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So, my problem is that my camera does not seem to focus an Objekt, even when I "touch " it in the camera app. It is still a bit blurry when I view the taken shot. When I look at my friends Nexus 4, colors are much better and everything is sharp. Is it possible that I have a broken camera? The settings are exactly the same...
It may be helpful to post some example shots.
1st thing to look for is to make sure that the glass covering the lens is clean. And shoot in good lighting.
Known problem, please star the issue http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=43153&thanks=43153&ts=1359017856
AW: Bad camera focus
And the washed out colors? Max it be the fault of rev10 devices? A friend of mine said something like that
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Here's a sample. If you zomm in you will see the Blurry borders. They are really annoying because when I look at the pic on a PC, I am able to notice it. Maybe it's the cameras fault or Googles fault for bad drivers and software.
http://db.tt/QSb8F0KE
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It seems to me like the hardware is perfectly capable of the focal lengths to get clear focus, it's just the autofocus implementation that's broken. Is autofocus a driver level implementation? If so, would it be feasible to try and create a custom driver to at least allow for true manual focus?
There are several things that can be going on here. 1.) it ain't a great lens, so not all areas of the picture are going to be razor sharp. I see a good degree of softness in the corners.
2.) I have noticed the camera's default behavior is to use lower ISO, and longer shutter speeds in less than ideal light, making camera movement a major factor in blurry photos. If you're gonna test under less than ideal light, rig up some kind of tripod.
3.) Auto-focus algorithms decide focus based on maximum contrast. If the area of your focus reticle is over an area that has poor contrast, focus will be compromised. Low light also lowers contrast.
4.) Depth of field. It is limited with this lens. Make sure areas you are checking for focus are on/near the same plane with shots that have reasonable distance separating foreground/background objects. They all can't be in focus.
With all that said, reasonable photography skills can get pretty reasonable results from this camera, as is exhibited in the photos posted in the photo thread of the "general" forum.
It does focus, but has a small delay tho..
actually the focus on N4 is slow a little bit ..
Is there any new piece of information about the bad camera focus?
anyone else have a pink haze when capturing white objects
Guys,
As many of you, I'd like to get the maximum out of the HTC One's camera, and I've found this article very helpful:
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/wide-angle-lenses.htm
It's the 101 of wide angle lens photography, I hope it would help you as well. Originally I wanted to post this to the 'share your photos...' thread but I think this way it will reach more people.
EDIT: yes, HTC One has a wide angle lens
Cheers!
And here is another, how to correct the distortion if you want. It's based on PS but shows the concept fairly enough. I think it's useful after people/portrait shooting and you want to undo the body part distortion (big head e.g).
The method itself seems pretty easy. I'll search for an android app to do it on the phone right after shooting but if you have some suggestions please share with us.
http://digital-photography-school.com/correcting-perspective-lens-distortion-in-photoshop
Cheers!
Hello, I'm new to XDA. So excuse me if I may be a little 'nooby'. I've noticed that the colors on my new Nexus 6P shift when I view it from an angle. Generally, the viewing angles are bad. At extreme angles, the colors pretty much go rainbow on me. I thought that's how AMOLED displays are, until I checked my S6 edge. The viewing angles were perfect, no color distortion on it. Is it a problem with just my device? A quick Google search let me know that there are others with the same issue too. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
(PS: Upon regular usage, the display is perfect, no problems. Only when I tilt the phone I see the color shifting).
Yeah lots of people seeing this. My screen was fine if I looked at it from an angle but awful looking straight on. I don't have much advice for you. I returned mine for a refund. But there is quite a few threads in here already about this, have a look through them
It's the nature of amoled screens. Just depends to what extent there like it and how much you notice it
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Hello, I'm new to XDA. So excuse me if I may be a little 'nooby'. I've noticed that the colors on my new Nexus 6P shift when I view it from an angle. Generally, the viewing angles are bad. At extreme angles, the colors pretty much go rainbow on me. I thought that's how AMOLED displays are, until I checked my S6 edge. The viewing angles were perfect, no color distortion on it. Is it a problem with just my device? A quick Google search let me know that there are others with the same issue too. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
(PS: Upon regular usage, the display is perfect, no problems. Only when I tilt the phone I see the color shifting).
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Mine is the same, perfect when looking at it straight on, all kinds of colour shifts at angles, it doesn't bother me one bit as I don't use my phone at an angle anyway.
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Oh. Thanks for the answers. The display is fine. It's only extreme viewing angles that rainbow out. Anyway, I probably won't use the phone at those angles anyway!
Precisely.
As anyone else also found out, the front camera of S7 has serious focus issue. The front camera is a fixed focus lens, which means the distance between lens and CCD is fixed and can not be changed. The lens has very short focus lengh, like 1~2 mm. So most distance between object and lens can be considered as infinity. That's why such camera does not have focusing ablility. Which also means unless you change the hardware, the out of focus is not fixable by firmware.
This is a low level defect, which should never happen in a flagship cell phone such as S7. A camera has such issue mostly is wasted. We shall act and repot to Samsung asking for recall.
I had a chance to take a picture, comparing S7 with a Note 5. You can see the big difference.
picture can be found i68.tinypic.com/vzd3qa.jpg, sorry I am new can not post outside link.
thankfornok said:
As anyone else also found out, the front camera of S7 has serious focus issue. The front camera is a fixed focus lens, which means the distance between lens and CCD is fixed and can not be changed. The lens has very short focus lengh, like 1~2 mm. So most distance between object and lens can be considered as infinity. That's why such camera does not have focusing ablility. Which also means unless you change the hardware, the out of focus is not fixable by firmware.
This is a low level defect, which should never happen in a flagship cell phone such as S7. A camera has such issue mostly is wasted. We shall act and repot to Samsung asking for recall.
I had a chance to take a picture, comparing S7 with a Note 5. You can see the big difference.
picture can be found i68.tinypic.com/vzd3qa.jpg, sorry I am new can not post outside link.
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We are many that are having this issue with the front camera.
Check out the S7 Camera thread for more.
What FW do you have on the front camera?
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Please continue this discussion here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7/how-to/galaxy-s7-camera-thread-t3316316
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I know the S7 has a wide angle camera, and this is the result of long / narrow faces.
Or this is how it appears on mine.
Wondering if anyone has stumbled across any mods or anything?
I don't normally do selfies, but I just tried and wow!
Someone suggested taking the picture at arm length and cropping the picture, while this works, its not a solution for native apps that use the camera.
I.e. Snap chat etc.
Had anyone has the same experience and had any solutions or luck?
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I asked myself the same question. Its cool to get more of the background on the picture, but for little bit closer takes it looks just stretched and unreal.
haha, well i have a rather round face.
But when i take a selfie using this camers, It looks like i have to eat for a few months. LOL!
Might work well for woman Samsung, But am not keen on looking as skinny as possible
Are you guys also expierencing with the front camera makes your face out of focus. Example if i take pictures with front camera my eyebrows, nose and beard is all blury and out of focus?
This kind of problem need more attention because ive heard that a lot of s7 and s7 edge users with this problem. Yet there is no update to fix this.
Elhombree said:
Are you guys also expierencing with the front camera makes your face out of focus. Example if i take pictures with front camera my eyebrows, nose and beard is all blury and out of focus?
This kind of problem need more attention because ive heard that a lot of s7 and s7 edge users with this problem. Yet there is no update to fix this.
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Have you guys tried turning off the beauty face features.
Elhombree said:
Are you guys also expierencing with the front camera makes your face out of focus. Example if i take pictures with front camera my eyebrows, nose and beard is all blury and out of focus?
This kind of problem need more attention because ive heard that a lot of s7 and s7 edge users with this problem. Yet there is no update to fix this.
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As another user suggested, Sounds like filters.
Samsung added a few, If enabled can remove wrinkles and marks from your face.
At the cost of looking plastic........ lol
Yes it may be a software fault, eventhough beauty mode is off it's still on somehow.
I know someone who complained it and they changed the camera, the fault was still present.
And my brother got fed up that this issue wouldn't get fixed so he ended up selling his s7 edge.
Could you guys try a selfie and look in the details of your eyebrows look how out of focus and blury it is, and details around hair, beard is oversaturated making the picture look distorted and poor.
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Yes it may be a software fault, eventhough beauty mode is off it's still on somehow.
I know someone who complained it and they changed the camera, the fault was still present.
And my brother got fed up that this issue wouldn't get fixed so he ended up selling his s7 edge.
Could you guys try a selfie and look in the details of your eyebrows look how out of focus and blury it is, and details around hair, beard is oversaturated making the picture look distorted and poor.
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Ill try some later and see the results.
I have only ever taken a couple of selfies.
TBH i hate looking at my own pics especially on the S7 edge lol!!!