Guys,
I have applied all current tweaks and so on as I have seen throughout this forum (inc. searching) and my Blackstone Camera is still autofocusing/going blurry and is very slow at taking photos using the normal camera. On my Trinity it was instant and relatively alright. On this camera 5 out of 15 shots are alright and the rest have blurs which only occur after the standard delay in taking the photo! This changes depending on lighting conditions but is very annoying and makes the camera useless since you loose previous moment!
Scenario: Take photo and press to focus and it is a clear photo, the cross goes green and then it takes the photo and the image then goes blurred.
Known Issue: "the blur camera problem is because camera automatically goes to "night mode" in low light conditions, or even in not so low light conditions. if there any possibility to turn off that function"
Questions:
1) What is the manual focus method to override this?
2) Are there any camera software updates or hot fixes to sort this out?
3) What are everyones optimum camera settings?
4) Are there any tweaks that will sort this out?
5) Lastly, before I install it, there is a new Radio ROM update on the Wiki what advantages does this provide into sending MMS photos or using 3G - What are the bugs or downside of upgrading to the ROM update?
Update (15/1/09) - I have found that these so far to be the best optimum settings even with the :
HD Tweak > Camera >
Burst -> Enabled
Photo Theme -> Enabled
Sport -> Enabled
Video share -> Enabled
GPS Photo -> Enabled
Burst mode resolution -> 3 Mega Pixels
Sport mode resolution -> 3 Mega Pixels
Advanced Config > Camera
Save location -> DCIM (default)
Encode photos to portrait mode -> No
Capture key delay -> Enabled (default)
Key Delay -> Enabled (default)
Capture Key Delay -> 1
Camera > Settings
Resolution -> 5M
White Balence -> Auto
Camera > Settings > Advance
Widescreen -> On
Touch Focus -> On
Review Duration -> 3 Seconds
Quality -> Super Fine
Shoot Option -> Touch
Image Properties -> Contrast (+4) Saturation (+4) Sharpness (+5)
Metering Mode -> Center Area
Flicker Adjustment -> Auto
Cheers
Hawk
Nighthawk2050 said:
3) What are everyones optimum camera settings?
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Would be interesting indeed.
i backup hawk.
very intersted also in improving xam performances
thanks to those that can help!
Good points hawk! Subscribed to this thread
My camera options are : Touch (not hold) to take photo, more sharpness ->+5 and more satureness and the other thing (sry not english rom) -> +4
but the photos are still look blured when not taken during daytime and outside...
Manual focussing would be great! Any other Photo making applications known?
i tried every single tweak even in registry, but nothin...50% pics are blurred.
I see autofocus delay depends on several things (light, distance to the object), I don't know why htc provided a so important bug in camera, but I hope there's no hardware problem.
Similar problem here. I did not realise until a few days ago that the camera has the Sony Touch focus feature and wondered if you touch on the screen first where you want it to focus that would help. I haven't tried it yet but wonder if it has been focusing somewhere else on the screen rather than around the centre area as I had not been setting it.
Anyone tried that?
It's true that compared to the cybershot of a sony-ericsson.... the camera of the T-HD ( event all the other's HTC) is CRAPPY ! No really the quality, but to have a good picture you should stay motionless during 3 "real" seconds !! and the thing on the picture too of course ! that's awful...
Ciao
Fred
The camera is very good in sunny conditions.. Examples:
http://one.xthost.info/mypicture****/example1.jpg
http://one.xthost.info/mypictures****/example2.jpg
The only thing I did was resizing them.. All settings on +3. I'll search for a regtweak; hope to find something.
Use Advanced Config app and go to Camera setting.
Enable "Capture Key Delay"
Enable "Key Delay"
Change "Capture Key Delay time" to 1.
In you Camera advanced settings, increase Saturation, Sharpness and Colour to 5 and make sure you choose super fine in image properties. Finally Touch only for capture key.
I am happy with the above settings.
Please don't put the sharpness to 5. It makes the pictures pretty ugly..
tboy2000 said:
Use Advanced Config app and go to Camera setting.
Enable "Capture Key Delay"
Enable "Key Delay"
Change "Capture Key Delay time" to 1.
In you Camera advanced settings, increase Saturation, Sharpness and Colour to 5 and make sure you choose super fine in image properties. Finally Touch only for capture key.
I am happy with the above settings.
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Hi,
I tried to set sharpness, saturation and colour to +5 but it is even worst in my experience. Somemore, I found that, HD camera could takes very good quality under the Sun, very good light condition, very low light condition such as in door (but not dark). However, the photo would goes blur when in door with medium light condition such as inside office no matter how I set camera setting.
For me personally, I am happy with the three options set to 5. I guess it is just down to user preference. Experiment yourself to see what settings make you happy.
tboy2000 said:
Use Advanced Config app and go to Camera setting.
Enable "Capture Key Delay"
Enable "Key Delay"
Change "Capture Key Delay time" to 1.
In you Camera advanced settings, increase Saturation, Sharpness and Colour to 5 and make sure you choose super fine in image properties. Finally Touch only for capture key.
I am happy with the above settings.
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Hi there,
I can't seem to find the above setting on my HD
Enable "Capture Key Delay"
Enable "Key Delay"
Change "Capture Key Delay time" to 1.
could you guide me through ??
Cheers
sgt_sidz said:
Hi there,
I can't seem to find the above setting on my HD
Enable "Capture Key Delay"
Enable "Key Delay"
Change "Capture Key Delay time" to 1.
could you guide me through ??
Cheers
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You need this tweaking tool to acess this values
Advanced Configuration Tool v3.3
If I set the Capture Key Delay Time to 1 (from 1500), would I have to enable the two Capture Key enabl;ed/disabled settings in Camera too? Currently they're both disabled (and I just now set the time to 1).
Hmmm... just softreset; the camera was just as slow... and the time was reset to 1500 miliseconds!
So now I have enabled the two settings and re-set the 1500 ms to 1ms, softreset and...
....WTF? the two setting have stuck at 'enabled' (good), but the time has reset back to 1500 (bad)! After screwing around a bit, I finally changed it to 1, long-pressed the entry and hit 'save', not softreset on the prompt (I softreset earlier as soon as I had changed, and it didn't stick/save the time setting) which seems to have done it when I re-entered AC. Now one more softreset...
Well, finally the settings have stuck/been saved...but the camera is still just as slow. It really sucks, because it does this whole "zoom full in, zoom full out, compare, find focus, prepare to save pic, finally save pic after 3 seconds" thing. It might be just a tad quicker now, but it doesn't really make a difference.
The camera app should be totally re-written. It's a nice camera, hardware wise, but software wise it's ****ed up. At the very least it should be finding auto-focus when you hit the screen to set touch-focus location, and then just take the picture when you hit the button. Or just have a way to turn off auto focus and manually focus with an onscreen slider (one which preferably replaced the zoom slider!!!).
Anyone know how open PPC is to this? I've been reading into Android, and have read that you have full access to raw CCD images as they stream from the camera, so it would be possible to totally re-write the camera application, or at least change it. Does Windows Mobile allow this kind of access to the hardware?
MacDegger said:
If I set the Capture Key Delay Time to 1 (from 1500), would I have to enable the two Capture Key enabl;ed/disabled settings in Camera too? Currently they're both disabled (and I just now set the time to 1).
Hmmm... just softreset; the camera was just as slow... and the time was reset to 1500 miliseconds!
So now I have enabled the two settings and re-set the 1500 ms to 1ms, softreset and...
....WTF? the two setting have stuck at 'enabled' (good), but the time has reset back to 1500 (bad)! After screwing around a bit, I finally changed it to 1, long-pressed the entry and hit 'save', not softreset on the prompt (I softreset earlier as soon as I had changed, and it didn't stick/save the time setting) which seems to have done it when I re-entered AC. Now one more softreset...
Well, finally the settings have stuck/been saved...but the camera is still just as slow. It really sucks, because it does this whole "zoom full in, zoom full out, compare, find focus, prepare to save pic, finally save pic after 3 seconds" thing. It might be just a tad quicker now, but it doesn't really make a difference.
The camera app should be totally re-written. It's a nice camera, hardware wise, but software wise it's ****ed up. At the very least it should be finding auto-focus when you hit the screen to set touch-focus location, and then just take the picture when you hit the button. Or just have a way to turn off auto focus and manually focus with an onscreen slider (one which preferably replaced the zoom slider!!!).
Anyone know how open PPC is to this? I've been reading into Android, and have read that you have full access to raw CCD images as they stream from the camera, so it would be possible to totally re-write the camera application, or at least change it. Does Windows Mobile allow this kind of access to the hardware?
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I also experimented with these camera settings via Adv Config and I got the same results...the camera still takes forever to take pictures. I tested it indoors under the same lighting/angle/etc. The camera is probably the most disappointing thing about this phone...really amazing they would make it like this.
MacDegger said:
Well, finally the settings have stuck/been saved...but the camera is still just as slow. It really sucks, because it does this whole "zoom full in, zoom full out, compare, find focus, prepare to save pic, finally save pic after 3 seconds" thing.
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Try the touch focus before pressing the capture button.. and if you're saving to the SDcard, I saw a tweak somewhere for speeding up access which might help as well.
I save to SD card and my captures take a fraction of what they used to take before applying the tweaks, somewhere round half a second.
I have 5Mp, superfine, whitebalance set to auto, all picture properties set to +4, and the metering mode set to center, perhaps that helps.
I usually do use the touch focus...makes no difference. I use pretty much exactly the same settings you do...still takes a long time. As for the tweaks you mentioned...would that be the SD tuneup.cab?
yep, that's the one. Sad it doesn't help on yours. I do also have quite a few of the optimisation tweaks in place, maybe they help the camera too.
any settings would not get this delay done.
in the light conditions, the autofocus really fast and shot!
in the dark/dawn conditions, the autofocus really slow then shot.
As per title, does OnePlus One camera support such function?
I've tried several camera apps, it turns out all of the burst function require manually settings, instead of hold shutter button and burst.
While the burst shot speed is kind ar slow, is this normal?
as like 1 shot per second
shinnsohai said:
As per title, does OnePlus One camera support such function?
I've tried several camera apps, it turns out all of the burst function require manually settings, instead of hold shutter button and burst.
While the burst shot speed is kind ar slow, is this normal?
as like 1 shot per second
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Color Os camera, I prefer 2.67... Hold to burst shot up to 50 in +/- 2seconds.. Here's sample shots..
No, I won't post a link.. #searchbar