While I'm loving just about every aspect of my new Moto X, I'm having one issues with the camera.
First, while the flash seems both bright and even, it seems that the the phone is capturing the photo a split second too late. What I mean by that is, the photo is lit enough to see, but it is as if it was not captured at maximum brightness, but rather a split second late as the flash faded.
Has anyone else noticed this? Clearly a software issue from what I can see, but slightly frustrating nonetheless.
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Hi,
I seem to have found a way to stop the ridiculous lag on the camera, although I'm not sure this will work for everyone.
I have a non-standard version of the Camera software installed (I think it's the Touch version from somewhere on here - not sure who, I'm pretty new here so please forgive me), but I've noticed that if I start the camera up, then put the device into standby for a few seconds, then turn it back on again, the camera is *far* more responsive, and this is for both still images and for video.
I have no idea why this is - someone more technically intimate with the Kaiser can probably shed some light on it, but it seems to work for me.
The only downside I can see is that it makes the low-light compensation stop working, but in situations with plenty of light there's no difference whatsoever in image/video brightness.
Andy.
Ya, weird how this works. This work around was discussed here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=365345
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my camera quality is so ugly i have one of the newsest camera software installed. i dont mean the lag or anything i just mean the camera quality is so blurry and unclear i have sharpness on high and styll :S
when i press a camera button to take a picture and it auto focuses before the green thing comes for juss like half a second everything is clear buh then becomes super blurry. any suggestions or is jus broken
I've just come back from holiday where I found myself taking quite a few snaps with the Diamond's camera rather than my usual camera simply because it was more convenient.
I don't normally bother with PDA cameras as they're pretty much rubbish but for quick snaps the Diamond's camera is not too shabby. However, I noticed some very strange quirks:-
1. It seems to try and detect the orientation of the camera using the G-sensor and rotates the image automatically. Most of the time it gets it wrong - is there any way to stop it from doing this so I can rotate my images manually? it really messes things up in Album!
2. In really bright light (such as shooting directly towards the sun) everything goes dark blue and grainy. It's actually quite nice (I have a Holga camera so quite into that sort of thing) but I can't think of an explanation for such behaviour!
See attached for an example.
Cheers
Dave
I got a very blueish picture on a bright day (though not against sunlight) too... Though taking a picture inside then yeilded fine colors (well, average quality). Dont know what cause it, must be a flaw in the color metering.
I really wouldnt use the camera for anything other than snapshots or when you dont have a camera around. Even at 3.2mpx like my old Canon A510 (a budget entry camera, hardly anything high end), the Canon beat the living snot out of it. I wont even begin to compare it with my F40fd (again, a budget cam).
Though I must say its much, much better than my old 1.3mpx K600i phone camera, lol.
I've certainly heard that overexposure can lead to a blueish tinge. So you might want to try manually cranking down the exposure and see if that helps next time.
In this case its more than a tint though, there is pretty much no red or green in the image and the contrast is off the charts. Interesting and fun pictures though.
The Diamond camera needs a UV filter as the chip is too sensitive to the high side of the spectrum. Mine is not as bad as yours- and I was taking photographs similar to yours, perhaps there are different back covers that provide filtering- I have the original Diamond cover.
i also had blue pics when taking pics against the sun but with my 4 megapicsel casio camera. last time it happened there where also ppl, (blue) in the pic lol. so, maybe it is not a diamond related problem.
have you tried using the inbuilt setups for exposure?
if i have no other choice an have to use the diamond as a camera i am always take out the back cover. another thing to try
Thanks all for the responses. I actually quite like the blue pictures, and since the behaviour is at least predictable I'm not too bothered. Instant Holga effect
With regards to the G-sensor guessing camera orientation however that is really bugging me. And also I've noticed that the camera on-screen controls don' t flip to portrait mode either.
Cheers
Dave
davew said:
Thanks all for the responses. I actually quite like the blue pictures, and since the behaviour is at least predictable I'm not too bothered. Instant Holga effect
With regards to the G-sensor guessing camera orientation however that is really bugging me. And also I've noticed that the camera on-screen controls don' t flip to portrait mode either.
Cheers
Dave
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Yes, also i am bugged of this. I've take a shoot of a contact image with the PDA in Landscape (the photo was right in this position).
Now i have my friend photo ALWAYS rotated of 90° and, if i rotate the pda, the photo rotate itself and it's NEVER aligned.
Now i can't assign the photo until i don't rotate it by the PC
Exactly - you take the shot and then try to view it in Album. Then you end up wiggling the Diamond around to get the orientation right. In slideshows the orientation is all wrong too.
The only way to fix it that I've seen is to go into the MS "Pictures & Videos" application after taking your shots and rotate each image manually.
Most digital cameras I have ever seen just leave the image alone
Mine is also very blueish (MDA Compact IV here) and it also auto-rotates for me
Hopefully we can find a way to at least turn off the auto-rotation, with some tweaks or new camera software!
The blue-ish tinge in a normal situation is probably just the white balance being off (or overexposure as another poster pointed out).
To get those mad blue shots I had to stand in the surf at the beach and shoot directly at the sun. When I tried the same shot at sunset I got normal colours (though still some vingette effect at the edges).
Attached is a shot from the same day, same place just at sunset.
Recently just got a moto x, I have looked but couldn't see a solution to this. When I take a picture with the flash white objects just seem to go crazy white hue, then if I try to take a close up of something with flash on the resulting photo is just a white screen. Is this a hardware or software problem?
for some reason moto built this phone and didn't care much about the camera quality actually the camera is fine but the flash qualities crap mine flashes about a second before the damn picture snaps which renders the flash useless, I have two moto xs they both do the same thing. snap to take the picture the flash flashes then goes out than the picture snaps.. gonna have to put up with no flash until the chinese start putting better cameras in motos phones
The camera is OK in outdoor conditions, indoors mine has black wavey lines going across the screen which get captured when photo is taken. This plus the flash issue issue is just a joke, I know it's just a phone and not going to be like proper camera. Big mistake selling nexus 5 for this phone.
OK so we all know the camera is not so great (right now) I know we have the same sony camera as the other flagships but ours doesn't work as well. My symptoms are focusing problems, always trying to focus and being out of focus half the time....and after taking picture when I open gallery the picture is darker. My wife just got an iPhone 6 today and her freaking pictures look great and i hate that[emoji35]
So my question is......Can this be fixed by Motorola through the app? Is this a software issue that can be fixed with an update? Is Motorola aware of this and have they addressed it? I know the 2013 moto x had similar problems and they fixed it with an update so maybe the same for us? Thanks s in advance!
PS....is anyone else having a problem with weather apps radar animating? With WeatherBug I get all frames on top of each other..with others when I hit play I just get spinning wheel...an ideas?
I have the same problem with WeatherBug. Could be a 4.4.4 issue.
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For the camera, wait until Android L is all I can say. I want L soon
Image quality improvements have been promised for the next update, that would be Android L.*
Android L is itself a big deal for imaging because it exposes the entire picture/video taking pipeline to camera apps... that means someone can write a camera app with their own picture processing algorithms which in our case can definitely help us with the quality issue
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55592958&postcount=2
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Front camera
I'm not impressed with the rear camera at all. Here's to hoping it can be corrected with a software update, saw that happen on my Nexus 5 and it made a wold of difference. Anyone else have HUUUGE lag issues with the front facing camera?! I was trying to take a picture with my son and it was horrible
Haven't been impressed with the camera yet either. Still gets tons of noise in indoor lighting situations (not even that low of light) with or without flash (obviously worse without flash). It's also slow to focus, attempts to refocus a few times with the flash, and by then the subject has moved (unless stationary). I knew the camera wouldn't be great, but was hoping for something at least closer to the G3 or S5. I'm not confident they'll fix this with a software update. They can probably improve some of the focus and lighting algorithms, but I'm worried some of it is just the optics they used being inferior. I don't feel that it is much worse than the original Moto X (except that it actually seems slower to take pictures at the moment), but I was really wanting to upgrade my phone camera for use with my kid (13 months old, so getting faster and faster...)
Ok I feel stupid.......So after being on the phone with Moto for an hour and a factory reset I have found out my problem with having dark photos in the gallery. I had auto brightness on and when I would preview a pic from the camera the pictures were standard brightness for a second and then black screen then the picture appeared, but darker. If you turn off auto brightness the dark image problem goes away. I did notice the black screen for a second goes away with Auto off as well, so I told level 3 tech support that they may have a bug with the auto brightness on and she said she was going to reproduce this on a few moto devices including the 2014 Moto X and report my comments to the right people. I hope this helps others with Auto Brightness on wondering why pictures are so dark....Or maybe I am the only idiot..lol
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Ok I feel stupid.......So after being on the phone with Moto for an hour and a factory reset I have found out my problem with having dark photos in the gallery. I had auto brightness on and when I would preview a pic from the camera the pictures were standard brightness for a second and then black screen then the picture appeared, but darker. If you turn off auto brightness the dark image problem goes away. I did notice the black screen for a second goes away with Auto off as well, so I told level 3 tech support that they may have a bug with the auto brightness on and she said she was going to reproduce this on a few moto devices including the 2014 Moto X and report my comments to the right people. I hope this helps others with Auto Brightness on wondering why pictures are so dark....Or maybe I am the only idiot..lol
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The 2013 X works this way too. When you open the camera with auto brightness on, it turns the brightness up higher (not sure if this is based on the current auto level or just a set brightness). When you view a photo it starts out at the higher brightness, but then it switches back to auto brightness (which is darker). It is unfortunate that the switch back to auto brightness is delayed and preceded by the screen going full black, since those two things make it very noticeable
Yaaaaaay....I am not the crazy or the only one....lol
Hello,
Received my Z3C today after much debate and the camera is proving to be the biggest gripe.
First and foremost, mine has the dreadded 'pink spot' issue that seems quite common with others - with a difference in that the blob is actually yellow/green and then becomes pink towards the edges. So, can this be resolved? Or is it a hardware issue?
Secondly, the actual quality of the photos taken.
If I take a picture, the image will look nice and crisp when i take it, but then the resulting image is blurry?
I've changed all kinds of settings and e.g. with and without I.S, face detection, face focus etc etc. but it still happens, I'd say, randomly.
Has anyone else experienced these issues and found workarounds? Or is my handset faulty and should I therefore send it in for a replacement.
Model info: 14W44
Here are some example shots;
http://imgur.com/a/7zNMU
The cabinet shot is an example of the image being blurred upon capturing.