Samsung Galaxy S6 and HTC One M9 early units do not support full Android Lollipop Camera 2 API, critical controls missing
As is often the case with Google's platform, that excitement was premature and it turns out that support for some of the camera improvements that we expected to see in the first 2015 Android 5.0 Lollipop flagships are simply not there.
Francois Simmond of SpectraStudy examined the new flagships' cameras at greater detail and notices that some work has been done (Samsung in particular brings a simpler, much more user-friendly camera interface), but those aforementioned essential options and controls are still missing.
Here is a more comprehensive list of the new Camera 2 API features missing on the Galaxy S6 for instance:
- no manual white balance via RGB gains
- no custom color space conversion matrix
- no shutter speed control
- no manual exposure parameters (only rough exposure steps control)
- non-fixed metering, etc.
A similar list holds true for practically all other 2015 Android 5.0 Lollipop flagships unveiled at MWC 2015.
reference: SpectraStudy
Things that are NOT allowed: