Hi guys. Anyone else have an issue whereby the colors in the photo preview are rich and vibrant and then the captured photo is flat and horrible? Happens in social media apps as well as the main camera. But only with photos not videos. Any ideas? Before and after attached.
The first one looks way oversaturated especially the red channel.
Clear system cache and cam data.
Probably has to do with settings but could be the firmware is displaying previews in vivid display mode.
blackhawk said:
The first one looks way oversaturated especially the red channel.
Clear system cache and cam data.
Probably has to do with settings but could be the firmware is displaying previews in vivid display mode.
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Tbh I wouldn't mind if it displayed the second image, but I don't want two different results. I want whatever I'm looking at to be the taken photo. I'll try that thanks.
Does yours do this if you have the same phone?
Bxperiaz3 said:
Tbh I wouldn't mind if it displayed the second image, but I don't want two different results. I want whatever I'm looking at to be the taken photo. I'll try that thanks.
Does yours do this if you have the same phone?
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That first image is a screen shot?
I have Note 10+'s. I only use the preshot image to set up, frame, AF lock, exposure, etc a shot.
After decades of shooting the final result is all that matters to me. I find shooting with smartphones to be generally annoying.
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Dear all, I have recently bought 2 Xperia T's one for my wife and another for my mother (they both seem to have the same issue).
They are currently running the most recent stock ROM 4.1.2, not rooted just how it came from the box with one big update to 4.1.2.
I have read in many reviews that the camera was good, at least better than the one in Galaxy Note (N7000) or Galaxy S2, nevertheless when I compare the pictures, specially in lower light (just not the ideal, in doors with some light) scenarios they are all extremely blurred.
Am I doing something wrong? I use the 2 stage button to take the pictures, press it a little bit to get it to focus and then I press it a little more to take the picture.
When comparing the pictures in the same conditions, my Galaxy Note 1 does a better job, which is a pity as one of the selling points for my wife was the 13Mgpx camera.
If anyone could help me I would greatly appreciate it.
Many thanks in advance for all your input.
Take the superior auto mode off and try again
gregbradley said:
Take the superior auto mode off and try again
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Thanks for the reply. What should I put? Normal or something else?
Another thing I always use the 9Mgpx settings as it gives the 16:9 instead of 4:3 with 13Mgpx.
Just try with different settings. Its just like any camera, you need the correct setting for the picture you are taking. Superior auto sort of just takes a best guess and is good for quick snaps, but if you want a decent photo then you have to go through the settings and set it up as you want it.
There is a thread in the general section about how to take decent photos, just search for it.
@Johev if you find the thread about good camera settings please share it with me also, I googled but didn't find (found similar threads but for other phones )
thanks bye!
moly82 said:
@Johev if you find the thread about good camera settings please share it with me also, I googled but didn't find (found similar threads but for other phones )
thanks bye!
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Hi @moly82, I have found the thread and it was somewhat useful.
Please see here
As for the summary of the advice is not to use the automatic settings, and to use normal settings with image stabilization ON (it is off be default) and sometimes you can play with ISO, etc.
I did try it and it seemed to improve the pictures so far, nevertheless have 2 complaints:
1) You need to know what you are doing, like for example my wife does not care what the settings are, just wants the pictures to look well. On my Galaxy Note 1 the N7000 or on the Galaxy S2 the pictures on default settings look better.
2) There is no way that I could find to have the default settings in the camera be Normal instead of the automatic [iCamera picture] ones. Which means that after you press the camera button to launch the camera application, you first need to change the settings and only than you can start taking pictures. This every time you launch the camera.
If anyone knows how to change the last point I would be grateful, as I am tiered of hearing that her old Xperia Ray took better pictures than the Xperia T.
Johev said:
Hi @moly82, I have found the thread and it was somewhat useful.
Please see here
As for the summary of the advice is not to use the automatic settings, and to use normal settings with image stabilization ON (it is off be default) and sometimes you can play with ISO, etc.
I did try it and it seemed to improve the pictures so far, nevertheless have 2 complaints:
1) You need to know what you are doing, like for example my wife does not care what the settings are, just wants the pictures to look well. On my Galaxy Note 1 the N7000 or on the Galaxy S2 the pictures on default settings look better.
2) There is no way that I could find to have the default settings in the camera be Normal instead of the automatic [iCamera picture] ones. Which means that after you press the camera button to launch the camera application, you first need to change the settings and only than you can start taking pictures. This every time you launch the camera.
If anyone knows how to change the last point I would be grateful, as I am tiered of hearing that her old Xperia Ray took better pictures than the Xperia T.
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thanks a lot my friend! I have just read it all. I enabled Image stabilization too now
about point 2, here after selecting normal mode every time I start the camera I find it in normal mode, not in iAutomatic again! (but I am not on stock, I am on custom rom, see my signature
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Has anybody else noticed a weird diamond spot on some surfaces though honor play camera?
It is visible only on certain surfaces and colors, at the center of camera.
I have uploaded the pics in a honor club post, link below.
https://club.hihonor.com/in/thread.252357
I have also uploaded the video here if someone not able to compare with pics.
Anybody has any clue why is it there, please check and share your views.
abhishekxing said:
Has anybody else noticed a weird diamond spot on some surfaces though honor play camera?
It is visible only on certain surfaces and colors, at the center of camera.
I have uploaded the pics in a honor club post, link below.
https://club.hihonor.com/in/thread.252357
I have also uploaded the video here if someone not able to compare with pics.
Anybody has any clue why is it there, please check and share your views.
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I just tried this and yes. It's in mine too. Grrrr
After a few tries, I can only get it to show if I use the flash. Maybe it's just a flash issue?
Yep, I have this problem too.
Is this issue fixed? I'm guessing AI mode caused this (if that makes sense)
I've ordered Honor Play 4GB variant India which will be delivered on 4th Oct 2018 Sunday.
Starting to regret my choice.
Al3h1shek said:
Is this issue fixed? I'm guessing AI mode caused this (if that makes sense)
I've ordered Honor Play 4GB variant India which will be delivered on 4th Oct 2018 Sunday.
Starting to regret my choice.
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Makes no sense that it's connected to ai, no. How could it? You can safely ignore the muppets on that other forum ("maybe you have a mark on your jeans" lol!)
It happens with me with Open Camera so it's not even related to the stock camera app. I used to have a sony z3 and that camera added a pink blob in the middle. I just don't think phone manufacturers test their stuff properly.
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It happens with me with Open Camera so it's not even related to the stock camera app.
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Oh cool ! Thanks for the reply.
Got any tips for a new Honor Play user ?
I only see it when I use the flash, on items close to the lens, so I'm wondering if it's taking the image slightly sooner than it should do?
It seems like and it's the actual flash LED glow that's causing the spot?
If it took a millisecond longer to take the pic, the LED glow wouldn't get picked up by the image sensor?
Just a theory.
phorenzik said:
I only see it when I use the flash, on items close to the lens, so I'm wondering if it's taking the image slightly sooner than it should do?
It seems like and it's the actual flash LED glow that's causing the spot?
If it took a millisecond longer to take the pic, the LED glow wouldn't get picked up by the image sensor?
Just a theory.
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No, because for me it happens (I can see the shape) when i've not yet taken the shot so there's no flash, focus light etc. And the shape - it's a rotated square.
It is odd, because I can't get it to occur on every photo. It does seem easiest on trousers! Perhaps it's supposed to be a watermark that's much less visible.
If you only pretend to use your phone camera and instead use a proper camera, like huawei do (https://petapixel.com/2018/08/20/huawei-caught-faking-smartphone-photos-with-a-dslr-again/) then you won't have this problem.
Why did Google remove the auto-flash in favor of auto-night mode in the camera app? I mean night mode works pretty well, but I'll take a picture in a pitch black room and it attempts to use night mode and is completely useless. Instead you need manually toggle flash on and off, which is hidden in the top menu and super annoying. Am I missing something?
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Why did Google remove the auto-flash in favor of auto-night mode in the camera app? I mean night mode works pretty well, but I'll take a picture in a pitch black room and it attempts to use night mode and is completely useless. Instead you need manually toggle flash on and off, which is hidden in the top menu and super annoying. Am I missing something?
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You can always go to Play Store and uninstall Google Camera. This will uninstall the updates and give you Auto Flash back. I'm not sure what you'll give up though without the updates. Of course, if you have Play set to auto update you'd need to turn it off for Camera. I've turned mine back and don't see any difference in my photos.
Egh, that's a decent workaround. thank you
Still seems like an odd choice on Google's part.
People still use flash? I don't think I've ever used it
Shining a light directly on an object or a person you taking a picture of from the very same point the camera is at, is probably the worst lighting scenario you can achieve. Pretty much any semi-usable ambient light coming from a different angle should yield better results, as long as a camera is capable of bumping it's sensitivity, and the the "night mode", while technically is computational, is pretty much just an equivalent of that. Seriously, even just lighting that pitch black room with a "flash" of another phone (hopefully without shine it directly on the photographed object, though) will give you a much nicer picture.
Want a demo? Shine a flashlight (possibly the very same one, from your phone) on another person's face in a pitch dark room, from about the same distance you want to take the picture from. Hold the flashlight somewhere at your nose level. Now your eyes see exactly what a camera would, while taking a pic with that flash.
PS: IMO, removing auto-flash makes perfect sense. Kinda shifts people into using it as little as possible.
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People still use flash? I don't think I've ever used it
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Yea, they do. To see some creative uses, Google "slow sync flash" and switch to images tab, but in general, flash is still very useful. This doesn't apply in any way or form to a mobile phone "flash" which isn't really a flash (too weak, fires for way too long to freeze motion, and that's in addition to being non moveable away from the lens).
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People still use flash? I don't think I've ever used it
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That's dumb.
InfX said:
Seriously, even just lighting that pitch black room with a "flash" of another phone (hopefully without shine it directly on the photographed object, though) will give you a much nicer picture.
PS: IMO, removing auto-flash makes perfect sense. Kinda shifts people into using it as little as possible.
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You're advocating having a second phone or flashlight to add ambient light into the room? WTF lol.
Google should make it an option, if someone manually turn's off the flash, great use auto-night mode...But don't remove auto flash entirely. I don't need artistic pictures.
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That's dumb.
You're advocating having a second phone or flashlight to add ambient light into the room? WTF lol.
Google should make it an option, if someone manually turn's off the flash, great use auto-night mode...But don't remove auto flash entirely. I don't need artistic pictures.
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Agreed, there are some instances when I want to use a flash. Contrary to what some say, Night sight won't always give you the best photo and having that one switch isn't an option that should bother anyone, it was dumb to remove it.
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You're advocating having a second phone or flashlight to add ambient light into the room? WTF lol.
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What i meant is that pretty much any ambient light thats coming from a source that isn't at the same point (shining from the same angle) your camera is at would do better than a camera flash, and you can DEMONSTRATE it by using a flashlight or even a second phone. I don't advocate actually doing it in real life day to day pictures, turn your damn lights on and stop making a strawman.
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What i meant is that pretty much any ambient light thats coming from a source that isn't at the same point (shining from the same angle) your camera is at would do better than a camera flash, and you can DEMONSTRATE it by using a flashlight or even a second phone. I don't advocate actually doing it in real life day to day pictures, turn your damn lights on and stop making a strawman.
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Well agree to disagree then. I've been using cell phones since my first bag phone and have probably take hundreds of photos using the flash. Obviously you've either had bad phones or don't know how to use it because I can and do take good photos using the flash.
One thing i definitely agree about, Android is all about customization, and there would be absolutely no harm in providing an option to get either auto-flash, auto-night-mode, both or none.
Most of the pictures I end up taking are of things for work that I need to be able to read later. That's why flash is absolutely essentially. But also annoying when it's manually-on and used in bright settings (almost entirely because of the delay it adds to the capture).
I attached two pictures one of auto-night mode vs one with flash turned on... and this wasn't even that dark of a room.. auto-night mode doesn't work miracles. - I also dislike that since you're forced to hold the camera still for ~5 seconds, the pictures can end up out of focus.
This kibd of pic would really benefit from high ISO, would be noisy, but readable, and without the glare on the 3 phases column.
And i've just been surprised to discover that pixel 5 camera app (a feature being praised everywhere!!!), unlike Samsung, is completely missing manual controls. Damn.
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As an experiment, can you download any camera app that allows manual ISO, and retake this pic in the same conditions, but without flash, without night mode, no complex magical stuff of any kind, just raise the ISO?
Running into this today trying to take pictures under the bathroom sink and it's too dark for the night site feature and I want to use the flash. They really should have an option that when it's really dark and muddy it'll use the auto flash. It could be defaulted to off and that's fine but there's a handful of times where the night site is just not going to work.
A real obvious need for flash is if you are a gig delivery person and you have to take a pic of the burger in the bag on a very dark doorstep. Night sight •might• work but it's not a situation where you want to be stading around for several seconds for the camera to do its work, all to yield a meh looking image that is barely in focus. Flash, boom, get out. That's what is called for in that situation.
Hi does anyone know where the photo setting that I can set?
Cause I wanna the photos are shown in descending order instead of the newer ones below.
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Hi does anyone know where the photo setting that I can set?
Cause I wanna the photos are shown in descending order instead of the newer ones below.
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Haha good question....the photo gallery is sorting and displaying in a strange way....newest on the bottom and u have to scroll up to see older ones.
Any other app even messaging ones display newest on the top so the phone gallery app is pretty annoying.
Yeap hope OPPO can let us set it in our preferred way, it annoying when you got a lot of photos on top but need to scroll all the way down to see the new shot that we make.
Anyone else experiencing this issue after updating to One UI 4? https://www.samsung.com/us/support/troubleshooting/TSG01001426/
Went to take photos for the first time in a while yesterday, and all the photos using the main lens were distorted and stretched, making us look like Coneheads in portrait mode. Wasn't an issue before, but now it is. Weirdly, what I assume is an option for the wide lens is now no longer "relevant". Any thoughts?
Yes, this has been bugging for so long now.. the main lens photos are so distorted !!
Did you find any workaround ?
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Anyone else experiencing this issue after updating to One UI 4? https://www.samsung.com/us/support/troubleshooting/TSG01001426/
Went to take photos for the first time in a while yesterday, and all the photos using the main lens were distorted and stretched, making us look like Coneheads in portrait mode. Wasn't an issue before, but now it is. Weirdly, what I assume is an option for the wide lens is now no longer "relevant". Any thoughts?
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The issue described in the website link is for pictures taken with the wide angle lens.
Are you seeing the issue on all of your lenses, or only certain lenses?
You mentined using the main lens. Can you test it with other lenses?