I guess many have seen the clip of the "video light" in action on the N96, the LED's constantly turned on to improve recording in the dark. Why cant that be brought across to the N95???
I dont think there is any way that the LED will work in that fashion. I found a python script that claimed to permanently switch it on but all it does is has a loop triggering the standard flash over and over again.
Seems like such a simple thing to implement and I am sure I am not the only 1 who would find it useful.
The problem is simply that there are no hooks in the API to do it. Sadly all the will in the world will not make it light up continuously, thus all the looping or half intensity brightness.
It would definitely be useful to get it going brighter, but the problem is the longevity of your flash will be reduced if it is used at full power for any length of time. The LED generates tremendous amounts of heat at full illumination, power drain is pretty high too.
Yeah I guess they are limitations in the firmware giving software guys very little opportunity to do anything useful but if Nokia are using similar components in the N96 and allowing the LED's to be used as "video lights" I would like to hope they could think about adding this functionality to The N95 8GB in future firmware versions. I hope seeing as they have taken most of FP2 and put it in the N95 that they might look to use the middle soft key too.
I hope they dont forget about the N95 now the N96 is here.