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Over on Nokia Conversations, they mentioned the release of a new open-source digital photography platform yesterday, called “FCam“.
From the blog post:
“FCam allows the creation of new digital camera applications that help users overcome some of the shortcomings of their devices or create interesting new types of imagery. It is part of the Camera 2.0 project, created in collaboration between Nokia, Stanford, and other partners.
Nokia Fellow Kari Pulli said: “The N900 is a camera phone, but it runs a version of Linux almost as complete as that installed on personal computers”. For this reason, it was chosen as the host device for the FCam platform.
The researchers have already created a series of new photography apps for the platform, some of which will also be free to download. These three will be available from the FCam project pages .”
The platform is available as a free download for the Nokia N900 at http://fcam.garage.maemo.org/. They are apparently working on developing more apps to do even ore with your N900′s camera.
“Photo-trickery is also on the cards. One of the applications described in a research paper captured the position and trajectory of playing cards thrown into the air with complete clarity through the use of two flash units, each behaving independently. The paper will be presented next week at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles.”
More details over at Nokia Conversations.
Pity this isnt available for more devices though.
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