I just realized that when I shoot with HDR the photos actually come out slightly blurred when you zoom in 100%. If I take the same shot with HDR on and HDR off - the one with no HDR is sharper and has more details. However, HDR always produces brighter photos.
Do you all shoot with HDR off to get the best quality? Also, is there any guide or tips how to get the best out of the S5 camera and what settings to use?
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The build-in panorama mode looks good, but the pictures taken from this mode are in really low quality/ low resolution. Is there a way to fully utilize the 5M-pixel camera to shot a high resolution panorama picture? Thanks.
I've noticed this too, any help would be appreciated
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Just use AndroPan.
I saw a reason for this on some other forum and it was understandable why it is in a low format/quality....remember you are taking i think 6 pics sum up into 1 one final pic which has to be compressed.
I will see if I can find it so that you can better understand why it is this way.
Becouse there is no optical zoom on HD2 my guess is that when i take 5MP picture with MAX ZOOM it will take part of 5MP picture and strech it to 5MP thus losing the quality.
What if i take 1MP picture with MAX ZOOM. Will it take 5MP picture and cut only 1MP portion. Or will it take 1MP picture than than strech part of it as zoom resulting in really bad quality.
Can anyone understand me and answer me how is zoom done on low-res pictures like 1MP on Android.
No answers. Does anyone at least understand my question????
This is mainly software question and im not sure how camera software take care of zoom on low res pictures.
your first assumption is correct: the digital zoomed image is obtained by cropping the full picture. As for the question about the different quality on picture taken, let's say, at 5mp or 1mp: i'm not totally sure but as far as i know on a digital camera the sensor will always work at the max resolution, only after that the cpu will scale the picture according to the user choice, applying at the same time a compression algorythm. So i believe the phone will take the photo at 5mp (zoomed, not actually 5mp - cropped) then the scaling process will occur, resulting a 1mp picture. The final quality will not be amazing but still acceptable.
So i took a vid with my Z in an indoor enviroment and whilst it does have detail, smoothness it comes at the price of huge noise.
now i know this is a smartphone, but my previous phone, an HTC One S, did excellent shots even in indoor and poor light conditions.
i believe one answer to this might be the fact that HDR is hardcoded in staying on at all times. i believe this messes up with the exposure values and eases noise to make way in the vid.
i tried tinkering with the settings, best i found was to put exposure at -2 and iso at 100/200 but still the noise persisted.
do you have any tips/tricks to improve low light video?
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So i took a vid with my Z in an indoor enviroment and whilst it does have detail, smoothness it comes at the price of huge noise.
now i know this is a smartphone, but my previous phone, an HTC One S, did excellent shots even in indoor and poor light conditions.
i believe one answer to this might be the fact that HDR is hardcoded in staying on at all times. i believe this messes up with the exposure values and eases noise to make way in the vid.
i tried tinkering with the settings, best i found was to put exposure at -2 and iso at 100/200 but still the noise persisted.
do you have any tips/tricks to improve low light video?
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Do you have any proof to show HDR is enabled at all times? I'm finding it a bit hard to believe that HDR which is supposed to get more accurate colour intensities can let noise enter the video. I would say that compression is a more likely culprit than that, given that you tweaked the settings and still got noise. What say you?
Warmo said:
So i took a vid with my Z in an indoor enviroment and whilst it does have detail, smoothness it comes at the price of huge noise.
now i know this is a smartphone, but my previous phone, an HTC One S, did excellent shots even in indoor and poor light conditions.
i believe one answer to this might be the fact that HDR is hardcoded in staying on at all times. i believe this messes up with the exposure values and eases noise to make way in the vid.
i tried tinkering with the settings, best i found was to put exposure at -2 and iso at 100/200 but still the noise persisted.
do you have any tips/tricks to improve low light video?
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I disagree with HDR being always on. I tested it with similar condition HDR off and on. HDR which looks like more exposure and is tweaked for low light videos. However the Noise is due to HDR failing to focus faster. In simple words HDR takes time to focus but give better results if your hand is firm and the video is slow mo. however you can uncheck HDR and change other settings like ISO and exposure you can get better results. (Video)
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I disagree with HDR being always on. I tested it with similar condition HDR off and on. HDR which looks like more exposure and is tweaked for low light videos. However the Noise is due to HDR failing to focus faster. In simple words HDR takes time to focus but give better results if your hand is firm and the video is slow mo. however you can uncheck HDR and change other settings like ISO and exposure you can get better results. (Video)
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"The new Sony Xperia Z flagship boasts a feature no other phone can brag with, and it is High Dynamic Range capture, but not only for still photography, but in videos as well.
The option is hardwired with the new Exmor RS sensor of Sony."
that last phrase is not exactly absolutely clear, but i assume that if it says "hardwired" it means "hardcoded" so to speak, and usually hardcoded means that it cannot be modified in anyway.
also, everytime i shoot a video i get the HDR tag right next to the timer on bottom-left side of the screen. and that little HDR tag remains even if i turn off the HDR function when in Photo mode.
i might be wrong of course and HDR can be disabled.
If HDR can be disabled please tell me how! I would really appreciate it!
coolrevi said:
I disagree with HDR being always on. I tested it with similar condition HDR off and on. HDR which looks like more exposure and is tweaked for low light videos. However the Noise is due to HDR failing to focus faster. In simple words HDR takes time to focus but give better results if your hand is firm and the video is slow mo. however you can uncheck HDR and change other settings like ISO and exposure you can get better results. (Video)
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It's simple. Open camera, video camera, hdr off, you can clearly make out that hdr is off as it reduces the color boost and exposure.
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Is it normal that my 4k video recording indoors at night with the lights on gives off very grainy noisey video?
I expected the 4k video quality to be excellent but i was disappointed how un crisp the video is. Is this normal for indoor at night recording?
My camera taking pictures wise is excellent but could there be a fault with the video recording aspect despite the camera taking good photos? Is there a hardware issue i need to change if the phone takes good images but bad video?
Been playing around with camera resolution and I understand that while the actual sensor is 48MP OP defaults it to 12MP to "capture" more details (I think thing the 48MP setting provides better shots but that's subjective).
Now the question/issue that I have is when looking in Google Photos (gallery) the shots are being reported at various resolutions... most of the time not close to the 12MP that the sensor is supposed to capture the image at.
Regular lense, showing as 7.2MP --- 4000x1800 resolution (setting in Camera app is 12MP - 6.59mm)
Wide lense, showing 7.2MP --- 4000x1800 resolution (setting in Camera app is 12MP - 3.05mm)
Tele lense, showing 4.8MP --- 3264x1472 resolution (6.95mm)
Bokeh shots appear to be showing higher res, like 13MP.
Pictures taken from my old Pixel 2XL show consistently 12.2MP which I believe is the sensor size so I'm trying to figure out what setting may be affecting the resolution. File size are significantly smaller on the 7.2MP shots so I'm sure I'm losing some quality here.
Switch to 4:3.
You are shooting in 20:9 hence the lower resolution.
Perfect ty. I did select full looks like. Went back to 4:3 and seems to show the correct mp.
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is there a way to fix it to provide 16:9?