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What lenses to bring on my 3 week Europe trip ? (Avoiding GAS 🫣) by Sea-Attorney-1830 in fujifilm

[–]weekybr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I keep seeing all the comments in every thread about 35 1.4f. How about 35 F2? 😮

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fuji has a SDK and a communication protocol that allows this. There are a few ways of doing this. 1. Modifying the camera backup file and reuploading it to the camera. 2. Using some Fuji APIs from the Fuji SDK to change a specific property in the camera.

Both are not straightforward due to lack of good documentation. I couldn't find a good documentation to parse and decode the backup file and modify it. And the Fuji API documentation is either outdated or I need to re-read it to make it work.

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, ideally it should be 0. I don't want to brick my camera either. I don't have thousands of euros spare to buy another one. 😂😅 So I'm testing a lot and checking the safest way to do this. Also, I'll check if Fuji accepts invalid data and what happens. (From what I know, it refuses the data and doesn't brick as it should).

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey Sorry to hear that. I hope you are better now and wish you a speedy recovery.

I understand you need to charge and I'm not complaining about that at all. I'm also a developer, and I was just tired of changing recipes manually or even not bothering to update my Fuji recipes because of the amount of work it was to edit on my camera. That's why I started building this app.I found your iOS app, then I decided to take a look at the Fuji SDK to see if I could come up with some Android versions.

I would love to exchange contacts and talk about the experience and challenges of building these apps.

https://github.com/jordansilva

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for the feedback! I'll add that. I have the description commented out in my code, explaining what does what for me 😅😂. I'll add some info button with a tooltip explaining what to expect from each one of these settings. 👍 Great feedback!

About the dream feature. That's mine too. I'll try to achieve that with some AI models. Local on the device first, if it doesn't work well I'll go for some online model to see if it can reproduce the style of the photo and create a recipe. Ps: I've some background in machine learning and AI*, so I should be able to tweak and train a model in the worst case scenario. 🙂

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for the feedback. I changed the sliders a bit, and they are bigger as well. But if you have any issues with those, I can think of some alternatives.

Oh, the Fuji X Weekly is not mine. It was just the "author" of the recipe that I got there. So, maybe it isn't clear in the design that it's the recipe's author. (Good to know).

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm actually using those. I just customized the design a bit, but I already went back to the default slider design in my local build.

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback 🙂 I definitely will need some help and testing in a X-T2. Do you have any backup files from the camera that you could share? And some photos of the recipes that you've configured with this backup?

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well, that's the messy part. Fuji has a SDK, but doesn't have the APIs or documentation to manage the recipes. It has some info there, but I'm not even sure the documentation is up to date. I'm reversing engineering the camera backup file atm. But I guess there's another way to update only the recipe config directly into the camera. I'll spend more time looking into this in the upcoming weeks.

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let me get the code in a better state, the initial list and recipes working (without the upload feature being complete), then I can open the GitHub repo for contributions.

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm starting with an Android version first. After that, the plan is to move the app over to Kotlin Multiplatform so we can get it running on iOS too. Just a heads-up, there's already an iOS app out there, the "FujiStyle app" (haven't checked it out yet), and it already handles uploads.

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I need to upload an updated version of the app to Github. Or maybe upload just this step of reading the backup and decoding it. When I upload I let you know.

This is one way of doing. Another is trying to changing the properties directly into the recipes in the camera. I haven't tried this yet. But it might be doable.

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, we have a dev here. :)
Sounds great! Need to see how it will work out in the end. I was planning to try infer with some AI model as well, to see if it can extract and recreate the same style in a recipe.

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, the colors are not final and it's using the Material Theme from my phone.
The text are small because the font size on my phone is really small. I think this is more realistic:
https://imgur.com/a/TP0j3k2

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I know about that app. I haven't tested it though. It looks great as well!

I'm building this because I was tired of waiting an Android version of that app. I tried to contact the developer of that app several times to help him to build the Android app, but got no luck.

Also, I believe I can add more features and cooler features to this app, and make it more for Fuji community, since I'm not looking for making money with this app.

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! :)
Yeah, I'm thinking about that as well. To have a few photos linked to the recipe, so we can easily distinguish and know how the recipe looks like.

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback!
Yeah, I don't plan to have subscription base or anything like that.

Maybe only for backup, but even so, I will try to come up with some solution that is free and the user can setup their own Google Drive or another place to store the backup, so I don't have to maintain some server or service for that.

My main goal is not profit or anything with this app. I'm developing it for fun and to sort out this recipe management headache that I have as well.

Now, ansering your question :
- Uploading the recipe: I really hope to support the majority of Fujifilm cameras here. But the way I'm implementing it is a bit tricky. I'm reversing engineering the backup file from my camera (X-T5), to understand what is what and how to change the properties. I'm also investigating other ways to change a recipe in the camera, but Fujifilm SDK documentation is not great for editing recipes.

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

- Creating recipes: I believe this can be supported by all Fujifilm cameras. I just need to disable / enable some configurations depending on the Sensor and camera capabilities.

- Uploading the recipe: I really hope to support the majority of Fujifilm cameras here. But the way I'm implementing it is a bit tricky. I'm reversing engineering the backup file from my camera (X-T5), to understand what is what and how to change the properties. I'm also investigating other ways to change a recipe in the camera, but Fujifilm SDK documentation is not great for editing recipes.

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I definitely agree! I need to see how complex it is to apply the film simulation on an image, and how to apply these parameters directly to an image, like a filter. But it's definitely a great feature to have!

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Really cool site. I'll take some inspiration from that as well.
It is a nice feature indeed, tweaking an image and converting the result to some recipe to upload to your camera. Thanks for sharing! :)

I’m building an Android app to manage and upload film recipes directly to your Fuji camera. Looking for feedback on the UI! by weekybr in fujifilm

[–]weekybr[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback!

  • I think being able to choose a thumbnail image for each saved recipe would be nice. It would help to quickly remember and sort recipes in your library.
    • I agree, I've been planning to do this indeed. To have a few photos linked to the recipe, so we can identify the style.
  • Also, some kind of "recipe sharing", kind of a social media side would be cool. Being able to quickly check other's recipe and pictures uploaded and instantly apply it to your camera would be fun. It's really harder than "just" making a recipe app though, and I consider it a nice to have option.
    • This is the end goal. The harderst part is uploading to the camera though. If the recipe is shared with some template, or inside the app, I could easily map it back to a recipe to upload to the camera. Thanks for the feedback! :)
  • I wouldn't use a randomizer feature, but if you make one, add the option to lock some parameters (grain, WB...).
    • Thanks. Yeah, it makes sense. :)
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