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(Q) QX10 owners

Hi, so I've had my Z1 for two days now along with the QX10 lens I got free part of my deal with CPW, I've took more photos with the lens attached than the main camera as it seems to be able to take near perfect photos everytime!
One question though is there a way to use the Z1's dedicated camera shutter button when the QX10 lens is attached? So far when pressing it, it just launches the default camera app, I tried turning off quick launch but it just vibrates when pressing the camera key and nothing else.
I know there is a dedicated shutter button on the lens but I find it a bit difficult to press, for some reason it tries to take photos in burst mode.
Maybe it's just me but if anyone else who has the lens can let me know it would be appreciated
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Not at the moment, it's touchscreen or QX10 button, I'm not certain it's possible to remap it? But to be honest I don't have any problems with the way it's set up. And you'd have the same problem remapping it to another button. What you're looking for is a way to make it less sensitive. So you only take one pic at a time. But remember the more photos you take the more chance you have of getting the perfect shot
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englishmale said:
Not at the moment, it's touchscreen or QX10 button, I'm not certain it's possible to remap it? But to be honest I don't have any problems with the way it's set up. And you'd have the same problem remapping it to another button. What you're looking for is a way to make it less sensitive. So you only take one pic at a time. But remember the more photos you take the more chance you have of getting the perfect shot
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Thanks for the feedback, yes maybe that's what it is, it's a little sensitive, but I also think I'm getting confused with the two stage camera button on the Z1 and then when use the lens I'm thinking I need to press and hold when all I need to do is press!! I few more uses and I'll be fine, what's your thoughts on the lens?
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I'm liking it so far, my only concern is the lack of flash? I'd like to have the option to use the phone flash when it's strapped on the back, as get a loss of quality in darker conditions. Only way round this I can think of is to install a flashlight app to switch it on. Not too bothered tho as was only messing about taking pics of the moon and bats in garden lol.
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englishmale said:
I'm liking it so far, my only concern is the lack of flash? I'd like to have the option to use the phone flash when it's strapped on the back, as get a loss of quality in darker conditions. Only way round this I can think of is to install a flashlight app to switch it on. Not too bothered tho as was only messing about taking pics of the moon and bats in garden lol.
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Yeah that was my concern too, hopefully Sony can bring an update out for the app...
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I really want to be able to get my QX10 photos to default to my SD card - at the moment the directory is on internal storage - anyone hears of a way let me know - I have my normal camera defaulted to SD card but the playmemories app just does not want to play ball yet.

krazeyivan said:
I really want to be able to get my QX10 photos to default to my SD card - at the moment the directory is on internal storage - anyone hears of a way let me know - I have my normal camera defaulted to SD card but the playmemories app just does not want to play ball yet.
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Hmm I thought they went straight to the sd card, dam that's a pain, Sony need a few updates I think.
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maverick1103 said:
Hmm I thought they went straight to the sd card, dam that's a pain, Sony need a few updates I think.
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I should have mentioned my setup apologies > they do save to the card I put into the camera - I was referring to the 2Mpixel versions sent via wifi to the phone - you cannot default that folder to the phones SD card it creates it on the internal memory

Quick question: is the lens still available, ordering mine from CPW on friday, i cannot get any links to the offer to activate...thinking it might just be me, staff in the shops here in essex didnt know it even existed and tried to push scummy iphones on me yuck.

krazeyivan said:
I should have mentioned my setup apologies > they do save to the card I put into the camera - I was referring to the 2Mpixel versions sent via wifi to the phone - you cannot default that folder to the phones SD card it creates it on the internal memory
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I've just looked and yes there seems no way to save photos from the app to sd card
Anadinolin said:
Quick question: is the lens still available, ordering mine from CPW on friday, i cannot get any links to the offer to activate...thinking it might just be me, staff in the shops here in essex didnt know it even existed and tried to push scummy iphones on me yuck.
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Well I believe it's for the first 1,500 customs, you will be best of ringing the sales team up and checking stock first.
Yes sales staff will try and sell you something that's in stock, some will actual care and listen to what you want.
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I just receive a qx10 lens and I dont know how to view the video that I shoot. I cant find the videos on the sd card or anywhere I look in gallery. The video are recording properly but I cant find them. Sorry for my english. Please make a review and users opinions. Lets keep this thread alive. Post pics and link. Apps and posibilities. Custom camera or any information. Thank you and soory for my english
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pics blurry on mobile LTE/3g, but clear on wifi?

I have a problem where i run a few apps, and the pics (that are downloaded to be view) are clear while im on wifi. but when im on mobile, even LTE, the pics are blurry, like they are pixelated.
Did i trip an option to compress data, to save on data, when on a mobile connection?
what gives?
please help

Well since i didnt get any replies, i did some more research. I went to the sprint store and tried the stock phone on display, SAME thing happens. So its not my phone thats the problem. For kicks though, I went to the Note 3 and ran the same app, and it WAS pixelated as well, totally different phone!
So i dug some more,and I see many people are experiencing the problem:
https://community.sprint.com/baw/message/751345#751345
None of yall are experiencing this?

Sounds like your connection is slower than your wifi to fully render the picture.
Try this on Google images give it a few to see if a picture is fully rendered
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Eh..... Did you read the link?
Everything else on a page or in an app renders, would be strange to be just images not. Don't know what you mean by Google images

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Eh..... Did you read the link?
Everything else on a page or in an app renders, would be strange to be just images not. Don't know what you mean by Google images
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Just search for an image any image.
When I did it took longer for it to render completely than my wifi. It all has to do with your connection.
Some images need a little more time on a network to render. Happen to every phone I had, but I'm on att and I'm throttled a week into my bill which is my problem.
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The problem is... The images NEVER fully render. Throttle means slow to render fully, not don't render fully at all

It's got to be your networking unless it's that app. Since you also tried with a note 3 and it was the same.
Can you post the app I'll try it and see if anything changes.
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Is anyone else having issue with the camera focusing ?

It seems it will not focus properly. sometimes it does and i can take a really good picture. but most of the time all it takes is blurry pics. has anyone else had this issue and no of anything to fix it ?

Did you take the protective film off the lens?
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mine does the same thing, and i don't know what to do.. i hope it's a software issue and samsung can fix it.

Go to settings and check what type of metering you have it set to? Is it centered Matrix?
I've always just kept it on matrix as I found it to work the best for general shooting...

Less than 10 of us have reported this issue in the tmo forum. I was hoping it was a software issue too but we're all running the same software. Exchange it.

Had this exact problem and exchanged mine. New one is perfect.

Do you guys use video stabilization on the camera settings?

Glad I'm not alone with focusing problems...
Here is my topic : Note 4 camera won't lock focus + blurry edges on pictures with far focus
Best regards,
Chris.

particle1 said:
It seems it will not focus properly. sometimes it does and i can take a really good picture. but most of the time all it takes is blurry pics. has anyone else had this issue and no of anything to fix it ?
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Is your camera MODE on Selective Focus?

Did anyone find a fix for this? My wife's 2 week old note 4 has started doing this. It doesn't do it all the time and it happens with the Samsung camera and the Google camera. Yesterday I got it to fix itself by zooming but today that didn't help.

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Did anyone find a fix for this? My wife's 2 week old note 4 has started doing this. It doesn't do it all the time and it happens with the Samsung camera and the Google camera. Yesterday I got it to fix itself by zooming but today that didn't help.
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Phone is defective.
BAD ASS NOTE 4

Haven't had problem with camera. Read this thread. Fires up camera. Now I experiencing slow mo focusing.
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Soft reboot solves it.

A soft reboot definitely solves this, had this experience with the previous Note series as well. Either the phone is overheating or the camera app is running in the background and the user forgot to force close the app especially if the camera was overextensively recently used; remember this is a phone camera, not professional grade SLR.
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Haven't had problem with camera. Read this thread. Fires up camera. Now I experiencing slow mo focusing.
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Soft reboot solves it.
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winlinmac001 said:
A soft reboot definitely solves this, had this experience with the previous Note series as well. Either the phone is overheating or the camera app is running in the background and the user forgot to force close the app especially if the camera was overextensively recently used; remember this is a phone camera, not professional grade SLR.
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Nope. My phone has come nowhere near overheating. Fired up the camera on the whim of this thread. Closing camera from and force stopping in application manager did not do anything to resolve the issue. Tried some a couple other things. No dice. Soft reboot. Fixed. It's a bad random bug. Thanks touchwiz.

Overheating is one of many causes; others can also be the camera app running the background, especially for too long. A soft reboot is the only solution, but this occurred to me on other Note models as well; hey, its another samsung thing, argh.
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Nope. My phone has come nowhere near overheating. Fired up the camera on the whim of this thread. Closing camera from and force stopping in application manager did not do anything to resolve the issue. Tried some a couple other things. No dice. Soft reboot. Fixed. It's a bad random bug. Thanks touchwiz.
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My phone is less then 2 weeks old and this is happening. I went to the tmobile shop I bought It from and they reset it and told me if it happened again to call tmobile for a replacement. They weren't trying to replace it. Tmobile is sending me a replacement exchange. Hopefully this one works better cause my wife's is fine. Tired of coming upon issues like this when purchasing phones that cost this much. Worst part is I argued over the phone with tmobile to send me a new phone, they wanted to send me a refurbished phone. They said it will be a new phone, hopefully it is otherwise I'm returning all of them.
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M preview camera

hello guys, i just wanna ask about the mirroring in the camera in M preview. its a bug or its only happening with me ? any app that use the camera ( snapchat, instagram, etc) gives a mirroring results.
any ideas ?
thanks

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hello guys, i just wanna ask about the mirroring in the camera in M preview. its a bug or its only happening with me ? any app that use the camera ( snapchat, instagram, etc) gives a mirroring results.
any ideas ?
thanks
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What do you mean exactly?

He probably means whenever you take a picture it flips it entirely upside down which is a bug in M which is the reason I reverted back to stock a week ago
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danarama said:
What do you mean exactly?
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Yes what imablackhat said is totally true. It flips the images upside down and if you have words the look flipped

imablackhat said:
He probably means whenever you take a picture it flips it entirely upside down which is a bug in M which is the reason I reverted back to stock a week ago
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Ah ok. It's not actually a bug at all. All cameras flip the image upside down. They always have, always will. Look at your reflection in a spoon. It's upside down. Thats because when light reflects off a concave surface, the light that bounces off the top of the spoon bounces into the bottom of your eye. Similarly the light that bounces off the bottom of the spoon bounces into the top of your eye, flipping the image. The same is true of a camera lens. The light passes through, out the concaved side and onto the opposite top or bottom edge of the sensor. What the processing software then does is has to flip the image back to make it appear the right way round.
The issue here is that those third party apps have not yet been updated to do that on M. This usually happens when a new version of android is released.
None-the-less, the result is the same and will remain so until those apps are updated.

Never had that happen on M.

Take a picture with Snapchat on M it happens to anyone.
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the google cam, and any other camera that ive tried all work perfectly on m, I dont have any issues at all with the camera on m.
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Take a picture with Snapchat on M it happens to anyone.
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I dont use Snapchat, sorry.

Having problems with the 2.5 version on the m preview with taking HDR pictures fast, seems after the 3rd quick one I won't be allowed to take anymore until they are done processing, also had some crashes and lost some photos that I taken, got caught up in processing in the background then seemed to have disappeared altogether from the device

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Having problems with the 2.5 version on the m preview with taking HDR pictures fast, seems after the 3rd quick one I won't be allowed to take anymore until they are done processing, also had some crashes and lost some photos that I taken, got caught up in processing in the background then seemed to have disappeared altogether from the device
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This isn't just happening on the M preview. I am on 5.1.1 (Chroma) and it happens. I think it's a problem Google needs to fix.
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Version I have is 2.5.044, my N4 is on 2.5.050. The whole google camera has been disappointing honestly and I wish they would stop holding back on features and improvements, what's the problem already?

i did find a bug in the m camera. if using the flash, and you touch to focus on the screen, the camera will refocus right into the center and then take the shot.

M camera app was OK but camcorder needs work it was blurry

Problem with selctive focus and live focus modes

Am I the only one who has problems with selective focus mode on the front camera?
No metter what i'm doing and wher i tap on the screen, it just not recognize objects and when it (finally) does, it happens after a lot of tries.
Solution anyone???

Doron.ili said:
Am I the only one who has problems with selective focus mode on the front camera?
No metter what i'm doing and wher i tap on the screen, it just not recognize objects and when it (finally) does, it happens after a lot of tries.
Solution anyone???
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I ended up finding a test object in focus and forcing it to lock focus by long pressing and then aiming at the intended object.
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dottat said:
I ended up finding a test object in focus and forcing it to lock focus by long pressing and then aiming at the intended object.
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Got it.. so now it works- not perfect (as i like ) and not always..
i'm assuming its a... bug (??)
At the s8 this mode working perfectly with one simple (and short) tap...

So now its not working at al... again. no metter how and where i tap
Help :crying:

Doron.ili said:
So now its not working at al... again. no metter how and where i tap
Help :crying:
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If it makes you feel any better, I haven't gotten it to work either. I talked to a buddy and he was having issues as well.
My wife will be devistated...she loves selfies haha. I don't take many but it is a bummer that it's not working.
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brholt6 said:
If it makes you feel any better, I haven't gotten it to work either. I talked to a buddy and he was having issues as well.
My wife will be devistated...she loves selfies haha. I don't take many but it is a bummer that it's not working.
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Nice to know that i'm not alone.. haha
I'm not even talking about the live focus mode that doesn't work well aither..
1000$ phone that his main feature is not working. Good for you samsung....

Doron.ili said:
Nice to know that i'm not alone.. haha
I'm not even talking about the live focus mode that doesn't work well aither..
1000$ phone that his main feature is not working. Good for you samsung....
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Yea, for the selective focus to not work at all on selfies is odd. I'd imagine we start seeing more people complain of the issue before too long.
I haven't tested the live focus mode much. I came back to Android from the 7 Plus and it took quite a few updates before portrait mode worked very well. I'd imagine Samsung can dial it in with some updates too.
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brholt6 said:
Yea, for the selective focus to not work at all on selfies is odd. I'd imagine we start seeing more people complain of the issue before too long.
I haven't tested the live focus mode much. I came back to Android from the 7 Plus and it took quite a few updates before portrait mode worked very well. I'd imagine Samsung can dial it in with some updates too.
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The problem is that samsung and updates are not good friends..
Thats way o hope to get any sulution here.. pleasssssse

Maybe your unit might be defective? I'm not seeing any problems using selective focus or live focus on my end.

roaduardo said:
Maybe your unit might be defective? I'm not seeing any problems using selective focus or live focus on my end.
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Sounds like a pretty common defect then. I now have 2 friends with the same issue. Is there a trick to getting selective focus to work? Lighting maybe?
Edit:. Has to be the lighting...just gave it another shot with no issues.
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brholt6 said:
Sounds like a pretty common defect then. I now have 2 friends with the same issue. Is there a trick to getting selective focus to work? Lighting maybe?
Edit:. Has to be the lighting...just gave it another shot with no issues.
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Yeah, usually there's a warning message that pops up saying there's not enough light in the shot. I was messing around with live focus in my bedroom under some tv lighting only and saw the alert. Makes sense.

Any updates to this? Anyone do more research? I have the same with the front camera when I gave more than 1 person in the photo. It will not focus and selective focus doesn't work either.

Doron.ili said:
Nice to know that i'm not alone.. haha
I'm not even talking about the live focus mode that doesn't work well aither..
1000$ phone that his main feature is not working. Good for you samsung....
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My old Huewei Honor 8 camera was simple to use. I could even easily blur the background after image was taken.
I'm also finding the same issues as you guys said with the note 8 camera.
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Any solutions to this problem?
I haven't been able to use selective focus on the front camera since I bought the phone. It keeps saying there is no subject detected. Please help.

I'll be joining the list of "front camera bug on selective focus mode". Unable to use it since I bought the phone too. I'm using the latest build for my country (N950FXXU2BQKG)