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Scientific Breakthrough Lets SnappyCam App Take 20 Full-Res Photos Per Second

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Re: Scientific Breakthrough Lets SnappyCam App Take 20 Full-Res Photos Per Second

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Hi Guys. This is Fast Camera. I'm callin' out SnappyCam! Are you up for an old fashioned DUEL to see which app can shoot the most "native camera quality" 8MP images per second in 60 seconds without crashing? On an iPhone 5 with all apps closed, SnappyCam manages to save only about eight 8MP per second over 10 seconds on average and loses the other 12 per second. And these are not 8MP images at least as far as compari…

Michael, thanks for making contact by e-mail, outside of these public forums.

As discussed over e-mail, I've created an in depth report showing that SnappyCam indeed takes full quality 8 Mpx shots on the iPhone 5.

With the amazing discussion and interest here on HN, I thought to share it with the community here as well:

http://www.snappylabs.com/blog/snappycam/2013/08/03/snappyca...

I'm off the grid on a hiking vacation for the next 2.5 weeks, back in late August and look forward to the discussion then.

jpap

Re: Scientific Breakthrough Lets SnappyCam App Take 20 Full-Res Photos Per Second

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not Android bashing - he's managed to make the older, slower iPhone hardware perform better than the current high-performance kings (the S3 & S4) through smart software optimisation. There's no reason he couldn't do the same on Android and see similar gains. It would just be a lot of work..

He only implemented his optimized software on one platform and somehow starts to compare it with different software on another platform. How is that relevant for that other platform's performance?

Umm.. it shows the power of software optimisation?
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