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Hi,
I currently have a Galaxy S2 and am looking to upgrade.
The video camera is a prime reason for the upgrade. Ideally I want something that can record HDR video with optical image stabilisation. Lots of my video is taken handheld in low(ish), high contrast light so I figure both of these features are important. I was hoping to see HDR + OIS in the HTC One M8 announcement, but that didn't happen.
I'd be interested to know a couple of things:
1. How good is the HDR video recording feature? I've struggled to see many reviews/opinions.
2. How good is the OIS?
3. If you were about to upgrade now and had video as a priority, would you think about the HTC One?
I don't know of any other phones that have both HDR video and OIS. My alternative would be to get another camera with OIS - I think on balance this is more important than HDR video. I suppose I could also get HDR video and have either in-phone software stabalisation, or use a PC application to give me the stabalisation.
Cost isn't a massive factor, but I don't see a real "value proposition" I'm thinking of going for a Nexus 5 or LG G2. Although video is important, obviously having a nice fast phone that will last is also appealing, so I've not totally written off the idea a current gen phone I can get in the next month or so.
Any advice on models would be appreciated.
Thanks
Jiffage said:
Hi,
I currently have a Galaxy S2 and am looking to upgrade.
The video camera is a prime reason for the upgrade. Ideally I want something that can record HDR video with optical image stabilisation. Lots of my video is taken handheld in low(ish), high contrast light so I figure both of these features are important. I was hoping to see HDR + OIS in the HTC One M8 announcement, but that didn't happen.
I'd be interested to know a couple of things:
1. How good is the HDR video recording feature? I've struggled to see many reviews/opinions.
2. How good is the OIS?
3. If you were about to upgrade now and had video as a priority, would you think about the HTC One?
I don't know of any other phones that have both HDR video and OIS. My alternative would be to get another camera with OIS - I think on balance this is more important than HDR video. I suppose I could also get HDR video and have either in-phone software stabalisation, or use a PC application to give me the stabalisation.
Cost isn't a massive factor, but I don't see a real "value proposition" I'm thinking of going for a Nexus 5 or LG G2. Although video is important, obviously having a nice fast phone that will last is also appealing, so I've not totally written off the idea a current gen phone I can get in the next month or so.
Any advice on models would be appreciated.
Thanks
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I'm far from a video recording expert, but i have used my One for over a year and recorded my first video last week.
It was a stand-up comedian, so it was a hard motive.
Everything around the man on stage was black and with a bright spotlight on the performer.
Started recording with standard setting, and it was hard to find focus when everthing was black or superbright.
Then I switched to HDR recording and got a lot better video with stable focus, with the downside that the black background was more grey. But what the heck, it was better and I can see my motive
What impressed med most was the audio quality of the recordings, really awesome!
Hope this helps you somehow.
Anyone know what if there's been any progress to getting this set up on our devices? This is literally the only thing I feel like it is missing. And I really don't understand why it is so hard to implement if the camera has the capability. Maybe Im missing something. Really wish one of the dev's here could get this set up for us all.
Thanks!
Really surprised no one else is really interested in slow mo video.
look in your app store, there are apps for slow motion recording, just not many. oh, and the devs here on xda, do things for free, no body pays them. if i were to make an app for slow motion video, id want to get oaid for it, i wouldnt do it for free. it actually would take wuite some personal time to make.
simms22 said:
look in your app store, there are apps for slow motion recording, just not many. oh, and the devs here on xda, do things for free, no body pays them. if i were to make an app for slow motion video, id want to get oaid for it, i wouldnt do it for free. it actually would take wuite some personal time to make.
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He means apps that shoot in 120-210fps. Not apps that shoot 30fps and cut that down to 15 or less and render the poor mans slow mo.
In regards to OP. No, not yet.
No camera on the planet can CAPTURE in slow motion. To do so would require travelling away from the scene being captured at insanely high rates of speed, specifically, to turn the capture speed down to 50% would require the capture device to travel away from the scene at HALF THE SPEED OF LIGHT!
ALL "slow motion" video is slowed down during PLAYBACK. It is done by rendering the frames at a rate lower than they were captured. Now naturally, the higher the rate they were captured at, the more smooth the playback will appear once they are rendered at a lower rate, but the actual function is identical.
This would require the camera to be able to capture video at 120-210 FPS... which ain't happening.
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This would require the camera to be able to capture video at 120-210 FPS... which ain't happening.
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uhmmm the N5 camera was able to do 120fps and so is my old s4, the camera in the n6 is perfectly capable of it hardware wise.
+1 for looking for slow motion
Well, as allready said this will not come until Google implements it or something magical happens
This is the closest I've found:
https://github.com/PkmX/lcamera/issues/153
Seems it theoretically could be possible to do the same hack as on nexus 5 for higher framerate videorecording. So keep the hope alive! I think i might reconsider going for nexus the next time around if google keep on skipping this... Oh well.
Lcamera - linked above is the best camera for now for taking really low light photos at least. I can take pictures at half a second exposure :good:
So here's hoping 120fps for the n6 will show up too
Am I the only one who is experiencing laggy zoom both in and out?
Rear camera is jumping from 1.0x to 1.2x, 1.4x etc. creating a laggy experience.
It's not a big deal while taking pictures, but if you are recording you can actually see that your footage is totally destroyed if you zoomed in while recording.
With front camera it's a little bit better, but it's only since it goes from 1.0x to 1.1x, 1.2x, 1.3x, it's still lacking some kind of animation to smooth it out.
Did I get a poor unit of Huawei P20 Pro or is it like this for everyone?
Also do someone know if Huawei is planning to fix it? Since return policy is valid for 14 days, if they won't fix that I am gonna return the phone.
majshel said:
Am I the only one who is experiencing laggy zoom both in and out?
Rear camera is jumping from 1.0x to 1.2x, 1.4x etc. creating a laggy experience.
It's not a big deal while taking pictures, but if you are recording you can actually see that your footage is totally destroyed if you zoomed in while recording.
With front camera it's a little bit better, but it's only since it goes from 1.0x to 1.1x, 1.2x, 1.3x, it's still lacking some kind of animation to smooth it out.
Did I get a poor unit of Huawei P20 Pro or is it like this for everyone?
Also do someone know if Huawei is planning to fix it? Since return policy is valid for 14 days, if they won't fix that I am gonna return the phone.
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I wouldn't call the zoom laggy, and I think they have done it this way so you can achieve your desired zoom level faster rather than have it smoothed out and be slow. You could probably download a camera app from the Playstore which would do the smooth zooming though.
Snapchat has the same problem. The zoom is laggy
It's because it's changing the camera to the telephoto lens from your regular lens. The third lens is just a monochrome lens.
Apparently this problem is fixed in the beta
Me too
I currently have this problem too. Instagram, Snapchat and even the official camera app zoom looks laggy and slow. Currently using firmware version 8.1.0.133
The same on 8.1.0.154. Is it possible to turn off all lenses excepting one which you want to use? I think it could fix the problem with zooming.
ershovdev said:
The same on 8.1.0.154. Is it possible to turn off all lenses excepting one which you want to use? I think it could fix the problem with zooming.
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This is the feature that we all wanted and have the ability to shoot raw on the lenses individually I think but i dont know if Huawei is doing something about it
Is the 960fps slow motion recording genuine on this phone? As in not software interpolated?
Also can this feature be used on an AOSP based rom?
Thanks!
It's just unterpolated and it's the worse feature on this phone that nobody wants tl use
As title.
My Snapdragon 888 ufs 3.1 phone isn't able to shot a slow motion video at 720p 480FPS for more than three seconds.
Is this a joke? What is the sense of a 3 seconds video?
My ancient OnePlus 6 can shot a 720p 480Fps video for 60 seconds.
Why Xiaomi is so poor in this matter even considering that they advertised the slow motion feature so much?
I think the basic camera is not great but have you tried gcam it offers better functionality or anx camera
captain2k20 said:
I think the basic camera is not great but have you tried gcam it offers better functionality or anx camera
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Google camera crashes when trying to record a slow motion video.
Anx camera doesnt le me record slowmotions video.
How can Xiaomi advertise with such emphasis when they have the worst slow motion of the market