I remember getting my nexus 4 for the first time. I wasn't totally happy with the camera but I thought it was ok. It's the best thing I could get for the price. But after the 4.3 update, the quality is now comparable to cheap android phones. I now rely heavily on HDR apps but we all know they somehow distort the image.
So here's a sample I took using the stock camera app. Take note that I shot it outdoors so there should be no problems with the light. When my phone was still in 4.2, outdoor shots were usually ok using the stock camera in auto (no HDR). The photo below just looks washed out and horrible.
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And here's the same scene but using camera 360. Image is slightly improved but still horrible (too much glare, I guess?)
Any idea how to solve this issue? I am so embarrassed with my phone, I refuse to take pictures from it now, haha!
with 4.3 i am in the same boat. Pictures are washed out compared to 4.2. I dont feel embarrassed but I think Google needs to work on the Camera app.
I recommend using a third party app.
I might decide to install a different ROM and see if the quality improves. It's a little time consuming though (need to backup everything, etc).
Off topic: What location is that?
A mountain in Neihu district, Taipei, Taiwan
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I did'nt notice any real change from 4.2.2 to 4.3 but still the camera is not perfect at all.
Did you try the scene modes ?
HDR could be a good way to improve fr this kind of picture but I'm sure you tried it also.
I never used the scene modes even on 4.2.2 but I'm usually able to take awesome photos using HDR before. I'm pretty sure the quality degraded this time.
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I am now using CyanogenMod 10.1.3 in the hopes that it uses the old camera driver that takes good photos. But the pictures I take are still not as good as the first time I bought this phone. Can anyone tell me what version of Android was the nexus 4 when it first came out? Because CyanogenMod 10.1.3 is from android 4.2.2.
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I am now using CyanogenMod 10.1.3 in the hopes that it uses the old camera driver that takes good photos. But the pictures I take are still not as good as the first time I bought this phone. Can anyone tell me what version of Android was the nexus 4 when it first came out? Because CyanogenMod 10.1.3 is from android 4.2.2.
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It started with 4.2.
4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.3
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sometime what you think is enough light really isnt. camera works perfectly here, but it does look like your lens cover is dirty. also, dont be afraid to mess with your camera settings...
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sometime what you think is enough light really isnt. camera works perfectly here, but it does look like your lens cover is dirty. also, dont be afraid to mess with your camera settings...
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how come light isn't enough outdoors? also I do clean my phone every once in a while.
Anyway, were those photos taken with android 4.3? I was able to take nice macros before when my phone was still 4.2. Check out the samples below. These were all taken early this year (january to february) using the stock camera's HDR mode.
Needless to say, I was quite happy with my phone before the updates
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how come light isn't enough outdoors? also I do clean my phone every once in a while.
Anyway, were those photos taken with android 4.3? I was able to take nice macros before when my phone was still 4.2. Check out the samples below. These were all taken early this year (january to february) using the stock camera's HDR mode.
Needless to say, I was quite happy with my phone before the updates
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by the looks of your photos in the op, there wasva lot of moisture in the air. that tends to block light. btw, did you just point and shoot, or did you focus on something first? as just a point and shoot, the camera isnt that good, but if you go and focus on something first the camera takes better photos. try adjusting the setting per shot, raise exposure +1 if in doubt about the light. also, for close up shots, ill use the flash with a -1 exposure in direct sunlight. btw, mine photis posted were with android 4.3, from this week.
Focal camera
Try using Focal camera by the CM team....its quite useful....helped me out too....its available for free on the play store....
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by the looks of your photos in the op, there wasva lot of moisture in the air. that tends to block light. btw, did you just point and shoot, or did you focus on something first? as just a point and shoot, the camera isnt that good, but if you go and focus on something first the camera takes better photos. try adjusting the setting per shot, raise exposure +1 if in doubt about the light. also, for close up shots, ill use the flash with a -1 exposure in direct sunlight. btw, mine photis posted were with android 4.3, from this week.
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hhmm.. I'm still not convinced simply because I haven't been able to take good photos ever since the updates. I used to be contented with the stock camera app's HDR mode. Now even camera 360 takes bad, grainy photos. I just noticed that photos after the update were usually washed out. I do remember that the camera was pretty unstable during 4.2, sometimes it would crash and I would have to reboot to make it work again.
I think I just point and shoot, but doesn't the camera autofocus when it detects movements? I usually wait a second or two for the camera to focus before i press the shutter button. Anyway, thanks for the tips about the exposure. Yes, I usually don't change those settings.
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The photos that come from this phone litterally sucks.. all my photos come out grainy and pixely. That is with flash on and off. Taking self pics come out even worse. Gets dark and stuff. Would not reccomend this phone for its camera.
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The photos that come from this phone litterally sucks.. all my photos come out grainy and pixely. That is with flash on and off. Taking self pics come out even worse. Gets dark and stuff. Would not reccomend this phone for its camera.
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You have to be a bit more objective than that.
I have come from an Incredible, EVO, TP2 and have seen the iphone4 pictures.
I think so far the X has better low light performance than everything aside form the iphone. You also want to make sure you have the phone set to 8MP as default it is at 6MP.
Try messing around with the ISO sensitivity, maybe on auto it is selecting too high of an ISO generating a lot of noise.
The device also does a much better job in macro shots as well than any of the other phones. We are not at point and shoot replacement category yet with any of the phones, namely because all the sensors are nothing more than small 10$ units. But they are light years better than a year ago.
I had the nexus one and the pictures that came from those were CRYSTAL clear! I loved them. Now these are all blurry and grainy. Im going to upload examples soon. As you can see none of them come out clear and all have a little grain in them
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My photos look good. Try using it for a day before freaking out. Might be user error.
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What error could it be? Everything is in auto..?
Try getting out of the house once in a while. All your pics are indoor, low low light. This is a phone, if you want an all purpose genera, buy a camera
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Try getting out of the house once in a while. All your pics are indoor, low low light. This is a phone, if you want an all purpose genera, buy a camera
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lmao. I dont stay inside all day.. and I had the nexus one before this and the indoor pictures were great
You should post Nexus One photos for comparison
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lmao. I dont stay inside all day.. and I had the nexus one before this and the indoor pictures were great
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then take the droid x back and get a nexus1 ,, i dont know anyone who buys a phone for the camera lol ITS A PHONE most people buy a phone to talk on it
be happy it works at all. my camera seems busted. all it does is display a black screen when opening any app controlling it. gotta take it back to get it looked at, which means a long line.
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then take the droid x back and get a nexus1 ,, i dont know anyone who buys a phone for the camera lol ITS A PHONE most people buy a phone to talk on it
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i think it's safe to say anyone who comments on this forum hasn't bought a phone specifically for the purpose of "talking on it" in quite some time.
the real question is when can they create an app that has my phone making me breakfast?
I kind of understand what the OP is saying, but he should post pics side by side of the Nexus and X.
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be happy it works at all. my camera seems busted. all it does is display a black screen when opening any app controlling it. gotta take it back to get it looked at, which means a long line.
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My DroidX has the exact same problem - black screen on all camera / video apps. I tried factory reset and all, but no use. I took it back to BestBuy and they said they'd replace it once they got their next shipment in (whenever that will be).
Here is a night shot I took with my X
I agree, the camera on this phone isn't all that great, I too get better shots with my N1.
I was aware of this before I bought the phone, seeing all the pictures & videos that've been posted over the past few days, but I decided to go for the phone anyway.
If a camera is a major requirement on your phone I'd get one of the Galaxy S phones, camera is amazing on that.
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If a camera is a major requirement on your phone I'd get one of the Galaxy S phones, camera is amazing on that.
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Glad to hear that
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i think it's safe to say anyone who comments on this forum hasn't bought a phone specifically for the purpose of "talking on it" in quite some time.
the real question is when can they create an app that has my phone making me breakfast?
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welll i sure didnt buy it for the camera lolo
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My DroidX has the exact same problem - black screen on all camera / video apps. I tried factory reset and all, but no use. I took it back to BestBuy and they said they'd replace it once they got their next shipment in (whenever that will be).
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somehow i woke up this morning and gave it another shot(so to speak) and it worked. i did nothing to change it, just went to sleep. hope yours starts working too...
i bought it partially for the camera. i didn't buy it because it was the best camera on a phone but it is up there. for in door pictures of yourself, you aren't going to be able to tell if its auto focusing correctly. that is one of the issues with the phone is in door auto focusing. you might want to use a mirror to make sure it does it correctly. the camera button is used to focus then capture. you should see the in door quality on the evo, it is the worst lol. and of course the droid x rapes the nexus one on just about everything so finding one thing the nexus one is better at is no surprise.
the galaxy s phones are a good option but they don't have a flash, so who knows how well it will do depending on how dark it is.
6mp vs 8mp
Nevermind.
i tried 'vignette' with the image stabilisation feature on and the quality set to superfine ....the resulting images were literally twice as good as with the default camera app ....no blur and sharper, more detailed.
The Image Stabilisation obviously helps, and the superfine setting on vignette saves the images at a much higher quality with less compression, the file sizes being about 2.7mb vs 1.6 for default app.
so with these facts in mind it is apparent that samsung is not making full use of the camera hardware .....it is being limited once again by the poor software.
unfortunately 'vignette' is not really useable full time because it is slow as heck!
you have to wait 10 - 15 seconds between shots while it processes, so ideally it would be nice if samsung got their heads out of their asses and fixed the software so it is not crippling the hardware.
Seriously? In my opinion the Samsung camera is the best camera software for Android. Beats even the HTC Camera.
BTW, this thread probably wasn't meant to be in Development section...
don't know where it's meant to go, i guessed since it had to do with the built in firmware ......
ok, it's not a terrible camera, but it could be much better, especially in low light conditions. In perfect daylight it does take superb photos.
here are two samples, identical conditions, tell me which you think is better
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+1 for second 1
2nd one is better
thanks, the second is the vignette one .....there's obviously a noticeable difference
Wow, you're absolutely right. I just tried it myself (quick test here at work) and Vignette solves my main issue with the SGS camera, which was the aggressive noise reduction that made images way too soft.
With Vignette (no filters applied) there's a lot more detail in the image. It might be due to Samsung compressing images too much (which accounts for the file size differences) but it might also be image processing on the stock camera app is way too agressive.
I'll do some more proper tests soon.
These are 1:1 crops of a test pic. Both pics taken from the same spot, focusing on the middle of the image and with no other processing applied.
damn it i cant buy this app till i get my debit card pin!
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damn it i cant buy this app till i get my debit card pin!
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There's a free version available. I'm going to do tests with some other camera apps and see whether every app is doing a better job than Samsung's app or if it's just Vignette.
i didnt try them all, vignette had the best reviews, and seems to be one of the only ones that includes image stabilisation and saves images at a higher quality (less compression) than samsung.
the demo does have some limitations, and, as i said, it is very slow in processing the photos.
if u find an alternate one that does the same job faster pls let us know.
ohhhhhhhhh.... thanks for the suggestion
http://www.appbrain.com/app/uk.co.neilandtheresa.Vignette
Camera 360 also provides IS. There is a free and a paid for app, and the IS is available on both. Not sure about the level of compression though, not checked respective file sizes.
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i have ben testing with camera apps also yesterday,and i realized there must be some bug in the camera firmware either, that prevents all apps that feature a zoom to do this, as soon as i zoom in, the image freezes and gets pixelated.
during tests with vignette i found that it uses a different approach to zooming by just actually cropping the immage and therefore not causing a freeze. also i did not see the sayed delay on taking a photo...
Yes, the Vignette pictures seem a bit more detailed and it certainly has to do with the lower compression it's using. However, some of it is just because Vignette seems to sharpen pictures more as well (which is something you don't really want) and that also seems to accentuate noise. Also, from my test it seems that Vignette also tends to underexpose pictures, another not really welcome effect (most digital camera pictures are already way too underexposed).
So while it would be nice to be able to choose lower compression in stock camera, because of the things mentioned above (and also because of the ability to change metering method) I'd still pick stock app as an overall winner, despite the less detail (some of which can be reclaimed by sharpening the picture a bit afterwards). Though Vignette might certainly come handy under certain circumstances (so thanks for the tip, I'm keeping it even though I just wanted to test it at first).
the camera 360 seem to produce a better picture in a lit room. not sure if it's a placebo effect, shall compare it with the stock camera tomorrow. eyes too tired tonight.
gonna compare the shots taken tomorrow in the day too.
i trashed camera 360 after 5 minutes of trying to figure out how to turn the random effects off and gave up when it kept adding a different effect to every pic i took
....but i found this one which at least to my own eyes (in limited testing) takes slightly better photos than the stock app, it has no settings whatsoever except for point and click (although there are some extra filter effects which i didn't bother with), it is very bare bones but fast. I will test it some more tomorrow in daylight.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.nate.android.cycamera
I'm using primarily Vignette, but damn, I think the programmers designed it in a way that is really is supposed to be slow (it's designed to be old-school-like right? LOL).
ok, tried cycmera in daylight ....it's rubbish, has no focusing mechanism whatsoever so is useless.
also noticed that vignette creates an invisible thumnails folder inside the dcim folder which can build up to huge sizes if not manually deleted ....this is really stupid imo
definitely the quality is much better with Vignette over the stock app.
however it is reallyyyyyy slow. Even when changing settings it is slow to react. When processing the image, takes about 10 seconds.
And also we can't choose with our finger where we want the focus to be like in the stock app.
maybe the "improvements" in vignette comes from the post-processing?
We have a phone that now works
So its time to show off those photos with our sexy omnivision sensor
and yes the photos look better than something taken on a fisher's price camera
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What about your pics? Do you use the DVP to take pics?
Chicago, Eh? I will be over in that city soon...
My pictures aren't as good as domineus's, I have a shaky hand when holding the dvp camera (usually take pictures with a DSLR)
EDIT: I forgot, I took these pictures while traveling in England.
Soon (tm)
Haven't updated to mango yet, waiting on that at&t firmware so i dont have to spend a night reverting/re-updating. Can't wait to take non-****ty pics.
That's some nice shots for a smartphone.
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That's some nice shots for a smartphone.
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omnivision lense is actually good on the dvp now
the new options actually mean something to me now!
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omnivision lense is actually good on the dvp now
the new options actually mean something to me now!
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What settings are you using, are they making a difference?
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What settings are you using, are they making a difference?
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depends on conditions
lower lighting I use iso of 4 or 8 depends though
surprisingly indoors, I just use tungsten or fluorescent
thats one huge reason why i liked in previous os versions you couldn't save settings. Ideally, because the shot changes, I would want a new set of settings (as long as it was default to 5 mp I'm a happy camper, samsung focus users on the other hand begged for the camera saving settings)
The camera is surprisingly more usable now, and really shines in outdoor photos. I'll try your iso settings when I'm inside.
One thing I hate, with all of my heart, is the white striping over the flash. It's printed on the plastic that is attached to the battery cover. It ruins pictures that use the flash, especially when the subject is medium-close. You just see these really ugly yellow-white bars over the image. It's a real dealbreaker so I try not to use the flash at all.
I've been planning my attack to remove it without removing the entire plastic piece. The stripes feel slightly raised, but i'm sure it can be sanded down and cleaned with a light solvent. Anyone got any ideas?
What's the use of the white stripe? Does it disperse the flash evenly to prevent harsh tones?
Not sure of its intended purpose. Plenty of other phones just have the LED under a clear plastic cover and they take pictures just fine. It's almost as if it was put there to intentionally ruin shots with the flash!
its supposed to act as a light "defuser" (sp), but it sucks.
Arc, if you manage to remove it, post a how to please.
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its supposed to act as a light "defuser" (sp), but it sucks.
Arc, if you manage to remove it, post a how to please.
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it is a light defuser but it sucks I do admit
more pics - dvp does have a good camera
on my way to the gym today i took a bunch of pix with the dvp... about 70% were crap. green, blurry, to dark... this was all outside in blasting 90+ sun i also took a few shots in the very brightly lit gym.. but it was a blur-fest.
here are some non-crap ones.
(i'm running mango beta 2 and 212)
I think the best feature relevant to the DVP camera is "tap to snap" -- being able to tap on the screen to take the photo instead of pressing that infernal camera button has led to less blurry shots for me.
hrmm.. never tried the tab-to-hopefully-not-blur
i'll try that tomorrow.
oh sea-ray! hurry the hell up!
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I think the best feature relevant to the DVP camera is "tap to snap" -- being able to tap on the screen to take the photo instead of pressing that infernal camera button has led to less blurry shots for me.
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Is "tap to snap" a Mango feature?
tap to snap pix, for me, are as good (bad) as using the button... oh well
then its probably how the camera is being held
steady hand on any camera, not just the dvp
also while the dvp takes good shots, you also should try some sort of editing too if needed. Autofix is a powerful thing
In darker lighting increase iso gain and play with the settings till you get a proper image. Also the nokia camera lense from the n8 is unbelievable
I wish Dell would add an anti-shaking setting to the camera like the Samsung Focus. When this setting defaulted to on in the Focus NoDO release, picture quality went way up. This, plus some better color correction, would make the DVP camera acceptable.
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I wish Dell would add an anti-shaking setting to the camera like the Samsung Focus. When this setting defaulted to on in the Focus NoDO release, picture quality went way up. This, plus some better color correction, would make the DVP camera acceptable.
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Hi
I got my s2 few days back and it's upgraded to 4.0.3.. I'm happy with the performance but very very sad bcz of camera.. My old nexus is taking back better pictures than this s2.. Here are two same pictures taken in same time and same place..
Picture taken from nexus
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Please suggest me whether it's ICS problem or camera problem? Should I downgrade it to gb or go for camera replacement?
It's Indian version I9100
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Megapixels != camera quality.
If you want to take decent photos, buy a good camera.
P.S. Taking landscape photos at night without a tripod = blurry.
here is the photo taken with sgs2
IMG_20120311_115720 by Nomi Omi, on Flickr
are my eyes weird cos the s2 pic looks better to me
or dear just go in this link and you will find more best picture taken by sgs2
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So my camera doesn't have any problems right? Cause in nexus photo asyou can see texts look good and clear in those boards even after zooming but in s2 photo it doesn't and s2 photo is so dull compared to nexus.. And I took few photos in night party where we used to hangout.. Picture which was taken in nexus was better than s2.. Like faces were looking clear without so much noise and blurry.. So I thought there might be some problems and posted here
On both photos it looks like you're trying to take a landscape night photo with the flash on (lolwut?). I really think you need to learn how to use a camera, specifically the operating range and capability of a flash and what ISO and shutter speed are.
I love seeing people out at night getting out there pocket camera (or even worse, phone), pointing it at a scene 200 metres away and expecting their flash to automagically make an awesome photo.
Thank you.. I'll learn how to use camera.. I don't have enough experience dealing with cameras.. I just used to do as you said... I'll try my best to learn about it.. So there is no problem about camera right?
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Thank you.. I'll learn how to use camera.. I don't have enough experience dealing with cameras.. I just used to do as you said... I'll try my best to learn about it.. So there is no problem about camera right?
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the difference you see is purely settings-derived
Picture is due to posting I the wrong forum .How the f222 can you manage to use the phone .
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If you look at the store under the "uninor" banner, SGS2 pic is clear while the nexus overexposes it. So it's the exposure setting that's different between the two photos that makes you think the SGS2 is taking darker photos.
Turn on night scene on the S2, problem solved.
I hate all this current selling lark that more == better. So many ppl simply look at a number and think "wow that's high it obviously better".
I've played with a 8mp camera phone and it got totally pissed on my a 3mp nikam proper slr. Always remember you are not going to take the best pictures on a cameras whoes Lens is smaller than a screw head.
As someone already said, megapixels are not a measure of the picture quality. Don't get confused with it. Pictures you have taken are generally bad because of the environment. If you want to take city pics at night then it is not a great idea to use phone for that purpose. Galaxy SII has wonderful camera that can beat almost every other phone's camera on the market. Here is the proof Best photo you've taken on the GS2
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So my camera doesn't have any problems right? Cause in nexus photo asyou can see texts look good and clear in those boards even after zooming but in s2 photo it doesn't and s2 photo is so dull compared to nexus.. And I took few photos in night party where we used to hangout.. Picture which was taken in nexus was better than s2.. Like faces were looking clear without so much noise and blurry.. So I thought there might be some problems and posted here
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But in galaxy picture the motorcycles are much more in focus. You can't really compare them, it depends on what you wanted and how you set the camera. I am no photographer but I once had a camera where you could manually set aperture and shutter time (apart from the focus) and both shots could have come from the same camera with different aperture/shutter settings
You can try to use some camera hacks, some custom roms have it.
I think something's wrong with the sgs2 camera hardware... A long time ago, when I still had my sony ericsson k800, I remember it taking much better pics, even though it only had a 2mp cam...
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I think something's wrong with the sgs2 camera hardware... A long time ago, when I still had my sony ericsson k800, I remember it taking much better pics, even though it only had a 2mp cam...
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Well, if you can not solve your problem with flashing Stock Roms or Custom Roms maybe something is wrong with your hardware as you say.
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I think something's wrong with the sgs2 camera hardware... A long time ago, when I still had my sony ericsson k800, I remember it taking much better pics, even though it only had a 2mp cam...
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id strongly suggest you have a faulty gs2 if thats the case.
darker photos means less noise , brighter photos means higher noise value thus this will result in lowering the quality of the picture. but i think i have to agree with you on this. GB camera setting is abit better then ics . well for me anyways because i tend to take pictures with my phone (before i got a DSLR that is). now when i try to take the same picture with ICS its doesn't looks as good as the GB camera days.
I think its maybe the camera firmware.
Samsung Galaxy S3 Vs Nikon D5000 DSLR
Why?
I have a week off this week and while my fiancee is working, I thought I wpould charge my camera battery and have a practice. I am a really amateur photographer. By that I mean I own a nice DSLR (Upper Entry-level) and a couple of lenses but I've never really taken much time to get used to it. Today was a great oppurtunity.
Whilst I started taking snaps, i thought "Wouldn't it be cool if..." and here we are.
Disclaimer - Scientific conditions.
Mode:
Whilst I am only an amateur, I am familiar with my camera and its modes. Although I usually shoot in manual mode, adjusting the aperture and shutter speed as I see fit, for a reasonable degree of accuracy, I decided to use Auto mode. This is also what I used on the SGS 3.
Where as I tried to maintain Automode, I did slip into landscape mode a couple of times on the DSLR. Unfortunately I do not recollect which images were taken in each mode. It was mostly Auto though.
Zoom:
I stuck to my 18-55mm lens on the Nikon and used digital zoom on the SGS3. Although these can never be compared, as this is more a "look what the SGS3 can do" thing, I didn't think that should matter.
MegaPixels:
I set both top their top resolution. The DSLR is 12MP so obviously the detail is better when shown on a huge billboard. On a screen which is smaller than that, it shouldn't be noticable. remember, a HD display (1920x1080) is less than 2.1MP
Galaxy Resolution - 3264×2448 pixels
D5000 Resolution - 4310×2868 pixels
Image format:
The SGS3 takes images in .JPG format by standard. The DSLR took them in .NEF (Nikon RAW) and was converted afterwards. Converting RAW to .JPG on a computer (I used UFraw command line tool on Linux) gives a little bit better quality than letting the camera save as .JPG directly
Conclusions
Obviously this test was just for fun and was never intended to show that the SGS3 would be better than an upper entry level DSLR which even now, 3 years after release, can cost upwards of £500 GBP with a basic 18-55MM lens. Well guess what?! It's not better than the DSLR but hey, we never expected it to be.
What you can tell from the images is that where some of the DSLR images were a bit dark in auto mode, the SGS3 had some nice and bright shots. You can clearly see the difference in quality on some shots, but in others, not so much. I was very surprised at how well the SGS3 took pictures and how nice some of them did look, even compared to the superior DSLR, some of the pcitures the SGS3 took looked nicer, if not better.
Slightly related, but the experience of previewing the image taken was MUCH more enjoyable on the SGS3 with its bright and vibrant screen. You can instantly tell if the image will come out blurry or not, which with the DSLR was really tricky. You cna onyl really check if the photo is framed as you expected.
All in all, the SGS3 is a fantastic little camera. It may not be able to keep up with the big boys but it was never intended to. I would never be disappointed whipping it out of my pocket to capture an "of the moment" photograph. I am very impressed.
Further diclaimer
As mentioned, I am not a photographer. I am sure there are others out there who can do much better than I did with both devices. Remember this is just for fun.
I haven't scientifically analysed the outputs of both devices and used any software or anythign like that. If anyone is into that, please feel free to post results here. I would definitely be interested. All I have done, is used my eyes.
The Images
Each photo tells you if its SGS3 or Nikon from the properties but essentially, the first image is always the SGS3, the second is always the D5000
https://picasaweb.google.com/101616642112510848507/SamsungGalaxyS3VsNikonD5000DSLR
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Have you try another phone like nexus 4 or htc one x?
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glossywhite said:
Was this a joke post? lol.
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?? I think its a good post showing off the gs3 camera well done op
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glossywhite said:
Was this a joke post? lol.
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You didn't have to quote the entire first post! Geez!!!!
I think it's good. I'd love to see comparison results!
I think it's a Inovative idea to Compare s3 and slr but really a daft comparison
The whole point of an slr is control, and whether Full frame or cropped and the list goes on. Quality of sensor.
As much as the s3 has a reasonable lens it is no comparison to a good slr or even a simple slr.
I've been am-tog for over 25yrs from good old 110 days, 35mm film, med format and digital.
S3 auto exp
Canon 50D 10mm-22mm lens and 580ex flash.... Full manual
Taken in almost complete darkness with strobe and coloured lighting.
There's absolutely no way a camera phone could produce this.
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It is a daft comparison. The real aim was to show by removing the element of control, given that the lens and sensor are not of the same quality, the s3 really isn't that bad at all.
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It is a daft comparison. The real aim was to show by removing the element of control, given that the lens and sensor are not of the same quality, the s3 really isn't that bad at all.
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In the street almost all photo good - camera it is or Nokia 1100
Try make photo INside, at home - and you WILL see REALLLL difference