Distortion on edges with *main camera* -- anyone else see this? - Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers

I have the Galaxy S10e and use the main and wide cameras both quite often.
The "Ultra wide shape correction" option is turned ON in my settings for the Ultra Wide camera.
I am getting distortion on the edges of straight lines on buildings, pictures, etc with the MAIN camera. Please see the two images below..
This is very confusing and never happened with my S9 which I owned prior.
Anyone else seeing or noticing this? Any idea how to correct?
Main camera (distorted edges appear curved, but this is a perfectly straight picture frame)
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Ultra Wide (no distortion)

a lot of views on this thread, but no replies from anyone.. am posting up two more examples from a trip last week in Guatemala. you can clearly see the distortion in the close up image (normal lens) and then compared to the wide angle (wide lens) with no distortion.
has anyone else noticed this or can confirm/deny this issue with their s10 normal vs wide camera?
main camera, with distortion on edges of straight line wall
wide camera, no distortion, and you can clearly see the wall is straight

cyburke said:
has anyone else noticed this or can confirm/deny this issue with their s10 normal vs wide camera?
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Hi, no distortion at all on main camera also not on wide. (Exynos S10, April update)
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Check under Camera Settings>Picture>Save Options...there are options to correct ultra wide distortion and selfie distortion.
ETA: above is for S10+...not sure if it is the same on S10e

Hello cyburke,
Thank you for your message, this good to see that I am not the only one to notice problems:
I see shocking spherical aberation on the MAIN camera on my Galaxy S10 on left right borders.
This is the first model of Galaxy S serie that gives such bad distortion, so disappointing for a flagship smartphone..

Hey! You are definitely not alone, but I thought it would be a much more frequent issue. Bought my s10+ from US to get the snapdragon version, so it would be pretty inconvenient to send it back (also it's been with me for almost 9 months). I get huge distortions on main and wide camera. People are stretched so hard, the look like aliens sometimes. It seems like it's not an app issue.

I wonder if camera glass protectors cause this. I have this problem on my Galaxy A51. Do you use glass protector for your camera?

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Bad camera quality

hi there everyone. I got my kaiser a couple of days ago of a friend's friend and its a great phone. i am having a problem though with the camera as i understand its 3 megapixil, but my quality is realy really bad. It is very blurry to the point where the picture is just ugly.
my camera quality is really bad i have one of the newsest camera software installed. i dont mean the lag or anything i just mean the camera quality is so blurry and unclear i have sharpness on high and styll :S
when i press the camera button to take a picture and it auto focuses, before the green thing comes for juss half a second everything is clear buh then becomes super blurry when the green part comes and the pictures turns out blurry (so much for the moment of clarity ). any suggestions or is it jus broken
It would be nice if you would post a pic of the blurrieness so that we can compare with our blurrieness. Oh and the camera is known for being ghetto.
Take the back off and take a picture, most probably it is the plastic cover over the lens, to which can be removed
Like the guy above me said...take the cover off when you take a picture...I finally just got tired of always having to take the cover off, so I just got an exacto knife and removed the plastic piece on the back cover that "protects" the camera...and now my pictures are true 3MP quality =)
A known poor design issue
There have been many threads about this here already so a search will reveal more. What you're experiencing is probably known as Chromatic Aberration which as you can read is associated with the design of the lense and its cover. As mentioned removing the cover helps (as does making sure it's kept clean - not an easy task considering it's right where your fingers go).
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i did a hole for clear snapping pics...lol..
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OMG! You're right. After reading this thread, I took two pictures, one with the cover on, and one with the cover off. The difference is remarkable. I didn't know my kaiser was capable of pictures like this
Here is the proof.
And just think, this is a really old subject that has been covered before. You could have been taking pictures like this earlier if you had found those threads.
thnx everyone it actaully is working amazing now . i had some plastic clear sticker on top of it and when i took it off the camera started taking crystal clear pictures. its BOOOOOM! now

[Q] M7 Is this normal?

My friend recently upgraded to the M9 and gave me his M7 for free.
I love every single thing about the M7 except 1 thing:
The rear and front facing camera.
From the guides on xda forums, i have read that if you double the copper tape and add a copper roll from the screen side, the pink tint will go away. But the problem didnt go away.
So I thought to myself that there is a gap between the camera chip and the copper tape. So I bought Arctic MX-2 and applied a small piece to the chip. It ALSO didn't change anything.
I was hoping that the pink tint will gradually appear as the camera heats up. But it appears immediately...
The front facing camera at daytime is beautiful. However once you go into a dark root, even with 1 lamp lit, the picture gets extremely grainy and the video gets very choppy (maybe 3fps) ? Is this normal?
My question:
1) Is there anything I can do besides, buying a new rear facing camera?
2) Is the front facing camera normal? If I buy a new front facing camera will the issue disappear?
1. No. It's been permanently damaged.
2. No. Grain and low fps are due to poor low light performance.
jdarski said:
1. No. It's been permanently damaged.
2. No. Grain and low fps are due to poor low light performance.
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If I buy a replacement ultrapixel camera, will the camera be the same quality?
It should be.
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It should be.
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If you have a m7, can you please take a picture of your front camera in low light and upload it. Thanks!
Last question:
Where can I get a good quality camera ultrapixel camera in the UK for under 15 pounds?
Cola Vs Pepsi said:
If you have a m7, can you please take a picture of your front camera in low light and upload it. Thanks!
Last question:
Where can I get a good quality camera ultrapixel camera in the UK for under 15 pounds?
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Here you go. One picture taken in poor light and the other one taken with lights completely off.
No idea where you can get a new sensor but do search this thread - it was already posted.
I have 2 M7s. My "primary" I purchased launch day (2+ years of use), solid (awesome) battery life, great screen, and camera is flawless front and rear. My 2nd M7 is my ROM flashing machine, screen is claibrated differently (not worse, but whites are bluer etc, I prefer my primary), battery is worse even though it hasn been used as much, and while the front cam is fine the rear cam has the purple tint issue and is useless in my opinion. Even clear daylight shots it fails in comparison to my primary M7.
What do you think of this camera http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/131254350550?nav=SEARCH
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Poor Camera Quality at Night

I find the camera on the Note 5 is wonderful but lately I've noticed some issues in night conditions that are disappointing. I have a ton of streak artifact. Best way to describe it is to just look at the photos below. I wanted to take some nice photos of my two rides and came back disappointed.
I took photos with THREE different camera phones and none of those did what the Note 5 did. Any thoughts?
Galaxy Note 5 set first, followed by my AOSP G3, and the last shot is with an older generation iPhone.
Note 5 set to auto mode. I tried tweaking things with other settings and nothing could get rid of those streaks.
Imaging quality overall goes to the Note 5 but those artifacts make it unbearable. Is there something wrong in software? Is it a dirty lens issue (and if so how do I successfully clean it)? Is this a hardware problem that I should try and warranty?
Only modification to the photos posted was I dropped the resolution for easier viewing.
GALAXY NOTE 5
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LG G3
Obviously image quality goes down but those streaks certainly don't show up anymore.
iPhone
factory reset is the last resort, try other apps like camera MX or camera FV5, if the same results occur, then the problem is either firmware or something in the sensor.
Clean your lens, rule number 1.
You try and apply the camera mod to increase jpeg quality a bit, but first do what i mentioned above and report back soldier!
That's all lens.
Is there any chance that you installed a rear screen protector for the camera?
If not and cleaning the lens doesn't solve this, then there's nothing you can do, besides eliminating those flares manually in ps or something.
Lens flare is quite common, espeically at large aperture lens such as the one which located in this phone, but these are quite severe and might be caused by lens misalignment or another defect. I'll try to shoot some lamp posts at night and see what's going on with my unit.
welp...tiny...T-I-N-Y scratch I can see over the camera...unreal. I'm guessing that's it. At least in day time it only happens in direct light. Here's an example with it showing and one without it showing...
Flair over blue car...
As long as I play angles enough it seems to get out of the view entirely. I guess I'll be learning a new way to take photos from now on... :/
You can probably get the camera lens replaced without burning your wallet, might want to look into that. The Note 5 definitely took better photos than the G3, ignore the lens defects. The difference there is insane.

Lens flare

Well, it seems that not only the Pixel suffers from lens flare...
Today I tried my op3t camera for the first time in low light condition and... the flare is there.
I'm attaching a picture, you can clearly see the 5 spots on the left of the lamp.
Does it do the same to you? As far as I understand it's a common problem between cameras.
Any way to avoid, or at least reduce it?
Thanks
http://i.imgur.com/tdGlcDm.jpg
There are some camera apps (like DSLR) where you can change the ISO, most of the time when you change to a high ISO value the flare would be less seen
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There are some camera apps (like DSLR) where you can change the ISO, most of the time when you change to a high ISO value the flare would be less seen
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Just tried it and it works. The thing that bothers me is that everytime there is an artificial light there is a flare...
I'm not an expert here but I think a lot of phones exhibit this. My wife's s6 edge plus has weird light retractions in low light.
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Yes. Most phones have it. It largely has to do with the lens attached to the phone. I've had more success on phones such as the Asus Zenfone 3 Ultra. Use such phones and go into manual mode. In all cases I was able to eliminate the lens flare. Too bad I had to switch to the 3T which is a better phone but poor shooter. Can't find a way to eliminate it there yet.
You captured a UFO! No way! Lol. Anyways my experience with low light conditions has been great. This is at a party. So clear I can zoom in to the musicians faces clearly absolutely 0 editing. With Snapseed I can lower the brightness of the lights overhead
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If you having lens problems I feel bad for ya son, I got 99 problems but lens flare ain't one! Hit me!
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Does anyone use a webcam cover? [UPDATE 2018/01/25]: Found one!

Hey there! I was wondering if anyone uses webcam covers on their XZ1C. Since the front camera on this phone is incredibly wide, I was wondering if anyone out there has one that manages to not show up in the wide angle selfie shots.
I like the look of this one - Amazon link - as it lists that it has a 4.6mm hole, which I believe should clear the front camera entirely. I'll order this and report back on my findings if anyone else is curious.
Otherwise, if you use one already and it works, please reply and let me know!
Thanks!
Hello, I'm here to update this. I bought what was in the amazon link, and the cover is just barely not big enough to cover the super wide angle of the front facing camera. As best as I could get it, the image had vignetting in the extreme corners. A not-so-great test image can be found here.
This would work on just about any other camera, as the XZ1C has the widest front camera I've ever seen.
The circle on this cover is 4.6mm in diameter. We would need something more around 5-5.2mm. If anyone can find one, please share!
All that being said, these things are absolutely tiny and razor thin...they'd be great on any other phone! I recommend it for other devices.
Thank you!
Edit: I'm going to try one of these. The internal diameter is 6mm, so it should clear with no problems. The entire thing is just under 22mm long, so it should fit on the glass without hanging off the side. I'll get back with results once I receive this one.
Edit Edit: I got in this exact one up above, the 6mm internal and 22mm long ones. It works perfectly, although right now it still slides around on the screen a bit. I hope it'll adhere better with a bit more time than a few minutes. It fits perfectly around the camera and around the notification light. Most importantly, NO vignetting! I'll post pics of it below.
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Good day.
Nice findings!
As i am searching for a way to protect the back camera lens, your post called my attention.
Have you tried any of those in the back camera?
As the back camera has a bump, i don't know if any of those works.
Thank you.

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