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Android camera wrong exposure time. Camera crashes.

Open vasilyevvladimir79-cyber opened this issue 2 months ago • 3 comments

Beta 47. Samsung S10+ Android 12. When using the internal camera, it's impossible to set an exposure time longer than 1000ms. The standard camera app and DeepSkyCamera both support shutter speeds of 30 seconds. Camera crashes if using exposure time 1000ms and try change ISO of shutter speed.

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First of all exposure range isn't 1000ms but up to 100ms i.e. 0.1s

The reason DeepSkyCamera supports longer exposure is by either combining multiple images to a single one or buy using proprietary API that isn't exposed in Camera2 Androd interface. Same for Samsung native camera.

You can simulate this by using "Exposure Multiplier" option in stacking menu.

Does the app gives an error when the exposure is withing expected range?

artyom-beilis avatar Oct 26 '25 04:10 artyom-beilis

Does it recover if you close/open camera again?

artyom-beilis avatar Oct 26 '25 04:10 artyom-beilis

Does the app gives an error when the exposure is withing expected range?

No, It doesn't

Does it recover if you close/open camera again?

I must close the app and start again

First of all exposure range isn't 1000ms but up to 100ms i.e. 0.1s

The reason DeepSkyCamera supports longer exposure is by either combining multiple images to a single one or buy using proprietary API that isn't exposed in Camera2 Androd interface. Same for Samsung native camera.

You can simulate this by using "Exposure Multiplier" option in stacking menu.

100ms is too short an exposure for subject detection. When I use 100ms and 10x Exposure Multiplier, the image isn't as bright as with 1000ms exposure.

I tested OLS app on another smartphone. The standard camera app allows an 8-second shutter speed, and so does the DSC app. But OLS app only allows 0.09999-1000ms. And camera crashes if using exposure more than 700ms