New Software Let N95 Camera Go RAW
If you are seriously using the N95 as the photograph device, one thing missing is to save the image taken to raw format so that the photo can be processed with full features from tools such as Adobe Phottoshop CS3. But now, the boys at Symbian Blog pointed us to a solution, an J2ME application can take a RAW images on your phone, DNG Phone Camera. Previously, cameras that provide direct DNG support are only available on high-end models from camera manufacturers like Hasselblad, Leica, Pentax (K10D), Ricoh, and Samsung.
What is the DNG anyway? Digital Negative (DNG) was introduced by Adobe in 2004 as a universal format for the RAW image files generated by digital cameras. It’s a raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of a digital camera or image scanner. A RAW image stores all the information captured by the digital sensor without losing anything that could be by compressing it into JPEG or other format.
DNG Phone Camera is developed for Nokia phones minimally supporting CLDC 1.0, MIDP 2.0, JSR 135 (Mobile Media) and JSR 75. This should therefore work with most recent Nokia phones with the 240 x 320 resolution, that’ll be N95 as one.
When using this software, the DNG images will be saved to the “Images” folder of the microSD card using the default Nokia image file naming format. DNG is supported by Adobe Photoshop CS2, Photoshop CS, Photoshop Elements 3.0/4.0 and DNG Converter software. DNG raw files must first be processed before it can be used to generate a final JPEG or TIFF image. If you are into digital photograph (not just merely taking picture), you must know what I’m talking about.
Finally, you can download the software here or download to mobile here.
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i was really excited when i saw this. but for someone with a 5 megapixel n95 this is absolutely useless. the pictures it takes are 0.3 megapixel (640×480), extremely tiny. and not only that, after every picture you take you need to hit 3 different security OK screens, no way around it. if you want a nice looking 640×480 picture with the n95, take it the normal way then scale it down. itll look 10 times better.
i agree with the last comment
Yes, I agree too. Isn’t raw data supposed to be direkt from the sensor, that is 5Mpix?
Couldn’t agree more with the other comments. I appreciate that someone’s gone and done this- but what does shooting in RAW at only 640×480 do for someone with an N95? I was rather excited about this until I found out it’s such a useless resolution…
Crap. What i´m supposed to do with a 480×640 resolution picture, if my camera has 5mpix resolution?? No utility.
you know this is the most ridiculous claim for camera software
OOOhhhh gosh I get 300×200 pixels raw …. oh yes that
is sooooo much better than 5 mega pixel
Whats going on?????????
A shame it saves such small images. The whole point of using RAW is to get MORE quality out of the images than you get using the JPG format and what ever processing the camera does. Seriously images as small as this one makes are not really usefull. I had high hopes at first but the file size ruins this app. I suppose the size is to try and reduce file size and save space on the memory card but seriously this is 2009 and I think my 4gig memory card can handle a few full sized RAW files. Let us fill up our memory cards if we want to.
arhhh! damn, had my hopes up
does save in uncompressed format though (just rename to bmp)
Hello i am shiv
yaar i have an problem with my nokia n95. Any body can help me.
Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.