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ejo4041 I also have the Nikon and Samsung cameras for work. I am trying to write an app to take pictures continuously. So far I have only gotten around 1fps, pretty bad. It is a shame that there is no special API for the Samsung Galaxy Camera. There are so many features in the manual mode that cannot be accessed from code. I took would like to see an API or SDK from Samsung ASAP. $500 for the camera was a little outrageous, and I also had trouble getting one without a contract. Just wish there was an update to the Camera API so we could make cool apps with it.
Well, if you don't want high resolution pictures, then you can use the camera preview callbacks to capture the preview images at a fair rate especially if you provide lots of preview buffers and use the buffer callbacks. The Samsung does indeed seem to be much better integrated with the standard android Camera API. I've seen people mention a few things it can't do, but mostly the standard API is working for me. I can certainly take 16MP images with the samsung.