hi i want to know how to take photos with the s4 i9500 with blurred backgrounds
so that it focused on the closer object, can't seem to find the option in my s4.
thanks
Skymighty said:
hi i want to know how to take photos with the s4 i9500 with blurred backgrounds
so that it focused on the closer object, can't seem to find the option in my s4.
thanks
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I dont think this option exists in the S4. I have the i9505 but it should be the same. The only option that would be close would be the vignette filter, but its not really the same. You could just use an editing/camer app to add the effect, Camera360 has a tiltshift feature which creates a similar effect.
Skymighty said:
hi i want to know how to take photos with the s4 i9500 with blurred backgrounds
so that it focused on the closer object, can't seem to find the option in my s4.
thanks
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Well apparently. ...the S4 camera is smart enough to judge a macro image...and its suppose to focus automatically. ..buuuut we all know that's a flop....I recommend Camera FV5....its paid...but you will definitely like it....it can directly focus macro and blur the background. ...just follow the on screen tutorial...hope this helps
I just took this to see, and all I did was tap on the muffin and let the auto focus do the work. If it was angled at the ground it wouldn't blur, there needs to be distance significant enough to cause the natural blurring.
Not much help but it's not an add on or anything just how you line it up.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app
How to take portrait mode photo ( blur / bokeh background ) on any android phone
You just have to install : Specific version of Google Camera Apk on your phone
You can see the explanation here:
i Can't post youtube link cause i'm new users, so search on youtube with this title:
How to take portrait mode photo ( blur / bokeh background ) on any android phone
Ghuria Channel
and you'll find the apk URL under the video
What is the best way to get to counter the blurry pictures that happen so often with low light/moving objects? Ideally it would be a simple fix... such as changing it to HDR/auto mode (just throwing out ideas). But I suppose I WOULD be willing to use a mod - I know there are two relatively popular ones here on xda, but if that is the only way to fix this issue, I would like to know which one is viewed as "superior"
Thanks
gladden237 said:
What is the best way to get to counter the blurry pictures that happen so often with low light/moving objects? Ideally it would be a simple fix... such as changing it to HDR/auto mode (just throwing out ideas). But I suppose I WOULD be willing to use a mod - I know there are two relatively popular ones here on xda, but if that is the only way to fix this issue, I would like to know which one is viewed as "superior"
Thanks
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Well the best way is to just keep the camera still. But if that's not an option or when you are taking photos of moving objects, use night mode. It will increase the ISO and shutter speed, but decrease quality. HDR mode will make it much worse, as it combines multiple images together and isn't ideal for moving objects.
So I ran some tests - by comparing the Idol3 camera with my 4 year old Panasonic ZS7 P&S camera . What I have noticed that at low ISO - keeping both cameras stationary - the results are pretty close. For indoor pictures, what I have noticed is that the Idol3 flash does not come on easily. But this appears to be a general smartphone thing, because my Galaxy Exhibit camera is doing the same thing. Instead of turning the flash on , the Idol3 is bumping up the ISO to over 2000 ! This results in very grainy pictures.
So one way to ensure better pictures *could* be to follow this rule -- Outdoor - set ISO=100 always . Indoors - set ISO=200 , and set flash to forced.
Also - I noticed that the front camera can go to down to ISO 50 - whereas the back camera only goes down to ISO-100 .
I will do some more tests in the coming weekend. Does anyone know of a camera app that will tell me the shutter speed the camera is going to use *before* taking the picture? That way I can decide whether I need to bump up the ISO to speed up the shutter.
Some samples
Here are some sample pictures - in outdoor sunlit conditions --> https://goo.gl/photos/ckxAPRmKo3PWJTat8
I would like to hear what y'all think.
I have a slight amendment to my earlier suggestion. I noticed that for indoor shots, if I cap ISO to 200, it is slowing down the shutter leading to a shaky, and therefore, blurred picture. A grainy picture is still better than a blurred picture. So I think a better approach would be to force the flash, and then set the shutter to 1/30, and allow it to bump the ISO if it has to. The stock camera app has a manual mode where it allows setting shutter speed.
For outdoor pictures I am using 'A Better Camera' - free version. It allows me to set and save the ISO setting to ISO-100. Also it allows me to pick the auto-focus mode to AF-Lock. I think a lot of blurred pictures are because of focus issues. AF-lock allows you to focus on a specific object, and then lock it so that the phone is not constantly re-focusing. Another trick that can be considered is to use a 2-second timer, to prevent shake due to touching the screen for taking the picture. .
I will try some indoor shots next, as well as the RAW mode and then post when I have them.
Good info
i tried the oppo colorOS camera idk if its a placebo effect but i kinda notices good pictures sadly i cant take 50mp pictures like that phone yet has 13mp camera too using that same sensor it just stitches the best pics zoomed in into one making an illusion of 50mp
stl1859 said:
Here are some sample pictures - in outdoor sunlit conditions --> https://goo.gl/photos/ckxAPRmKo3PWJTat8
I would like to hear what y'all think.
I have a slight amendment to my earlier suggestion. I noticed that for indoor shots, if I cap ISO to 200, it is slowing down the shutter leading to a shaky, and therefore, blurred picture. A grainy picture is still better than a blurred picture. So I think a better approach would be to force the flash, and then set the shutter to 1/30, and allow it to bump the ISO if it has to. The stock camera app has a manual mode where it allows setting shutter speed.
For outdoor pictures I am using 'A Better Camera' - free version. It allows me to set and save the ISO setting to ISO-100. Also it allows me to pick the auto-focus mode to AF-Lock. I think a lot of blurred pictures are because of focus issues. AF-lock allows you to focus on a specific object, and then lock it so that the phone is not constantly re-focusing. Another trick that can be considered is to use a 2-second timer, to prevent shake due to touching the screen for taking the picture. .
I will try some indoor shots next, as well as the RAW mode and then post when I have them.
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I think the photos look great. Nice dynamic range and colors.
Have you tried using the manual mode of the stock camera to change the settings?
vk135 said:
Have you tried using the manual mode of the stock camera to change the settings?
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Yes . The problem with the stock camera app is that it always starts in the auto-mode. It would be nice if it remembered the prior setting, but does not. For someone like me that likes a lot of manual controls ( shutter , aperture, ISO etc. etc. ) , this is a big pain if I have to switch to manual mode every time I take a picture. When in manual mode, it does not save any prior settings. So not only do I have to switch to manual mode, I then have to open another dialog and set the ISO to my liking. That in my opinion is way too cumbersome. In this respect, 'A Better Camera' is slightly better. It allows me to specify which settings it should remember between launches. So I can ask it to always remember the ISO and auto-focus modes. It does appear to have a bug , in that it does not display the modes correctly. So on start-up, it is telling me that it is on ISO-Auto - when I set it to ISO-100 - and when I actually take the picture, I do see that the ISO-100 was picked. Another problem with that app is that it does not allow setting of shutter speed, which the stock camera app does.
So I really haven't found any one camera app that does everything I want . But in doing this research , I am realizing how big of a pain using a smartphone as a camera can be. I really wish Alcatel had a model with no front and back camera and for $50 less ! That would be the perfect device for me
RAW capture
I managed to try out the RAW capture functionality of the camera.
Here is the unprocessed TIFF file, created from a .DNG using dcraw >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B960wOI9V0CfWGpmRUxicVpLZDg/view?usp=sharing
Here is a jpeg - taken using the 'A Better Camera' app , of the same scene, at pretty much the same time >> https://goo.gl/photos/xUcHGp5B9triKSNC8
From what I can tell, the image generated from the RAW capture has better color reproduction.
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I managed to try out the RAW capture functionality of the camera.
Here is the unprocessed TIFF file, created from a .DNG using dcraw >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B960wOI9V0CfWGpmRUxicVpLZDg/view?usp=sharing
Here is a jpeg - taken using the 'A Better Camera' app , of the same scene, at pretty much the same time >> https://goo.gl/photos/xUcHGp5B9triKSNC8
From what I can tell, the image generated from the RAW capture has better color reproduction.
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What camera app are you using to get RAW captures?
Borghi said:
What camera app are you using to get RAW captures?
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This one --> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=troop.com.freedcam&hl=en
is there any apps that can take 50mp pictures like the oppo camera? it uses a trick that takes and stitches various photos into one now thats awesome
Took this shot of the moon using the default camera in manual mode. iso 100, 1/1000. Strangely the exif says the aperture is 2.5 not 2.0 like the specs say.
Using the camera is probably the last thing I use my phone for. I would think that someone would have created a camera app where you can change all the settings you want and save that profile then make as many profiles as you want for various situations.
I do not use my phone as a camera either . Actually I am surprised ( at myself ) why I spent so much time testing it out ! Anyway, I found an app called 'Open Camera' - which seems to have almost all the features I was looking for. It allows me to set ISO and AF-lock - and actually saves those settings between launches. It also has a mode where if it is running and you lock the phone, hitting the power button again brings the camera right back . I find that useful because now I can lock the screen between shots - and still get the camera back relatively quickly. Without that I had to leave the screen on, and I was getting a lot of accidental shots. The UI isn't that great looking, but it is functional.
Here is the link >> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera&hl=en
Shodan5150 said:
Using the camera is probably the last thing I use my phone for. I would think that someone would have created a camera app where you can change all the settings you want and save that profile then make as many profiles as you want for various situations.
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Pretty sure Camera Zoom FX does what you are talking about. I made it the default camera app. It was free on amazon however at some point or another I purchased it on google play for $0.10. A special promo where a bunch of apps were $0.10 each I think. Anyway might want to check it or camera360 out....opencamera is a nice free open source one (If I remember right).
My primary usage for the camera on my phones is to run the paperkarma app so I can submit junkmail to have my name/address removed from their mailing lists. Has helped to thin the junkmail down over time.
I haven't used the camera too much but I am not disappointed in it so far. For the price, I can't complain. It seems to take the pics fairly quickly which is a good thing.
open camera is also good ive tried it and no problems for me
Has anyone found ANY camera app that allows you to save the pics to the SD card? I've tried a bunch yet they all complain that KK(!) doesn't allow saving to SD card YET the stock camera app does allow it.
ItsDon said:
Has anyone found ANY camera app that allows you to save the pics to the SD card? I've tried a bunch yet they all complain that KK(!) doesn't allow saving to SD card YET the stock camera app does allow it.
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In my case - both 'A Better Camera' and 'Open Camera' were unable to save to the external micro SD. It does not bother me, because it is probably better for the camera to write directly to internal storage , in the interest of speed. I can always move those files using ES File Explorer - or by plugging the phone in.
ISO_HJR
I think I found another trick that can help the picture quality with the Camera. The 'Open Camera' app supports an ISO setting called 'ISO_HJR' - HJR stands for Hand Jitter Reduction, and it is Google's way of bumping up the ISO while keeping the shutter fast, to prevent blur due to shake. I used that to take some picture under overcast conditions today, and I was pleasantly surprised with the results. The exif on the pictures say that the ISO is bumped upwards of 400 - but the picture does not appear to be too grainy . I am not sure what exactly is going on , but this seems like a good option to use.
Also 'Open Camera' allows me to save with a JPEG compression of 100% - This results in 8MB+ files for each picture .
I love the 360 degree panorama mode - I had been thinking about buying a separate camera to take these kinds of pictures, but the inbuilt option on the camera works well enough and only misses a small area of the scene at the top and bottom which is no problem.
The only issue I have with it is that the panoramas come out looking quite dark. Normally this isn't an issue as you can do some quick touch ups in Google Photos but I've found this seems to remove the "pano tag" or whatever it is that allows the phone to recognise its as a spherical photo.
Is there an easy way to edit these photos but have the phone (and Facebook or wherever else you can upload these photos) still recognise that there are 360 degree spheres?
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I tried looking around but found nothing. I love taking pictures of objects far away, especially bright stuff like the moon etc. which the telephoto on the OP8P is quite capable of taking pictures of at decent quality, but without manual focus and brightness controls its absolute hell taking a photo of the moon and similar objects. Right now I have only been able to take pictures by waiting for it to switch between all the focal points and brightnes points and hitting the shutter button at just the right time, which is stupid.
1: Is there already an app that offers this function?
2: If not is it reasonably possible to modify the OP app to enable the 3x in pro mode? As a Comp Sci student familiar with tech is it simple enough that I can do it on my own? Or can someone save me the headache of learning how to do it just for this and do it for me?
Thanks for any answers.
I'm looking for the same solution.
I contacted OnePlus for the Ultra Wide as well.
Hope to see some improvements.
+Up. Also wondering samething.