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[PHOTOS] Post Your Pictures and Videos & Share Your 4.4.1 I mean 4.4.2 experiences!
Post your Nexus 5 photos, videos, bugs and camera experiences!
Nexus 5 Camera Specifications:
8MP Sony CMOS IMX179 sensor (3264 x 2448 max resolution)
1/3.2" sensor area, 1.4μm sensor pixels
F2.4 aperture, 4mm focal length (35mm equivalent: 30.4mm)
Optical image stabilization (InvenSense IDG-2020 dual-axis gyroscope, same as LG G2)
Front facing camera: 1.3MP 1/6" Aptina MT9M114B CMOS sensor
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Looks promising
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First off, the second pic...wow!!
These look amazing! If the new Nexus had this quality, I'd be one happy camper! The rest is gravy!

I just hope it is better than the one on Nexus 4 as that one is pretty bad.
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AppReviewBros said:
I just hope it is better than the one on Nexus 4 as that one is pretty bad.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4
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But better than the galaxy nexus, that's for sure! :laugh:

BoneXDA said:
Nexus 4 sensor specs (rumor at this point):
8MP Sony CMOS IMX179
1.4μm sensor pixels
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I think you meant 5.

Nathan-NL said:
I think you meant 5.
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could go either way at this point... N4 2013!
nice pics though, hard to tell how they stack up without comparing to other cams though. Also while the sensor seems solid we know nothing about the N5 optic stack which is just as important if not more so.

Great pics, but there's a lot of noise on that blue sky.
Indoor shots have surprisingly low noise though.

if it looks as good as in those shots, it's a must buy. especially if it's priced at $299

Apoxx said:
Great pics, but there's a lot of noise on that blue sky.
Indoor shots have surprisingly low noise though.
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There's some noise due to welcomed minimal post-processing, but it's uniform not color, which is good news. The IMX179 does pretty well up to ISO 400, from ISO640 and above of course noise becomes significant (still uniform). Then again; I'd put it around the iPhone 5 level which is more than satisfying. Hoping for the same F2.0 lens on the Nex5.
Low light MX3 shots:

BoneXDA said:
There's some noise due to welcomed minimal post-processing, but it's uniform not color, which is good news. The IMX179 does pretty well up to ISO 400, from ISO640 and above of course noise becomes significant (still uniform). Then again, I'd put it around the iPhone 5 level which is more than satisfying. Hoping for the same F2.0 lens on the Nex5.
Low light MX3 shots:
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OMG! i want this camera now!!!

Even those low-light shots looks promising
Is that due to the OIS thingy that the camera has? (Not even quite sure what it means / how it works)

ranadylt said:
Even those low-light shots looks promising
Is that due to the OIS thingy that the camera has? (Not even quite sure what it means / how it works)
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OIS stands for optical image stabilization, but as far as I can tell, the Meizu MX3 doesn't have it, nor do I expect the Nexus 5 to be packed with it. That's a nice area to cut corners. The MX3 pulls these shots cause of the nice Sony BSI sensor, wide F2.0 lens and long exposure time. There's also a lot of noise looking at full size shots at and above ISO800, but results do deliver really nice color accuracy (relative to mobile phones).

Very good photos, nexus 5 would be great

I don´t understand why but my Xperia arc have already an exmor sensor with 1.4μm but when i put the photos at 100% they are much worse than that. Maybe software related?

jlmcr87 said:
I don´t understand why but my Xperia arc have already an exmor sensor with 1.4μm but when i put the photos at 100% they are much worse than that. Maybe software related?
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I also have an arc s, and photo quality depens not only by megapixel but also by lens and software related.
Certainly the lens and the sensors of the mx3 are better, but also the software do his job (have you noticed that photos with a stock-based rom with ics are better than photos with jelly bean?)

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OIS stands for optical image stabilization, but as far as I can tell, the Meizu MX3 doesn't have it, nor do I expect the Nexus 5 to be packed with it. That's a nice area to cut corners. The MX3 pulls these shots cause of the nice Sony BSI sensor, wide F2.0 lens and long exposure time. There's also a lot of noise looking at full size shots at and above ISO800, but results do deliver really nice color accuracy (relative to mobile phones).
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According to the N5 log leak, repair manual leak and the recent leak on the Italian blog it does have OIS. So thats promising! Heres to hoping the OIS makes it to production.

can6rxw said:
First off, the second pic...wow!!
These look amazing! If the new Nexus had this quality, I'd be one happy camper! The rest is gravy!
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Are there not girls in Canada or something? Whats special about that picture?

Cronis said:
According to the N5 log leak, repair manual leak and the recent leak on the Italian blog it does have OIS. So thats promising! Heres to hoping the OIS makes it to production.
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That is just a draft, much of the information was copied over from the Nexus 4. Since "OIS camra" is keep being mentioned, my guess is that at the time of making that draft, the camera unit was not yet decided, otherwise it would state it's product number. I do wish we'd get an OIS snapper, but don't find it very realistic. They always cut the price at camera first. With that said, the IMX179 would be a step-up from the current sensor.

I'm not to worried about the camera it's the camera app that worries me. Hopefully it's not a slouch this time and includes 60fps at 1080p
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4.4.2 Camera quality poll

Ok guy's I wanted to start a poll regarding the camera quality since 4.4.2.
I love my nexus 5 but I found the camera when it was stock 4.4 was impressive even in low light with the flash, However because so many people were complaining about the speed of it taking shots (it didn't bother me as long as it took nice photo's) Now google have responded with 4.4.2 and speeded the camera shot process however the image quality has reduced by some margin even in well lit area's,
So basically this is a poll to gauge who wants to take better quality photo's or faster photo's
Personally I couldn't care less how long it took as long they were good quality photo's...

Makes me glad I got the phone about the same time 4.4.2 came out

Requesting new poll option: Use a different camera app and be able to do both. No need to be limited by the automatic settings.

bblzd said:
Requesting new poll option: Use a different camera app and be able to do both. No need to be limited by the automatic settings.
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The trouble is as far as I know there is no 3rd party app that uses HDR+ mode.

Ady1976 said:
The trouble is as far as I know there is no 3rd party app that uses HDR+ mode.
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u can't tell the difference if u use HDR Camera+ and Snap Camera HDR

hello00 said:
u can't tell the difference if u use HDR Camera+ and Snap Camera HDR
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Does that app have Jpeg compression settings level similar to Camera JB+ ?

Ady1976 said:
Does that app have Jpeg compression settings level similar to Camera JB+ ?
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im not sure..maybe if u get the paid version for both of them

hello00 said:
im not sure..maybe if u get the paid version for both of them
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Thanks I shall have a look at that and compare some daylight and night shots.

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I for one am not updating to 4.4.1, or 4.4.2. I have no complaints with the release software. Who gives a **** about how good the stock photos are. If you care even marginally about image quality then you should know how to properly edit a photo. Simple as that. I love this phone.

Day shots are as good as before, night shots are worse, more noise and it's just not impressive anymore. I'd take the slower shutter for night shots anytime, and keep the new behavior for daylight shots.
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At least for me, low light camera shots look extremely better in HDR+ with the 4.4.2 update over the 4.4 release, but I can't tell a difference on day shots
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Sirgatory said:
I for one am not updating to 4.4.1, or 4.4.2. I have no complaints with the release software. Who gives a **** about how good the stock photos are. If you care even marginally about image quality then you should know how to properly edit a photo. Simple as that. I love this phone.
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That's exactly my point, I was extremely happy with stock 4.4, Camera was fine and video's were great so I'm gauging who prefers quality over speed of shots.
Question ? When your in the market for a compact camera what is end users primary concern ? How good the images are ? Or how fast it take shots ? Exactly point proved and judging from the results of the poll so far looks like I'm not alone either.

rayiskon said:
Day shots are as good as before, night shots are worse, more noise and it's just not impressive anymore. I'd take the slower shutter for night shots anytime, and keep the new behavior for daylight shots.
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Agreed, they boosted the ISO because they increase the shutter speed in low light thus images turns up pretty noisy. What's the point of having OIS when it can't use it? It's better to have slower shutter and low ISO to make the image sharper and less noise in dark environment, just make the OIS more aggressive, come on Google don't fail me now

I came from the HTC One and iPhone 5s. I dumped both for the N5 that I purchased used that was already updated to 4.4.2.
The noise level is way too high. Day or night. Focus issues are still present. What's worst is that I can never get a clean, clear shot. I don't even want to transfer the images taken from the N5 to the computer because I know it will be a lot worse than what I see on my phone.
I purchased Camera Awesome. Didn't do anything to help with the issue. Does anyone else have any suggestions as to a better app to use? Or a mod for a previous version?
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I prefer faster shots. With 4.4 I almost went nuts... especially in dark areas it was almost impossible to focus. So for me I accept the 5% worse quality and get 100% faster shots.

Very impressed with day shots, have yet to try a night shot, but I did notice the screen was much darker.
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Pictures is good, but in update i lost so good video quality, now camcorder is so dark, cant see the thing when there dark environment. And i dont know why
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Whatever they did to the camera they need to revert it. All photos shouldn't look like they were taken with an ISO of 800.
EDIT: It's worse than I thought. A relatively bright photo = ISO 1336.

I prefer the quicker photo's. I don't need a camera to take pictures of my dinner or a flower. Anyone who has kids is definitley enjoying the update.
If you look through the picture thread here the majority of the pics are people's food. I don't really need to keep a picture journal of what I eat. lol

Low light

At the club, at the bar, or just in your mom's basement, nighttime is when you come out to play. Rate this thread to express how the LG Nexus 5X's camera performs when no or low light is present. A higher rating indicates that the camera sensor "sees" lots of light in dim conditions, and that the resulting photos have minimal noise. A higher rating also indicates that when the flash fires, the resulting photo is evenly-lit without any bright spots.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Good but not great.

Rate this thread to express how the LG Nexus 5X's camera performs when no or low light is present.
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Can confirm, the camera performs terrible, when no light is present. The pictures are black with a lot of noise.
I hope they fix this in the next update.

In dim light situations the camera is good...
Few days ago I was at one place and lighting was about 30% out of 100 and 5X performed good, alghough photos had some noise, but they were not dark, which isn't bad.

Excellent for a phone, not much more to say.

How is this getting such bad rep and review compare to 6P when they both have exactly the same camera and take exactly the same quality pictures?

I couldn't disagree more with most of the people here. I have owned a G4, Note 5 MXPE and this camera ranks as follows in low light. 1-G4, 2-3 - Note 5 and 5X (about as even as it gets) MXPE-4

Are you guys kidding? The low light pictures are nothing short of amazing. And I own a 1.8 35mm (which is better, obviously, but comparable).

ppaasseeii said:
Are you guys kidding? The low light pictures are nothing short of amazing. And I own a 1.8 35mm (which is better, obviously, but comparable).
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.agree

ppaasseeii said:
Are you guys kidding? The low light pictures are nothing short of amazing. And I own a 1.8 35mm (which is better, obviously, but comparable).
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This. It's a $400 cell phone camera that compares well with $600+ device's cameras.

The sensor and lens are excellent for a phone. From about ISO 400, it resolves more detail than my Lumia 930, which uses a sensor which is only very slightly smaller but much higher resolution. It also has better dynamic range across the board. HDR+ is particularly impressive compared to the HDR modes on the other devices I've used. However, it really could have done with an image stabilizer to mitigate motion blur on longer exposures. I fairly consistently get less blur in low light with the Lumia and even my old G2, both of which have OIS.

Exceptional

Lowlight pictures are really amazing...
Nexus 5X+ Nova+Root

No issues here.

Low light condition front camera without HDR+ is like taking a picture to nothing but black. With HDR+ activated is really awesome what it can do. Obviously is not like having a flash on front camera but it gets much better.
On rear camera without flash and HDR+ is much the same result as the front camera. With flash photos are really good quality and smooth.

can you guys share photos taken on low light conditions?

cheeze.keyk said:
can you guys share photos taken on low light conditions?
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Extreme gorgeous!

Hands Down, The Mi Mix Has One Of The Best Cameras I Have Seen, Look At These...

I see many people are complaining about the image quality of the phone. From what I have personally seen I am amazed at the image quality which more than exceeded my expectations.
The following images are taken by myself, with some camera settings changed and manual shooting but no editing aside from cropping.
Most people are quick at talking absolute rubbish or simply have no idea how to use a camera or it's settings.
With some knowledge of photography and using manual settings, the Mi Mix is capable of amazing photos.
Please tell me what is so bad about these:
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Same image cropped, look at the detail:
Another Angle:
Same image as above cropped:
Image of the metal links:
Sample Image Of Rose:

You are hairy my friend, but nice photo

lesscro said:
You are hairy my friend, but nice photo
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XD

kanej2006 said:
I see many people are complaining about the image quality of the phone. From what I have personally seen I am amazed at the image quality which more than exceeded my expectations.
The following images are taken by myself, with some camera settings changed and manual shooting but no editing aside from cropping.
Most people are quick at talking absolute rubbish or simply have no idea how to use a camera or it's settings.
With some knowledge of photography and using manual settings, the Mi Mix is capable of amazing photos.
Please tell me what is so bad about these:
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Picture quality is excellent! Would you please share some of the settings and an idea of lighting. Thanks!

it's really not as bad as other says, but it's not really that good. The bokeh in the last picture for example is pretty poor. There is also a lot of colour noise which you can see.
My biggest problem with it is the colour isn't accurate, sometimes it oversaturates way too much.
Here's my small impression:
http://imgur.com/a/R7cIo

mscion said:
Picture quality is excellent! Would you please share some of the settings and an idea of lighting. Thanks!
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Thanks. Settings used:
Mode - Manual
Camera frame - 4:3
Picture Quality - High
Exposure Settings - Spot Metering
Contrast - Normal
Saturation - Normal
Sharpness - Higher
Iso - The lower the better due to noise. I usually use 100 or max 200. Any higher and noise levels will be too high.
Exposure - For beginners this is the tricky part. It all depends on available light. The higher the exposure the better, however, you need very good light for 500 or more. Otherwise in good to decent lighting you can use 60 or 100.
In really poor lighting you may have to go as low as 15 or 30 shutter speed. However, unless you have very calm hands you may get camera shake resulting in a slightly blurry image. It's hard to explain but practice various shutter speeds yourself in different lighting conditions to experience it for yourself.
Kildras said:
it's really not as bad as other says, but it's not really that good. The bokeh in the last picture for example is pretty poor. There is also a lot of colour noise which you can see.
My biggest problem with it is the colour isn't accurate, sometimes it oversaturates way too much.
Here's my small impression:
http://imgur.com/a/R7cIo
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I do agree the bokkeh can be a little fuzzy but then again most camera phones are. You cannot compare the bokkeh from a camera phone to a DSLR.
With regards to noise, I do agree that there is slight noise even at Iso 100 and 200. That said, most other camera phones have some image noise due to the small sensors...
Still, should you have decent lighting, the Mi Mix is capable at taking some good pictures as long as it's set up correctly and the photographer knows what he is doing, not just point and shoot.
With regards to low light, there is no existing phone that can take decent images. Difficult and sensor size is too small. All you can do is either to balance the phone, use self timer and drop the exposure to 1/8 or even 1/4th of a second to get a clean image.
There will be some image noise due to the available light /darkness but these are the limits for any camera phone, not only the Mi Mix.

Low light

At the club, at the bar, or just in your mom's basement, nighttime is when you come out to play. Rate this thread to express how the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra's camera performs when no or low light is present. A higher rating indicates that the camera sensor "sees" lots of light in dim conditions, and that the resulting photos have minimal noise. A higher rating also indicates that when the flash fires, the resulting photo is evenly-lit without any bright spots.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

I have 3 phones atm - Note 20 Ultra, P30 Pro (global), and Xiaomi Mi Note 9S w/GCAM. I never imagined the N20U would be able to match the camera quality of Mi Note 9S w/ GCAM, however after taking some daytime and also low light photography, N20U takes the best pics out of all three of my phones. Even night mode. However, I don't like the all white balance, and even though you can change that in Pro Mode, when you take pictures in Auto Mode, I hate the color that all Samsung phones give out, and prefer iPhones and Huawei phone color temperatures / hues. Also, there were certain scenarios (although not many), where the P30 Pro or the Note 9S w/GCAM took better pics, but that's expected. N20U took better pics than both of the other phones 75-90% of the time, even night time photography

it's all subjective. You like it 75-90% of the time. It doesn't mean 75-90% of everyone else will like it 75-90% of the time. With camera modules basically being made all by Sony or Samsung, they all look the same. besides, I haven't known anyone to print their pics. it's being compressed or filtered onto VSCO or IG anyway does it really matter? Just take your picture and be happy with it. Unless you have a 99 dollar tracphone, it's the same quality...and even if you do have that $99 tracphone, your grandma can't tell what phone it was taken on when you post it on fb.

skoobz said:
... With camera modules basically being made all by Sony or Samsung, they all look the same ... Unless you have a 99 dollar tracphone, it's the same quality.
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Software & image processing makes an immense difference - hence the constant desperation for broken GCam ports.
As a S20 Ultra owner - that phone has supposedly great hardware but has demonstrably awful image processing in a myriad of everyday situations (it's still way below par compared to its peers, after all the updates).
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On topic, the processing on the Note 20 Ultra is significantly better than my S20U in basically every scenario & camera mode I tried it in, including Low Light (my S20U's photos look like watercolor messes in comparison). The S20U only takes passable images with bright sunlight or sunlight-equivalent indoor lights. It fails miserably at processing images the dimmer the lighting gets, which I didn't find to be a problem on the S20U out-of-the-gate on Auto mode.
Can they bring the software updates to the S20U?

The Note 20 Ultra camera is identical to the S20 Ultra.
Low light on the S20 Ultra is better.
Clearly there needs to be an update for the Note 20 Ultra.
And like the S20 Ultra, it's impossible to take a picture of a document and have clear text across the frame.
Hopefully they go back to the drawing board for the S30 and choose a different sensor/lens combo.
The iPhone 12 camera is going to blow this one away as the 11 Pro is already better.

auto low light example that's lit by LEDs. Not bad.
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skoobz said:
it's all subjective. You like it 75-90% of the time. It doesn't mean 75-90% of everyone else will like it 75-90% of the time. With camera modules basically being made all by Sony or Samsung, they all look the same. besides, I haven't known anyone to print their pics. it's being compressed or filtered onto VSCO or IG anyway does it really matter? Just take your picture and be happy with it. Unless you have a 99 dollar tracphone, it's the same quality...and even if you do have that $99 tracphone, your grandma can't tell what phone it was taken on when you post it on fb.
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Actually even with same cameras and sensors, you can have Vastly different output. Just look at Pixel phones, alot of other manufacturers use the same exact sensor however its the software engineering that makes pixel phones take great pics. You just sound like an argumentative person, I was just providing my personal experience, and never mentioned that other people's experience would be the same

ca12bon said:
Actually even with same cameras and sensors, you can have Vastly different output. Just look at Pixel phones, alot of other manufacturers use the same exact sensor however its the software engineering that makes pixel phones take great pics. You just sound like an argumentative person, I was just providing my personal experience, and never mentioned that other people's experience would be the same
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cool story bro. fact remains, still looks the same when filters are applied and compressed when posted on social media.