I have a problem with the cameras constant focus. If i want to take a picture of any object, the camera first refocusses, making it impossible to take pictures of sports events etc. I have to predict actions 2 seconds in the future, because when i hit the shutter button, the camera first unfocus and focus again and then takes the picture. Also, when the camera is idle, it refocus every few seconds.
Touching and holding the screen brings up the blue dotted circle which locks focus, but the blue circle disappears again after a few seconds....
I have tried a 3rd party camera app, same problem.
How can i lock focus and keep it locked?
Reply to self: downloaded Sports mode; big improvemnt
pwhooftman said:
I have a problem with the cameras constant focus. If i want to take a picture of any object, the camera first refocusses, making it impossible to take pictures of sports events etc. I have to predict actions 2 seconds in the future, because when i hit the shutter button, the camera first unfocus and focus again and then takes the picture. Also, when the camera is idle, it refocus every few seconds.
Touching and holding the screen brings up the blue dotted circle which locks focus, but the blue circle disappears again after a few seconds....
I have tried a 3rd party camera app, same problem.
How can i lock focus and keep it locked?
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To my surprise, the camera app lets you download extra modes. One of them is Sports mode, which takes pictures instantly when touching the shutter button. This should be default behaviour in my opinion.
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Hi all,
I tried to put the flash (light) for a picture, and I have an issue... The flash is lightening before taking the picture, so it's useless ...
Do you have the same issue ?
When I turn my flashlight on it stays on until I turn it off.
It stays on, but it's brighter on the moment the picture is done.
I've tried to make photos in front of a mirror to see if it is lightening before taking the picture or not. In my device (HTC TyTN) the flash comes just at the right moment, so it's not useless, but the shooter sound comes about 1 second after the picture is really taken.
Do you have a lot of applications running? probably your device is running slow and that's why you're experiencing this. Are you experiencing the same issue just after a hard reset?
Yes maybe, I'm going to try the mirror test
I have the same problem
The flash light it is NOT syncronized with the capture moment.
I think the question here should be;
When is the capture moment?
Pressing of the button does not coincide with the shutter sound or flash lighting... This is probably as the flash lights when button is pressed, at which point the device starts image transfer and the shutter sounds after picture is complete (try moving camera after shutter has sounded and before)
I've been having this problem when every few photos, just a plain green picture is taken. And sometimes there are distorted colors. I decided to play around with the settings to check if it changes anything.
I found out that the problem is keeping the focus mode in Continuous Auto focus. Keeping it in this mode apparently has problems which are the green photos, distorted colors, and around 2 seconds of lag between the shutter and the photo being taken.
Keeping it on Auto took off 2 of the problems which were the green photos and distorted colors. But it was still kind of laggy, I think it's supposed to be this way though to have time for it to focus
Putting it on Infinity fixed all of it, I took over 20 photos without any problem or lag.
I don't know why that problem occurred, but it's probably just the camera firmware and not a hardware problem.
Hope I got to help
I have the ATT Galaxy Note 3. I've noticed that my pics are a mix of focused and blurry even when I get the green square.
Yesterday, I went to take a picture and it focused very clearly and offered up the green square. When I tapped the screen while holding it very still to take the picture, it went to focus again and snapped the pic at one of the worst blurry moments instead of waiting another second to get clear again.
It does this on AUTO setting and HDR setting and whether stabilization is on or offer..doesn't matter. It still happens.
A second question, why would the auto-focus leave me with a red square instead of a green one?
Are you using the standard app or another one? I use Camera Zoom Fx. Might be worth a try. Also, for whatever reason, a red box would indicate not in focus, if green indicates focus. I found the Samsung camera app to be terrible.
Don't use the stock app. Use another camera app. ZoomFX, ProCapture, FV5, Shotcontrol... Anything but Stock. Stock is rubbish.
1 problem with stock camera, it doesn't has the option to select macro focus.
My Galaxy S4 would quickly just take a picture where my S5 tells me to hold the camera steady while a swirling circle goes round and round.
I am talking about well lit indoor shots.
My friends iphone 5 just takes a picture where my S5 takes 20-30 seconds of holding the camera steady to get a shot?
Is there a setting I should change to fix this?
pego99 said:
My Galaxy S4 would quickly just take a picture where my S5 tells me to hold the camera steady while a swirling circle goes round and round.
I am talking about well lit indoor shots.
My friends iphone 5 just takes a picture where my S5 takes 20-30 seconds of holding the camera steady to get a shot?
Is there a setting I should change to fix this?
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Because Image Stabilization option would be turned "on" .
Turn that off and the Galaxy S5 would be taking picture just as fast as the iPhone 5.
Midskool is correct, but it should not take that long even with image stabilization on. When I see that message, it only takes an extra 2 seconds or so for the camera to take the picture.
I installed several versions of the Google camera app (4.1 & 4.2) on my s8 which all partially work.
If I press the button to take a picture. The flash goes off followed by a shutter sound almost immediately. But the actual picture is taken seconds later, so I have to keep the phone still and focussed. This works by day but by night, the flash is long gone by the time the picture is actually taken, leaving a dark picture.
Anyone else have this issue?