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Auto Camera Flash

Hi guys. This is my first time posting but I've searched through the forums and can't seem to find much. Is it possible to have an auto flash mode for the camera? I know there's limitations with 1.6 but the X10 mini has this functionality and wondered if there's any way to import this? Apologies if this is a stupid question

It would have great to get this I dont know anything, but after rooting, may be it's possible??? Or the LED light on/off button on viewfinder? then we can be able to on/off led with single click without going in settings

hi all,
ive had bad experience with the x10 camera app and i though i might have a faulty camera or something is screwed up but the problems are with the actual app, ive since started using vignette as my camera app, you can make it as default camera app, ifs got flash on/off/auto, different effects, and it doesnt compress the images as much it leave an 8mpx photo between 3.5mb - 8mb and thats actually the approx size it should be without loosing quality.
ill upload in a few min the pictures ive taken with the x10 using that app
best $3 ive spent on the android market.
S.E. should learn from its developers of how to make a camera app

the images are to big to upload here and i dont want to resize them so as not to loose quality of the originals so heres the link to view the images,
http://img375.imageshack.us/g/20100710160347439.jpg/
let me know what you think,
i think the effects are great, great quality pix

ruskival said:
ifs got flash on/off/auto, different effects
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Woww if it has on/off/auto, then it's very useful
Can you please post pictures of same object taken with stock camera & vignette, then we can see difference in quality also

ruskival said:
the images are to big to upload here and i dont want to resize them so as not to loose quality of the originals so heres the link to view the images,
http://img375.imageshack.us/g/20100710160347439.jpg/
let me know what you think,
i think the effects are great, great quality pix
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It is a really wonderful application!
Thanks for pointing it out!
I love the effects, they are good for some quick unique shots,
ready for upload immediately!

Really wonderful app !

is late at night where im from (Australia) but ill take some outdoor pix tomorrow with both original camera app and the vignette one so you guys can all see the difference. so in about 12-14 hours ill upload comparison pictures

This app is pretty awesome. Funny that the developers could make the X10's flash work like, well, a flash. How the heck could SE not figure that one out?? It's now my default camera app. 4/5 and would be 5/5 if they could speed up the camera. This is my only beef with the camera on the X10. Takes too long to take the actually photo. My wife's iphone takes it instantly, and I must say that given the fact that it's only 3.2 mega pixels the quality of the photos is pretty darn good too. Must have something to do with the app itself.
Never the less Vignette is one of the best paid apps ive purchased to date.

I'm surprised the pictures aren't up lol
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I bought this product on the recommendation from this thread.
http://picasaweb.google.com/107358427786063209630/SonyVsVignette02?feat=directlink
One of the above was taken using Vignette with the autoflash function, 8 mp setting and auto exposure. The other was taken with stock camera with flash light on. Which do you prefer!?!
I would say that I took various photos of different things to see what the difference was but I think its pretty clear to see. The images with Vignette were all poor focus. Needless to say I have uninstalled/refunded the app. I'll stick with the stock camera for the time being.
By the way never done on line pics before so dont know if above links will work!

Whoa!!
Where did you guys buy the X10 with a flash? I want that version! Mine only came with a photo light, which isn't designed to be used as a flash!

The Vignette app from the market gives you flash functionality over the photolight which is probably its most redeeming feature cos the photo quality was pants!

I've had some impressive results with Vignette - took some photo's of a document today using it and it was definitely sharper than with the stock cam..?!

Oh no, so what was I doing wrong?! Why were my pics so out of focus? The reason I sent those two in was that I even put the camera on the edge of the shelf to steady it to see if it was me with camera shake.
Don't say I've ditched a decent product cos I got the settings wrong!

suzed said:
I bought this product on the recommendation from this thread.
http://picasaweb.google.com/1073584...?authkey=Gv1sRgCMaqk_6Q2NT9Sw&feat=directlink
One of the above was taken using Vignette with the autoflash function, 8 mp setting and auto exposure. The other was taken with stock camera with flash light on. Which do you prefer!?!
I would say that I took various photos of different things to see what the difference was but I think its pretty clear to see. The images with Vignette were all poor focus. Needless to say I have uninstalled/refunded the app. I'll stick with the stock camera for the time being.
By the way never done on line pics before so dont know if above links will work!
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Well one is in focus while the other is out of focus, that's not an app doing it.

How do you guys use the flash with vignette app? I have it on my phone but there's no option to turn it on!

Don't you have the "flash icon" on the screen - over on the right, 2nd from bottom when in landscape mode... ??..
And Suzed - Did you change any of the "JPEG file settings" - 2nd icon from the top on the right when in landscape mode... I think mine started on 2mp normal, I've changed it to 8.0mp superfine.

personally ive not have any problems with vignette,
set flash to auto,
8mpx, superfine.
one other thing i did was set in the options to touch screen to take photo, that way it does auto focus and only take photo when you hold it steady, so photos are in focus and great, check out photos ive taken
http://img375.imageshack.us/g/20100710160347439.jpg/
only thing is it takes some times for the photos to be processed and uses up a lot of resources, in my case adw launcher reloads when i exit the vignette app, but i dont mind as long as the pictures i take come out great

i have a question for everyone using Vignette.
In daylight is taking the same overexposed as the stock app?
With the stock app i have control over exposure compensation so, after lowering EV with a stop or two everything is fine but Vignette demo doesn't have exposure compensation support.
How is it in the full version?
Can somebody take 2 images one with Vignette and one with stock outside in daylight at max quality (8 Mp, superfine)?
I bought Camera FX sometime ago but is useless as it doesn't have any EV/ISO/etc. controls.

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.

Desire HD blurred pictures.

I don't know if its just me but I find the cam on the HD to be worse then the desire. I guesting with a better cam the HD must need some settings changed or an update. If I am taking any pictures of a person that moves in the slightest it will always blur. Also when taking video an times when I look back at it the video stops then caches up again. Any tips or advice welcome.
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the laggy video has been dealt with my formatting the SD card to a 32k cluster size. see the main problems thread.
and i agree this camera is poor. my n96, n95, and even my 3.2mpx k800 take better pictures. not a lot you can do other than only take pictures in optimal lighting.

If you adjust sharpness to -2 or so, brightness +2, don't use "Auto" white balance & correctly set ISO depending on you situation, you can take excellent pictures.
Using "Auto" for all the setting or the "Defaults" will result in a sub-standard picture. Test & Adjust.

andyharney said:
If you adjust sharpness to -2 or so, brightness +2, don't use "Auto" white balance & correctly set ISO depending on you situation, you can take excellent pictures.
Using "Auto" for all the setting or the "Defaults" will result in a sub-standard picture. Test & Adjust.
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Hmm..
looks like turning off he auto white balance made a huge change.
much sharper pics.
thanks for the tip!

anheuer said:
Hmm..
looks like turning off he auto white balance made a huge change.
much sharper pics.
thanks for the tip!
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what did you change it to? and what conditions were you in? I find all the options apart from auto give weird coloration when in semi good lighting conditions.

SupremeBeaver said:
what did you change it to? and what conditions were you in? I find all the options apart from auto give weird coloration when in semi good lighting conditions.
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Well i tried sharpness -2 and +2 because in a differed thread they say use +2
Not sure yet which one is better
and i set the white balance to incandescent, which looks nice to me.
and set satuarion to +1
ISO to 800 or auto
Auto focus off (use tap to focus)
I'm in the office btw.

Could you please give me a link to the main problems thread in regards to blured video and formatting the SD card. I can't find it. Thanks.
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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!

im_iceman said:
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.

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...

jitin02 said:
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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