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does anybody have the same problem?
its very hard to make a photo that is in focus and steady.
i have compared it to my old galaxy S2, and the S2 makes much better photos.
on the S2 every single photo i take is rock steady and in focus.
on the S4 its very hard to do that. every photo looks like i am shaking like an old man. it almost impossible to take a good photo.
karl999999 said:
does anybody have the same problem?
its very hard to make a photo that is in focus and steady.
i have compared it to my old galaxy S2, and the S2 makes much better photos.
on the S2 every single photo i take is rock steady and in focus.
on the S4 its very hard to do that. every photo looks like i am shaking like an old man. it almost impossible to take a good photo.
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Do you have auto low light enabled? Where are you taking the photo? Indoors outdoors?
Have the same problem on I9500. Not that we have shaky hands..
cameracartwright said:
Do you have auto low light enabled? Where are you taking the photo? Indoors outdoors?
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no i dont have auto low light enabled.
it does not matter where i take photos, indoor or outdoor.
3 of 4 photos are shaky.
i hope there will be a firmware update for the camera hardware soon.
karl999999 said:
no i dont have auto low light enabled.
it does not matter where i take photos, indoor or outdoor.
3 of 4 photos are shaky.
i hope there will be a firmware update for the camera hardware soon.
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Check the shutter speed on your photos.
Go to gallery/select the menu hard key/scroll down to details on the photo and should state shutter speed, iso, location etc
Tell me what they say on the blurred/shakey pics and iff different on the in focus shots mate.
cameracartwright said:
Check the shutter speed on your photos.
Go to gallery/select the menu hard key/scroll down to details on the photo and should state shutter speed, iso, location etc
Tell me what they say on the blurred/shakey pics and iff different on the in focus shots mate.
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it varies very much. from 1/17s to 1/1000s
but all are sometimes in focus and out of focus.
what i find is that the galaxy S2 makes perfect steady pics no matter what i do or even when i shake the S2.
on the S4 i have to be very very still and hold the cam very steady for a long time, then the chance is better to make a still foto. its unusable at the moment.
Has nobody found the anti-shake feature in camera settings?
Plus, you can take a photo by saying 'cheese', leaving your hands/fingers free to hold the phone steady
prodigyX said:
Has nobody found the anti-shake feature in camera settings?
Plus, you can take a photo by saying 'cheese', leaving your hands/fingers free to hold the phone steady
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the anti shake feature does almost nothing.
karl999999 said:
it varies very much. from 1/17s to 1/1000s
but all are sometimes in focus and out of focus.
what i find is that the galaxy S2 makes perfect steady pics no matter what i do or even when i shake the S2.
on the S4 i have to be very very still and hold the cam very steady for a long time, then the chance is better to make a still foto. its unusable at the moment.
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Images at 1/17 unless held very still will come out shakey, check the iOS setting on your camera press menu hard key then settings then see if ISo is on auto.
Are you taking photos of distant objects or objects/items close up or both? Sorry for so may questions just trying to help
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prodigyX said:
Has nobody found the anti-shake feature in camera settings?
Plus, you can take a photo by saying 'cheese', leaving your hands/fingers free to hold the phone steady
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Press hardware menu key on camera then settings and scroll down to see Antishake it's disabled by default. It simply increases ISO so your images will in low light look slightly more grainy/noisy but this enables a faster shutter speed: less lightly to be blurred from motion or movement
the anti shake is turned on, but does not really improve anything.
yes ISO is set to auto. what would be the best manual ISO setting?
i am not a photographer so my knowledge about ISO is also shaky
but the general question is: why was the S2 always steady without changing any settings, and the S4 seems to need hard work to get good photos? or am only i getting this?
if you just take the phone out of the pocket and take a foto quickly,
do you guys get a steady in focus foto every time?
i could do this with my old S2, but not with the S4.
karl999999 said:
the anti shake is turned on, but does not really improve anything.
yes ISO is set to auto. what would be the best manual ISO setting?
i am not a photographer so my knowledge about ISO is also shaky
but the general question is: why was the S2 always steady without changing any settings, and the S4 seems to need hard work to get good photos? or am only i getting this?
if you just take the phone out of the pocket and take a foto quickly,
do you guys get a steady in focus foto every time?
i could do this with my old S2, but not with the S4.
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on my i9505 I've yet to produce an out of focus shot (taken about 10pictures, 3 in low light)
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karl999999 said:
no i dont have auto low light enabled.
it does not matter where i take photos, indoor or outdoor.
3 of 4 photos are shaky.
i hope there will be a firmware update for the camera hardware soon.
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The latest firmware (i9505xxuamdm) has a firmware update for the camera. If your photos look shaky and out of focus even in daylight and sunny conditions, you might have a faulty camera. I have not yet had any focus issues and photos taken with my S4 are steady, even in low light, the most beautiful pictures taken with a mobile phone. So you might have a faulty camera module.
Regarding the 1/17 exposure time, I have just taken a picture now in very low light and the exposure time is just that, with an ISO of 320 and Aperture 2.2, and it is sharp and in focus (taken from the hand). Have you tried focusing first by touching the screen where you want the focus to be rather than pressing the shutter button directly?
camera firmware update sounds good. do you have the apk file for it?
Hi there all
I have this issue too. I have taken photos inside and outdoors with anti shake on and off and no matter what settings I use the pictures always appear to have blur due to shake on them. It's as if the camera always selects a really long shutter speed.
I have also applied the latest firmware update with no benefit.
Cheers
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Have you all removed the plastic film on the lens?
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wtfshouldidonow said:
Have you all removed the plastic film on the lens?
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YES! it was difficult to remove but yes i did when i got the phone.
karl999999 said:
does anybody have the same problem?
its very hard to make a photo that is in focus and steady.
i have compared it to my old galaxy S2, and the S2 makes much better photos.
on the S2 every single photo i take is rock steady and in focus.
on the S4 its very hard to do that. every photo looks like i am shaking like an old man. it almost impossible to take a good photo.
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i don know WHY but when i turned off image stabilizer it took photo better :-??
Same Problem
I had the same problem with out of focus/shaky pictures plus that sometimes when I wanted to turn on the camera to make pictures I received a camera busy message. The last 3 pictures that I've took with SG4 I had to use the best out of 8 picture setting to get a clear picture of a product that I make... I also noticed that even that I had better signal than HTC One or Iphone 3GS the internet was way slower compared to the other 2 phones and sometimes at home I had to turn off and on the WIFI, cause it wasn't working...
karl999999 said:
Photos shaky... does anybody have the same problem?
its very hard to make a photo that is in focus and steady.
.... every photo looks like i am shaking like an old man. it almost impossible to take a good photo.
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Have you tried drinking less alcohol when taking these photos?
And if that doesn't work, drink more!
Yup.. so annoying. On my last phone it took mostly clear photos. On this, you have to be still as a hair... it constantly uses low shutter speeds instead of higher ISO's making it use 1/16 shutter speed in the most inconvenient times. With my last phone (HTC Rezound), id use the cam under a bright LED flashlight and take steady shots of old paper photographs so I could post them online for friends. Im trying to do the same thing with the S4 and the pics keep coming out blurry, even when im completely still. Its a very bright light so idk why its choosing slow shutter speeds. I end up giving up trying to get a clear shot... ridiculous.
On another note... it does take very clear daytime pics. ....
Anybody else getting this. It's about a 2 second gap. I'm thinking it's only relatively low light but it's annoying and misses photos.
All camera apps seem to have the same delay between pressing the shutter and actually taking the photo so it has to be hardware.
fr4nk1yn said:
Anybody else getting this. It's about a 2 second gap. I'm thinking it's only relatively low light but it's annoying and misses photos.
All camera apps seem to have the same delay between pressing the shutter and actually taking the photo so it has to be hardware.
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hmm that's weird, mine only takes 0.5 secs even when it requires focusing. If I had focused before I pressed the shutter button, it takes the photo almost instantly.
If you have hdr on it has additional processing...if you have IA intelligent autofocus it had a delay to focus when you click shoot. If you just use manual focus and no IA it will fire as expected.
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Try to tap to focus on anyhting you want to focus,it will be faster.
fr4nk1yn said:
Anybody else getting this. It's about a 2 second gap. I'm thinking it's only relatively low light but it's annoying and misses photos.
All camera apps seem to have the same delay between pressing the shutter and actually taking the photo so it has to be hardware.
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As the others said, be sure to tap to focus first.
Also, you can hold down the shutter button to force a focus and then let go to instantly take the shot. It locks the focus.
Mine does the same in low light situations. If tap to focus it still takes the same amount of time all together as I have to wait for it to focus still when I tap. And when I pan around its really slow. In normal or bright lighting I have no issue.
I think asia cnet's camera comparison just solved this.
They think there's post processing going on under certain low light conditions.
I have'nt checked being I'm still reading the article. If the shutter speed is stripped from the EXIF info we can be almost certain that's our delay.
Hi all,
I haven't been used any phone which have optical image stabilization (OIS). I decide to buy a new Galaxy S7. I come to a store and give some tests. When I zoom in and take some photos using volume down button, I see camera trembles. When I restart the camera app, everything is back to normal. This happened twice.
Please help to check this video:
(sorry that I don't have enough 10 posts to post link here)
youtube.com/watch?v=7yhz4S7mM5g
So, it's a major problem or is it ok? Why did the camera tremble? And does this happen to other phone which support OIS camera?
welcomyou said:
Hi all,
I haven't been used any phone which have optical image stabilization (OIS). I decide to buy a new Galaxy S7. I come to a store and give some tests. When I zoom in and take some photos using volume down button, I see camera trembles. When I restart the camera app, everything is back to normal. This happened twice.
Please help to check this video:
(sorry that I don't have enough 10 posts to post link here)
youtube.com/watch?v=7yhz4S7mM5g
So, it's a major problem or is it ok? Why did the camera tremble? And does this happen to other phone which support OIS camera?
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Oís is only for video I believe
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Brava27 said:
Oís is only for video I believe
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It should be for the camera too. Ois is mechanical is it not? So if its video or pictures it should stable out. I would think
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zathus said:
It should be for the camera too. Ois is mechanical is it not? So if its video or pictures it should stable out. I would think
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I just did it. Seemed pretty stable to me. It's going to move a little bit but it wasn't jerky. It was more of smooth left and right ups and downs
welcomyou said:
Hi all,
I haven't been used any phone which have optical image stabilization (OIS). I decide to buy a new Galaxy S7. I come to a store and give some tests. When I zoom in and take some photos using volume down button, I see camera trembles. When I restart the camera app, everything is back to normal. This happened twice.
Please help to check this video:
(sorry that I don't have enough 10 posts to post link here)
youtube.com/watch?v=7yhz4S7mM5g
So, it's a major problem or is it ok? Why did the camera tremble? And does this happen to other phone which support OIS camera?
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Turn off Video Stabilization in the settings, because that is software stabilization. It will switch to OIS if you turn it off.
IOS is always on for photos or video. here is a good look.. go to 6:15
I don't think you can turn off ois. It's literally a floating lense. All it does is reduce micro movements you make by letting the lense float and not react immediately with your body movements. If you point it at something and move slightly you will notice it takes a second to sort of drift over on screen. Pretty cool.
After reading the Google ai blog about Nightsight and testing the functionality intensely, i realise that Nightsight is the best setting for every single pictures on the Pixel 2.
Nightsight superiority come with motion metering. An exclusivity to the Pixel 3 HDR+ mode but also available on Nightsight with the pixel og and 2.
In short, motion metering analyse the phone movement (how much you shake) and the scene movement. Base on that, the camera will adjust the iso and shutter time but also the number of frames it will take to compose the image, all of that to create the best picture. Without motion metering, the phone only adjust its setting based on light intensity of the scene.
For exemple, the scene Is still and you're almost not shaking, the camera will use a much lower iso and longer shutter time to create lowest noise possible.
Another exemple, the kids are moving fast, they are playing, camera with motion metering will use an higher iso and faster shutter time to capture the moment. The picture will have more noise, but the moment will get captured!
After testing about 100 pictures, Nightsight is always superior to HDR+, except in broad daylight were they are equal (all use low iso and fast shutter time in those instances).
Motion metering is really one of the perk that help Pixel 3 reduce the noise in the picture and unfortunately, we can only get this with Nightsight.
To help motion metering do it's job, you need before pushing the triggers reduce you're movement to what you will most likely reproduce while taking the picture
I would think it's actually not good for action shots like kids and sports because there's a pause. [emoji848]
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EeZeEpEe said:
I would think it's actually not good for action shots like kids and sports because there's a pause. [emoji848]
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Nope, it's meant for movement.
The pause you see is because it capture pictures after you press the shutter while HDR+ mode has already capture the picture once you press the button. HDR+ is an infinite loop that capture about 15 pictures and when you press the shutter, it take the last 15. This is why there's no perceptibly delay, the pictures were already taken!
Here an exemple:
My hand is moving in front of the camera
With normal HDR+ mode it use iso of 467 with a shutter time of 1/60. The image is blurry
With Nightsight, it detect the movement and use an iso of 1684 and a fast shutter time of 1/236. This is Much better to capture a fast moving image. The image is less blurry.
Now the last image is my hand not moving. Nightsight detect no movement so it lower the iso to a super low iso of 50 and a shutter time of 1/6. The image is almost perfect. Much better for no movement and to capture more light! With normal HDR+ mode, it would still use iso of 467 with a shutter time of 1/60.
Nightsight does all this automatically. It's so superior it turn normal HDR+ like a bad product
I was talking about a pause as in shutter lag from pressing the button to actually getting the pic captured. Are you comparing with "HDR+ On" or "HDR+ Enhanced"? "On" has zero shutter lag while "enhanced" has shutter lag. I feel like Night Sight isn't as fast as "On" in shutter response. So yes it might bump up the shutter speed and ISO but if there's a lag in actually capturing the pic, you'll still miss the shot. Unless you have something like Top Shot which doesn't work with Night Sight I believe.
von_block said:
Nope, it's meant for movement.
The pause you see is because it capture pictures after you press the shutter while HDR+ mode has already capture the picture once you press the button. HDR+ is an infinite loop that capture about 15 pictures and when you press the shutter, it take the last 15. This is why there's no perceptibly delay, the pictures were already taken!
Here an exemple:
My hand is moving in front of the camera
With normal HDR+ mode it use iso of 467 with a shutter time of 1/60. The image is blurry
With Nightsight, it detect the movement and use an iso of 1684 and a fast shutter time of 1/236. This is Much better to capture a fast moving image. The image is less blurry.
Now the last image is my hand not moving. Nightsight detect no movement so it lower the iso to a super low iso of 50 and a shutter time of 1/6. The image is almost perfect. Much better for no movement and to capture more light! With normal HDR+ mode, it would still use iso of 467 with a shutter time of 1/60.
Nightsight does all this automatically. It's so superior it turn normal HDR+ like a bad product
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EeZeEpEe said:
I was talking about a pause as in shutter lag from pressing the button to actually getting the pic captured. Are you comparing with "HDR+ On" or "HDR+ Enhanced"? "On" has zero shutter lag while "enhanced" has shutter lag. I feel like Night Sight isn't as fast as "On" in shutter response. So yes it might bump up the shutter speed and ISO but if there's a lag in actually capturing the pic, you'll still miss the shot. Unless you have something like Top Shot which doesn't work with Night Sight I believe.
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Only HDR turned off capture the exact moment. HDR+ ZSL capture the last 1/2 second before pressing the button while Nightsight capture the 1/2 second after.
It's a different philosophy. At least, the picture with Nightsight will capture it in a sharper way.
von_block said:
At least, the picture with Nightsight will capture it in a sharper way.
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If the subject is even in the frame the way you expect it to be when pressing, for example, no blink vs blinking.
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EeZeEpEe said:
If the subject is even in the frame the way you expect it to be when pressing, for example, no blink vs blinking.
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Only HDR turned off capture the exact moment!
ZLS is always before you click the button!
Nope. I just timed getting a blink on purpose with ZSL and got it perfectly. Definitely can't do that with Night Sight.
von_block said:
Only HDR turned off capture the exact moment!
ZLS is always before you click the button!
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EeZeEpEe said:
Nope. I just timed getting a blink on purpose with ZSL and got it perfectly. Definitely can't do that with Night Sight. View attachment 4671789
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Human reaction time fit ZLS description.
Capturing 1/2 second before the capture.
That's how ZLS work dude, it capture the image before you click, it's not even open for debate. Read Google AI blog there's no denying that.
Anyway you're nit picking, that's a straw men strategy and it's getting old. That was not the point of the original post. Use HDR+ and be done with it
Hey you're the one who said Night Sight is "the best setting for every single picture". I prefer it used for actual night photos as I hate shutter lag. Just saying.
von_block said:
Human reaction time fit ZLS description.
Capturing 1/2 second before the capture.
That's how ZLS work dude, it capture the image before you click, it's not even open for debate. Read Google AI blog there's no denying that.
Anyway you're nit picking, that's a straw men strategy and it's getting old. That was not the point of the original post. Use HDR+ and be done with it
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EeZeEpEe said:
Hey you're the one who said Night Sight is "the best setting for every single picture". I prefer it used for actual night photos as I hate shutter lag. Just saying.
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Best setting for picture quality that's still true.
I prefer great picture with more details and less noise instead of a bit of lag.
I agree!
I thought via Nova Launcher and having an activity shortcut that we could perhaps jump straight to the night sight mode, but unfortunately no such available exists....
Would love to be able to choose night sight by default
cd993 said:
I agree!
I thought via Nova Launcher and having an activity shortcut that we could perhaps jump straight to the night sight mode, but unfortunately no such available exists....
Would love to be able to choose night sight by default
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If you download the latest Cstark27 camera, there's a setting to have Nightsight popup always on.
So when you open the camera, you can click directly to open Nightsight.
This camera also come with auto tracking and other pixel 3 exclusive.
Link: https://f.celsoazevedo.com/file/gcamera/P3v9.1_GoogleCamera_6.1.021.apk
von_block said:
If you download the latest Cstark27 camera, there's a setting to have Nightsight popup always on.
So when you open the camera, you can click directly to open Nightsight.
This camera also come with auto tracking and other pixel 3 exclusive.
Link: https://f.celsoazevedo.com/file/gcamera/P3v9.1_GoogleCamera_6.1.021.apk
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Thanks!
Though annoyingly I'm getting an issue with this. Apologies to go slight off topic, though I tried installing this over an older Cstark27 gcam mod and it wouldn't. So I uninstalled that one, installed the new one, gave it all its requested permissions and it just closes as soon as I open it....
Tried rebooting and clearing its data, but no luck. Pixel 2 XL user on latest HavocOS rom. I can try get a log of that may help or indeed post this issue elsewhere!
cd993 said:
Thanks!
Though annoyingly I'm getting an issue with this. Apologies to go slight off topic, though I tried installing this over an older Cstark27 gcam mod and it wouldn't. So I uninstalled that one, installed the new one, gave it all its requested permissions and it just closes as soon as I open it....
Tried rebooting and clearing its data, but no luck. Pixel 2 XL user on latest HavocOS rom. I can try get a log of that may help or indeed post this issue elsewhere!
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Maybe because you're on a custom ROM....
Never had any problem!
I guess you could go in the thread of that Gcam and mention Cstark27 and give him a log.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/themes/pixel-3-3-xl-exclusive-camera-features-t3853471
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Maybe because you're on a custom ROM....
Never had any problem!
I guess you could go in the thread of that Gcam and mention Cstark27 and give him a log.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/themes/pixel-3-3-xl-exclusive-camera-features-t3853471
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Just managed to get it working - I reflashed the vendor.img and uninstalled/reinstalled the apk and all is well now. Cheers!
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Maybe because you're on a custom ROM....
Never had any problem!
I guess you could go in the thread of that Gcam and mention Cstark27 and give him a log.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/themes/pixel-3-3-xl-exclusive-camera-features-t3853471
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Just managed to get it working - I reflashed the vendor.img and uninstalled/reinstalled the apk and all is well now. Cheers!
von_block said:
If you download the latest Cstark27 camera, there's a setting to have Nightsight popup always on.
So when you open the camera, you can click directly to open Nightsight.
This camera also come with auto tracking and other pixel 3 exclusive.
Link: https://f.celsoazevedo.com/file/gcamera/P3v9.1_GoogleCamera_6.1.021.apk
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Great news, will try that on my Nokia 8 as it was getting a bit annoying to swipe and activate NS each time !
Hello everyone!
I have the Verizon S10+, March security patch. I just wanted to compare my camera experience with other people.
So I came onto the Galaxy S10+ from the Pixel 3, and some of the differences in the camera have stuck out to me. The first one is the shutter lag. Quick note - I'm not talking about shutter speed or exposure time or anything like that. I mean the difference between hitting the capture button and the phone actually taking a photo. On the Pixel, it snaps the picture the instant my finger hits the button. With my S10+, I tap the button, and it waits for half a beat before actually taking the picture. How long seems to depend on the lighting conditions. If I'm in a well lit situation, it's maybe a quarter second. But if I'm in less than ideal lighting, it's sometimes a pause of a full second between me hitting the shutter button and the camera actually taking the picture. This also causes the camera to fail to respond if I'm trying to take pictures in rapid fire. With my Pixel, I can hit the shutter button ten times in rapid fire, and it takes ten pictures every time. With my Samsung, in ideal lighting, doing the same thing will yield maybe five or six pictures, and if the lighting isn't good, it might only take two pictures. Is this just how the phone is? Or is there maybe something wrong with mine?
I've also noticed that whatever option you've selected for HDR seems to have no impact on how the phone actually takes pictures. I can turn HDR off completely, and it will still process HDR. I'll take the picture, then quickly tap on the link to the gallery and the picture will open and show the spinning circle as it processes for a couple of seconds and the HDR takes effect. Other times I'll have HDR set to always apply, but then it still doesn't use HDR and all the highlights will be blown out. With Live Focus, HDR usually doesn't engage. But 20% of the time, it does - I'll take a couple of Live Focus shots back to back, and in one of them all the highlights will be blown out but in the other, the HDR processing seems to have kicked in. Is there any rhyme or reason to the HDR? Do your choices in the settings menu actually make any difference, or is Samsung just trying to trick us into thinking we have a choice?
I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts and experiences!
The pixel cam is definitely more responsive, part of which may be due to the fixed focus lens but I don't know for sure. I can say that holding the shutter on S10 takes burst photos much faster than OnePlus 6t, for what that's worth.
As for the hdr, nothing to add.. but I agree it's confusing
Kevin-DC said:
Hello everyone!
I have the Verizon S10+, March security patch. I just wanted to compare my camera experience with other people.
So I came onto the Galaxy S10+ from the Pixel 3, and some of the differences in the camera have stuck out to me. The first one is the shutter lag. Quick note - I'm not talking about shutter speed or exposure time or anything like that. I mean the difference between hitting the capture button and the phone actually taking a photo. On the Pixel, it snaps the picture the instant my finger hits the button. With my S10+, I tap the button, and it waits for half a beat before actually taking the picture. How long seems to depend on the lighting conditions. If I'm in a well lit situation, it's maybe a quarter second. But if I'm in less than ideal lighting, it's sometimes a pause of a full second between me hitting the shutter button and the camera actually taking the picture. This also causes the camera to fail to respond if I'm trying to take pictures in rapid fire. With my Pixel, I can hit the shutter button ten times in rapid fire, and it takes ten pictures every time. With my Samsung, in ideal lighting, doing the same thing will yield maybe five or six pictures, and if the lighting isn't good, it might only take two pictures. Is this just how the phone is? Or is there maybe something wrong with mine?
I've also noticed that whatever option you've selected for HDR seems to have no impact on how the phone actually takes pictures. I can turn HDR off completely, and it will still process HDR. I'll take the picture, then quickly tap on the link to the gallery and the picture will open and show the spinning circle as it processes for a couple of seconds and the HDR takes effect. Other times I'll have HDR set to always apply, but then it still doesn't use HDR and all the highlights will be blown out. With Live Focus, HDR usually doesn't engage. But 20% of the time, it does - I'll take a couple of Live Focus shots back to back, and in one of them all the highlights will be blown out but in the other, the HDR processing seems to have kicked in. Is there any rhyme or reason to the HDR? Do your choices in the settings menu actually make any difference, or is Samsung just trying to trick us into thinking we have a choice?
I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts and experiences!
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Exact trouble here. My s7 makes photos so much faster
Hi all, I know this is an old thread but I just got the S10+ coming from a S8+ and I am having the same issue.
I am really frustrated with the lag after hitting the capture button and actually taking a photo. On the S8+ the shutter was super snappy, I could take multiple photos in succession without issues, but with the S10+ the lag is so bad I can only take a couple of photos even though I press the shutter button multiple times. I'm on the Snapdragon version with the latest Android 10 and One UI 2.1 update.
Did anyone find a solution to this?
The HDR issue drives me crazy. HDR applied to almost all the pictures EVEN IF IT IS TURNED OFF. Very frustrating. It seemed it solved finally after june update but the issue came back with the july update. I can't say for sure the last update is the main culprit but the issue came back after its install. I'd like to decide wether i want to use HDR or not but there's another thread on Samsung forum with the same topic dated back to the phone's release. There is no real chance it will be solved ever i think. :-\