Switching between two rear cameras manually - Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers

Hi, I have just bought the rhinoshield adapter and lens kit and squeezes the adapter into my otterbox symmetry case. (it just fits but causes minor lifting of the hard plate in that section).
The adapter allows you to position the lens in front of both cameras. It works well with the main camera closest to the flash.
The camera closes to the power button doesn't seem to activate unless in live focus mode.
My question is this. How can I manually select the telephoto camera so I can explore this rhinoshield lens I just bought.
I have searched the net but can not seem to find a page that tells me how to manually switch between the two cameras if I so choose to.
Many thanks for your time and help.
Halcyon

Halcyon007 said:
Hi, I have just bought the rhinoshield adapter and lens kit and squeezes the adapter into my otterbox symmetry case. (it just fits but causes minor lifting of the hard plate in that section).
The adapter allows you to position the lens in front of both cameras. It works well with the main camera closest to the flash.
The camera closes to the power button doesn't seem to activate unless in live focus mode.
My question is this. How can I manually select the telephoto camera so I can explore this rhinoshield lens I just bought.
I have searched the net but can not seem to find a page that tells me how to manually switch between the two cameras if I so choose to.
Many thanks for your time and help.
Halcyon
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if lighting conditions are good enough just use the 2x zoom.
if not by default live focus uses the the tele lense but in that mode you cant zoom.
test it out by putting ure finger on the middle sensor. if you see an image, that means the telephoto sensor is in use using the conditions described above.

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Camera is out of focus

Hello : Every time that i take a shot the image is out of focus,
Anyone experience this ?
Solutions ?
Thnks a lot
galinha said:
Hello : Every time that i take a shot the image is out of focus,
Anyone experience this ?
Solutions ?
Thnks a lot
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Umm...with details like that, one could guess anything. Maybe your settings are wrong...maybe dust....maybe anything. Tell us your settings, lighting situation, etc.
Thanks.
Night , day , light...
Settings no mater what i put..
No dust !
Best regards
galinha said:
Thanks.
Night , day , light...
Settings no mater what i put..
No dust !
Best regards
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did u try to take pics with the half press?
The above advice about setting to half press is good. Also remember that the camera has auto focus so the picture is not taken for a second or two AFTER the button is pressed. So keep it steady for a while after taking the picture.
Also the lens cover on the back of the case needs to be spotless. and also clean the lens cover inside the casing near the top of the battery. Cleaning these makes a big difference. Some folk have actually removed the casing filter, but I'm not suggesting you go that far.
Mike
mikechannon said:
The above advice about setting to half press is good. Also remember that the camera has auto focus so the picture is not taken for a second or two AFTER the button is pressed. So keep it steady for a while after taking the picture.
Also the lens cover on the back of the case needs to be spotless. and also clean the lens cover inside the casing near the top of the battery. Cleaning these makes a big difference. Some folk have actually removed the casing filter, but I'm not suggesting you go that far.
Mike
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I already removed the casing filter....
What do you mean by half press....?
galinha said:
I already removed the casing filter....
What do you mean by half press....?
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The camera button is a two position switch. Some folk find that if you have it set to full press for taking photos the finger press has to be so hard (or deep) that the camera moves just as you are taking the pic.
To change this so you only need a gentle press half way down:
Enter the camera menue. Tap on the spanner/wrench symbol and choose half press in the Shoot Option menu.
It might be an idea if you posted a pic here so we can see just what quality you are getting.
Mike
Atached,,,90 % of my pics are like this,
I know that this might sound like a stupid question but did you take off the sticker on the inside of the back battery cover. I know I was taking blurry pictures for a couple of hours and finally noticied there was a tiny sticker on the inside of the battery cover. Just a suggestion.
Adrian
I already removed the casing filter.....
Well, that is badly out of focus! So assuming the lenses are clean and no stickers are in place etc then I would take a picture with the camera sitting on a firm surface. Just to rule out the possibility that it's caused by camera movement. If the pictures are still blurred then I would load up the nadavi camera version. If things remain the same then it is most likely a hardware problem. (As it stands there could be a theoretical software issue with the camera using an excessively long exposure time - something it does a bit anyway, but not as bad as to give the effect you have.)
Mike
It looks like its movement plus it appears that the picture was taken inside and is using the auto lighting.... that can easily slow up the camera.

Monochrome lens coming off?

I noticed whenever I touch the monochrome lens (the separate camera lens at the bottom of the 3 camera setup) of the phone that it can be moved away from its position. Does this happen to anyone elses? I'm scared to get water on it now.

Cameras not all working?

Recently bought the phone off Amazon and started messing with the cameras and noticed i could have my fingers over the top and bottom camera on all modes and zoom one each and it never used them? Did I get a faulty phone or am I using something wrong?
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Recently bought the phone off Amazon and started messing with the cameras and noticed i could have my fingers over the top and bottom camera on all modes and zoom one each and it never used them? Did I get a faulty phone or am I using something wrong?
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I heard this and think it is true for the P9 too, but I've learned some things since then. There are a lot of modes and resolution combinations. Try the basics first. Top cam is only zoom. Bottom is B&W.
For example, I cannot shoot with finger over zoom lens after choosing 3x zoom in Photo mode and waiting for the zoom lens to kick in (the image stabilises once the zoom lens is active).
I would try with and without AI, with different resolutions and with different modes. I just tried night mode on 10mp and covered the B&W sensor, so maybe it's all a big scam.
Thought the same first but now im sure all of them are working fine .
The phone can only use two cameras at once anyway to my knowledge .
When you zoom in good lighting it will switch to telephoto cam ( top cam ).
When you shoot in bw it will use monochrome .
When the phone tells you to stabilize fot sharpening it will trigger the monochrome sensor too .

Is there literally ANY way to either use telephoto in pro mode or to force it in phot

One of the main reasons I bought this phone was for the camera specs at the time. However, I now see that the second lens is basically just a prop that does nothing. Is there any way to make it work in normal might aside from locking the focus before shooting something darker? Any option is on the table. Can I somehow tell the API that it's bright enough?

Front camera out of focus when using a phone case

I know the title sounds really weird, but that's because this is a really weird issue (I think).
I noticed that when I use the front (selfie) camera, it was totally out of focus and blurry. Now when I take the phone out of its cover, the image is razor sharp again! I narrowed it down to just the corner where the camera sits. When I take the cover just a bit of on that corner, the image is perfect. When I put it back, the image if out-of-focus again.
To make this even stranger: as a test I decided to put my phone upside down in its cover. And behold! The image was perfect!
So it doesn't have anything to do with the cover pressing against that corner or something.
Anybody else also noticed this? And anybody found a way to fix this?
My wife's S10 has exactly the same behaviour. In the cover: blurry front cam. Out the cover, upside down in the cover, camera corner popped out of the cover: focus all fine.
Who knows the answer?
Time to whip out the Exacto knife!

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