[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ianw2:
Testing with D800E - some errors and suggestions

I have a D800E and am using openWRT with the TP-LINK Mr3040. I have a Nexus 7 (2013) and Nexus with Android 4.3. The version was downloaded from the Google store.

This is an impressive application - congratulations. However there are some issues, most would seem easy to fix.

1. If you try to connect to the openWRT and for example you are not connected to the right wireless network you get a java error message. This was confusing and initially took me some to realise what the issue was.

2. If you set the Location to Store in settings with an invalid directory name, the program crashes when it tries to save a file there. Can this error be trapped, and even better a file browse option added to select the directory.

3. If you have the camera set to capture Raw only, then the Review jpg never happens (obviously). However it does lead to some confusion and could be checked.

4. Review Raw doesn't happen when the camera is set to capture Raw + jpg. It only works when the camera records Raw only. Again this could be checked in the settings.

5. The image viewer appears to create a preview image probably the size of the screen (in pixels). Although you can zoom in by pinching your fingers etc, you never see more detail and the image becomes blurry.

6. Occasional crashes of the program after reviewing (and zooming).

7. There is no Delete downloaded raw after review option in settings.

8. If I exit back to the initial screen, and connect to OpenWRT/Linus server, it says it can't find a DSLR, but it leaves a "Nikon Corporation D800E NET" message on the screen. However if I use the back button, or exit and come back in, I go straight to Liveview. Confusing.

9. Liveview. The << < ..... < >> mechanism at the bottom for manually focussing is difficult to use and understand. It is not clear that the middle slider relates to the step size, and even when this is understood the range of the numbers is not known - should I be working with a step size of 5, or 500. Eventually by trial and error I found my 50mm lens had a range of around 5000, and by knowing this I can set the step size eg to 250 to get a 5% step size. Is this range the same for all lenses, or cameras? And is it possible to determine it, so that the step size slider could be a percentage? Another issue is that when using the <<, <, >,>> buttons it is easy to miss and then the action is interpreted as a request to refocus at the point above the button. As there are two ways to focus (press on the liveview image and the <<,<,>,>> mechanism, it would help if you could toggle between these and avoid this unwanted refocussing which makes the <<,<,>,>> mechanism difficult to use.

10. I initially installed openWRT on the router from the openWRT repository without realising that it didn't have the ddserver program bundled. The documentation doesn't actually explain this and it took a lot of effort to understand what was happening.

I also downloaded the recent version (Oct 2?) from code.google.com and found I liked the option to have a minimal UI, giving more screen real estate for the Liveview.

I am primarily a landscape shooter, and would like to use this to have a bigger display to view Liveview, and image review. However almost all tablets are difficult to see in bright sunlight. Trying to press these buttons at the same time as shrouding the tablet to keep the light out is cumbersome. What would be useful would be an option to have the buttons on a "control" device, with the image on the "review" device. I would use my Nexus 4 phone to control the program, and look at the liveview/image review on the tablet which could be shaded from bright light.

I hope this has been useful. Once again thank you for an extremely useful application.

Ian