Started using my Samsung Galaxy 9305 to take photos the past week or two, and EVERY photo is coming out really blue-tinged. Not just a bit blue, it's like there's a light blue filter being applied or something.
It's not the software, as I've tried it with stock camera, Vignette and Camera Zoom FX.
Does anyone know if there's a setting somewhere that needs changing, or do I have a duff phone?
Running Ripper ROM 9.5 with Perseus kernel.
Could very easily be a hardware defect if it's persistent across different camera apps, but try changing the white balance in whichever camera app you're using, if you haven't already.
Hi,
The camera on the Xperia Z1 is fantastic, in low light its removes grain and pictures look quite nice!!!
In snapchat the front facing camera is ridiculously grainy!
The facebook Slingshot app (snapchat copy) it seems to be using the software of the sony camera?
Has anyone made a modification or an alternative app or fix to this? I remember there was the Holo version of snapchat someone made?
Thanks,
Marcel
marcelrees said:
Hi,
The camera on the Xperia Z1 is fantastic, in low light its removes grain and pictures look quite nice!!!
In snapchat the front facing camera is ridiculously grainy!
The facebook Slingshot app (snapchat copy) it seems to be using the software of the sony camera?
Has anyone made a modification or an alternative app or fix to this? I remember there was the Holo version of snapchat someone made?
Thanks,
Marcel
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I've personally never used Slingshot, but if it looks like it's using the Sony camera app, the Slingshot application asks Android for all the camera applications that are installed so you can take a photo with them.
Now, most camera applications don't just take photo's and give them to you, but they do some processing with the photo afterwards (Sony's superior auto does this for example) which can give you much less noise in photo's and such.
Since Snapchat uses it's own build-in camera application, it doesn't benefit from the processing the Sony camera application does when taking a photo, thus giving a different result; which in this case ends up in a more noisy picture.
A way to circumvent this is by taking your photo using the Sony camera application and then sharing this photo with Snapchat, which then allows you to send the picture without all the noise to said contacts. Also note that Snapchat does some heavy compression on photo's that it sends.
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I've personally never used Slingshot, but if it looks like it's using the Sony camera app, the Slingshot application asks Android for all the camera applications that are installed so you can take a photo with them.
Now, most camera applications don't just take photo's and give them to you, but they do some processing with the photo afterwards (Sony's superior auto does this for example) which can give you much less noise in photo's and such.
Since Snapchat uses it's own build-in camera application, it doesn't benefit from the processing the Sony camera application does when taking a photo, thus giving a different result; which in this case ends up in a more noisy picture.
A way to circumvent this is by taking your photo using the Sony camera application and then sharing this photo with Snapchat, which then allows you to send the picture without all the noise to said contacts. Also note that Snapchat does some heavy compression on photo's that it sends.
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i remember someone made a holo version of snapchat, is it possible to make a client that uses the devices camera software to process?
marcelrees said:
i remember someone made a holo version of snapchat, is it possible to make a client that uses the devices camera software to process?
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No. Only the Sony camera can take advantage of Sony's post-processing.
I noticed a dramatic difference between the Google Camera and the 3rd party Camera Zoom FX application. The Google Camera brings in a good amount of light into the lens even in marginal situations. Camera Zoom FX is pulls in so much less light. There's no setting I can figure out. Could Lollypop restrict camera access in some funky way that is preventing the 3rd party app from taking full advantage of the lens?
i have noticed this in pretty much all 3rd party camera apps. people have reported that video conferencing in hangouts is also very dark
i have spent all day looking at different camera apps. i cant get "a better camera" to auto focus (but it has better in app lighting), camera zoom fx is much darker than "a better camera" but has good focus. the google camera app from banks gapps seems really gimped (no panorama, no 360, no hdr) and wont let me install the play store google camera (i got 504 errors with banks installed, and 505 when i moved thew camera2 folder from system/apps).
i am now looking into flashing a moto camera app, or trying to flash a closer to stock google camera app (preferably one that doesnt share signitures)
dipstik said:
i have noticed this in pretty much all 3rd party camera apps. people have reported that video conferencing in hangouts is also very dark
i have spent all day looking at different camera apps. i cant get "a better camera" to auto focus (but it has better in app lighting), camera zoom fx is much darker than "a better camera" but has good focus. the google camera app from banks gapps seems really gimped (no panorama, no 360, no hdr) and wont let me install the play store google camera (i got 504 errors with banks installed, and 505 when i moved thew camera2 folder from system/apps).
i am now looking into flashing a moto camera app, or trying to flash a closer to stock google camera app (preferably one that doesnt share signitures)
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Check out Camera FV-5. They have a paid version and a lite (free). I spent the $3.99 and it works really well. It also has a lot of controls.
Google Play Store - Camera FV-5
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Check out Camera FV-5. They have a paid version and a lite (free). I spent the $3.99 and it works really well. It also has a lot of controls.
Google Play Store - Camera FV-5
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what rom/kernal are u on? you are not experiencing low light viewfinding?
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what rom/kernal are u on? you are not experiencing low light viewfinding?
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Haven't had any issues yet. I have used it on Stock unrooted and minimus 12/6/14 build with LeanKernel 1.0
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Haven't had any issues yet. I have used it on Stock unrooted and minimus 12/6/14 build with LeanKernel 1.0
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you can get good photos if you remove from recents, but the viewfinder is always dark. see attached. pure shamu b3.1/senseiR20.5, rooted.
i can almost get the moto camera app to work... it takes 1080p soundless video consistently, but photos crash the app, and hdr doesnt work
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you can get good photos if you remove from recents, but the viewfinder is always dark. see attached. pure shamu b3.1/senseiR20.5, rooted.
i can almost get the moto camera app to work... it takes 1080p soundless video consistently, but photos crash the app, and hdr doesnt work
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Alright, so I tried to take some pictures in a room with no lights on and only some natural light coming through the blinds. They look dark like your sample photos. Opened the slimGAPPS camera and everything works, including HDR, correct brightness, etc. I haven't tried recording video. As soon as I turn a light on, it seems to work normally.
In the camera fv5 app, I went and adjusted some of the exposure settings and shutter, the photo brightened right up.
Not sure what is going on. I will try a few more things and report back.
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Alright, so I tried to take some pictures in a room with no lights on and only some natural light coming through the blinds. They look dark like your sample photos. Opened the slimGAPPS camera and everything works, including HDR, correct brightness, etc. I haven't tried recording video. As soon as I turn a light on, it seems to work normally.
In the camera fv5 app, I went and adjusted some of the exposure settings and shutter, the photo brightened right up.
Not sure what is going on. I will try a few more things and report back.
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It's funny, it doesn't look like the photos themselves are too bad, just the display on the preview on the screen (i.e., the screen viewfinder). I am wondering if there is some Lollypop function that is not being taken advantage of fully by the 3rd party apps.
For some reason, taking a photo with flash on in WhatsApp or Google Camera or any other camera app creates overexposed images, to the point where the whole picture is basically white. I am currently on Pixel Experience CAF but this was also happening when I was on stock March update. Does anyone know what is causing this?
Hey guys, I am going insane. Yesterday morning I took a picture in snapchat and suddenly noticed it did a HDR enhancement after I took the picture, the picture actually looked great and comparable to shot made on Snapchat on iOS. Normally Snapchat has zero dynamic range whatsoever, let's say you take a picture inside a house: either the sky outside will by overexposed and just be white blob, or your sky will be exposed but the inside is absolutely dark.
After I took a picture it took half a sec and the overblown sky would look properly exposed, it looked the same as the pictures you get in the Instagram mode in the camera app. So I thought great they used Samsung's SDK they talked about for enhancing the camera in 3rd party apps. The beta version of the app also was updated on the 25th so I thought it was included in the update.
After I got back from work the pictures looked like before again, zero dynamic range. Like the update completely reversed or something. I was wondering why this might be, could it be server side testing or something? Can this be explained?
I have a Exynos S10e.