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Work-a-round for auto night detection or lack of it? Video goes far too dark.

Just curious if there is a viable option for videos in low light and no flash.
When in auto mode and low light videos (and sometimes pics) and flash off the camera states "auto night detection cannot be used while recording videos".. Which I could care less about but it unfortunately makes the video or images MUCH darker (then what is initially visible and decent in preview) .
What is visible on screen before recording is more then fine and I would be happy with that but as soon as recording it gives that message and goes very dark. Very frustrating. Just give me what's on the screen why don't you!
Of course I can go out of auto mode but that does little.. Highest manual iso is 800 and I turn exposure up to +2 but this only partially gets better then the darker recordings.
If the preview screen can show an image or video with enough light why won't it record at that?
Anyone else seeing this and doing something to help?

Hey, I just noticed that yesterday , did you find a fix for it?

Snapchat front camera video. Too dark!

Anyone having the issue off Snapchat being to dark on front facing camera when shooting video?
And when shooting video on rear camera it's starts to zoom automatically.

The dark video for the front camera is a bug. To get around it you can enable the face filter, leave it blank (or choose a filter) and record from there. And the cropping for the rear camera is needed for stabilization.

Are you sure that this works?? ??? l have the same issue! I keep returning and purchasing new Nexus 6ps only to find out they all have the same issue! I really want to fix the dark video problem.

Igual have the same problem have u resolve it?

How to lock exposure settings on video record?

I tried recording my car tonight and the exposures kept readjusting and gave me some serious vertical flares as well.
I focused on the car while recording but as soon as I stepped on the brakes, the camera readjusted the exposure settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvDkxxFkGo4

tracerit said:
I tried recording my car tonight and the exposures kept readjusting and gave me some serious vertical flares as well.
I focused on the car while recording but as soon as I stepped on the brakes, the camera readjusted the exposure settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvDkxxFkGo4
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There's no way to lock the exposure settings, or the focus settings (which dictate the exposure level depending on what you're focusing on) with the stock camera. You'd need to use a different camera app.

Focusing issues with rear camera?

I am using the FHD (60FPS) 1920x1080 on the rear camera and it seems to want to focus on anything other than what I select on the screen.
I will click to focus on my object and then it tends to undo my click and start focusing on other stuff.
If I don't do that the other issue is, it CONSTANTLY auto focuses a LOT.. Video will go blurry and then refocus and continues.
Anyone else having that issue?
Another issue I noticed is if I use the 4:3 (12M) 4032x3024 for pictures that the object is moving slowly, it will blur it but if I turn it down to 4:3 (6.2M) it will take a clear picture focused.

Pixel 3a camera after update to Android 10

Here are my first impressions after the update to Android 10:
White balance presets have been removed for photos and videos. That's a stupid decision and I hope that they will add a color temperature slider in auto mode in the future. https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/16921343?hl=en
Machine learning white balance can't be turned off in Night Sight mode anymore. Previously you could turn off machine learning white balance and use the default white balance, if you used a white balance preset before using Night Sight.
Now HDR+ enhanced has the "super resolution" zoom algorithm. Previously this wasn't the case. Now the HDR+ enhanced zoom is about as good as the Night Sight zoom (in my opinion it's even better because Night Sight chooses too long exposures and can lead to slightly blurry photos)
HDR+ dng files have been fixed. Previously they were extremely desaturated. Though the update doesn't fix the dng files that were saved before the update. Furthermore the Lightroom mobile camera app still produces desaturated dng files.
When you use the Pixel 3a on a tripod in very bad light conditions, then it will combine thirteen 4s exposures (astro mode). When you zoom, it will combine fifteen 4s exposures. After one 4s exposure, it is possible to stop additional exposures.
Now the Pixel 3a has face detection autofocus, but I am not sure whether it works accurately.
Now the Pixel 3a has the Top Shot feature, but it seems to be useless as the image quality is terrible.
Bug: When you use exposure compensation in low-light conditions, the viewfinder can start to flicker. When you use AF lock, then this bug doesn't occur. You can use the exposure compensation after using the AF lock feature.
Bug: When you hold the phone too steady in Night Sight mode, the astro mode can turn on even though you don't use a tripod. This will lead to very blurry results. If the light conditions are not very bad and the astro mode doesn't turn on, it is still possible that Night Sight chooses 1.0s per frame. Before the update the maximum handheld exposure time per frame was approximately 0.85s in my case, often 0.5s.
Bug: This is a bug that already existed before the update. It hasn't been fixed: When you zoom or when you use Night Sight on a tripod (not astro mode), then several dead pixels can be visible. I have the impression that the astro mode handles the dead pixels better. https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/im...x=0.05119343664946224&y=0.0066202024429564575
Google Photos bug: Jpgs in the Photoshop Express folder do not look extremely sharp at pixel level in Google Photos. When I move them to a different folder, then they look sharper.