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  1. Let OEMs make their own camera UI, native one sucks

    The Camera UI is rubbish, Why should I have to go to, Option then photo settings to change what I want. Not only that, but the settings are in a list, making it even longer to change a settings.

    I'm sure if Nokia designed the Camera App it would be much better. There is also a lack of settings in the camera app, we should be able to change a few more things.

    Considering all the other manufacturers have HDR option built in we should have that too.
    We should be able to change metering modes.
    At least have a…

    6 votes
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      0 comments  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Implement fully featured point and shoot functions.

      When the phone ready to take pictures, it should give the user to choose white balance, filter, different modes to shoot and etc.

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        1 comment  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • htc photosense

        have more options for the camera like, 1080p, hdr, instant capture, taking pictures while watching/taking a video, always focus video, continuously taking pictures and choosing which one you would like, great low light conditions, and automatically adjusting flash in different lighting conditions

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          1 comment  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • A self-timer app

          A self-timer app should be built into the camera app. That is expected to be standard these days. It would also be nice to have

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            1 comment  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • Image Resize in Photo ... edit

            Many other suggestions listed are either too general or too specific in another area. I would like to see Resize added as a tool when one chooses ... Edit...

            Currently only Crop, rotate, auto-fix are listed.

            To do what I want requires a 3rd party app. They tend to duplicate those other tools of Crop, rotate, etc.

            I think resizing is at least as important as Cropping.

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              0 comments  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • camera

              when i filming outside the video doesn't run smooth :(
              but when i had nodo it run smooth
              i have a htc 7 mozart

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                0 comments  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • Panoramas in portrait orientation

                Allow the camera to take panoramas while holding it in portrait orientation, and maybe allow more than three frames per panorama

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                • Camera Zoom Control use hardware buttons like Nokia N8

                  Use hardware buttons for camera zoom like Nokia N8

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                    0 comments  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • 5 votes
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                      1 comment  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • 5 votes
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                        0 comments  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • Add camera resolution settings

                        Most digital cameras and mobile phones with a built-in camera give you the possibility to choose from several picture resolutions and details quality. In WP8 we can not take pictures in lower resolution/quality, than maximum. That's annoying, especially when traveling and memory runs out. It would be great to choose between 8 MPix, 5 MPix, 3 MPix, 1 MPix and maybe even basic VGA 640x480. I don't need 8 MPix pictures - I resize them all down...

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                          0 comments  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • Implement exposure lock during focus lock (while shutter button is half-pressed) It´s a very usefull function and it´s easier to take good p

                          Implement exposure lock during focus lock (while shutter button is half-pressed)
                          It´s a very usefull function, and it´s easier to take well lit photos.

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                            0 comments  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • I need to date/time my photos, Can't be that hard. ALL other phones do

                            Need to date time stamp photos. Date shows, TIME dose not.

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                              0 comments  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • Panorama shooting for 1st Gen Windows Phone 7's !

                              WP7 1st Gen doesn't get the panorama feature nor a Photosynth app for the WP7 community. I hope you guys can resolve the issue !

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                                2 comments  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • Picture and camera album: allow to multiple select pictures you want to erase

                                Now it is very irritating, a slow time-taking procedure, to selectively erase/keep pictures in the albums. Unbelievable, in fact.... Just allow - even ancient OS have that... - to select/group pictures individually, to then erase together in one move (or two-three: erase", then "erase?" and confirm), which now you have to do with each picture individually, this is killing... Also, allow to just choose for "erase all pictures", without even heving to select. Thanks to for sure integrate this on 7.8

                                4 votes
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                                  1 comment  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                • Slide down to open camera

                                  Its faster than camera button trust me, like how iphone 5 does it when you can slide up to access camera on lock screen, please have Windows Phone lock screen be able to slide down for camera mode and up to unlock

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                                    0 comments  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                  • Flash focus camera like blackberry

                                    When on night camera can't focus

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                                      1 comment  ·  Camera  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                    • Camera should have adjustability sliders on screen to set the Aperature, Brightness and shutter speed.

                                      when in camera mode, to the Left side would be a slider that a person could adjust for the level of brightness needed, on the Top of the screen would be another slider to set the depth of focus (aperture) to blur out unwanted people or scenery.

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                                      • Option to change where photo's are being saved to

                                        In camera app there should be an option to choose where next photos are being saved to, for instance instead of camera roll they could be placed into a album called holidays so every photo you take from then on goes into the holiday album.

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                                        • 4 votes
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