While playing with my camera at my desk in low light, I notice there was a pink spot right in the middle of the frame when shooting a blank white background. It seems like this is an issue with some Samsung phones, too (came up as suggested posts). I've never seen this before on any phone I've owned, but I'm sure it has to do with the sensor—could be a characteristic of the sensor + high ISO. I don't think it will be a real-world issue, but it bothers me to know that it exists. Anyone else notice this?
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me and my friends at office we have totally 3 htc one.
2 of them having camera issues. Under white fluorescent light camera acting strange as my sample video. i ve called htc service they said it is normal. but i think it's not.
here is the sample video:
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youtube.com/watch?v=eKGoKUQqbFE
anyone help ?
It's normal for white light, as white light "flickers" at a certain frequency (100Hz I believe). This will cause banding to appear on some cameras. It's totally fixable with a software update, just need for HTC to release it
It's like how old documentaries always have the CRT monitors flickering with wide bands scrolling up and down the screen.
It's normal. I noticed it on my office, so I compared it with my One X and an iPhone 5,they all have the same issue.
Replace the ballast in the light fitting for a high frequency one, or try adjusting shutter speed.
but my friend's htc one is not making this problem even facing to light directly. that is strange.
So I bought a HTC one 2 months ago (black) and the camera is...amazing. but the camera seems to be outside in natural lighting and indoors with natural lighting. When there's no natural lighting the camera has a blue hue to it can you help me? Or is everyones one like this? Also I'm not rooted I have my HTC sensation xe for that. As you can see in the pictures the blacks empathise lots of blue.
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Two words my friend.
DE FECTIVE.
Get it replaced before the 14 day grace period expires. Or you'll have to deal with...
HTC... :shudder:
If you manually set the ISO speed to 400 or less, the blue should go away. Unfortunately that means you won't get the amazing low light ability. My One is much worse. It has a pattern that's visible whenever it's in low light. Not really a pattern actually but more like a macro of a tabletop or something, in the blue hue like yours, or sometimes in purple. It's very visible in every low light shot I take with Auto ISO. It goes away if I kill the low light capabilities by selecting a slower ISO, 100 or 200 looks best. It's not unusual for a ridiculous ISO speed like 1600 to exhibit both color shift and lots of noise, like your photos.
If you wonder how bad it is on yours, lay the phone on a table on its back with the camera on. The screen should show you any color shift or noise/patterns that your phone's sensor is causing. Make sure you have it on Auto ISO before you do this.
I suspect it's a problem for most HTC One's. Maybe even all of them. If so, it's not a defect but it is an unfortunate side effect of HTC's quest for the best low light ability.
I also hope the next software update fixes it.
edited to add: This image is an example of what my sensor looks like, I laid the phone on its back and snapped the shutter. This shows up in every photo I take on the auto setting in a low light situation overlayed on the photo itself. I still think it's an amazing camera that takes great pictures in most lighting conditions, just not low light or harsh sunlight in my case
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Here's a photo showing the problem on a picture.
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Just to show that the camera is capable of making great images, here's the same bird, same location, same phone/camera, but better light. This photo is at ISO 320, on Auto. The purple ones above are around ISO 1600, also on Auto.
This is how mine looks when layed flat
Sent from my HTC One
No matter the lighting conditions, or the settings I use, I always seem to get a lot of noise. It seems a lot worse in the top left hand corner and far left of the photos (when taken in landscape). Even when the camera lens is completely covered by something there's a red hue coming from those areas, with noise observed all over the screen, and then a blue hue to the far right side. When I switch to video this completely disappears. Anyone else having this problem or is this a faulty unit or working as expected?
http://imgur.com/jYP5s9L
http://imgur.com/zGbvT8L
hi, so i noticed its has TWO leds that shine up but its not pure white light, its like an amber color. imo its not bright enough...is there a mod or hack to brighten it up? thx
u know how philips light bulbs have soft white and daylight cool white...i want that daylight white look! thnx
cobyman7035 said:
hi, so i noticed its has TWO leds that shine up but its not pure white light, its like an amber color. imo its not bright enough...is there a mod or hack to brighten it up? thx
u know how philips light bulbs have soft white and daylight cool white...i want that daylight white look! thnx
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I can't even look at mine they are so bright. In fact I just looked at them for less than a second and now I see spots as I'm typing this. There might be something wrong with your unit.
Mine aren't bright either. I compared to my N4 and the N4 is clearly brighter, despite having 1 led vs 2. I don't mind the amber tint. It helps take better photos because the color temperature more closely matches the indoor lighting conditions where you're likely to use the flash.
I also feel that the Nexus flashlight isn't as bright as it could be. However, the light on my last phone was similar, and I installed an app that increased the brightness for it. It worked great, but the LED ran much hotter after that.
I suspect that the reasoning for the dimmer flashlight is to not prematurely wear out the LEDs, or degrade their performance when they're needed for camera flash.
When taking photos, the flash output is quite surprising. I don't think it's a hardware issue, rather intentional software programming that runs the flashlight at a dimmer output. As a quick flashlight, I find the N6's lights adequate.
I suffer from white lines appearing on the screen when playing an online video in different places every two minutes and this problem occurs only at 120hz and adaptive brightness is on, but when the adaptive brightness is off, this problem does not occur, does anyone suffer from this problem and it also does not happen if The screen frequency was 60Hz, does anyone have this problem and what is the solution, thank you
no offence but your photos are extremely low quality, if there's an issue no-one could tell.
3mel said:
no offence but your photos are extremely low quality, if there's an issue no-one could tell.
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Like this photo
I see the same thing.
It flashes only one frame, I assume, but could be 2 or 3 frames.
For me it can be two white lines near the top, or one line more to the bottom.
I see it on YouTube and Netflix...
3mel said:
no offence but your photos are extremely low quality, if there's an issue no-one could tell.
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It is probably "low quality" because he had to use "slow motion mode" or a high framerate camera to catch the line flash... It is a really fast flash of a white line, about 1mm wide, across the screen.