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Camera Help?!

Hey fellow Z1 owners. I have a question about the camera and maybe I am doing it completely wrong. I noticed that when I take pictures, they don't really come out that sharp, in superior auto or full manual. Below is an example.
As you can see on my dog's body, the fur looks like a flat, smudgy mess while in real life those are each individual hairs. Is it something to do with the camera software and pixel binning or is it my crap photo skills?
When I compare some of the pictures taken with my Nexus 5, I notice that the hairs can easily be defined and pictures are generally less noisy. Any help or insite would be appreciated. Running .290.

This picture is from the Nexus 5. As you can see, more detail and less noise. This is mindboggling to me.

The picture looks fine to me. It has that distinct "Sony" skin smoothing effect.
I assume that the lighting conditions are less than optimal? It could just be the aggressive image processing from Sony. Did you try a different camera app?

More the ISO is, more you will have this "effect".

hcloud said:
The picture looks fine to me. It has that distinct "Sony" skin smoothing effect.
I assume that the lighting conditions are less than optimal? It could just be the aggressive image processing from Sony. Did you try a different camera app?
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The lighting conditions arent "optimal' but they certainly arent LOW light. I noticed a lot of pictures have this smoothing effect reducing detail. Will a different app help this at all?

Try to take pictures on manual 8mp. 4x3 and use landscape as seen that helps me in some conditions
And don't use auto mode results won't be that good
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20 mp. Manual :
8mp. Manual scene:lanscape
Auto:
The 8mp landscape's colours do look most like the original
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izzet3838 said:
Try to take pictures on manual 8mp. 4x3 and use landscape as seen that helps me in some conditions
And don't use auto mode results won't be that good
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20 mp. Manual :
8mp. Manual scene:lanscape
Auto:
The 8mp landscape's colours do look most like the original
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Can you put them up on dropbox or flickr where we can examine the exifs.

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Redmi Note 4 (SD and MTK) photography thread

I don't see this thread here so I might as well start one. Use this thread to show of your photography skills on the Note 4, since people insist on camera2 API all the time and we are lucky to have it.
If you're uploading multiple photos please
them so it won't be a huge post or use the attachment function.
Do share your camera app and custom settings if you can too.
Files attached used HDR for daytime while the night sky pic used ISO 1600 and 0.6s shutter speed. All taken with Open Camera. Anyone got better settings to take pictures os stars or the moon at night?

Can you please confirm that exposure settings working or not in manual mode? And what is the maximum exposure time?
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AutumQueen92 said:
I don't see this thread here so I might as well start one. Use this thread to show of your photography skills on the Note 4, since people insist on camera2 API all the time and we are lucky to have it.
If you're uploading multiple photos please
them so it won't be a huge post or use the attachment function.
Do share your camera app and custom settings if you can too.
Files attached used HDR for daytime while the night sky pic used ISO 1600 and 0.6s shutter speed. All taken with Open Camera. Anyone got better settings to take pictures os stars or the moon at night?
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Waiting for your reply.

ridershahmir said:
Can you please confirm that exposure settings working or not in manual mode? And what is the maximum exposure time?
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Waiting for your reply.
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They're all working, exposure time goes up to 0.7s

AutumQueen92 said:
They're all working, exposure time goes up to 0.7s
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Can you do longer exposure and lower the ISO?

syl0n said:
Can you do longer exposure and lower the ISO?
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For longer you need other camera apps, the resolution will be stuck at 2mp. You can change iso yes.

AutumQueen92 said:
For longer you need other camera apps, the resolution will be stuck at 2mp. You can change iso yes.
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By how much can you increase the exposure time in third party apps such as manual camera app or other apps?

ridershahmir said:
By how much can you increase the exposure time in third party apps such as manual camera app or other apps?
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0.7s

Nature clicks with miui 8.5 and miui 9 camera
SD625

notauseranymore said:
For longer you need other camera apps, the resolution will be stuck at 2mp. You can change iso yes.
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Max resolution is at 2Mp because the long exposure is not real but through software. Many pics are taken and then combined.

Google Camera Pixel 2 Mod Arnova8G2 Version 8, all max settings.

Aperture in pro mode?

Hi,
How to adjust the aperture in the camera pro mode?
Thanks!

It has fixed aperture
<joke> oneplus disappointed and fooled customers again </joke>

davfiala said:
It has fixed aperture
<joke> oneplus disappointed and fooled customers again </joke>
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its "natural" for not being able to use aperture in pro mode . The human eye cannot see it.

Mobile phone cameras come with fixed aperture, so there is no hardware support for changing it.
But since its corelated to ISO and focal length (which both are adjustable) you should still be able to achieve the desired result by adjusting those 2.

dj_chapz said:
Mobile phone cameras come with fixed aperture, so there is no hardware support for changing it.
But since its corelated to ISO and focal length (which both are adjustable) you should still be able to achieve the desired result by adjusting those 2.
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The aperture determines the depth of field of the shot. You can't change that with focus and iso.

The oneplus 5 boast a f/1.7 fixed aperture. It should be extremely easy to achieve a shallow dof once you're close enough to the subject without changing iso or shutter speed. Still, play around with the settings, especially wb and shutter speed, you'll be amazed at the results you get.
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davfiala said:
It has fixed aperture
<joke> oneplus disappointed and fooled customers again </joke>
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Every phone camera has a fixed aperture, some just have a higher aperture limit than others.

[Camera Thread] Post your best shots with the 5T !

Here you can share all your best pictures taken with your new Oneplus 5T

lowlight shots aint bad out of the box :good:

Portrait Mode, unedited

From a gig last night. The camera is decent. Works if you put effort in it. This is taken with gcam. Gcam uses only the 16Mpix sensor (at least I think so.)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/evrt2pz4rYBPELw52

One of the pictures I took last night from my first attempts at astrophotography using 5T. It's difficult to do and time consuming considering its a 30 second exposure.
I haven't edited it, this is on ISO 1600 and 20" exposure.

CareDood said:
From a gig last night. The camera is decent. Works if you put effort in it. This is taken with gcam. Gcam uses only the 16Mpix sensor (at least I think so.)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/evrt2pz4rYBPELw52
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that's a superb shot
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has anyone tried using a third party app like open camera, camera fv-5, or snap camera with 100% photo quality setting?
Open camera is free and should give a good indication if photo quality is improved by reducing the jpeg compression that seems to be causing the oil color blur with the op software.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera

tmzbeme said:
that's a superb shot
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has anyone tried using a third party app like open camera, camera fv-5, or snap camera with 100% photo quality setting?
Open camera is free and should give a good indication if photo quality is improved by reducing the jpeg compression that seems to be causing the oil color blur with the op software.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera
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Thanks.
Tried opencamera also. Images came out very grainy and terrible looking. That shot above is taken with Google Cam. Probably the version which was first optimized for 820/821/835. The one with no hdr settings in the menu at all.

Okay so, what's really good with this camera? I've been seeing so many mixed reports of the camera being really good, and then the whole "oil painting" quality.
I'm waiting for my 5T in the mail, and this'll be my first OP device ever. Camera isn't super important to me, but I'd like to have something that out-preforms my current Nexus 5X.
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iamterence said:
Okay so, what's really good with this camera? I've been seeing so many mixed reports of the camera being really good, and then the whole "oil painting" quality.
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If you don't care for the second sensor, not much in my opinion.
Lowlight is probably not bad, if you think brighter = better.
All OP5 / 5T comparisons I've seen so far showed a brighter image, but also more processing artifacts.
In my opinion their second sensor is just there to keep the portrait mode and doesn't offer much more as the lowlight capabilities
are realized through software processing. Don't see any reason why this processing shouldn't also work on the OP5's main sensor,
other than them wanting to have a selling point for the 5T.
Some samples which show the issue:
https://imgur.com/4Xa06lA
http://i.pi.gy/R8p2E.jpg
Btw, this is what their portrait mode produces outdoors in daylight: https://i.imgur.com/5x1ikOs.jpg
This is what my OP3 produces indoors with HDR+ (I stopped using the stock camera months ago because of how bad the postprocessing is):
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=OEk1SkNwQXR3VVhTaWQ5Ulc0Ti1feXZ1WmNyN2VR
There is just no competition.
The fact that most will look at their photos on their phone and that many samples online are downsampled is probably the reason many don't see this issue.
As much as I would like to upgrade to the OP5T, I am keeping my OP3 because of the camera.

AcmE85 said:
If you don't care for the second sensor, not much in my opinion.
Lowlight is probably not bad, if you think brighter = better.
All OP5 / 5T comparisons I've seen so far showed a brighter image, but also more processing artifacts.
In my opinion their second sensor is just there to keep the portrait mode and doesn't offer much more as the lowlight capabilities
are realized through software processing. Don't see any reason why this processing shouldn't also work on the OP5's main sensor,
other than them wanting to have a selling point for the 5T.
Some samples which show the issue:
https://imgur.com/4Xa06lA
http://i.pi.gy/R8p2E.jpg
Btw, this is what their portrait mode produces outdoors in daylight: https://i.imgur.com/5x1ikOs.jpg
This is what my OP3 produces indoors with HDR+ (I stopped using the stock camera months ago because of how bad the postprocessing is):
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=OEk1SkNwQXR3VVhTaWQ5Ulc0Ti1feXZ1WmNyN2VR
There is just no competition.
The fact that most will look at their photos on their phone and that many samples online are downsampled is probably the reason many don't see this issue.
As much as I would like to upgrade to the OP5T, I am keeping my OP3 because of the camera.
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I understand what you're getting at. However, your two example images from the 5T don't really demonstrate the issue you're talking about to the severity you're talking about. OnePlus's post processing isn't good and it does process detail out of the second image, but the detail loss is quite miniscule. And that aside, it's quite a good picture. The first picture was compressed due to imgur, so it wasn't really indicative. Also, since you'd probably be more knowledgeable on this topic than me, I wonder: other than the dot pattern issue at full crop, what's wrong with the GCam on the 5T? On the 5, it seems to work well.

Read my camera review here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5t/how-to/camera-review-unassuming-bea5t-t3712219

Well

New try

my first low light experiences:
https://imgur.com/a/qGfQi

R3b00t369 said:
my first low light experiences:
https://imgur.com/a/qGfQi
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It looks great in my eyes!

gianton said:
It looks great in my eyes!
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Yeah, I'm totally satisfied with it!
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Took this while waiting for the bus at work. Post edited in VSCO
https://imgur.com/gallery/y8AhD
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iamterence said:
Took this while waiting for the bus at work. Post edited in VSCO
https://imgur.com/gallery/y8AhD
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Clearly I'm a scrub at sharing images on Tapatalk lol. Let me know if you guys can see the picture
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iamterence said:
Took this while waiting for the bus at work. Post edited in VSCO
https://imgur.com/gallery/y8AhD
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Clearly I'm a scrub at sharing images on Tapatalk lol. Let me know if you guys can see the picture
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You'd have to edit it, can't see the pic.

subashchandran said:
Read my camera review here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5t/how-to/camera-review-unassuming-bea5t-t3712219
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Nice!!
How did you get the watermark, tho?

Bucika said:
Nice!!
How did you get the watermark, tho?
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It's a setting/option in the stock camera app.

Stock Camera brightness is too high but pictures are dull

My stock camera brightness is too high when launched like it goes to Max brightness. Does anyone faces it too? Also pictures are very dull

Yes me too.

princex007 said:
Yes me too.
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why does the camera brightness gets too high. Should i ask for replacement

Jeet711 said:
why does the camera brightness gets too high. Should i ask for replacement
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Nope. The stock camera overides the manual brightness settings to create a better preview of the picture you are taking.
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Jeet711 said:
My stock camera brightness is too high when launched like it goes to Max brightness. Does anyone faces it too? Also pictures are very dull
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The pictures are not appearing dull, its because you are viewing at lower brightness settings in the gallery.