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Rubbish Camera!!

hello guys,
my camera is rubbish, i mean while moving the phone and watching the camera view everything is blurred (dont tell me focus), and when taking a video it records that nonsense

Are you using the Stock HTC ROM? If so what settings are you using? I had no problems with the quality of the Camera or Camcorder.

andyharney said:
Are you using the Stock HTC ROM? If so what settings are you using? I had no problems with the quality of the Camera or Camcorder.
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Revolution HD 1.7, i dont remember the quality on the stock rom, but i think it was better

omg now its very good, i did nothing :S
yesterday i was in a trip to the wild, imagine how many great pictures i missed :S, maybe because i was in the night?? but why do it lag in the night?

Generally pictures taken at night don't look very good. As the the camera sensor cannot pull in enough light.
Next time your out taking snaps at night try adjusting the ISO settings, that could also create more "noise" in your photo. Test and adjust until you find a happy medium.

andyharney said:
Generally pictures taken at night don't look very good. As the the camera sensor cannot pull in enough light.
Next time your out taking snaps at night try adjusting the ISO settings, that could also create more "noise" in your photo. Test and adjust until you find a happy medium.
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thnx for the help bro

No problem at all.

Bad pictures from camera

Hi.
I just received my Arc and I'm shocked by something : the camera does bad pictures, cause the codec is lame. A 8Mp photo take less than 1Mo.
Can someone fix that in a rom or a kernel or is this to hard to do ?
Thanks.

the photos from almost every other Arc are incredible.. I suspect you have a problem... maybe you're settings are wrong .. or there's a fault.
Look here for examples of how good it is.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035589

Look at one of mine (all are the sames).
http://sberfini.developpez.com/DSC_0005.jpg
http://sberfini.developpez.com/DSC_0010.jpg
By the way I'm using an LT15i (3.0.2.A.181) not rooted nor unlocked.

I've just rooted by arc. Is there a way to fix the jpeg compression ratio? It's way too high by default and images are losing details as a result.
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you can try vignette that barely compresses at all - but everyone is pretty much saying that the photo's from stock cam are still better!

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you can try vignette that barely compresses at all - but everyone is pretty much saying that the photo's from stock cam are still better!
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Thanks mate. Yeah I noticed almost everyone's saying that...but if one was to put the facts together, picture size alone for a 8MP resolution image can't be less than 1MB...
Will try Vignette and see if it's better. I just hope there's some kind of tweak (like in the HTC HD2) where you could set the compression ratio to further improve the quality.
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You should try checking your camera setting OP.
Vignette is good, except it takes longer to preview the image in real size, and the unnecessarily 5~6x larger files with slightly worse quality than stock camera app.

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You should try checking your camera setting OP
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What's settings are you talking about ?
What's the difference between the one's who have a good quality photos and the others ? The firmware ? They have a LT15a instead of a LT15i ?
Please help me to understand.

Did you use auto scene recognition? The picture has some heavy noise in it, so I suspect you play with exposure value or select night scene mode.
2nd picture is blurry; Did you hold your arc firmly when taking the picture ?

Yes I'm using the auto scene detection. Should I disable it ?
For the fisrt picture, the flash was activated.
And yes, I was holding it firmly.

I use auto scene detection for most of my photos and they seem much better quality than yours there. Try some outdoor shots and post them, indoor ones can have a lot of noise if the light is low anyway.
I once had similar problems with a nokia n95. Everyone was posting great shots and mine were horrible. Turns out the handset was faulty.

Optimal Camera Settings

Currently using CM7 and I'm not really happy with the camera picture quality (with any rom). Not looking for another app to replace the stock one. I'm interested in tweaking the contrast, saturation, sharpness, exposure, and white balance to produce the optimal picture quality.
So my question is what settings are you using to produce top quality images from the camera?

I've pretty much given up on this phone providing a decent photograph. My BlackBerry Pearl took better shots tbh.
HTC Vision (G2) - CM7 B75 w/AUS radio

Wow... Really? My blackberry pear suck hella lot. There must be something wrong with your phone.
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I would like an optimal setup for the camera as well.

There is no such thing as optimal exposure and white balance settings. It depends on the conditions. For instance, increasing exposure will help in low light situations, but will make the photo look overexposed in brighter situations. Picking the white balance setting that corresponds to the type of light typically looks better than auto, but the wrong one will look terrible.
Taking good photos is an art, and it takes practice. Its not just a matter of picking a couple of catch-all settings.
Also, many poorly lit photos can be corrected after-the-fact pretty well using easy apps like Vignette or Picsay Pro.

redpoint73 said:
There is no such thing as optimal exposure and white balance settings. It depends on the conditions. For instance, increasing exposure will help in low light situations, but will make the photo look overexposed in brighter situations. Picking the white balance setting that corresponds to the type of light typically looks better than auto, but the wrong one will look terrible.
Taking good photos is an art, and it takes practice. Its not just a matter of picking a couple of catch-all settings.
Also, many poorly lit photos can be corrected after-the-fact pretty well using easy apps like Vignette or Picsay Pro.
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As a photographer i totally agree!

+2 if you know what your doing this is the best 5mp cam ive used in quite a while.
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Silly me, I want non blurry photos quickly and easily. It's a cell phone, not a high end standalone camera.
Snapping a quick pic of something is what a lot of people use their phone camera for. Having to fiddle with exposure, shutter speed, light balancing, etc every time is a pain.
Anyone know of a camera app that does better than stock for general pics?
HTC Vision (G2) - CM7 B79 w/AUS radio

onelikeseabass said:
Silly me, I want non blurry photos quickly and easily. It's a cell phone, not a high end standalone camera.
Snapping a quick pic of something is what a lot of people use their phone camera for. Having to fiddle with exposure, shutter speed, light balancing, etc every time is a pain.
Anyone know of a camera app that does better than stock for general pics?
HTC Vision (G2) - CM7 B79 w/AUS radio
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Vignettes auto focus and auto white bal etc is pretty good, my choice over stock app, though it takes hella longer to process images as it doesnt compress them as much.
Although the number one cause for blurry pics is a fingerprinted cam lens, always give it a wipe once and a while.
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ptesmoke said:
Vignettes auto focus and auto white bal etc is pretty good, my choice over stock app, though it takes hella longer to process images as it doesnt compress them as much.
Although the number one cause for blurry pics is a fingerprinted cam lens, always give it a wipe once and a while
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Thanks, I'll give Vignette a whirl.
Re: blur, I guess I meant noisy more than blur. I keep the lens clean. The images just don't come out crisp/clean unless I'm outside and it's high noon with not a cloud in sight.
HTC Vision (G2) - CM7 B80 w/AUS radio

Camera 360
I tried the stock app on CM 6.1, Vignette, and Camera 360 all shooting the same indoor shot under fluorescent lighting. Camera 360 had the sharpest and best coloring of any of the three. I use it now as my main camera app. I don't know if it's the best, but it's the one I like the most.

onelikeseabass said:
Re: blur, I guess I meant noisy more than blur. I keep the lens clean. The images just don't come out crisp/clean unless I'm outside and it's high noon with not a cloud in sight.
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What that person said, about the #1 cause of blurry pics being fingerprints, is hogwash. The main reason for blurry photos is an aperture that is too small, and ISO that is too low for the lighting conditions, resulting in the shutter having to stay open longer to capture the image. This allows more time for the camera or subject to move while the shutter is open, which causes a blurry photo.
http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/129/the-top-4-causes-of-blurry-photos-and-how-to-fix-them/
Photos can also appear noisy or over-processed. This is due to the camera trying to increase the ISO (light sensor sensitivity), or manually increasing the ISO, to compensate for low lighting.
Point and shoot cameras try to do the work for you by automatically adjusting the aperture, ISO, and shutter speed. So the recommendation for a different camera app (which all handle these adjustments slightly differently) is probably a good place to start if you aren't comfortable making the adjustments manually (and its often not convenient).
But practice and understanding how cameras work goes a lot farther. You'd be surprised at how much you can improve your photos with simple tricks that don't involve camera settings. Just slightly shifting the point of focus can significantly improve the amount of light entering the lens. Or bracing the camera/phone on a stationary object (like a piece of furniture, or a building column) to create an impromptu tripod, can control the camera jitter just enough to get a less blurry photos in low light.

Found this in the Desire HD section, though some of the options aren't available to us.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=875230&highlight=camera+settings

boost3d23 said:
Found this in the Desire HD section, though some of the options aren't available to us.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=875230&highlight=camera+settings
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Interesting read, thanks for linking it. Although to clarify your comment, some of the options discussed on the guide aren't available on non-Sense ROMs. But those on Sense have all the options available.
Also interesting to see the Desire and Desire HD cameras compared side-to-side to the iPhone 4. I know the camera on the Desire Z (or even my older Touch Pro 2) is decidedly better than the iPhone 3GS. My wife owns a 3GS, and she is always commenting on how much better the photos taken by my phone are. But I know Apple made some improvements to the camera for the iPhone 4, so I was wondering how things netted out. While the Desire Z was not specifically compared, its newer than the Desire (and same MP), while being the same generation as the HD (but the HD is 8 MP). So I'm just guessing the Desire Z falls somewhere in between the two in photo quality.

Nothing beats the iPhone 4 when it comes to the camera and the photo/videos - I'm jumping ships when the iPhone 4S hits T-Mobile!
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What i dont like about the cam is the noise. at first (scaled to fit the screen) it looks very good. once you transfer it to your pc and view the normal size, noise is all over.
any setting to reduce that? ISO?

ptesmoke said:
+2 if you know what your doing this is the best 5mp cam ive used in quite a while.
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I've got to say that the camera on this thing is the one thing I was disappointed with when moving from my Nokia N95 8gb. That thing had the best camera I've EVER seen on a phone, and I think it was a combination of a better sensor and a considerably better (and larger) lense. This thing takes decent pictures, and they actually look good when printing in like a 4x6 or smaller, but the quality overall is pretty disappointing. I've given up on getting better pictures out of it and just take what I can.

TL24 said:
Nothing beats the iPhone 4 when it comes to the camera and the photo/videos - I'm jumping ships when the iPhone 4S hits T-Mobile!
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You have any proof to back that statement up? Because the side-by-side comparison in the linked guide above clearly shows the photos on both the old Desire, and the Desire HD are significantly superior to photos taken on the iPhone 4, for indoor conditions.
Hyperbolic statements, with no proof make you sound like Steve Jobs.

Cm7 already has a built in mod to allow you to take pictures in 720p and you can activate deblur fhor our unsteady hands. Its in the settings tab of the camera on cm7 just scroll down a little
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rajbaba2 said:
Cm7 already has a built in mod to allow you to take pictures in 720p and you can activate deblur fhor our unsteady hands. Its in the settings tab of the camera on cm7 just scroll down a little
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They still look like crap.
HTC Vision (G2) - CM7 B91 w/AUS radio

dark camera photos problem

As soon as I take a picture it becomes darker than it's before taking snapshot..is it some bug or do I have to edit some setting to get normal quality?

I noticed this as well. Coming from the Infuse which didn't have this issue I'm beggining to suspect it has something to do with the actual camera application.
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i think that's normal behaviour for a camera witch supports maximum iso set to 800.
In low light condition, a dslr camera will normally use iso within 1600-3200 or even more, to assure that 'what you see is what you get'.
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Try using 'Camera360 Ultimate' (free in the Market) and see if you get lighter images. I don't think it's the hardware/ROM, I think it's just the default camera app which is causing this issue.

Even I am having this problem on my Note. The photos lack brightness This problem was not there on my Samsung Galaxy SII

Technoholik said:
Even I am having this problem on my Note. The photos lack brightness This problem was not there on my Samsung Galaxy SII
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ya i tried my brothers s2 and it didnt have any problems like this.

Actually it make sense for camera to set lower exposure. Over exposed photo loses more details than under exposed photos. You can always use apps to increase the exposure.
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Tried Camera 360 with default settings. No difference.
Then using the stock app, I tried taking a snap without flash and it turned out brighter!!

Technoholik said:
Tried Camera 360 with default settings. No difference.
Then using the stock app, I tried taking a snap without flash and it turned out brighter!!
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Oh ofcourse you shouldn't be using flash. I generally keep the flash off for still photos.
The best way to take good photos indoors is to change the following settings:
Settings > Scene Mode > Night
Settings > Exposure Value > +2 (If Required)
Keep your hands & the subject steady.
I always use the above settings & never use flash for stills. Use Flash only for Video Recordings.

Raghav1980 said:
Oh ofcourse you shouldn't be using flash. I generally keep the flash off for still photos.
The best way to take good photos indoors is to change the following settings:
Settings > Scene Mode > Night
Settings > Exposure Value > +2 (If Required)
Keep your hands & the subject steady.
I always use the above settings & never use flash for stills. Use Flash only for Video Recordings.
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Thanks.. Will try it out and update..

It seems that the camera app shoots your screen brightness to 100% inside the camera app while taking the picture.
After you take the picture, the screen drops down to your normal brightness setting (for me quite dim), and the picture looks really dark.
Try setting your brightness to 100% before shooting and you'll see what I mean.
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That worked Chod..I was banging my head on the wall last night. I thought it might have been a kernel issue.

Camera Settings u use to take best picture

So, lets discuss what settings u r using to take best (good) pictures on ur Note2 camera, also post the picture
It would be great if every one here also provides the settings via. They love the most and use the most and suggest them also. That's what basically I opened up this thread
Basically a place where we can share what we know so that all can also learn and take most out of there note2 camera

So let's start guys! I always wanted to know the best configs. to take the best photos at the right moments. At the moment, I'm using ''Lucky'' configurations. Please, share your knowledge with our community. :highfive:

I guess lower exposure setting is one way.

You need just 2 settings so as to have the best photos everywhere and any time.
First one is HDR specially when your plan has strong shadows in different places.
It helps to have the same light at all the picture. No white sky or dark down part..
See my photos:
First one with HDR. See the sky color.
Second normal settings
An other very important setting is the "Low light". It gives you nice results at places like a room with low light, when you can't use flash.
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super fine, anti hand shake, single shot, 8M pixel, and other effects depends on situation

No matter if I select low light or normal..low li8 photos always comes out grainy..any suggestions? ?
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With the Note 2 camera there are many options to take great photos. There isn't 1 particular option that works better than the others. Each option is tailored to suit a specific set of circumstances in which your taking the photograph. Your best bet would be to go through each and everyone of the different options and find the 1 that best suits the situation in which your trying to take a photograph and play around with the settings.
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sumeshd said:
No matter if I select low light or normal..low li8 photos always comes out grainy..any suggestions? ?
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If u tryin to shoot on a area already havin enogh light. U shud decrease the iso to 200/400. N if its dark then increase the exposure a lil.
Thtd wat I read on googl. Correct me if m wrong.
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From a photographer's perspective, it is ridiculous to see people forcing shots in the worst lighting situation possible. Usually, light is everything, and every step possible is taken to provide enough ambient light, bounce light, indirect light so you can take it at the lowest ISO settings without blur from handshake. Sunny days with no clouds at noon are the worst times to shoot. Deep overcast days at noon are best lighting situations as long as you don't want rich blue skies in your photos.
The settings I like to change most are exposure and white balance. I think HDR works great also. I've changed my shortcuts so that I have always in front of me is white balance, exposure, ISO, light metering.
I always have that no good flash off. Always have guidelines on.

Lucidmike said:
From a photographer's perspective, it is ridiculous to see people forcing shots in the worst lighting situation possible. Usually, light is everything, and every step possible is taken to provide enough ambient light, bounce light, indirect light so you can take it at the lowest ISO settings without blur from handshake. Sunny days with no clouds at noon are the worst times to shoot. Deep overcast days at noon are best lighting situations as long as you don't want rich blue skies in your photos.
The settings I like to change most are exposure and white balance. I think HDR works great also. I've changed my shortcuts so that I have always in front of me is white balance, exposure, ISO, light metering.
I always have that no good flash off. Always have guidelines on.
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Its good to see a photographer here.
But it would be great if every one here also provides the settings via. They love the most and use the most and suggest them also. That's what basically I opened up this thread
Basically a place where we can share what we know so that all can also learn and take most out of there note2 camera
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That's all??
Others don't use there camera or they don't know how to use!!!
Come on guys. Post your picture along with setting you like the most
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im no photographer.. so stock everything for me. but the pics usually come out quite well.
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So I guess no one takes pictures ..........
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Lucidmike said:
From a photographer's perspective, it is ridiculous to see people forcing shots in the worst lighting situation possible. Usually, light is everything, and every step possible is taken to provide enough ambient light, bounce light, indirect light so you can take it at the lowest ISO settings without blur from handshake. Sunny days with no clouds at noon are the worst times to shoot. Deep overcast days at noon are best lighting situations as long as you don't want rich blue skies in your photos.
The settings I like to change most are exposure and white balance. I think HDR works great also. I've changed my shortcuts so that I have always in front of me is white balance, exposure, ISO, light metering.
I always have that no good flash off. Always have guidelines on.
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Explain your reason behind "Always have the guidelines on" please!

Standard settings work for me. Just flash off and judicious use of the manual focus for some bokeh as required. It's a shame that there's no AE lock that I can find, whereas the iPhone has AE/AF lock from touching each point. As a result I set one of the camera quick settings for manual exposure control.
What the guy further up said is true, the setting and camera can only do so much, the rest is up to the photographer. I've seen amazing pictures from way worse phone cameras than the Note 2!
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HDR. kinda weird its not the default setting when it should be for most of the time...

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So I guess no one takes pictures ..........
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People do take picture, there is a thread for that: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1916475&highlight=photo
and my 2 cents about settings: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36293426&postcount=317
I forgot to mention i have always the gridline on, it's useful for framing according to the "rule of third".
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Att.Fan1982 said:
Explain your reason behind "Always have the guidelines on" please!
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It's a great help for framing according to the "rule of third". An explanation here in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds

superweird said:
HDR. kinda weird its not the default setting when it should be for most of the time...
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No, not if anything is moving in the shot you are trying to take. ...

Low light no flash single shot.

Exposure up or low light mode in low light settings. Iso down in bright settings as needed. Hdr is good for landscapes. Make use of white balance settings under different lighting indoors (incandesent, florecent, etc.).
Another fellow photographer here.
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