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Increase camera shutter speed

Is there any way to increase the camera shutter speed? I want to capture pictures faster and clearer. Pictures I'm taking seem to have a tendency to blur if I don't have completely steady hands. It seems even slower than my GS2, and much slower than my gf's Note 2. I've tried some apps such as the highly rated procapture and camera fv-5 but with unsatisfying results. I just want to get more out of my phone not trying to insult the Nexus 4 or anything...so don't flame me. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

I agree with you. I wish to use the stock camera app. as it uses complete screen without any cluttered menus but its shutter speed is very slow..due to its focusing. I know ppl will flame by saying it needs time to focus but why does it has to be with Nexus 4 only? All other high spec'd phones cameras take shots very quickly. The hardware is of course very capable...its just the scripting of stock app I guess.
Moreover for the shaky pics.I use third party Cam Apps like Camera FZ Zoom and ProCapture (tried a few others too but they were just ok), the pictures turn out to be better than stock.

If only this is fixable, i have missed so many shots because of such long period to focusa nd then take a pic. Infact by the time that is done, i end up getting hazy pics anyways.

No. If there is someone hasn't come up with one. The specs of the camera is determined by the hardware and the software probably already uses it to its full capability despite other options which can be set by the user in the camera app.

I agree that the camera tends to default to slower shutter speeds. Of course faster shutter speeds raise ISO which results in more noise.
What was unsatisfactory about your experience with FV5. My recollection is that it allows you to hard set the ISO higher which will result in faster shutter speeds.
Also the 'action' mode on the stock camera will try to use faster shutter speeds as well.

Solutions Etcetera said:
I agree that the camera tends to default to slower shutter speeds. Of course faster shutter speeds raise ISO which results in more noise.
What was unsatisfactory about your experience with FV5. My recollection is that it allows you to hard set the ISO higher which will result in faster shutter speeds.
Also the 'action' mode on the stock camera will try to use faster shutter speeds as well.
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No matter what I do, it's just really slow. I really think it's just the camera's not that amazing. It's satisfactory and is be able to to take pictures though; I guess that's what counts. I mean this was a budget phone, how can you sell it for 349 off contract, that's amazing. You have to skimp somewhere. Doesn't hold a candle to the Note 2 though sadly. That phone can burst shot a whole bunch of pictures in a millisec. I hope I'm wrong though and our developers can figure out a way to improve this phone's camera.

caaznkid said:
No matter what I do, it's just really slow. I really think it's just the camera's not that amazing. It's satisfactory and is be able to to take pictures though; I guess that's what counts. I mean this was a budget phone, how can you sell it for 349 off contract, that's amazing. You have to skimp somewhere. Doesn't hold a candle to the Note 2 though sadly. That phone can burst shot a whole bunch of pictures in a millisec. I hope I'm wrong though and our developers can figure out a way to improve this phone's camera.
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JamesInsights said:
No. If there is someone hasn't come up with one. The specs of the camera is determined by the hardware and the software probably already uses it to its full capability despite other options which can be set by the user in the camera app.
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Thats like the biggest joke! Software used to its full potential! Its a software! Can be fixed very well!
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Download FAST BURST CAMERA from app store. It will not only give you BURST MODE but also crazily increase the shutter speed. Try it.
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filthykid said:
Download FAST BURST CAMERA from app store. It will not only give you BURST MODE but also crazily increase the shutter speed. Try it.
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But at the cost of seriously downsampled resolution.
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I realized, that when you put the scene mode to sunset mode. the shutter speed will stick at 1/20 all the time. which is pretty good.
will be my default mode from here now on. dont worry about the white balance. its pretty ok.

S4 I9505 - Photos always out of focus and always "shaky"

does anybody have the same problem?
its very hard to make a photo that is in focus and steady.
i have compared it to my old galaxy S2, and the S2 makes much better photos.
on the S2 every single photo i take is rock steady and in focus.
on the S4 its very hard to do that. every photo looks like i am shaking like an old man. it almost impossible to take a good photo.

karl999999 said:
does anybody have the same problem?
its very hard to make a photo that is in focus and steady.
i have compared it to my old galaxy S2, and the S2 makes much better photos.
on the S2 every single photo i take is rock steady and in focus.
on the S4 its very hard to do that. every photo looks like i am shaking like an old man. it almost impossible to take a good photo.
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Do you have auto low light enabled? Where are you taking the photo? Indoors outdoors?

Have the same problem on I9500. Not that we have shaky hands..

cameracartwright said:
Do you have auto low light enabled? Where are you taking the photo? Indoors outdoors?
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no i dont have auto low light enabled.
it does not matter where i take photos, indoor or outdoor.
3 of 4 photos are shaky.
i hope there will be a firmware update for the camera hardware soon.

karl999999 said:
no i dont have auto low light enabled.
it does not matter where i take photos, indoor or outdoor.
3 of 4 photos are shaky.
i hope there will be a firmware update for the camera hardware soon.
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Check the shutter speed on your photos.
Go to gallery/select the menu hard key/scroll down to details on the photo and should state shutter speed, iso, location etc
Tell me what they say on the blurred/shakey pics and iff different on the in focus shots mate.

cameracartwright said:
Check the shutter speed on your photos.
Go to gallery/select the menu hard key/scroll down to details on the photo and should state shutter speed, iso, location etc
Tell me what they say on the blurred/shakey pics and iff different on the in focus shots mate.
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it varies very much. from 1/17s to 1/1000s
but all are sometimes in focus and out of focus.
what i find is that the galaxy S2 makes perfect steady pics no matter what i do or even when i shake the S2.
on the S4 i have to be very very still and hold the cam very steady for a long time, then the chance is better to make a still foto. its unusable at the moment.

Has nobody found the anti-shake feature in camera settings?
Plus, you can take a photo by saying 'cheese', leaving your hands/fingers free to hold the phone steady

prodigyX said:
Has nobody found the anti-shake feature in camera settings?
Plus, you can take a photo by saying 'cheese', leaving your hands/fingers free to hold the phone steady
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the anti shake feature does almost nothing.

karl999999 said:
it varies very much. from 1/17s to 1/1000s
but all are sometimes in focus and out of focus.
what i find is that the galaxy S2 makes perfect steady pics no matter what i do or even when i shake the S2.
on the S4 i have to be very very still and hold the cam very steady for a long time, then the chance is better to make a still foto. its unusable at the moment.
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Images at 1/17 unless held very still will come out shakey, check the iOS setting on your camera press menu hard key then settings then see if ISo is on auto.
Are you taking photos of distant objects or objects/items close up or both? Sorry for so may questions just trying to help
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Has nobody found the anti-shake feature in camera settings?
Plus, you can take a photo by saying 'cheese', leaving your hands/fingers free to hold the phone steady
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Press hardware menu key on camera then settings and scroll down to see Antishake it's disabled by default. It simply increases ISO so your images will in low light look slightly more grainy/noisy but this enables a faster shutter speed: less lightly to be blurred from motion or movement

the anti shake is turned on, but does not really improve anything.
yes ISO is set to auto. what would be the best manual ISO setting?
i am not a photographer so my knowledge about ISO is also shaky
but the general question is: why was the S2 always steady without changing any settings, and the S4 seems to need hard work to get good photos? or am only i getting this?
if you just take the phone out of the pocket and take a foto quickly,
do you guys get a steady in focus foto every time?
i could do this with my old S2, but not with the S4.

karl999999 said:
the anti shake is turned on, but does not really improve anything.
yes ISO is set to auto. what would be the best manual ISO setting?
i am not a photographer so my knowledge about ISO is also shaky
but the general question is: why was the S2 always steady without changing any settings, and the S4 seems to need hard work to get good photos? or am only i getting this?
if you just take the phone out of the pocket and take a foto quickly,
do you guys get a steady in focus foto every time?
i could do this with my old S2, but not with the S4.
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on my i9505 I've yet to produce an out of focus shot (taken about 10pictures, 3 in low light)
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karl999999 said:
no i dont have auto low light enabled.
it does not matter where i take photos, indoor or outdoor.
3 of 4 photos are shaky.
i hope there will be a firmware update for the camera hardware soon.
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The latest firmware (i9505xxuamdm) has a firmware update for the camera. If your photos look shaky and out of focus even in daylight and sunny conditions, you might have a faulty camera. I have not yet had any focus issues and photos taken with my S4 are steady, even in low light, the most beautiful pictures taken with a mobile phone. So you might have a faulty camera module.
Regarding the 1/17 exposure time, I have just taken a picture now in very low light and the exposure time is just that, with an ISO of 320 and Aperture 2.2, and it is sharp and in focus (taken from the hand). Have you tried focusing first by touching the screen where you want the focus to be rather than pressing the shutter button directly?

camera firmware update sounds good. do you have the apk file for it?

Hi there all
I have this issue too. I have taken photos inside and outdoors with anti shake on and off and no matter what settings I use the pictures always appear to have blur due to shake on them. It's as if the camera always selects a really long shutter speed.
I have also applied the latest firmware update with no benefit.
Cheers
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Have you all removed the plastic film on the lens?
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Have you all removed the plastic film on the lens?
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YES! it was difficult to remove but yes i did when i got the phone.

karl999999 said:
does anybody have the same problem?
its very hard to make a photo that is in focus and steady.
i have compared it to my old galaxy S2, and the S2 makes much better photos.
on the S2 every single photo i take is rock steady and in focus.
on the S4 its very hard to do that. every photo looks like i am shaking like an old man. it almost impossible to take a good photo.
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i don know WHY but when i turned off image stabilizer it took photo better :-??

Same Problem
I had the same problem with out of focus/shaky pictures plus that sometimes when I wanted to turn on the camera to make pictures I received a camera busy message. The last 3 pictures that I've took with SG4 I had to use the best out of 8 picture setting to get a clear picture of a product that I make... I also noticed that even that I had better signal than HTC One or Iphone 3GS the internet was way slower compared to the other 2 phones and sometimes at home I had to turn off and on the WIFI, cause it wasn't working...

karl999999 said:
Photos shaky... does anybody have the same problem?
its very hard to make a photo that is in focus and steady.
.... every photo looks like i am shaking like an old man. it almost impossible to take a good photo.
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Have you tried drinking less alcohol when taking these photos?
And if that doesn't work, drink more!

Yup.. so annoying. On my last phone it took mostly clear photos. On this, you have to be still as a hair... it constantly uses low shutter speeds instead of higher ISO's making it use 1/16 shutter speed in the most inconvenient times. With my last phone (HTC Rezound), id use the cam under a bright LED flashlight and take steady shots of old paper photographs so I could post them online for friends. Im trying to do the same thing with the S4 and the pics keep coming out blurry, even when im completely still. Its a very bright light so idk why its choosing slow shutter speeds. I end up giving up trying to get a clear shot... ridiculous.
On another note... it does take very clear daytime pics. ....

Camera settings - mods (without root)

Hi, is there a way to enable saturation control on this phone? or maybe shutter speed? some mod? some apk?
Also smooth-motion, is this another fake 1080p like the LG G2 60 fps option? which actually shot in 720p (upscaled) and does the digital stabilization works along with the OIS in this mode?

I'd like to add one topic to the wishlist: A FOCUS INDICATOR !
Just all digital cameras tell you if the autofocus worked - by changing the color of the reticle, by a sound - just the Note 4 does NOT tell you if it's autofocus succeeded or not.

So no one?

Chefproll said:
I'd like to add one topic to the wishlist: A FOCUS INDICATOR !
Just all digital cameras tell you if the autofocus worked - by changing the color of the reticle, by a sound - just the Note 4 does NOT tell you if it's autofocus succeeded or not.
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You can press on the screen for a bit longer and the circle/focus will lock on the subject you want to shoot.

dazed1 said:
You can press on the screen for a bit longer and the circle/focus will lock on the subject you want to shoot.
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Sure. But it still does not show if focusing was successful or not.

Chefproll said:
Sure. But it still does not show if focusing was successful or not.
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It locks the focus when you press for sure imho....

dazed1 said:
It locks the focus when you press for sure imho....
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Erm... Am I talking Suaheli ?
OF COURSE it tries to lock the focus, but that's not the point.
There's NO indication if the focus lock was successful (picture focused, sharp) or if the focus lock failed (picture still unfocused, blurred). There's no indication by the Note 4, while other digital cameras output an audio signal, a beep, or change the color of the focus reticle (e. g. green for success, red for a focus failure) if the focus lock was successful.
Nothing of that with the Note.

So no one has any option to control shutter speed?

Camera being a system app, I don't think it's moddable (I know that's not a word) without root. You can install a different cam app though.

pedmond said:
Camera being a system app, I don't think it's moddable (I know that's not a word) without root. You can install a different cam app though.
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But often custom camera aps have terrible processing, the reason why i never install cyanogen on my phones
Maybe i will decide to root, but even with root, i don't see an option (mod or apk) to manually control the shutter speed?

Bump, what about saturation control?

Anyone knows a way how to control the saturation?

dazed1 said:
Anyone knows a way how to control the saturation?
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You can download Food mode, it has temperature control and produces more vivid pictures in terms of saturation.
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iridaki said:
You can download Food mode, it has temperature control and produces more vivid pictures in terms of saturation.
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WOW really? but is it only for that mode?
Thanks so much.

dazed1 said:
WOW really? but is it only for that mode?
Thanks so much.
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Yeah, only for that mode. Works well, definitely worth trying.
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Manual shutter speed on n6p

I want to set shutter speed at 30 sec like on my old g4 but i can't find an app that allows me do that. I tried manual camera and pro shot but the minimum shutter speed is only 1/5 sec

albj13 said:
I want to set shutter speed at 30 sec like on my old g4 but i can't find an app that allows me do that. I tried manual camera and pro shot but the minimum shutter speed is only 1/5 sec
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Proshot has "light paint" mode which allows longer shutter speeds...
Nexus 6P seems to be limited to 1/5 (0.2s).

TonzaTheChosenOne said:
Proshot has "light paint" mode which allows longer shutter speeds...
Nexus 6P seems to be limited to 1/5 (0.2s).
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Thanks but it's not what I want (with g4 i can photograph a night sky full of stars for example.)...dp you know if these .2 sec are an hardware limitation or if it is software? If it's the second may someone CAM change this!

albj13 said:
I want to set shutter speed at 30 sec like on my old g4 but i can't find an app that allows me do that. I tried manual camera and pro shot but the minimum shutter speed is only 1/5 sec
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It's currently impossible on the 6p. The hardware has been locked down. Devs can't change that. Like I just finished telling someone else, take it to Google...maybe they'll listen if enough people complain.

Mr Patchy Patch said:
It's currently impossible on the 6p. The hardware has been locked down. Devs can't change that. Like I just finished telling someone else, take it to Google...maybe they'll listen if enough people complain.
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I went for huawei p9 plus, yesterday i sold my 6p and buyed this... photos on night are incredibles!

Low light/Long exposure performance

Just thought I'd share some awesome photos I was able to get out of my OP3T last night! Good job OnePlus!
I'm running LOS with the OOS camera port.
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This post is to show the capabilities of the OP3/T in low light scenarios. For those who are curious.

Wow, superb..
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Wow, great photoshots!!

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Just thought I'd share some awesome photos I was able to get out of my OP3T last night! Good job OnePlus!
I'm running LOS with the OOS camera port.
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What iso n shutter speed you used?

sharath_babu said:
What iso n shutter speed you used?
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The first one was 100 iso, 4 second shutter speed, and Infinity zoom. The last three are the same except I used a 10 second shutter speed instead of 4.

just as I thought OP3T is so freakin awesome!

Wow. Great skills and results!
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So you used a tripod for these?

Awesome , especially the 3rd one !

bridge looks like bridge from Gothica

Yep! Just a cheap one from best buy