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5mp camera taking better pics than s2

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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Picture taken from s2
Direct link ; http://db.tt/BEvocqYV
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
Thank you

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
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1139591

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?
And it was took around 6...

ancilary said:
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?
And it was took around 6...
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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 .
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium

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

ancilary said:
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...

Lechium06 said:
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.

Lechium06 said:
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.

[PHOTOS][POLL][21 March]Share photos clicked from HTC One

Some of us have already got their hands dirty with the new HTC One
Please share photos or Zoe links clicked by your HTC One, or maybe found by you on the web, clicked by One. I'll start this by sharing the images below:
Important note:
Before you say that photos from the One are bad, they look crap, or anything like that, first have a look here:
hamdir said:
Ok here are jonathan_phang's photo with Auto Enhance applied from the Gallery on the One X, his original's are here
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The rest all are Auto Enhanced, as you can see all washout is gone as the black / white levels are cropped by this built-in feature
HTC should be done with this and simply include a default auto "Auto Enhance" apply feature
Full sized here
more about HTC Auto Enhance from my One X post here
Now Jonathan's Image are perfect example of why you need HDR which he did not use, the sky is over cast if you place the exposure in the sky the ground willl be dark and if you place it on the ground like he did the sky will washout
i have no doubt the results would have been much better with HDR or Backlight used
here is an example of HDR use in an overcast scene from my One X, like all reviewers stated (except phone and gsm arena) since the One X HTC has the best HDR on a phone
Exposure on the sky:
HDR:
more HDR from the One X here
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Credits www.computerbase.de and Hamdir
For more: computerbase.de
Credits: RyanDawson
More here: Animal Park
Gizmodo USA:
For more, GIZMODO
Credits, mdeejay:
mobypicture:
SlashGear:
Engadget:
For more: http://www.engadget.com/gallery/htc-one-sample-shots
Verge:
For more, visit here: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/11/4087754/htc-one-sample-pictures
VIDEOS:
SlashGear 1080p test:
Shake test:
Low light test:
I won't be adding any more, I'm sick of the bashing. If you want to see more photos from the users, please browse through the thread, there are plenty of them. Don't forget to share

Photo taken with sun directly behind! Amazing :

NiCk.JaY said:
Photo taken with sun directly behind! Amazing :
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I hope it's not just a marketing photoshoped advertisement

vegetaleb said:
I hope it's not just a marketing photoshoped advertisement
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I think some user posted this on Twitter

It's not that I don't believe it's taken with the One but even my Nikon D90 with D-Lightning mode can't beat this

vegetaleb said:
It's not that I don't believe it's taken with the One but even my Nikon D90 with D-Lightning mode can't beat this
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Hmm, seems too good to be true

Re: Share photos clicked from HTC One
The idea is great, and while I'm thankful for the previous shares I think that, from now on, only pictures actually taken by users should be shared so we can be sure it's not edited (improved) in any way.
Tapatalked from my GNex

@vegetaleb why? i can do the exact same results with my One X excellent HDR feature already (but not in video)
In fact i have tons of pictures i use to impress my friend with the One X of the exact same situation (cant share pictures of my wife )
but im pretty sure you were talking about the video side right?

joelteixeira said:
The idea is great, and while I'm thankful for the previous shares I think that, from now on, only pictures actually taken by users should be shared so we can be sure it's not edited (improved) in any way.
Tapatalked from my GNex
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Yup, some pictures taken by OEMs are using proper conditions, doesn't suit the average user

I think the problem that many of you did not try the amazing camera on the One X
auto focus, crazy fast shutter speed and perfected HDR were the highlights, amazing daylight ability
the only weakness was the piss poor low light image quality (not the light which was good but the quality of the low light image)
also macro focus distance was not so great

hamdir said:
I think the problem that many of you did not try the amazing camera on the One X
auto focus, crazy fast shutter speed and perfected HDR were the highlights, amazing daylight ability
the only weakness was the piss poor low light image quality (not the light which was good but the quality of the low light image)
also macro focus distance was not so great
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Never had the HOX

here just to show off ImageSense on the HTC One X
like i said a bad photographer does not mean a bad camera
hamdir said:
This one of my boss as we were trying the fast shutter, later custom enhanced in the gallery
Close up of God of war on my wall unit, high contrast filter in the gallery
Another close up, high contrast filter in the gallery
My Sportage, sunset time, cropped
HDR
Color Tests
Low Light in Beirut
and the snow patrol concert lights i posted before
high resolution here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/sets/72157631744000987/
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It looks like only a very very very few One were distributed for reviews,that's why 9 videos over 10 in youtube were taken from MWC and 19th Feb HTC convention.
This topic is very nice and it will get lot of new photos once HTC unleash it for reviewers so they will take photos in every single situation

hamdir said:
here just to show off ImageSense on the HTC One X
like i said a bad photographer does not mean a bad camera
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Man! These are great!

Dude Hamdir!
Where do you work?
I want the same boss :laugh:

NiCk.JaY said:
Man! These are great!
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Tons more here in the HTC One X picture thread
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vegetaleb said:
Dude Hamdir!
Where do you work?
I want the same boss :laugh:
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yea CG animators tends to be a little silly

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NiCk.JaY said:
Man! These are great!
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Agreed, seems better than the Xperia Z samples I saw.
Tapatalked from my GNex

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joelteixeira said:
Agreed, seems better than the Xperia Z samples I saw.
Tapatalked from my GNex
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That too from One X
Sent from my DHD

NiCk.JaY said:
That too from One X
Sent from my DHD
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just to show you that these bloggers/reviewers don't even try
if you check the images i took with my desire HD (in the signature) you will be more impressed
like i said HTC gives you tons of photographic control in the camera app, so really if you expect to pull the phone, take a shot with a shaky hand, not even try to improve it in the included gallery enhance features and expect to win a noble prize in photography, look elsewhere...
that being said if HTC did ruin their One X quality and color balance i would be pissed, so far i like what i am seeing, low light clean less noisy image was really the only thing missing
one more thing, i do worry about is the reported heavy using of JPEG compression being reported by testers

hamdir said:
I think the problem that many of you did not try the amazing camera on the One X
auto focus, crazy fast shutter speed and perfected HDR were the highlights, amazing daylight ability
the only weakness was the piss poor low light image quality (not the light which was good but the quality of the low light image)
also macro focus distance was not so great
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I had a one x and a s3 at the same time and despite what loads of people and reviews say, I thought the one x had a far better camera.

how to improve camera quality

Hi ,
can you please tell me , how to improve camera quality in Nexus 4 please.

Buy a camera.
No really, what do you expect to really "improve"? It's a smartphone camera.
Though had you tried to search you would've noticed a thread that kind of improves the quality slightly (never tested it myself)
But please don't expect to make good pictures, it will remain a smartphone camera
Well ok, might be I'm wrong - can't find a thread for that
But I do recall something that said to improve camera - could've been video capturing though

sravan008 said:
Hi ,
can you please tell me , how to improve camera quality in Nexus 4 please.
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I like the hdr effect in the stock app have you tried it yet?
There are some good photography apps in the appstore you can try
the truth is the camera hardware is not that great on the nexus 4.
always remember that to take a great photo it doesnt necessarily always need a good camera
A couple of my snaps took on my nexus-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/10242291964/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/9759818504/in/photostream/

sravan008 said:
Hi ,
can you please tell me , how to improve camera quality in Nexus 4 please.
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quality is fine. its on your end that you will have to improve photo taking. make sure there is plenty of light for the photo that you want to take, or it will come out blurred. play with the camera settings if need be.
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l33ch0r said:
Buy a camera.
No really, what do you expect to really "improve"? It's a smartphone camera.
Though had you tried to search you would've noticed a thread that kind of improves the quality slightly (never tested it myself)
But please don't expect to make good pictures, it will remain a smartphone camera
Well ok, might be I'm wrong - can't find a thread for that
But I do recall something that said to improve camera - could've been video capturing though
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whats the point of your post? the nexus 4 takes great pictures, if you know how to use a camera. dont say it doesnt take good photos, just because yours turn out bad.

colemanuk said:
I like the hdr effect in the stock app have you tried it yet?
There are some good photography apps in the appstore you can try
the truth is the camera hardware is not that great on the nexus 4.
always remember that to take a great photo it doesnt necessarily always need a good camera
A couple of my snaps took on my nexus-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/10242291964/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/9759818504/in/photostream/
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Seeing your picture of the moon - do you have the same Nexus 4 as me?

l33ch0r said:
Seeing your picture of the moon - do you have the same Nexus 4 as me?
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haha lol, thats shot with a 20 times zoom

l33ch0r said:
Buy a camera.
No really, what do you expect to really "improve"? It's a smartphone camera.
Though had you tried to search you would've noticed a thread that kind of improves the quality slightly (never tested it myself)
But please don't expect to make good pictures, it will remain a smartphone camera
Well ok, might be I'm wrong - can't find a thread for that
But I do recall something that said to improve camera - could've been video capturing though
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Thanks for your useless reply sony xperia arc s is my previous mobile it is having 5mp camera and pics was awesome .nexus 4 is having 8mp but it is not giving good quality pics .
by the way I am having SLR :laugh:
Just I am asking is their any way to improve the camera quality

simms22 said:
quality is fine. its on your end that you will have to improve photo taking. make sure there is plenty of light for the photo that you want to take, or it will come out blurred. play with the camera settings if need be.
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whats the point of your post? the nexus 4 takes great pictures, if you know how to use a camera. dont say it doesnt take good photos, just because yours turn out bad.
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make sure there is plenty of light --- May be this is right !! I am taking pics in normal conditions , I never felt it requires 1000 watts blumb's or more than that any how I got to know that we can take pictures in very sunshine areas :laugh: not in dim lights :angel: that's okay .
the intention about this post was , is there any mod or software which improves the picture quality .If you know any app's please suggest .

colemanuk said:
haha lol, thats shot with a 20 times zoom
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So it's not taken by Nexus 4? Lol, imagine 20x digital zoom
sravan008 said:
Thanks for your useless reply sony xperia arc s is my previous mobile it is having 5mp camera and pics was awesome .nexus 4 is having 8mp but it is not giving good quality pics .
by the way I am having SLR :laugh:
Just I am asking is their any way to improve the camera quality
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I agree my comment was rather not helpful but you have to admit: Nexus 4 camera is known to be mediocre at best. You can make good pictures with plenty of light, especially with HDR - but nevertheless the camera won't make really good pictures. (Way better pictures than Desire HD 8MP camera though but that's not really a surprise)
To try to be helpful: I still recall some thread where someone changed some files to improve quality of photos and or videos. But I can't even find it anymore :silly:
Just to show what I see as a good picture by Nexus 4, here's a picture of two rainbows And a nice picture of the sun.
But as example for a bad picture: the cockpit of the Mercedes Benz Sprinter, which was taken while there was no light and this picture really looks bad

l33ch0r said:
So it's not taken by Nexus 4? Lol, imagine 20x digital zoom
I agree my comment was rather not helpful but you have to admit: Nexus 4 camera is known to be mediocre. You can make good pictures with plenty of light, especially with HDR - but nevertheless the camera won't make really good pictures. (Way better pictures than Desire HD 8MP camera though but that's not really a surprise)
To try to be helpful: I still recall some thread where someone changed some files to improve quality of photos and or videos. But I can't even find it anymore :silly:
Just to show what I see as a good picture by Nexus 4, here's a picture of two rainbows And a nice picture of the sun.
But as example for a bad picture: the cockpit of the Mercedes Benz Sprinter, which was taken while there was no light and this picture really looks bad
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it was videos. and it never actually improved quality(its a dead thread right now).
and no, there isnt a mod to improve photos. learn to make adjustments in the cam settings and your photos will be fine. a good camera app is A Better Camera.

sravan008 said:
Hi ,
can you please tell me , how to improve camera quality in Nexus 4 please.
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Well, one small suggestion would be that you could mount it on a small tripod or other device that you can carry around. That would help stabilize it, so the photos and videos aren't as shaky.

Photos Taken With M9

Hi,
post pictures taken with your M9.
HTC One M9 Flickr Group > https://www.flickr.com/groups/htc_one_m9/
Samples:
hamdir > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59821245&postcount=274
PhoneArena > http://www.phonearena.com/news/First-camera-samples-from-the-HTC-One-M9_id66435
cNet > http://www.cnet.com/news/a-day-with-htc-one-m9s-new-cameras/
SlashGear > http://www.slashgear.com/htc-one-m9-hands-on-android-goes-luxe-01371018/
GsmArena > http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_mwc_2015-review-1215p4.php
zdNet > http://www.zdnet.com/pictures/htc-o...xels-on-the-back-and-ultrapixel-on-the-front/
low lights - PhoneArena > http://www.phonearena.com/news/Are-...Samsung-test-setup-seems-inconclusive_id66731 (pics attached here)
the Verge > http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/2/8133227/htc-one-m9-camera-sample-images
aliHTCDHD > https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/sets/72157651909030821/
starbase64 > https://www.flickr.com/photos/maik_reifschneider/sets/72157651505923058/
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The camera software is not final yet. Camera samples are not really telling yet..

That bottom one seems to show the red heating issue that the m7 suffered ?

@vizzy
It is embarrassing when they make a mistake twice

low lights - PhoneArena are S6 vs M8...

Not looking good so far
Even though they say it's not final, they've had quite a while to work on improving the camera. I doubt much will change between now and a few weeks.

geoff5093 said:
Not looking good so far
Even though they say it's not final, they've had quite a while to work on improving the camera. I doubt much will change between now and a few weeks.
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Opinions, in order to be valid, need to be based on fact.
M9 camera software is still a work in progress. It has been improving steadily. Algorithms are updated almost daily.
My name is Harold and I'm a flashaholic.....

geoff5093 said:
Not looking good so far
Even though they say it's not final, they've had quite a while to work on improving the camera. I doubt much will change between now and a few weeks.
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I think the phone arena shots look great.

fernando sor said:
I think the phone arena shots look great.
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The indoor shots I've seen show a lot of noise reduction and sharpening, making the photos look heavily processed

geoff5093 said:
The indoor shots I've seen show a lot of noise reduction and sharpening, making the photos look heavily processed
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Well hopefully some of the issues are software related.

Barcelona at night - shot with the HTC M9
Source: Twitter/ https://twitter.com/chrisch1974

There are huge variations in the above photos. Probably because there may have been differences in software and possibly because some of the reviewers are bad photographers. Especially some of the Verge photos show that the guy (that called the phone a beautiful disappointment) did not know how to take proper photos.
Some of the photos are very good, some bad. I believe that HDR will be needed in many cases and I'm not optimistic about low light photos.
I think that we will see many people using the front camera to take pictures during the night.
I still want to see some proper photo review with the latest software.

An album full of images taken with an HTC One M9 (non-final software). Looks pretty good to me...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jpenico/sets/72157650671608427/with/16509729050/

VictorC said:
An album full of images taken with an HTC One M9 (non-final software). Looks pretty good to me...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jpenico/sets/72157650671608427/with/16509729050/
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Dunno why but it looks like taken by the Marketing team of HTC, compared to the other samples we saw, it's like 3x time better, so it's either after lot of manual optimal settings or taken in RAW.
BTW why we still don't have any RAW photo sample?

Perhaps, we'll see... Software optimization can really change a lot. I remember how bad the Nexus 5 camera was at the beginning and after the first updates the quality improved a lot.
Here's what Anandtech said about the M9 camera/photos after their quick hands on. The pictures posted in the article look ok.
http://anandtech.com/show/9012/htc-launches-one-m9-handson
"In casual testing, I saw a dramatic improvement in daytime image quality, and features like HDR as seen above are dramatically improved from the One M8. In general there seem to be fewer issues with things like field curvature and other types of optical distortion along with drastically improved dynamic range, but in low light the results I saw were indicative of poor processing and tuning. HTC representatives stated that the camera tuning, especially in low light were far from final so it remains to be seen if these issues remain in the final product. It seems that the ImageChip 2 has also been deleted from the M9, although the reasons for this are not clear".

VictorC said:
Perhaps, we'll see... Software optimization can really change a lot. I remember how bad the Nexus 5 camera was at the beginning and after the first updates the quality improved a lot.
Here's what Anandtech said about the M9 camera/photos after their quick hands on. The pictures posted in the article look ok.
http://anandtech.com/show/9012/htc-launches-one-m9-handson
"In casual testing, I saw a dramatic improvement in daytime image quality, and features like HDR as seen above are dramatically improved from the One M8. In general there seem to be fewer issues with things like field curvature and other types of optical distortion along with drastically improved dynamic range, but in low light the results I saw were indicative of poor processing and tuning. HTC representatives stated that the camera tuning, especially in low light were far from final so it remains to be seen if these issues remain in the final product. It seems that the ImageChip 2 has also been deleted from the M9, although the reasons for this are not clear".
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Looks good enough for me. Plus I need a change from Samsung.

camera has no ois! i don't find any information
edit: Marques Brownlee hands on > http://youtu.be/QXF3tUfvuLU?t=2m20s

Do you guys know if the "ufocus" effect isn't available anymore with the m9? Or is Still in there ??

renehd2 said:
Do you guys know if the "ufocus" effect isn't available anymore with the m9? Or is Still in there ??
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It 'always there but must be set before shooting, you can not put after as with the M8

I will be interesting to see how the auto focus works compared to the M8 as there is no phase detection like its predecessor. Though the M8 was no slouch in this regard.

Z5 camera VS Iphone6 plus, SGS6, LG G4, Z3

Here they did a test with most new phones including the Z5! Shame i cant link the photo's directly so you have to go to the link it self http://www.phonearena.com/news/First-Xperia-Z5-vs-iPhone-6-Plus-vs-S6-vs-Z3-vs-G4-camera-samples-comparison_id73408
The Z5 takes pretty awesome shots and its way better then the z3 camera. The colors look so much more correct and in some phones it beats the sgs6.
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http://support.sonymobile.com/us/contactUs/phone/?region=en_US and ask if they can add RAW support

I like iphone 6 plus more.

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I like iphone 6 plus more.
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the red on the iphone looks washed out or better said, the amount of light on the car is captured more on it. the z5 captures the real color from my perspective

In my opinion Z5 is better than Iphone 6+ and GS6, colors of the 2 is slightly saturated.

Regardless of color accuracy, the resolution increase still does not helps getting sharper images. There is too much noise reduction applied, especially compared to iPhone 6. Apple here does a decent job although I'd rather have much more noise and no NR applied in camera. Worst offender is LG, which applies an insane post-NR sharpening.
I think we should wait for production samples and hopefully some 3rd party app that can leverage better on this new sensor. Otherwise there is no real advantage against Samsung or Apple.
As for color accuracy, it really comes down to the app and how much processing is done. On my screen (which is calibrated, but it's not best quality panel) and to my eye Z5 has decent overall color rendition, but I prefer the G4 in the first picture (less punch but the overall colors are more accurate) and the iPhone in the third.
In the end, we are not yet at compact camera level - maybe next iteration (z6 or z7 or whatever they will call it). I'd really love to have an RX100 performance squeezed into a phone

Found a site with more samples pics from the Z5 vs note 5. http://www.eprice.com.tw/mobile/talk/4523/4953454/1/rv/sony-xperia-z5-compact-review/ Its a close call but Z5 wins when its shoots a photo in the dark tho.
All photo's on the left side are made by Z5 and right side is the note 5
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Found a site with more samples pics from the Z5 vs note 5. http://www.eprice.com.tw/mobile/talk/4523/4953454/1/rv/sony-xperia-z5-compact-review/ Its a close call but Z5 wins when its shoots a photo in the dark tho.
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Am I the only one seeing that low light photos look good on Note 5. Specially the example you gave, Note 5 has more details compared to Z5. Yea we all know that Samsung dose produce more warmer pics which makes the photo looks yellowish, but if you take a closer look the noise reduction is so aggressive in Z5.
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P.S: Ah no wonder you seem to mix up the two photos. Note 5 indeed do look better here.

Sony for some reason still cannot make a good camera. Note 5 does look much better in almost every situation.
Also look at the sky in that one pictre. Z5 completely burnt while Note 5 shows some nice detail

http://www.uberlin.co.uk/berlin-moments-september-7th-september-15th/
These pictures looks awesome. and yea it got lotta details too. We need further tests to see how it's done. Since they can always get it right with software.
New camera module absolutely promising. Specially colour accuracy.

CandyAndy said:
Sony for some reason still cannot make a good camera. Note 5 does look much better in almost every situation.
Also look at the sky in that one pictre. Z5 completely burnt while Note 5 shows some nice detail
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Think its time you get some glasses bro. The first one and clearly the best low light photo is made with the Z5 not the note. Even if you zoom in on the billboard etc you see that the note blurs and has to much overexposed. But both are good camera's tho/.

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http://www.uberlin.co.uk/berlin-moments-september-7th-september-15th/
These pictures looks awesome. and yea it got lotta details too. We need further tests to see how it's done. Since they can always get it right with software.
New camera module absolutely promising. Specially colour accuracy.
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WOW those pictures look indeed pretty awesome!!! But they are taken by a pro tho with a tripod.

I am a Sony Fan But i Must admit the samsung note 5 is killing sony camera what a poor detail in z5 i hope there is improvement in the last release

Yea Note 5 has a great camera indeed, but I am pretty sure this is related to Software, and eprice device doesn't have the latest camera UI that means it's not running on the latest build, so untill then we can't really say which is better.
But overall Sony has good colour accuracy when it's day-time, I hope it'll be fixed with updates. I really want is more control over the camera such as Manual shutter speed and raw. Hope to see more improvement before the phone's released.

Sony has never been good at software, just hardware. It's just a... Mystery
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Sony has never been good at software, just hardware. It's just a... Mystery
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Specially when it comes to Camera software they don't seem to be doing great.

I am always surprised that despite making good cameras and selling camera parts to other phone manufacturers, Sony phones have the worse cameras in the mobile phone industry. The Z3 camera is terrible relative to Apples and Samsungs and their previous phones were even worse. Hopefully they finally fix it with the Z5.

Wow....

chesterr said:
Yea Note 5 has a great camera indeed, but I am pretty sure this is related to Software, and eprice device doesn't have the latest camera UI that means it's not running on the latest build, so untill then we can't really say which is better.
But overall Sony has good colour accuracy when it's day-time, I hope it'll be fixed with updates. I really want is more control over the camera such as Manual shutter speed and raw. Hope to see more improvement before the phone's released.
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What latest camera ui?

I love LG G4 most

King p1n said:
What latest camera ui?
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