Hi, do you notice difference in quality tacking landscape pics with Google camera than the stock ?
For me it seem to be more focused with the moto app than Google even with the touch to focus.. I see this in zooming into the pics...
And for me it seem that the Google camera uses more battery...
What are your feeling ???
Both the regular camera and Google camera apps suck for panorama on my phone. What are people using to get good ones? My old S5 had great panoramas.
I've been getting pretty great (by my standards) panoramas with the Google Camera. What, in particular, do you not like about the results?
stock camera has horrible resolution for panorama. google camera is higher. panorama on this phone sucks compared to the note 4...then again the camera in general does too, but panorama is just awful software by moto.
Sent from my Moto X Pure Edition
Hi, since the photos of the S7 Edge are a bit to overly sharpend for my taste I tried a couple of third party apps today. The results were terrible. Even at low ISO there were no details, everything was just smeared all over the place.
One of the developers answered to someones review on the play store and claimed that Samsung purposefully degrades the image quality of third party apps. Even though that comment was about the S6 Edge, it totally seems that way with my S7 Edge as well.
How are your experiences with third party camera apps? I tried Camera Zoom FX Pro, A Better Camera and Open Camera, all with the same results.
That's a bold claim. I have camera fv5. Coz all auto pics are good from the default Samsung camera. I need good manual controls. But let me test this scenario.
I dont think they degrade it, I thought it was more to do with Drivers and Universal.
I could be wrong, i dont really dabble at the cameras much
Just so you can take a look at what I mean, a couple of full size test shots:
Samsung Camera:
Open Camera (looking good today, just like the standard app):
And now for the bad stuff:
Camera Zoom FX Pro:
ProShot (which also seems to use a tighter frame, even though I zoom out as far as possible):
almizilero said:
Just so you can take a look at what I mean, a couple of full size test shots:
ProShot (which also seems to use a tighter frame, even though I zoom out as far as possible):
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Hi! I'm the developer of ProShot. Getting the app 100% on Samsung devices has been a tug of war. It all started with Android 5.0 on the S6, where flash wouldn't work (later fixed in 5.0.2). Then came IQ issues, which could only be fixed by forcing Noise Reduction on. Then with Android 6.0 Samsung prevented third party apps from accessing the full resolution of the sensor (on the S6), and video files were ruined because the device wasn't writing the proper header info (I think this affects the S7 too, unless a recent firmware update addressed it).
Having said all that, the next update to ProShot will fix the crop issue, and it will give you a toggle to control the sharpening of JPEGs. The sad thing is that the sharpening option enhances all images on all devices except Samsung. I have been trying to avoid device-specific hacks because the code can get messy and hard to manage very quickly, but in this case I might make an exception.
One additional note about that update: I am rewriting the entire app from scratch; it's going to be faster, cleaner and better in every respect. Coming late June / early July
one question which i've not found an answer to...the factory configuration of the Samsung S7 will over sharpen and over saturate/contrast. Will/Does ProShot remove this, or is a hardware limitation.
almizilero said:
Hi, since the photos of the S7 Edge are a bit to overly sharpend for my taste I tried a couple of third party apps today. The results were terrible. Even at low ISO there were no details, everything was just smeared all over the place.
One of the developers answered to someones review on the play store and claimed that Samsung purposefully degrades the image quality of third party apps. Even though that comment was about the S6 Edge, it totally seems that way with my S7 Edge as well.
How are your experiences with third party camera apps? I tried Camera Zoom FX Pro, A Better Camera and Open Camera, all with the same results.
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Test with Google Camera 3.2.045
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/camera/camera-3-2-045-release/
almizilero said:
Just so you can take a look at what I mean, a couple of full size test shots:
Samsung Camera:
Open Camera (looking good today, just like the standard app):
And now for the bad stuff:
Camera Zoom FX Pro:
ProShot (which also seems to use a tighter frame, even though I zoom out as far as possible):
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Your bad shots are showing a sort of double/triple image effect, rather than just poor quality. It looks like a problem with image stabilisation when you're using those apps.
I don´t know, for take photos I use the Samsung app...but on Snapchat, WhatsApp or any other app when I open the camera to send a photo is really crap...
Hey guys what's the best camera app to use with this phone?
I've seen that when recording video the auto focus doesn't work so I wanted a good app that does.
The best camera app is the one that comes on the phone. It's the only one that supports the camera's more advanced features like optical image stabilization.
Edit: it should be noted that things like autofocus are handled by the OS when using third party camera apps. Unfortunately, no third party camera app will be able to autofocus better than the stock camera can.
I have been using nexus 6p running stock for an year now , have tried many 3rd party apps but none give quality like google camera in hdr, but disadvantage is that , google camera has no manual controls..
So my request is , if any developer can build a rom that performs amazing with 3rd party camera apps (like giving crispy pics we gets from hdr in g- camera)..
Thank you