Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => iPhone and Mobile Photography => Topic started by: John Hollenberg on February 19, 2018, 08:28:35 pm
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I discovered after a few days in Mammoth that many of the photos I took using Camera FV-5 (version 3.31.4) on my Samsung Galaxy S7 (SMG930F model) were jpeg only, no DNG file was saved. After a little experimentation I discovered the problem and a workaround. It turns out that when I start Camera FV-5 it saves DNG as it is supposed to do. However, if I leave the application in any way (open up a browser, press the right button to lock the phone, etc.) when I return FV-5 now forgets to save a DNG. I don't know if this is a bug others would run into or specific to my phone. I reported the bug to the developer.
Workaround: Always close and restart Camera FV-5 if you switch away from the application. When I do that, I get DNG saved 100% of the time.
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Interesting, don't know that I have ever run into that, but then I think I always close it. Thanks for the heads up.
Alan
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Alan,
If you check to see if this problem exists for you, let me know. It's hard for me to believe that I am the only one afflicted by this bug.
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John,
I have the same version on my phone and I just tried it and it works just fine, recording both files. I tried pressing the button and bringing up a browser and also bringing up the email app and then switched to FV-5 and it worked just fine, both jpeg and dng files. I am saving my files to an micro SD card and not the phone internal, don't know if that makes a difference. My phone is on Android 7 latest security patch.
Alan
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Alan,
Thanks for the follow-up. Camera FV-5 defaults to record to internal phone, I didn't change it (yet). I will check to see if changing to micro SD card fixes the problem for me.
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Changing Camera FV-5 to save to custom location on the micro SD problem resolved the issue. Will email the developer so he/she can hopefully fix the bug. Thanks.
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John,
Glad it is an easy fix. Hopefully they will knock that bug out soon.
Alan
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After changing the settings to use the SD card DNG is always saved, but now the portrait images are not auto rotated when I go to view them afterward. In the end, I went back to the internal memory to save images and plan to just be sure I restart the app every time I leave the app and come back to it. Think there are a few bugs? Still a great program overall in spite of the warts.