The new model of google smartphone.
they wirte on the selling page"Amazing Photo Sphere camera you’ll have to see to believe.
The first phone with 360° panoramas.
It’s like no camera you’ve ever seen. Up down and all around you, with Nexus 4 it’s more than panoramic, it’s like you’re actually there."
and can anyone show more about the : 360° panoramas about this phone
Check out some examples on Google+: https://plus.google.com/photos/110023707389740934545/albums/5808606988734372865
The images are only a 360°C sphere when uploaded onto Google+, on all other occasions they're just flat huge panorama-like photo's, made of 20+ photo's stitched together.
Has anyone actually managed a perfect picture using this 360 camera app?
If you check those examples. https://plus.google.com/photos/110023707389740934545/albums/5808606988734372865/5815232959605498370
This one ^ This is the similar to the result I get though mine are much worse. The bits where the parts don't match or doubled up....
When I shot a photoshere, it worked in my mobile but when I shared it to Google+, it was like just a photo, without sphere button on it. How did you do it? , sorry for the dumb question.
restlessrob said:
Has anyone actually managed a perfect picture using this 360 camera app?
If you check those examples. https://plus.google.com/photos/110023707389740934545/albums/5808606988734372865/5815232959605498370
This one ^ This is the similar to the result I get though mine are much worse. The bits where the parts don't match or doubled up....
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It's easy to get perfect if you shoot landscapes. I've got some great ones while hiking/snowshoeing. Close up objects are difficult to get right. There is a thread around here somewhere with tips on how to improve your shots. The tip I remember is to keep the phone in the same place in space and rotate it rather than you to get the shot.
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This app right here. Has a bunch of awesome shots.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.kinst.jakub.sphereshare
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since asking the question I have taken quite a few of these Even on Googles how to take them decribes the camera as not being able to do close objects or people. Then I realised it wasn't me messing up
https://plus.google.com/photos/106282274881724123490/albums/5865125087883940049
Here is a load of pics I have taken
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nqk said:
When I shot a photoshere, it worked in my mobile but when I shared it to Google+, it was like just a photo, without sphere button on it. How did you do it? , sorry for the dumb question.
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Has to be an entire globe shot right??
restlessrob said:
Has to be an entire globe shot right??
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Yes, I completed the shot. It works in Gallery and if I copy it to PC and upload to G+ it works too. Dunno what went wrong with either Gallery or G+ in my mobile that prevented me from doing just that.
nqk said:
Yes, I completed the shot. It works in Gallery and if I copy it to PC and upload to G+ it works too. Dunno what went wrong with either Gallery or G+ in my mobile that prevented me from doing just that.
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Ah i dunno. I have share location checked on camera and just use the add to google maps option to share them online
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To get a perfect shot you need to rotate the phone about the lens, and not your body. Now do you see the problem? It's pretty much impossible to achieve without external devices.
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To get a perfect shot you need to rotate the phone about the lens, and not your body. Now do you see the problem? It's pretty much impossible to achieve without external devices.
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And along comes another random user wit useless nonsene
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restlessrob said:
Has anyone actually managed a perfect picture using this 360 camera app?
If you check those examples. https://plus.google.com/photos/110023707389740934545/albums/5808606988734372865/5815232959605498370
This one ^ This is the similar to the result I get though mine are much worse. The bits where the parts don't match or doubled up....
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gazhead said:
And along comes another random user wit useless nonsene
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I was replying to that post about shooting panoramas.
But that was a good comeback I admit.
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And along comes another random user wit useless nonsene
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It may have been more clear what he was replying to if he quoted the post but the point is far from nonsense seeing as it's completely true. The only way to achieve a perfect photosphere is to use the camera lens as the centre of the panorama and rotate the device around that point.
I have quite a few perfect 360° shots by rotating myself not the phone.
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illgodson said:
I have quite a few perfect 360° shots by rotating myself not the phone.
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You can take some very good photo sphere by rotating your body, but they won't be "perfect" because you are using your body as the axis instead of the camera lens. When you view a photo sphere, you are viewing it from the center point of the sphere. If you used your body as the axis, there is going to be small amount of stretching because the photos are taken at a distance from the center point of the sphere.
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You can take some very good photo sphere by rotating your body, but they won't be "perfect" because you are using your body as the axis instead of the camera lens. When you view a photo sphere, you are viewing it from the center point of the sphere. If you used your body as the axis, there is going to be small amount of stretching because the photos are taken at a distance from the center point of the sphere.
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Are you talking about the mini planet ones or the 360° ones?
Here's one I did rotating my body ad the axis, seems pretty close to perfect I can get.
http://sphereshare.net/#!/s/e963abea88440505f79592eacf82f176
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I have my Nexus S from US (I am from Belgium ) and its look OK , nothing spectacular .
I have main problem with camera , now zoom!!!!
Its totally surprised me , top end and now zoom , but even if I try to install zoom application from the store it is not working at all , now reaction .
Is this normal ? or I have wrong phone ?
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iels2003 said:
I have my Nexus S from US (I am from Belgium ) and its look OK , nothing spectacular .
I have main problem with camera , now zoom!!!!
Its totally surprised me , top end and now zoom , but even if I try to install zoom application from the store it is not working at all , now reaction .
Is this normal ? or I have wrong phone ?
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are you saying that there is no zoom on the camera?
It isnt a big deal it is just digital zoom and not optical
You sure there s no zoom? You try pinch to zoom on screen?
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You sure there s no zoom? You try pinch to zoom on screen?
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No zoom.
CONFIRMED that trying to pinch-to-zoom has no affect.
Leave it to samsung. Go get a nexus 1
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Leave it to samsung. Go get a nexus 1
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it has nothing to do with Sammy, its a google thing, The zoom in the N1 was just Digital zoom, meaning that it just zoomed in on the image
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No zoom.
CONFIRMED that trying to pinch-to-zoom has no affect.
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But really, who wants ****ty digital zoom anyway. If you wanted a nice camera on your phone, you should have bought a Nokia NSeries or something man. TO OP: Don't let that be a deal-breaker for you... I'm sure there will be custom ROMs around in given time that supports zoom and 720p video recording. Hope this helps.
Digital zoom on a fixed lens = crappy pixelated pics
I know the gingerbread roms for evo have zoom. But theyre custom. Thought it was in gingerbread though
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I know the gingerbread roms for evo have zoom. But theyre custom. Thought it was in gingerbread though
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Not sure if stock android even supports phones with optical zoom
Yeah, I'm sure it's all digital
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There's an old Chinese proverb:
Man who requires digital zoom,
is an ignoramus.
Zoom with your feet.
bcpk said:
Zoom with your feet.
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very clever
Waky said:
very clever
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very clever to bump a three to four month old thread
zephiK said:
very clever to bump a three to four month old thread
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Same to u
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Same to u
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Same to me
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I have the Galaxy S and just upgraded to CM7 nightly's which gives me a similar cam to the Nexus S. I've confirmed with a friend, and there's no zoom on his Nexus S.
I was surprised to find out, that there is no Zoom on the camera any more, as the Galaxy S (stock samsung) camera application supported zoom via the Volume Buttons.
For those saying "oh it's just digital and not optical zoom" is irrelevant. It allows me to take my crappy pixelated photo with out having to crop later before sending. The quality on the camera is sh!t anyways.
I'd personally like optical zoom and it seems like a standard reasonable feature these days.
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I have the Galaxy S and just upgraded to CM7 nightly's which gives me a similar cam to the Nexus S. I've confirmed with a friend, and there's no zoom on his Nexus S.
I was surprised to find out, that there is no Zoom on the camera any more, as the Galaxy S (stock samsung) camera application supported zoom via the Volume Buttons.
For those saying "oh it's just digital and not optical zoom" is irrelevant. It allows me to take my crappy pixelated photo with out having to crop later before sending. The quality on the camera is sh!t anyways.
I'd personally like optical zoom and it seems like a standard reasonable feature these days.
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You have to understand that the Nexus S is meant to be a developer phone so it lacks certain features that can be later added by the developers in the XDA forums.
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Developer phone or not it still cost the same as the galaxy s yet they didn't add alot of stuff shouldn't the phone be cheaper guess not more I think about this its just dumb Google is really droppin the ball. No tv-out no 720p recording no sdcard no zoom no codecs only thing that's better is the form factor and updates from Google I guess but that's the price I pay for lord Google to give updates rant off I guess
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I love the photo sphere feature. But am struggling how to figure out how to Change it with fancy effects like a globe. Saw a video where he did a photo sphere and made it look like it was on a globe type of thing? I hope someone knows what I mean ?? Sorry hard to explain it.
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After the picture is rendered... there should be a globe thingy on bottom right...while in gallery.
Thanks for the reply, but I don't mean that, its called planet view the following video shows what i mean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUZzeAqImsM
Middle does the scroll around picture, right is where you can do the globe picture thing.
I know, but look more into the video, there is a nice feature where he clicks button and makes it fish eye an other effects
anyone?
this is a stand alone application demo from another company, its not actually in the Nexus 4, if you notice that guy is using a galaxy nexus doing a software demo.
i dont think google has implemented anything except the panorama stuff.
I hope the feature comes to the nexus 4 would be awesome.
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Anyone know of anyway to make the camera on the Nexus 4 better? I think the only thing I don't particularly like about this phone is the camera. Shots are too dark, too much flash, the HDR are always fuzzy. Do any 3rd party apps improve the camera, or are there any mods I'm missing?
Thanks in advance!
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Hdr is fuzzy because you dont hold ur n4 still. You can improve it a bit but you cant really See a difference. just the size of the photo is much bigger of the photo. There is no thirdparty app that takes better photos as the stock app
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bustem said:
Hdr is fuzzy because you dont hold ur n4 still. You can improve it a bit but you cant really See a difference. just the size of the photo is much bigger of the photo. There is no thirdparty app that takes better photos as the stock app
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I know you can't move with HDR I've taken them with the phone still as possible still fuzzy.
Focus seems broken on the camera. Please star this issue to help get it seen to quicker
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=43153&thanks=43153&ts=1359017856
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Focus seems broken on the camera. Please star this issue to help get it seen to quicker
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=43153&thanks=43153&ts=1359017856
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Cool, thank you!
For instance... I have found that the stock camera does a great job on action photos with the sports setting whereas the Super Camera doesn't do so well, but it excels at still photos compared to the stock one. Photo comparisons coming soon... I would also appreciate if you guys could post photo comparisons too and what settings you used.
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For instance... I have found that the stock camera does a great job on action photos with the sports setting whereas the Super Camera doesn't do so well, but it excels at still photos compared to the stock one. Photo comparisons coming soon... I would also appreciate if you guys could post photo comparisons too and what settings you used.
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for me, i love Cymera and Vigenette
settings wise, i only change the mega pixels and i dont touch the iso and other craps.
I like Camera Zoom FX
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Only alternative I really used was Camera Zoom FX. I use stock 99% of the time, works great for me.
I tried several a couple days ago and found Camera FV-5 works really well. The low light shots in that app were hugely better for color accuracy and detail than stock, Super Camera, A Better Camera, Focal, and Snap Camera. Plus Camera FV-5 does make low light shops look like oil paintings, you see the noise and the details both. There is a free version, try it out, I think you'll like it.
I am using the nexus camera app with photo sphere... deff works smooth on my custom rom, can't complain but much better than Samsung stock
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where did you get the nexus 5 app ..care to share
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adroidgalaxy said:
I am using the nexus camera app with photo sphere... deff works smooth on my custom rom, can't complain but much better than Samsung stock
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Why are you saying that about a completely different phone? It's not even relevant.
Photo comparissons would be nice.What i have found is that stock camera with flash or no flash takes ****ty pictures at night,especialy faces,all look like water paint.Its that stupid denoise algorithm...
Because I don't like the foucse in it
Any ting to help?
If no
How can I install the s2 camera?
I want that macro mode so bad
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zocex said:
Because I don't like the foucse in it
Any ting to help?
If no
How can I install the s2 camera?
I want that macro mode so bad
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Hi, You dont like the focus of s5 ? or you are talking about selective Focus ?? alternate for selecting Object and blur background you can try Google Camera
For Macro Mode you can try Macro Lense from ebay
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Thanks, but I would like another sultion.
Since the problem is not a hardware thingy.
When I try to capture a penny it doesn't stick with the good focus and rest the focus into foggy blurry vision
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zocex said:
Thanks, but I would like another sultion.
Since the problem is not a hardware thingy.
When I try to capture a penny it doesn't stick with the good focus and rest the focus into foggy blurry vision
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Can you Post the Image ??
You need to be little Distance from the object.. If you are using Touch to Capture Turn it Off.. Then again try touch and focus the Penny or the object by moving BACK AND FORTH with touching and checking for proper focus.. ma Bad English hope you got the point
Like this
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Check this
zocex said:
Like this
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Bro You are too close...Move back a little bit n then click screen for focus and then capture. Mine is given Excellent in focus.. am attaching a random pics from gallery... Hope you get what am saying for distance.
First one with focus + flash eehhh its Little mess
Second one with Macro Lens :good:
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Bro You are too close...Move back a little bit n then click screen for focus and then capture. Mine is given Excellent in focus.. am attaching a random pics from gallery... Hope you get what am saying for distance.
First one with focus + flash eehhh its Little mess
Second one with Macro Lens :good:
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You have a macro lens on your GS5?
I've had trouble with focusing on items closer than 6-8 inches
Yes got macro lens for gs5
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