StarrySkyCamera Mk2

This camera app is able to take pictures of a real starry sky.

This app artificially expands an exposure time more than ten seconds by technique of the multiple exposures to take picture of dark starry sky brightly.

The only things you have to do to photograph starry sky are

(1) fix a smartphone with tripods and aim it at starry sky,

(2) tap a "star" icon,

(3) press the shutter of the app and wait for around one minute.

When the photograph which you took is gloomy, increase the exposure number of times. On the contrary, when the photograph is too bright, reduce the exposure number of times.

It has HDR function for daytime photographs, and you can take pictures easily with high dynamic range by changing the number of the consecutive shots and composition sheets.

You can use more than 40 kinds of filters which make various effects to the photographs.

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The functions of this application are as follows.

(１) Starry sky and night view photography function

This app generates a high-definition photo image based on the plurality of consecutively photographed images of a night view using the most suitable multiple exposure technique.

It sets each exposure in response to Starry sky or night view appropriately.

(Darken exposure)

It combines photos of consecutive shots into one.

（２）HDR function

It combines photos of consecutive shots changing exposure with each timing into one piece of photo which is increased dynamic range artificially.

You can set the number of consecutive shots to 1-20.

（３）Camera function

・Indication of exposure information

It displays ISO level, shutter speed and aperture stop in real time.

　・White balance setting

In addition to automatic setting, you can set the white balance corresponding to the conditions such as an incandescent lamp, fine weather, shade, etc.

　・Zoom function

In addition to the maximum zoom magnification that a camera permits, it enlarges zoom magnification originally.

In this case, it surrounds the zoom area with green frame lines and let to know easily a zoom position at the whole.

　・Resolution

You can select all resolution that a camera has.

（５）Other functions

　・Camera shake compensation function

It minimizes the position displacement in combining the plural images at the consecutive shots.

・Listing function,

The photographs taken by this app are stored in the storage and you can see the list of them on a list screen.

　✖️You can delete the image by tapping an icon and choosing an image then tapping a trash box icon.

・Image processing function

When you tap a displayed image, the image is enlarged.

When you tap an editing icon here, it displays a list of filters for image processing.

This app has about 40 filters such as 'Brightness','Contrast','Blur','Sharpening','Sepia','Monochrome','Edge detection', 'Sketch' and so on.

Select a filter from these filters and you can do actual processing to the image on the screen by the selected filter. The image processed can be stored in this app and the camera roll, then you can do another processing subsequently.

　・Share function

　You can share photographs in email or various SNS.

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This app includes the following open sources.・openCV(Copyright (C) 2000-2015, Intel Corporation, all rights reserved.; Copyright (C) 2009-2011, Willow Garage Inc., all rights reserved.; Copyright (C) 2009-2015, NVIDIA Corporation, all rights reserved.; Copyright (C) 2010-2013, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., all rights reserved.; Copyright (C) 2015, OpenCV Foundation, all rights reserved.; Copyright (C) 2015, Itseez Inc., all rights reserved.)

・GPUImage for android(Copyright 2012 CyberAgent, Inc.)

・GPUImage(Copyright (c) 2012, Brad Larson, Ben Cochran, Hugues Lismonde, Keitaroh Kobayashi, Alaric Cole, Matthew Clark, Jacob Gundersen, Chris Williams. All rights reserved.)

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NOTE:

We are not able to offer compensation for any damages or losses that may occur during its operation.