark colors
2. Horrible viewfinder update speed (maybe lower than 1fps)
3. Zoom is not available - the idea is that the zoom is digital and the picture
quality will suffer
And now, the instructions:
- Install Python, you can get it for free from here
- send the script from attachment to your phone
- install the script (open it with any file explorer)
- start python and run the script
I look forward to your comments and suggestions for improvement. The script
is free and anybody can do whatever he/she wants with it.