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Time to take picture (camera launch speed)

There! Something just happened! Did you take a picture of it? Rate this thread to express how fast the LG Nexus 5X can go from "zero to picture". A higher rating indicates that launching the camera app and taking a photo is extremely fast such that you never miss an important moment, like when your cat attacks the couch again.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Launches pretty fast with double-click of home button.

Fast even with HDR+ in optimal lighting.

Is the autofocus faster than the asus zenfone laser?

It's been extremely slow for me even to open, nevermind capture a picture. I do not have HDR on and this is after the supposed update that would make things quicker.

Camera is quick enough for me - I usually just do point an shoot pictures.

I think camera launch speed is a hit or miss sometimes.
Most of the time it is quick. But at times, it takes like up to an second before the viewfinder comes on from black screen.

totally hit or miss. but i feel most of the time it's about 5-10 seconds from double hit power button to blue shutter button to take a pic. coming from an S6 which really marketed the **** out of their fast launch camera, this is night and day. Nexus needs to pick up some speed.

rogerchew said:
totally hit or miss. but i feel most of the time it's about 5-10 seconds from double hit power button to blue shutter button to take a pic. coming from an S6 which really marketed the **** out of their fast launch camera, this is night and day. Nexus needs to pick up some speed.
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It never takes longer than 2 seconds for me. I've compared it to my Nexus 5 and it's consistently 1 second faster to load the camera and ready to take a picture with HDR+ enabled.
You might have some background processes eating up your resources during the time it takes 5-10 seconds to load your camera. We can assume that is caused by one of your 3rd party apps. Most likely one that hasn't been properly updated to support Android 6.0.

Camera is Bugged

camera is slow af to load compared to an s6 or any iOS device

trick i found for 3-4s off to capture time
just got a 5x, but found the shortcuts to camera too slow.
i worked out a trick which consistently gives me short capture times.
seems to work with any camera app; i use Camera X for burst.
prep work:
- allow fingerprint unlock
- launch desired camera app
- turn phone off
- pocket the thing and wait for... the moment.
- unlock with fingerprint and ...
- ... tap volume down to take a photo, or hold for burst
the biggest downside? the AF is slow, so my subject (a toddler) is often too quick / out of focus.

Happy with camera

Apparently 2 seconds from the phone being off to taking a HDR+ picture is slow to some people?
My camera always loads in 2 seconds and can snap HDR+ pictures in succession with zero delay (it processes in the background).
Compared to my N5, the camera is noticeably faster and the image quality is better too.

Not the fastest camera but launches preety fast. It takes some time to focus and take a pictures. For the cost they shoud have improved this.

Oh man, after the April Update, camera launches and focuses so much faster. I am amazed.

From lock to take a picture, sometimes slow or even could not connect to camera. When I just got the phone it seemed fine, now I can't rely. Would 85% storage full affect it somehow?

Sometimes indeed it has some af issues (my toddler is sometimes faster than Nexus apparently) but there are very rare occasions. I take a bunch of photos and I've never experienced any real problem. Camera is responsive, and there is always the opportunity to take another shot

Camera Speed improved with nougat, especially hdr processing

Not fast enough, definitely can't compare with S7 Edge.

Time to take picture (camera launch speed)

There! Something just happened! Did you take a picture of it? Rate this thread to express how fast the Sony Xperia Z5 can go from "zero to picture". A higher rating indicates that launching the camera app and taking a photo is extremely fast such that you never miss an important moment, like when your cat attacks the couch again.
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I felt bad when tried at showroom, it took a little bit of time to save picture. But when I bought it and be installed latest 5.1.1, the time to take and save a picture is less than 1 second.

I think camera app start-up is reasonable but the shutter lag is unacceptable. I once photographed a seagull standing on a bridge and it was still standing when I pressed the shutter but the sensor captured it flying away...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j5hcj2jeazzjs77/DSC_0988.JPG?dl=0

Not good. App takes too long to start, can't take quick bursts of photos and the images take too long to save. It's a real shame.
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I agree. Really not good at all, especially since many other phones on the market take photos in the blink of an eye.

Long time Sony fan. App launch and shutter lag pathetic. Sometimes it takes 3 - 5 seconds to actually take the picture!

It's really bad with Flash ON/Auto, much quicker if you switch it off.

Since Marshmallow it's a little bit better, but it's still way slower than the Galaxy S6/S7. Even my old Galaxy Note 3 was faster. I expected better from that phone in the camera department, and I don't blame the sensor... I think the app is the culprit. Compared to Samsung, LG, HTC and Apple, Sony probably has the worst stock camera app

I think the only way you can minimize it is using the shutter button. Using the on-screen button will slow it down cause more lag because it autofocuses once again. The thing is the Z5 always captures the frame directly after "capture" instead of the current frame. I had an old Sony point-and-shoot from over 10 years ago and it was able to pause immediately to save the frame the moment the button was pressed.
It's even worse on third-party apps because taking a picture causes the camera to autofocus first and struggle for a considerable time before taking the picture.
It's probably poor optimization but I highly doubt Sony will fix it, even though it seems to have improved in the X/X Performance. Now they're claiming 0.6 shutter response from standby and "nearly instantaneous" normal shutter response.

apart than camera launch time, that is depending on various parameters, disable the "photo analyzer" app. The picture save time will be increased dramatically as the phone will not search for faces , etc

Timing to take picture is fast,there is no phone on the market that focusing faster than Z5.Only when you taking bigh resolution photos 23/20 mpx phone needs about second or two to save it.
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Depends on conditions. The camera is very slow at auto-focus. In daylight and a stationary target, there's no noticable shutter lag. At night and/or moving target, it can be a few seconds enough that you miss whatever you were trying to video. Video seems to always take a few seconds to start recording. The camera also does not seem to support zoome of any kind. If I attempt to zoom at all, the picture quality seems to become horrible for some reason.
As for time from screen off, it seems to vary. sometimes the camera app is up in less than a second, sometimes I have to wait a second or two.

last day I worked with my friend's LG v10 fast and smooth UI and great Pictures that I never had chance to took with 23 megapixel z5!
SOC 810 IN Z5 and 808 in v10 and 23 megapixel against 16 , something wrong that Sony can't fix this ! yet.

eng3 said:
Depends on conditions. The camera is very slow at auto-focus. In daylight and a stationary target, there's no noticable shutter lag. At night and/or moving target, it can be a few seconds enough that you miss whatever you were trying to video. Video seems to always take a few seconds to start recording. The camera also does not seem to support zoome of any kind. If I attempt to zoom at all, the picture quality seems to become horrible for some reason.
As for time from screen off, it seems to vary. sometimes the camera app is up in less than a second, sometimes I have to wait a second or two.
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Can you show a screen-recording showing there's no shutter lag? Many users here have noticed - take a picture of cars passing by and you can see it always skips a frame (I would estimate 1/20 of a second).
Xperia X boasts 0.6 second capture from startup yet they won't bring such optimizations onto the Z5. perhaps some of it is due to the hardware, but just about EVERY other high-end phone has nearly no shutter lag, even those with 20+MP sensors.

I said " In daylight and a stationary target, there's no noticeable shutter lag." A car passing by isnt stationary so the auto-focus has to do some work. I don't think 1/20 of a second is noticeable to most people. I mean most movies are around 1/24 of a second and you dont notice. I think for a real camera, 1/6th of a second is about average. 1/20th might be for pre-focused.
I dont have another camera so I can't time it. I tried using a timer on my laptop and taking a photo of my screen while clicking my mouse to start the timer at the same time.
If my phone is in the right mood, using the camera button, I can get a photo off in just less than 2 seconds.
The shutter lag seemed to be about 0.3 seconds. Now if I repeatedly tapped the shutter button, it seemed to be as fast as 0.1 seconds.
So in the right conditions, I think it is pretty fast. In the wrong conditions, its horrible.

eng3 said:
I said " In daylight and a stationary target, there's no noticeable shutter lag." A car passing by isnt stationary so the auto-focus has to do some work. I don't think 1/20 of a second is noticeable to most people. I mean most movies are around 1/24 of a second and you dont notice. I think for a real camera, 1/6th of a second is about average. 1/20th might be for pre-focused.
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I already half-pressed the shutter button so that autofocus is locked - it still captures the frame after the screen flashes. Using manual mode at 8MP with sports mode speeds things up a little bit. Some people on this forum have disabled thermal throttling and the lag is significantly reduced, but is still present. The final capture press after autofocus is determined should be virtually instantaneous regardless of conditions, as it is on iPhone, Samsung Galaxy and many other phones. While there is still some input lag (which is something like 5ms) and the autofocus also slow things down, this is what companies call "zero shutter lag" - even if it isn't 100% true it is still reasonable. Sony Xperia always skips a frame after the shutter button is pressed and that is your final image. This may seem like nothing but for action shots this is unacceptable. And it's not because the sensor is higher resolution as HTC M9+ Supreme Camera Edition has a 21MP Sony sensor that is just as fast as the iPhone 6 or Galaxy S7. So currently, the Z5 is a terrible choice for instant action shots.
It's even worse for video - it always takes me 1-2 seconds for the phone to film the first video. A second video is much faster, but videos showing the Xperia X has much faster video capture on the first go.

I remember Kit-Kat times and Sony burst mode.
Some users now what i am talking about...
Guys what is going on. Software should be faster and faster... I personally bought z5 mainly because of the promises that camera is top nodge and now i can see that is not... Period and i am sory to say that, as huge Sony fan.
Bottom line is that you can have all MP in the world, fancy smancy auto focus, addons and so on, when post-processing is bad, user experience is bad allso.

I'm also annoyed that video and camera buttons are not on the same interface, and you need to swipe. Some people prefer it because they accidentally film video instead of taking a photo, but it would be better if they gave an option, since the initial release had both on the same interface.
And I can't understand why there is no burst mode... Some claim the hardware is too slow but my friend said he had it on the Z3, and HTC M9+ Supreme Camera has it as well (I only tried briefly). I was deciding between the HTC and the Z5 and went for the Z5 because I thought the camera would be better and also because it has quick-charge and runs on a Qualcomm SoC (I was well aware of the overheating issues, but I'd rather have an SoC that is reliable with updates - the M9+ is still on Lollipop in many places!)

No matter what settings I use my camera is very slow, slow to launch and slow to take picture. I normally have to hold the phone still for a second after I press the shutter to make sure it has take the picture properly. It is not terrible but certainly not as quick as other flagships on the market.
I am going to to a master reset of the phone today to see if it helps, I shall report back!

I have taken the plunge and did a factory reset on my phone. It's too soon to tell whether it's had any effect on camera launch speed but let everyone know once I've used it for a bit longer.

Time to take picture (camera launch speed)

There! Something just happened! Did you take a picture of it? Rate this thread to express how fast the LG V20 can go from "zero to picture". A higher rating indicates that launching the camera app and taking a photo is extremely fast such that you never miss an important moment, like when your cat attacks the couch again.
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The camera starts fast. It's the focusing that may fail you. In good lighting is fast enough, but you may still end up with blurry pictures if you try to take the shot the moment the camera comes up. But in good lighting, it's usually in focus. Don't try it with lesser light.. It will need up to a second to focus

well let me put it this way... for me I returned my V20 and went back to the the S7 edge, found the 7 edge opens quicker and take`s quicker pics for me, double hit the big home button and boom there you go, and the small little voulme buttons on the V20 are a pain, I found myself hitting the volume up instead the volume down to open the camera quickly, and in general I still find the pics from the S7 edge better than the V20. but that`s my opinion, and you know what they about opinions. lol

Camera on the lg v 20 needs work. I really feel it's a software issue, hardware is very good.
I miss the Samsung camera. I don't think I can return my v20 so I'll have to deal with it. Hopefully lg release an update.

horrible video recording speed using SD Card, internal storage is a bit better but idk why there's a delay in the first place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KbXS-8QsrQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbK_COczXz0
Is my phone broken?
I think I found the cause of it and it is a software bug/limitation (I’m on 7.0 on the Nov 6, 2017 security patch). This black screen happens when the photo size is set to 4:3 and the video resolution is different (all the video resolutions are 16:9), and you press the video record button. This only affects the stock camera when used in auto mode, and does not seem to affect third party camera apps.
While setting the photo size to 16:9 to match the video resolution, this does not solve the 1-5 seconds of delay when I press the record button and when the phone actually records. The delay seems to be less with third party apps.
Why does LG do this?

Super Slow Mo Recording Length time?

Hey Guys,
Just wondering if there is any way to make the Super Slow Mo time longer then .2 or .4 secs?
Are there any 3rd party apps that allow you to use the Samsungs 960fps Super slow Mo to a longer recording time?
Reason me asking is because i try to record specific videos but hard to time it to capture the event in its 2 or 4 sec window.
The auto capture feature wont catch some small events so that option does not always work for me.
any input would be appreaciated!

andyid said:
Hey Guys,
Just wondering if there is any way to make the Super Slow Mo time longer then .2 or .4 secs?
Are there any 3rd party apps that allow you to use the Samsungs 960fps Super slow Mo to a longer recording time?
Reason me asking is because i try to record specific videos but hard to time it to capture the event in its 2 or 4 sec window.
The auto capture feature wont catch some small events so that option does not always work for me.
any input would be appreaciated!
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I guess not because of hardware limitation..
Im guessing we wold need 16gb of ram or 12 core 3 ghz processor for that.....
But if you find a way post an answer ?

slomo just writes video files with high framerates. apart from available storage space, i dont get why a longer record time wouldn't be possible... unless it buffers it in memory while the write to internal storage is done so to not get dropped frames.
internal storage is quite fast though...

Hmm.. 1280x720 pixels times 960 frames per second = 884 736 000 raw samples per second (assuming each pixel has single color, to be processed for full color, then some other processing, then encoded/compressed to video file formats, before stored).
That is, order of magnitude 1 GB/s of raw data to be processed or stored (assuming 8-bit samples for videos; they could more or less bits). SD cards are still 10-30x too slow to take that raw data in. CPUs (with DSP units) might be capable enough to process and encode that stream in real time.. The RAM might be able to move the data at that rate (so maybe up to few seconds could be taken, if enough RAM is free before the snippet). But there could be a bottleneck on the bus between the camera and the SoC.
Maybe there is some internal buffer that fills up while earlier samples are simultaneously being pushed from camera to SoC, and the buffer fills up at around that 0.4s point.
Note that the [email protected] and [email protected] both are about 500 MB/s, and the system can sustain that. So, the extra 500MB/s * 0.4s would indicate about 200MB buffer size, if that idea is correct.
But, what if we could have even half that resolution (say, 850x480) at 960fps, or the 1280x720 at 480fps? Those should have the similar lower data rates that can be sustained.

Just as a side note - 0.2 seconds on the Note 9 is real 960fps capture, resulting in an 8 second clip with 6 seconds of slow motion. 0.4s is filmed at 480fps, stretched and interpolated such that you get 12 seconds of slow motion as if it was filmed at 0.4s/960fps. So they need to cut the corners in some ways, but I do wish there was a 1080p option like the Xperia XZ2, even if it is more brief.
What I'm somewhat annoyed is that there's occasionally a stutter or frame repeats that occur with super slo mo, especially after the latest update I got a few weeks ago. I tried clearing the camera app data which didn't help.

Gcam Mode Slow Motion Problem Shutter

So, I have Google Cam on my Mi A2 phone...it works 90% perfect. The only problem is with slow motion. When I record in slow motion,there is something like a freeze. The freeze happens random,every 3 or 4 seconds,and lasts for less than a second. The freeze itselfe its not a terrible things,but it happens so many times...It makes the video awful,like when someone play a multiplayer game,and he lags all the time...Any suggestion;

AlexanderPappas said:
So, I have Google Cam on my Mi A2 phone...it works 90% perfect. The only problem is with slow motion. When I record in slow motion,there is something like a freeze. The freeze happens random,every 3 or 4 seconds,and lasts for less than a second. The freeze itselfe its not a terrible things,but it happens so many times...It makes the video awful,like when someone play a multiplayer game,and he lags all the time...Any suggestion;
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In the last few days i noticed the same thing.

mariosenta said:
In the last few days i noticed the same thing.
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Same phone with same config; I have Xiaomi MiA2 with MiA2 config by arnova

AlexanderPappas said:
So, I have Google Cam on my Mi A2 phone...it works 90% perfect. The only problem is with slow motion. When I record in slow motion,there is something like a freeze. The freeze happens random,every 3 or 4 seconds,and lasts for less than a second. The freeze itselfe its not a terrible things,but it happens so many times...It makes the video awful,like when someone play a multiplayer game,and he lags all the time...Any suggestion;
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How did you do it... I tried a lot but it doesn't work