Dear Service Team,
I use the Mapillary Google app and a Pixel 8 Pro smartphone to take street photos for Mapillary. The smartphone is mounted on the handlebars of my bike and is therefore understandably exposed to strong (vertical) vibrations while taking photos. Lateral handlebar movements also affect the sharpness of the photo. While sunlight and therefore image exposure are sufficient to take sharp photos in the summer months, this is very difficult in spring, autumn and winter. There is only little light available for good photos. It is well known that image sharpness depends on the aperture, shutter speed and ISO. I cannot change the aperture of my smartphone camera. I can only influence image sharpness with exposure time and ISO value. I have now noticed that I mostly take blurry photos in poor lighting conditions. A check of the exposure values showed that the Mapillary app primarily sets the exposure time to a very long time and sets the ISO values very low, even in poor lighting conditions. However, in my photography scenario, it would be better to increase the ISO and thus achieve a short exposure time. This would prevent blurry images. Therefore, I would like to have a switch in the Mapillary app to adjust the ISO. It would also be helpful if the exposure and ISO were displayed in some corner of the display.
The settings from my Google Camera app (something in Pro mode) don’t seem to be adopted by the Mapillary app. The Google Pixel 8 Pro is known to handle photos very well in low light conditions.
If corresponding settings are already available and I have overlooked them, please let me know where I can find these settings on the device.
Best regards