Well, i found that having -2.0 thru -1.0 EV actually speeds up the camera quite a bit. now it depends what type of lighting your in, but atleast now some interior enviroments are faster!
o and also put the white balance on the moon or the light, the picture usually looks best then.
you might notice in the picture i have it set at the smallest resolution, that has nothing to do with this, it was just an accident it was set to that.
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sorry, what do you mean -2.0 thru -1.0 EV? I would like to try it
I'm guess the megapixels.
EV stands for "exposure value", also known as "stops". The Kaiser, as well as most point and shoot digi-cams, goes from -3.0 to +3.0 in half step stops.
ooo snap.. nice.. It kind of works but ya depends on lighting ..:-(
Thanks !
Sorry, just went through the entire menu system on the camera and couldn't find anything resembling "stops" or "ev". Anybody know where to find it?
I have a Tilt.
When you open the camera app, at the bottom of the screen (on the left if you hold the phone upright) there will be a little "handle" that you can click on. It's dark grey in color. Click on that and you can adjust the EV value there.
Works great for me. thanks man
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Well, i found that having -2.0 thru -1.0 EV actually speeds up the camera quite a bit. now it depends what type of lighting your in, but at least now some interior enviroments are faster!
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When you decrease Ev, shutter speed (Tv) automatically increases. At the cost of getting more speed, your picture will be darker. No problem, just use your favorite editor (photoshop) to increase the exposure again (using +Ev, Levels, or Curves). However, doing this will make your image noisier (more grains) and losing quality.
Vice versa, increasing Ev will decrease shutter speed. It's cool that cell phone cameras are beginning to offer adjustment settings. Most advanced camera will let you control EV, Av, and Tv and lots of other things independently, but only advanced users will touch those settings.
updated the first post, showing what EV is, for those who weren't sure.
Also If you go to Camera settings which is South east (corner right bottom) and then select the second page, select the Adjustments and in there you have another option which is to Sharpen more the image.
This also helps a lot.
I'm still trying to understand the Resolution mixing it with the lightning balances to have a nice fast snap shots indoors and outdoors.
Any help will be appreciated.
I can confirm that this does help a lot on my phone. I tested it at the UNLV vs. Arizona game last night. The pictures came out suprisingly well. Granted, it is a well lit indoor area. But I didn't see as much screen lag as usual.
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hey, what are the overall best settings on the camera of the tilt?
my are set as:
white balance : auto
effect : none
Resolution : 1M
Quality : Super Fine
Metering Mode : Center Area
Time Stamp : off
Capture format : JPEG
Shoot option : Half press
Grid : off
Keep backlight : on
Flicker Adjustment : Auto
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Contrast +3
Saturation +4
Hue +4
Sharpness +5
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EV
-0.5
what can i do to make it better?
nobody?
Drop the sharpness to 0 since the photos are oversharpened already.
Increase resolution to at least 2M, 1 is too low, 3 is what the cam is capable of.
Set exposure to -2 as the tilt cam over exposes.
If it's being laggy make sure you have the lates camera version and also try a different radio. I've got radio 1.27.12.17 on Schap's 4.31 rom w/ camera version 5.04 Build# 29195. It's pretty smooth even with res seet to 3m and super fine.
i have the latest cam version...but im keeping the original rom...
i now have it set as:
Resolution : 3M
Brightness: -1.5
white balance: Auto
Contrast +4
Saturation +4
Hue +3
Sharpness +2
the cam still isnt good...please help
heres a pic i took with these settings..
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What is a radio? Thanks.
Lower the saturation some. Shooting inside in low light (yes that is low light from a photography standpoint) you are going to have some noise from the camera "bumping the ISO" Esentially the camera is making the photo sensor more sensitive to light so it can pick up the picture, pretty cool, but there's a downfall. NOISE. It's the little greenish specs in the darker areas of the picture.
The smaller the sensor, the more noise. As you can imagine, the sensor on your TyTNII or Tilt is TINY. Don't take test pictures inside, if you want great indoor pictures, buy a digital camera; if you want great indoor pictures without flash, buy a DSLR.
Go take a couple test shots outside, see how those look.
i made it 2M..and made the saturation 2...heres a picture..
i got the latest camera version from nadvia...can somebody post the best specs for it?
http://www.tomservo.eu/analyzer/
This tool is the first spectrum analyzer tool for Windows Phone 7 available. Capturing ambient noises and sounds using your phone's microphone, it processes it in various ways and visualizes its results.
Features:
- 512-point FFT with a frequency range of 8Khz (current XNA limit)
- Several windowing functions for the FFT
- Displaying of the prominent frequency in note pitch
- FFT zooms down to 2Khz
- Sound pressure level metering using Linear/Z-, A- and C-curves
- SPL floor can be raised up to 100dB
- Peak and RMS metering of raw captured microphone input.
- Peak/RMS floors can be raised up to -24dB
- Waveform display of normalized input.
Note:
- Due to different manufacturers and internal microphone preprocessing, your results may vary. The SPL metering allows you to calibrate the results +/-30dB.
Cost: 1bux!
Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849740
Download link: http://social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=b87a9423-72ee-df11-9264-00237de2db9e
nice app
Very nice! Please give landscape support in furture release...thanks
looks pretty nice, i'll find a use for this .
Anyone who's going to buy this:
Smartphones have crappy miniature microphones. They have a considerable noise floor, so if you're in a "silent" room, the meters WILL display something. They will anyway, since a room is never entirely silent, alone due to the brownian movements of the air that'd even make a high-end mike pick up noise.
SPL measurements are based on a logarithmic function. The sound pressure difference between a faint sound and a little lesser faint sound is way larger than between a jackhammer and a jet engine. That's the nature of logarithms. Here, take a look at the log10 of the values from 0 to 10000:
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Note how the difference from 0 to 1000 is way larger than from 5000 to 10000.
In essence, the application's not broken. The theory behind it is sound, it just has to make do with what it can work, namely a noisy microphone.
Is there a free version of this app?
Thanks
thx tom but why it s free on your site and 0.99 on zune market ?
Ah, the site is outdated. I kinda had to change my mind, when that supposed "five free apps" suddenly changed to "five free submissions for free apps". Means, after the fifth submission of a free application or an update of one, I'll have to pay 20 bucks for each free submission. So I have to charge something, especially since I refuse to put ads in my applications (e.g. to pay for update submissions). I figure I could put a trial mode in, but I'm not entirely sure how I could cap the application, nor whether a unlimited-time fully functionality trial applications will pass certification (since it defies trial mode and affects their income).
Bamp! 10 chars!
When you read a review post on the web or watch a review video on YouTube of a certain smartphone, the reviewer will probably spend time commenting the white balance performance of the camera. But what is white balance exactly and why we need it on our smartphone camera?
White Balance
The color of the object looks different from their intrinsic color in different light environment, and white color changes the most significantly. For example, a piece of white paper looks a bit yellow under the light from a filament lamp, and looks a bit blue under the blue sky. Our powerful eyes can correct the color cast caused by different light environment, so we seldom notice the changes and feel good. Hence we can say that our eyes have the ability of Auto White Balance. Cameras need such feature as well, otherwise the pictures can look quite awful.
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Adjust white balance on smartphones
When we take a phone, the smartphone camera automatically performs white balance, which we call it Auto White Balance (AWB). Most of the time, AWB works perfectly and the color of the picture looks accurately. But occasionally, it does not meet our demand precisely or we have a different from normal demand. Then we need to adjust the white balance manually in the camera APP. Below picture taken with different white balance setting show us that we can take very different photos by adjusting the parameter of white balance.
It is easy to have above different white balance setting done on our smartphone. For example, on our smartphone, open the camera APP, choose to use the Pro mode. And we can see the “AWB” logo as shown in below screenshot.
Thanks for reading my very first post! Any ideas or suggestion, please feel free to leave a comment below.
Congratulations for this first message!
This looks to me as an original contribution from you, as I couldn't find on Internet a content exactly like yours... whereas sometimes people post messages containing the same text taken from the Internet pretending it's their work...
I'm not sure if this was a side effect of the MIUI 11 update, but I've now lost the button to enable the wide angle camera.
Previously, I could see it near the shooting options, when the Photo mode was selected, but not anymore.
I also can't find the option on the camera settings.
Anyone with the same issue?
on the screen it has dots either side of the x1, it's the left hand one of those 3 dots, the x1, x2 etc...the left hand one 0.6 ultra wide
this was in normal photo mode
Kokia said:
I'm not sure if this was a side effect of the MIUI 11 update, but I've now lost the button to enable the wide angle camera.
Previously, I could see it near the shooting options, when the Photo mode was selected, but not anymore.
I also can't find the option on the camera settings.
Anyone with the same issue?
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lol
woga70 said:
on the screen it has dots either side of the x1, it's the left hand one of those 3 dots, the x1, x2 etc...the left hand one 0.6 ultra wide
this was in normal photo mode
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That's the thing, nothing is showing, not even the zoom.
Here's a screenshot:
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i've tried all combo's to get rid of the zoom, the only thing that did was swapping it to macro...have you tried to restore to default in the settings?
There's something wrong since it's not the expected interface.
There should be a "live picture" icon just before the "star" icon.
Probably a bootleg rom or apk.
@mods Close the thread please.
Finally managed to get the icon, had to clear all data for the Camera App. That was very weird ?
Thanks everyone for the replies!
RedWave31 said:
There's something wrong since it's not the expected interface.
There should be a "live picture" icon just before the "star" icon.
Probably a bootleg rom or apk.
@mods Close the thread please.
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i'm running stock and have no "Live Picture"
I cleared data, finally got the point 6 wide, which is supposed to be wide.
However, it is not nearly as wide as before the update. I no longer can get a picture of the typical house when standing in front. Sides are now cut off. Placebo, for those that think this is wide angle, anymore.
Hi, I've run into another new issue with Android 12 and I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing it. Inside the camera app, the video ends up seriously cropped compared to how it was on Android 11. Whereas before I could shoot indoor things (cat videos, etc) with the normal lens, now I'm having to go out to the ultrawide to fit things in frame. For now I'm getting around it by using a custom older version of Gcam, but I'd like to just use the normal app if possible. Is anyone else seeing this?
This is with the stock app:
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Compared to how it was with Android 11 and on the custom Gcam app
As you can see, it's a significant amount of cropping. Both with the same standard stabilization enabled. (And pardon the messy desk)
I also tried installing the older 8.2 APK, but to no avail. It's older than the 8.3 that comes with the OS, so you can't go back further than that. And also my old technique for resigning apps to make the system think they're separate apps doesn't seem to be working, but if anyone could figure out a way to do that, I'm all ears.
It's normal. This how EIS works.
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It's normal. This how EIS works.
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Did you even read? This is considerably more cropped than the same stabilization setting on Android 11. It turns it from perfectly usable to completely worthless. And if I'm recording 1080p60 or 4K, it's actually recording at less than full resolution and blowing it up, which looks terrible.
It is normal I think that is how it works.
I think I understand your question but I don't think I recorded any videos before upgrading to Android 12, so I don't have any comparison. I agree that the "1x" video on 12 has a narrower field of view than the equivalent "1x" still photo mode. Allso the video UI does not seem to have any option to disable image stabilization completely. I see that it offers .6x only for standard and cinematic pan. The other modes start at 1x or 2x, so I'm not even sure if the number always means the same sensor.
Yeah, I experienced the same issue, using exactly the same video camera settings the video on Android 12 has much narrower fov. I find it strange that no one is talking about this, maybe no one cares, but when making indoors videos it's a big deal since you have to switch to the wide angle lens, which gathers much less light.
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it's a big deal since you have to switch to the wide angle lens, which gathers much less light.
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The ultrawide camera also lacks autofocus, so if you're trying to film something close-up like a computer screen, it won't be in focus. This is definitely a major issue.
I just noticed that when you pull down the settings pane in the camera app, click "More settings", and scroll down, you can find a toggle to disable video stabilization. This gives a wider field of view and seems to show a similar lightly shaded on-screen control for stabilization. Trying to touch that control raises a hint to enable stabilization in the settings.
Are you sure that the Android 11 and custom app are enabled and not in this funny state with the partial shading of the control button?