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Kellen

It’s not often that you get to merge personal passions into a professional life, but that’s what Kellen did when he launched Droid Life in 2009. After working years of unsatisfying jobs in the medical and property management fields, he took a risk to try and create an online community while playing with the coolest gadgets on the planet each day, a risk that has turned out to be incredibly rewarding. Outside of Droid Life, Kellen is your typical Portlander who drinks way too much good beer, complains often about the Trail Blazers, and can be found out on the streets for a run, rain or shine.

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  • Updated 4/22/11 and now the panoramic and face recognition no longer works. What happened to them?

  • im not happt with the camera on the DX, my samsung omnia did the same thing and its was a shitty windows phone, wont make that mistake againg.

  • im not happt with the camera on the DX, my samsung omnia did the same thing and its was a shitty windows phone, wont make that mistake againg.

  • This thing is awesome. i just figured out how to use it after a few practice shots and im loving it. Thanks!!

  • Is there anything stopping an enterprising developer for writing a similar app for the Droid 1?

    • Hey Rob, Great pano shots. Did you notice there are 'ghosts' on the course near the lower right? 'If you build it they will play!' Honestly, beautiful camera work.

      • Yea… I always like fun stuff like that, found in panoramic shots. It was taken looking over Seattle from a Golf Club (obviously), with my Canon sx20. Though, I should have taken comparable shots with my D1 😛 Anyway, Just showing off the free software, someone with the DX should chime in with an example! Note: go into autostitch settings and change the output size to 100%.

    • autostitch is a nice program, but it runs on your PC, not your phone, right? You need to download your photos to your PC then run autostitch on them. Having something run on your phone would be pretty cool.

      Too bad Facebook doesn't support panoramas, though. They have a maximum image width of 720 pixels.

  • Here is my campsite as of yesterday morning
    [IMG]http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l199/richg8/9e6a6a30.jpg[/IMG]

  • Definitely one of the best features on the DX, I have a question though Kellex, whats with the lines in the pic? Did stuff just not line up? I haven't had any of those show up in any of my panoramas yet.

    • Probably power-lines. Problem with closeup panoramic's, theres a hell of a curvature to the picture.

      • That's what I was thinking too, I wasn't sure though. You're right though. There's definitely a fish eye effect on the panoramas. Still an awesome feature to have!

        • You can overcome the fisheye effect by taking more pictures, more overlap (Fills that 180* void), and doing your best not to include nearby objects.

  • this was the best feature on the bb storm…about the only feature worth mentioning on the bb storm

      • I have no idea?? I had a storm since it came out and never heard of it. Got a droid the other week and love it. 🙂

  • Ummm…this is nothing like the cybershot panoramic feature. With the cybershot, you simply start the panorama, sweep the camera, and end the panorama. It does not require you to take multiple shots. It is more like a video camera.

    The capability like what the X has has been around for several years and I've seen better implementations. For example, the one that I've played with before, displayed a portion of the previous shot as an overlay to help you line up the next shot.

  • Love this feature in the Droid X. What's cool is that you don't have to take up all six pictures either. If you're satisfied with how many pictures you took, just press the shutter button and it will stitch the pictures you took.

  • hmm whats up with the 3MP picture resolution? I dont like that!! come on moto give us a 8MP panaroamic picture resolution.

    • There is an app called PhotoStitch on the market that seems to do the same, although the free version only allows up to two photos.

    • I think because of the camera hardware being different and different resolutions that might not be possible, but I'm no dev, so I could be completely wrong on that.

      • well, if it only offers 3 megapixels anyway, that shouldn't be a problem, I'm sure some dev can figure it out

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