Has anyone tried the Touch and Hold option on the camera to take multiple photos?
I just tried it and was pretty impressed.
There was a slight shutter lag on the first shot but then the remaining shots took off one after another. In less than 6 seconds, I took 25 photos. I've attached four of the images I took of my grand puppy.
Camera HDR was set to ON.
Resolution was Standard 21MP (4:3)
Control Focus/Exposure was set to ON.
I have tried it and liked the results, I took today about 200 pictures and 25 minutes of video about 5 minute of slo motion at my grandson's birthday party, cloudy day pictures both in and out of a shelter that created exposure problems (dark in shelter, bright outside) less than 10 pictures had exposure problems, 2 were out of focus.... and nobody was standing still, they were candid pictures not poses. Flawless video and the camera auto creates Highlight reels with background music that are priceless. I have heard a tremendous amount of whining about the camera in this phone, can't do this, can't do that... my humble opinion is this: a great phone with a good camera.
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There have been some who say the shutter speed is extremely slow. I turned off HDR and only have a slight delay in shutter speed.
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Whenever I take photos inside on the smart mode options such as on action freeze or macro, the picture comes out really really dark or completely black with no quality at all. Also when I take videos, particularly on slow motion, the picture again comes out really dark. One reason I bought this camera was to take action freezes of my new puppy who runs about indoors a lot, and as I live in Scotland the weather isn't always ideal to take photos outside! I was wondering if there is anyway to make these better or if its the indoor lighting thats the problem or if its a faulty unit.
Thank you!
holliecumming said:
Whenever I take photos inside on the smart mode options such as on action freeze or macro, the picture comes out really really dark or completely black with no quality at all. Also when I take videos, particularly on slow motion, the picture again comes out really dark. One reason I bought this camera was to take action freezes of my new puppy who runs about indoors a lot, and as I live in Scotland the weather isn't always ideal to take photos outside! I was wondering if there is anyway to make these better or if its the indoor lighting thats the problem or if its a faulty unit.
Thank you!
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The reason action freeze photos are dark is because what action freeze does is opens and closes the lens much faster than a normal photo, so less light comes in the lens and your picture is dark. Action Freeze photos are for outdoors in daylight.
Getting pretty peeved with my N4 camera, the stock Android Camera app and their inability to raise the shutter speed to capture a bit of motion.
Pictures of the kids on my N4 are almost always blurry when then move a little. It appears that the stock app and the N4 camera refuse to increase the ISO to allow a faster shutter speed. Even in 'action' scene nothing much seems to change and you're left with low ISO, 1/20 ish shutter speed and the invariable blurred shots.
From what i've seen on the likes of Flickr and other forums, the One camera and software seem to happily increase the ISO to allow faster shutter speeds.
Is this what people are seeing? Can you please confirm? Are you using any specials scenes or modes?
I love everything about my N4, but this camera issue is really starting to annoy me and I think an upgrade is in the offing.
zarch1972 said:
Getting pretty peeved with my N4 camera, the stock Android Camera app and their inability to raise the shutter speed to capture a bit of motion.
Pictures of the kids on my N4 are almost always blurry when then move a little. It appears that the stock app and the N4 camera refuse to increase the ISO to allow a faster shutter speed. Even in 'action' scene nothing much seems to change and you're left with low ISO, 1/20 ish shutter speed and the invariable blurred shots.
From what i've seen on the likes of Flickr and other forums, the One camera and software seem to happily increase the ISO to allow faster shutter speeds.
Is this what people are seeing? Can you please confirm? Are you using any specials scenes or modes?
I love everything about my N4, but this camera issue is really starting to annoy me and I think an upgrade is in the offing.
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Yes, i came from the N4's ****ty camera to the One. you get all the options to adjust such as ISO, saturation, sharpness etc
I'm coming from an LG G2, which had a great camera in low-light situations. I noticed a knock on some reviews for this camera in same situations, and I tried it out a bit and my pics look a little grainy. What are suggested settings for the camera? Thanks.
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I'm coming from an LG G2, which had a great camera in low-light situations. I noticed a knock on some reviews for this camera in same situations, and I tried it out a bit and my pics look a little grainy. What are suggested settings for the camera? Thanks.
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First, to remove the noise from your photos i suggest you to use the app 'A Better Camera' which has a good noise reduction process, once you downloaded it go in night mode, then go to 'other settings', then go to "shot mode settings", "night", "overnight processing", set noise reduction to maximum and shadow elimination to none, and tick the saturation check.
If you prefer Sony's camera use these settings in manual mode:
Exposure: one or two bars below value of 0
WB: auto
Resolution: 15,5 mpx
Focus mode: multiple autofocus (i think that's what it's called in english)
ISO: This is the most important setting. You can set it to 100 or even 50 to avoid noise and artifacts caused by heavy postprocessing by software. But, the lower the iso, darker the image will be. So on a sunny day it can be 50 od 100, On a cloudy day, a bit higher and in night photos 800.
Metering: multiple
Focusing: When you want to take photo, put object you want to take photo of in the middle and half press shutter button. When squares turn blue on places you want focused, keep shutter half pressed and you can then move your phone to left, right, up or down and not losing focus. That way you make your composition. When you think you have your scene set up, finally press the button all the way.
(i copied these text from the user Istic).
It seems some camera options are not very well documented. Thought I would start a thread to share tricks to help improve photos. There is another thread for tips and tricks but that one focuses on other things. Since camera is one of the highlights of this phone I figured a dedicated thread was worth it.
Here are a few I found. Feel free to share yours!
1. When tapping to focus on a point, if you do a long touch instead, it will set a focus point but add a second movable frame for exposure so you can have an exposure point that is not your focus point (IE focus on someone but expose for highlights)
2. If short tapping to focus, you can then tap/drag the focus point up or down to adjust exposure level (exposure compensation).
3. From my early tests, it looks like the camera hdr is better at recovering shadows instead of highlights. When having high contrast scene, change exposure so the highlights are better exposed when looking at picture frame. Shadow details will come out better (don't over exaggerate this or shadows will remain too dark). Adjusting exposure for shadows never seem to recover highlights properly.
4. I've seen some reviews where pixel 3 has a better exposure using their night scene function. If the mate night function yeilds results too dark, you can force the time and Iso to use (tap the icons in bottom left and right). So far I found that if I look at the picture info and see the auto mode exposed say 4 sec with Iso 400, usually keeping 4 sec but doubling Iso (800 in that case), will produce a better exposure similar to the pixel. I don't want to get into color/detail comparison between the 2 devices.. This is just to get a better exposure. Guessing they'll sort this out in a future update.
For now that's what I found that didn't feel intuitive.
Please share your findings!
Let me share my suggestions:
1. In case of pro mode ,shutter speed is restricted to 30s of exposure whereas night mode can give up to 52s (max I have seen) exposure.
2. You can try different light painting modes to achieve low-light shots as well. I tried with star trails and got good results ( but exposure gets throttled and(or) locked at some point.
3. in Pro mode, If you are taking low-light snaps in an enclosed area such that your flashlight can reach, then you will get very good photos for reasonably smaller exposure times.
4. Use tripods for all night shots (bluetooth trigger will make it even better), don't rely on stabilization unless there is ample light and that exposure time will be around 1/125 , because even night mode can be affected despite the claim that OIS stabilization will be sufficient.
5. lowering the exposure while taking close-up flash photography will help in partially retaining data that would have been lost due to flash overexposure.
Thanks,
Rakesh
I know this is an old phone and the new xperia 1 is far better. However, old but not obsolete :highfive: As an owner for almost half a year. I have been using (testing actually as I am not quite sure about the camera) the camera from time to time and here are my thoughts and the settings that creat tge best overall picture quality.
Ratio : 4:3
As choosing 4:3 can have more accurate autofocus then 16:9 and better sharpness sometimes.
Megapixels : 12mp for daily use (19mp for landscape and or objects far away)
From my testing, using 12mp can actually have less blurry pictures(Taking picture handheld). As according to sony tgat reading out a 19mp picture takes the sensor 1/120 seconds, a 12mp picture might be less than that. And since people may argue that 19mp have better detail to the picture while technically it is true. However the sensor is too small and the benefit is negligible on most of the shots.(But you still can see the difference) Night shot will get less noise too. (Its a noisy mess nonetheless )
Edit : Digital zooming in 19mp mode get much better detail than 12mp
Predictive Capture : Off for image quality (Auto if you have a shaky hands)
This is an interesting one. As sony won't tell you that turning this on can reduce chances of taking blurry pictures because the prediction analyze the viewfinder in real time(taking pictures with the dram time to time) which reduce the time of focusing and reading out picture when you press the button. (But pictures taken with it turned off sometimes have better details)
Object Tracking : On
It detects motion and counter any handshake(e.g. When taking photos on a car)
Its great to track slowly moving cars and buses too.
Also, it applies Scene Detection when you focus manually (e.g. Food mode or Tripod mode) which turnning it off and focus manually with a Blue Circle will not.
Auto-capturing : don't bother as it does not affect image quality
Lens correction : image quality
Edit : (offtopic) Steadyshot on actually fix the distortion on camcorder while taking videos.
Buttom line : The xz3 have a great sensor. That's what I can say (not lens, not software )
Offtopic : It will be great if Raw noise reduction comes to xz3 :highfive:
If you have any ways of getting better pictures, I would like to hear from you!! Correct me if I am wrong:highfive:
On Android 9 with software 52.0.A.8.131 no root
Edit : Predictive Capture on may cause ghosting on moving image. Better turn it off for better image quality.