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I was was wondering if there's a way to make the camera auto focus without the need of touching the screen to focus it.
Its possible?.
Whipon said:
I was was wondering if there's a way to make the camera auto focus without the need of touching the screen to focus it.
Its possible?.
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Under the settings (gear on bottom left), first page, the focus type should be set to Auto Focus.
From my experience it automatically focuses on whatever is in the box on the screen... however if you want the focus to be on something outside of that area, then you tap on the screen to change the focal distance.
You can test this for yourself by taking a picture of an object that is close to you, keeping it in the box and not tapping the screen, then switching to an object farther away, keeping it within the box... both pics should be properly focused. Finally, take a pic with a closer object outside the box, then tap to select the object and change the focus... the closer image will be in focus even though it is not directly in the center of the picture.
Well, thanks a lot.
I already had the focus type configured as Auto Focus.
Tried taking some pictures and the focus seems to be well, but I think pics taken by touching the screen to focus the camera have much better quality.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
I would tend to agree with that... I usually tap the screen myself as long as I have time... but in a pinch when I just need a quick shot, then it's just point and shoot.
As a "proper" camera, the unit seems to be missing some things I'd expect by default. How do you turn off auto-focus an focus manually... taking pictures at night - the stars etc - invariably the images are out of focus.
Also auto-exposure control - you can turn that off easily for images but for videos there seems to be no way to turn off the auto exposure - which makes the end product look very amateurish.
Finally whenever I go out at night, the LCD dims, I can't seem to stop that and it dims WAY too much?
Any ideas chaps?
scargill said:
As a "proper" camera, the unit seems to be missing some things I'd expect by default. How do you turn off auto-focus an focus manually... taking pictures at night - the stars etc - invariably the images are out of focus.
Also auto-exposure control - you can turn that off easily for images but for videos there seems to be no way to turn off the auto exposure - which makes the end product look very amateurish.
Finally whenever I go out at night, the LCD dims, I can't seem to stop that and it dims WAY too much?
Any ideas chaps?
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It appears that you cannot turn Auto Focus off but you might be able to find a third party camera app in the Play Store that allows this
Settings for video are sparse it's true and again there is no control over the exposure etc.
I didn't notice the LCD dimming, The camera doesn't have an auto brightness LCD so I am not sure what's causing that. Turning the brightness up from the drop down notification bar is easy enough though.
Sorry these are not the answers you are looking for but we have to remind ourselves that this is a premium camera not a pro camera however.
apprentice said:
It appears that you cannot turn Auto Focus off but you might be able to find a third party camera app in the Play Store that allows this
Settings for video are sparse it's true and again there is no control over the exposure etc.
I didn't notice the LCD dimming, The camera doesn't have an auto brightness LCD so I am not sure what's causing that. Turning the brightness up from the drop down notification bar is easy enough though.
Sorry these are not the answers you are looking for but we have to remind ourselves that this is a premium camera not a pro camera however.
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Thanks for that. I will indeed look out for such an app. Agree with you that it's not a "pro" camera - but for example - on the iPhone who's video handling is equally dire, there's an app that completely compensates by letting you shoot 16:9 with auto exposure, auto focus and auto-white all turned off at the touch of a button. This camera really does need such controls to make it useful for anything other than "party" videos. Its a big disappointment that Samsung would miss off such obvious controls having taken the effort to make a special camera app in the first place.
there are only 2 focus modes as far as I can tell, auto and macro.
night sky shots have worked fine for me using auto focus though.
I made some nice pictures of a crescent moon without a tripod or manual focus, and it was sharp enough to see the craters on the moon.
using manual camcorder under expert you can set the brightness, and white balance for video recording manually(wb is under the settings gear)
lcd dimming: settings gear - general - display brightness
the settings gear is hidden under the > and the expert mode can be accessed through the mode button.
don't be so afraid to dig a bit through settings.
I often see complaints about missing/misbehaving features in apps when it's all available through a settings screen.
EDIT: apprentice: auto brightness works using the camera sensor, so it only works while in the camera app.
Thanks for that - so solved the LCD brightness, but I've gone through all the settings and cannot figure out how to turn off the auto-focus or the auto-brightness. Put your hand in front of the lens - and both kick in whether you want them or not... any ideas anyone?
thedicemaster said:
there are only 2 focus modes as far as I can tell, auto and macro.
night sky shots have worked fine for me using auto focus though.
I made some nice pictures of a crescent moon without a tripod or manual focus, and it was sharp enough to see the craters on the moon.
using manual camcorder under expert you can set the brightness, and white balance for video recording manually(wb is under the settings gear)
lcd dimming: settings gear - general - display brightness
the settings gear is hidden under the > and the expert mode can be accessed through the mode button.
don't be so afraid to dig a bit through settings.
I often see complaints about missing/misbehaving features in apps when it's all available through a settings screen.
EDIT: apprentice: auto brightness works using the camera sensor, so it only works while in the camera app.
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As far as I can tell in camcorder mode, the one thing you can set - brilliance- is only relative brilliance - the exposure still bobs up and down like a YoYo.... making the movies look terrible - surely guys there has to be a way to turn this off?
There are black spots on the camera viewfinder when taking photos at night, and the highlighted part of the photo looks whitish. Does anyone know the possible reasons?
Your phone may automatically increase the camera's ISO to improve the brightness of a shot taken at night. This amplifies the digital noise and granularity of the photo.
When taking a photograph or video, remain in a well-lit environment for optimal effects, or turn on the automatic light compensation feature located in the upper left corner of the screen.To enable light compens ation when using the rear camera, set the flash to always on.
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Your phone may automatically increase the camera's ISO to improve the brightness of a shot taken at night. This amplifies the digital noise and granularity of the photo.
When taking a photograph or video, remain in a well-lit environment for optimal effects, or turn on the automatic light compensation feature located in the upper left corner of the screen.To enable light compens ation when using the rear camera, set the flash to always on.
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Thanks for your reply. I tried with this, it is reallly useful.
S10e here.
1. There is weird random selfie rotation. 2 to 3 out of 10 selfies are automatically turned to horizontal orientation. I need to open the editor, turning the photos back. It's getting annoying. I do know there's an option in the setting regarding flipping selfies. But that doesn't solve the problem.
2. Selfies taken with Live Focus do not work every time. The bokeh effect is applied to only some of the shots, while the others are just normal selfies with no effects applied or the button to adjust.
Please shed some lights, thanks.
Hello,
I noticed that certain photos no longer seem to have any HDR applied. Is it when using certain lenses?
I'll see shots that have one part underexposed/too dark. Or, other shots will have blown out highlights too bright. That didn't happen before, because the phone would automatically apply HDR to get good exposure on the bright and dark spots.
Attached is the latest example, where the dark parts of the lighthouse are underexposed, because the camera set the exposure based on the bright clouds.
Anyone else notice that HDR never kicks in? What settings could cause this?
I'm running the Good Lock add-on called "Camera Assistant" so I wonder if that is interfering with HDR? The settings for Camera Assistant are turned off for Picture Softening and Auto lens switching, but I'm not sure why that would prevent auto HDR from kicking on?
In my Samsung camera app, the setting for "Auto HDR" is turned on.
For comparison, I've attached a wide-lens photo showing a more accurate exposure of the same lighthouse. I'm not sure why the normal 1x shot has proper exposure for the lighthouse, but the telephoto shot underexposes the lighthouse? Why didn't the telephoto use HDR like it normally would in earlier versions of the software?