When comparing Camera FV-5 vs Flickr, the Slant community recommends Camera FV-5 for most people. In the question“What are the best photography apps for Android?” Camera FV-5 is ranked 1st while Flickr is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Camera FV-5 is:
This app takes lets users take long exposure shots and stitches them together in order to produce bright time lapses taken at night.
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Pros
Pro Night HDR timelapse
This app takes lets users take long exposure shots and stitches them together in order to produce bright time lapses taken at night.
Pro Exposure compensation
In order to reduce the chances of over exposure, there is an option where exposure compensation can be activated.
Pro Exposure bracketing
Camera FV-5 has a setting where several pictures will be taken in rapid succession at different exposures.
Pro Control over ISO, exposure times, and f-stop
Much like a dSLR, Camera FV-5 gives users control over light sensitivity, time that the shutter is open, and f-stop.
Pro Free version
There's also a free Lite version.
Pro Can be set to auto-upload images
Flickr has an app on Windows, OSX, iOS and Android, called Flickr Uploadr (available for download in the tools section) that can automatically upload images to Flickr. It can even pull images from external drives and other cloud storage services such as iCloud.
Pro Photos are backed up elsewhere
I mainly use Google Photos and keep separate local backup of all my photos, but also use the IOS app which transfers all new photos onto Flickr storage as well.
Pro Good search
Flickr is capable of searching images by a combination of content, color, shape, depth of field, style, pattern, size, license and other options.
Pro Built-in image recognition
Flickr will automatically attempt to figure out the contents of a picture and tag them appropriately. This will allow you to look for, for example, all images of flowers, bridges or butterflies.
Cons
Con Menu is stuck on landscape mode
Even when the device is held in portrait, the app's menu is stuck on landscape. This bug makes it more difficult to read whatever is displayed.
Con No offline view
While Google Photos and iCloud Photo Library allow you to select if you want to keep local copies of your photos, Flickr only allow you to view your photos online.
Con There are limits on file sizes
Images can't be more than 200MB a piece and each video can't take up more than 1GB of space.
Con No support for lossless file formats
Photos can only be saved as .jpg, .gif (non-animated) and .png files.