Raw shooting with C5 ultra Dual E5533

[francoistoen]

Hi

Using FreeDcamera it is now possible and easy to shoot in raw mode and save dng files. Look at xda search fro FreeDcam thread made by defcomg.:smileysmileythumbsup:

Well working (but read all the thread as the app working is a special made on the link being on post #57)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/camera-freedcam-4-0-3-t3115548/page6

Pictures can be edited by Lightroom, Photoshop rawtherapee and others. 

All the best

François

[YoGem]

Seems an interesting discovery although I'll need photoshop to verify the quality of photos. Seems genuine but I think I already found something that may be indication of a raw image saved from a jpg. I'll return on this later. If I am wrong then this is amazing.

[francoistoen]

Hi

Do you have more informations about what you have said? (Jpeg to Raw???).

François

[YoGem]

It's raw but it doesn't save dng, I tried to open the raw with photoshop but I cannot assign more than 2 channels. Really baffled on how to use the generated raw.

[francoistoen]

HI

It is raw and none of the software like photoshop (camera Raw), Rawtherapee etc.. is able to open the file. The only software that can be used to open these raw files is Imatest an image processing professional software really very expensive so i used a trial version(see below the setting to open the file).

But if you use the version linked in the post #57 of this web page :

http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/camera-freedcam-4-0-3-t3115548/page6

you will have no more raw file but instead a dng one that can be used with camera raw and RawTherapee.

(You have to uninstall the application prior installing the new one instead the installation cannot be made)

For the raw files already saved you can use the FreeDcamViewer and convert them....

The special version linked in post #57 above is made for Xperia C5 ultra E5533.

Please take time to read the thread and you will notice that I had the same problem as yours with the raw file and Defcomg (one of the developpers) made "adjustment"?? and released that special version that is ok for my C5 (nevertheless some bugs are still present in the application).

Hope that helps

All the best

François

[YoGem]

François, I'll download that app and check the results.

Thank you!

[YoGem]

François,

I downloaded that app, not only expensive in terms of money but also a huge one (1gb not installed geez). So I opened few raws and converted them to TIF to open them with Photoshop:

I don't see JPG artifacts, so this lead me thinking it's genuinely a RAW. However pictures are mostly without any kind of color, there is some strong interpolation and that wash a lot of details.

I do think that the app is genuine and it really read RAW data from the sensor, I am not sure if you get good quality picture though. My phone is different from your as your is the dual and mine is the single-sim one. Quality is not there yet and mind I am really good at photography and raw stuff. It's a big potential though, it just need improvement.

Note: I opened a raw file without using the app, directly with photoshop and I can see the reason of interpolation: It's a single channel, 16 bit raw file. Are missing the other channels to compose a color photo. Not sure why but you can see how a detail of the raw image (when zoomed to be 1:1) appears to be like this:

[Asuka_S]

The FreeDcam Viewer itself is able to convert the .RAW into .DNG.
To make a usable .DNG file, you will need the help of 2 other apps such as raw2dng and ES File Explorer.

1. In the FreeDcam viewer, touch and hold the .RAW thumbnail 
2. touch "RawtoDng" button on the top right hand corner
3. Input the correct settings eg:
    Width : 4208
    Height : 3140
    Blacklevel : 64
    Nexus6
    RGGB
    Plain16bit
4. touch "Convert to Dng" at the bottom after you are done with the settings. The dng file will appear in the viewer 
    (the dng file you have now is still not compatible with other apps at the moment)
5. open raw2dng app, this app will convert your current dng into a universal dng.
6. select your dng file and touch "convert" on the top right hand side
7. open ES file Explorer, move your converted dng file into the root of your internal storage and you will have a DNG file that is           usable in Lightroom, Photoshop and Snapseed.


A Screenshot of the dng file that is taken from my C5 ultra. PS even recognises the SonyIMX data 

[YoGem]

Asuka_S I'll try also your solution and post results here, if all said in this thread is able to generate a standard dng file and quality is superior... The author of the app did a miracle!

Standby!!

[francoistoen]

Hi all

You have to use the special release of FreeDcam as said in my post before :

Post #57 on page http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/camera-freedcam-4-0-3-t3115548/page6.

With that release you can directly save in dng format (a jpg format is also saved at the same time and no more raw file). That Dng format can be read by CameraRaw (photoshop) and RawTherapee (I have tested both on windows 10 computer).

Here is the application sent by Defcomg at the post highlighted before : http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3643926&d=1455313841.

To install that release you first need to uninstall the actual FreeDcam.

If you are interested by the software itself there is GitHub at that link : https://github.com/troop/FreeDcam.

The freeDcam software is not really finished and some bugs are always present. But the "raw" part of it is now working. The picture quality is not what I was waiting for but it seems to me that the camera in the C5 Ultra is not so good and that the focus is really "out of focus".

Waiting to hear from your experiences:smileysmileythumbsup:

François