{
 "id": "trigger-to-still-on-a-gc0308-is-400",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Trigger to still on a GC0308 is 400 ms to a decodable image and 1.1 seconds to a usable one, and the 700 ms gap is auto-exposure re-converging",
 "symptom": "The switch appears to complete in a few hundred milliseconds and hands back a frame that decodes cleanly, has the right dimensions and looks like a picture. It is 32 percent over-exposed and visibly washed out, and nothing in the API says so.",
 "hw": [
  "esp32-s3",
  "gc0308"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "esp32-camera",
  "arduino"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "about": [
  "GC0308 on ESP32-S3"
 ],
 "intent": "Budget the latency of a camera that streams low and grabs a high-resolution still on a trigger",
 "date": "2026-08-25",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check",
  "body"
 ],
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}