General questions on camera functions - Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General

I was wondering if there are any apps for the galaxy note that allow this:
1. Macro focusing (i can't get a good focus lock for closeup subjects; the camera goes sharp for a moment then blur again as it takes the shot.)
2. changing the video recording format. It seems to be mp4 only on the stock camera app.

1. In micro focusing, it has been the same for Galaxy S, S2 and Note. I can't auto focus. The only way to use it is to change the focusing mode to micro focus and then take the photo directly.

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Camera <-> Camcorder Zoom Weirdness

Going to try to explain this... When I'm using the stock Camera app, the picture is normal. But when I switch to Camcorder, it seems to be automatically zoomed in quite a bit. And when I try to zoom out, it says that since I'm recording in HD, zoom functions are not available.
This is kind of annoying because now I have to step back probably 5 feet to fill the same frame of when I was taking photos.
Is this normal for everyone else too? Or do I have some weird glitch on my unrooted and pure stock ROM?
Yep, mine does it too (stock rom). It only does that in FullHD resolution. I guess the only use middle part of the sensor to read the data to achieve greater speeds, and thus it's gonna be a hardware limitation.
Who need HD anyway ? The lens hardly catch with it. I record 720x480 and I'm very pleased with teh quality.
Change the video recording resolution in the settings pane to 1280x720 and that should fix your problem.
hank00k said:
Change the video recording resolution in the settings pane to 1280x720 and that should fix your problem.
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Yeah I noticed that.
But that doesn't make sense. In photo mode, same resolution as video mode but in video mode it's zoomed in. Like Dr. Sid said, it seems that it uses a smaller section of the image sensor to capture video. Which again doesn't make sense. Weird.
This is definetly a speed optimization - scaling down the whole resolution of camera sensor from 3264*2448 -> 1080p is much more expensive operation than just cropping the central pixels, i assume someone at samsung was VERY lazy to have done the camcorder mode in such a lame way, it's still ok for recording outside scenes but useless for in-room recording.
I find this quite annoying also. At first I was wondering if it is a ROM glitch or something, since some of the people here stated that even in stock ROM it is present also.
I hope there is some kind of patch to this, full HD recording is really awesome and I hate to see the 'zoomed' effect.
Yeah noticed the same thing just last night.. Seems to also affect the camera's ability to focus properly in video capture mode as well... Shame on them, I wish I had noticed this sooner.

Not recording pictures

Hello
My Samsung Focus, stopped saving pictures taken on the camera, the same for videos. It's looking like the picture was taken, and sliding to the edge of screen, on the camera display, but when I try to find this picture, nothing is saved.
Any solution to that? btw. I'm sure the SD card has a lot of free space.

HDR video capture

Hi,
I woul like to ask you if is some option how to get HDR video capture - becouse the last update did not have it (in our country). Does it exist some apk file with ?
I like the Galaxy s4 but the HDR video capture sometimes missing...
Thaks for your answers

[Q] Does anybody else have this camera issue?

Before I begin: I have spent all afternoon and night researching and testing so I have put in a fair amount of my own effort prior to posting this.
I have also posted this same text on the Cyanogenmod Googlge+ page.
No matter what settings I use (resolution, frame rate), my videos always show approximately 30 fps when imported into Adobe Premiere (screenshot attached).
I have tried these various camera apps:
Google Camera, Cinema FV-5, A Better Camera, Focal, Open Camera, IGcamera
I have an SM-N9005
My version of CyanogenMod is: 12-20150319-NIGHTLY-hlte
When I play the recorded videos back they play at normal speed (as you would expect from ~30 fps video).
I tested my Mums Note 3 using her stock camera app (her Note 3 is 4.3 Jelly Bean still) and it worked perfectly when I chose slow motion in the video options it recorded at my selected speed (1/2, 1/4, 1/8) and played back at that recorded speed.
I am aware there is resolution loss but that is not my concern at the moment, I want to first establish slow motion recording.
Here is an example of the stock camera app on my Mums phone: youtube/watch?v=hD84oLB3wYE

Video Camera Lowlight with pro settings

i've had time to play with the pro settings for this camera, since i've been shooting a lot of behind the scene footage for our film, with this phone. I've noticed that the manual settings doesn't stick when you start recording video. This usually happens in dark scenarios. Does the low light feature not apply to the video recording?
I think its for photos only.

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