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I got my note and it is really great but the camera is very bad I think it is a matter of configuration, because the Colours are very poor in the photos and the contrast very low

I've got Galaxy Note on 11 Nov 2011, I noticed that when switching on Camera, targeting any white wall, I notice Columns / Bars of shadows are moving like curtain or Smoke from left to right of the screen specially in a low light places, also a pink spot in the middle of the screen.
Is this normal? if not, What I have to do?
I have Galaxy Note GT-N7000 - 2.3.6 JPKK2
Kernel Ver: 2.6.35.7-N7000JPKK2-CL726640
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tito17182 said:
I got my note and it is really great but the camera is very bad I think it is a matter of configuration, because the Colours are very poor in the photos and the contrast very low
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Ahem, I would return that unit, take a look at this picture taken yesterday, all default values on camera, untouched, uploaded directly from phone.

Hello,
First of all, be sure that you are using the 8MP / 3264x2448 resolution.
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Second, clean the camera, Maybe there is a fingerprint or dust on it.
And lets see how it goes with you =)

off topic, but I only noticed today (after 2 weeks of ownership) that there is a transparent plastic film over the lens which I never spotted when I unboxed it. I've taken quite a few photos and I had not noticed any quality issues - in fact I was very pleased with the crisp clear images it was producing.
I'm actually considering leaving the film in place for now as it protects the lens (which is otherwise pretty exposed). I figure that until I start to notice image problems due to the film getting roughed up, it's doing no real harm I guess I should really try the cam with the film removed to see what photos are *meant* to look like before I decide on that course of action though!

The camera works best with abundant light. The outdoor picture posted earlier in this thread looks great for a cellphone camera. However my indoor pic with low light and no flash is grainy and lacks contrast.
Pic here: imgur . com/3w2wi

Hogun said:
The camera works best with abundant light. The outdoor picture posted earlier in this thread looks great for a cellphone camera. However my indoor pic with low light and no flash is grainy and lacks contrast.
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You can not expect good non-grainy pictures in low-light from any camera that it's smaller than a SLR. It's a fundamental law of nature (quantum variations and Poisson distribution of photons). You need a big sensor and big lens to capture more light, something you are not going to get on a phone.
But the camera is good for daylight and captures colors very well (oversaturated, but you can lower that and get a more natural look).
Just to add some numbers, check this image from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SensorSizes.svg
Most superzoom / cheap cameras have 6 mm wide sensors. The biggest you're going to find on a compact (retractile lens) camera is 8 mm. Big cameras use APS-C (23 mm wide).
A cellullar phone has 1 mm-wide sensor. Galaxy Note camera has 8 mpixels, but each pixel is hundreds of times smaller than the ones on a SLR. So much more noise. This can NOT be solved in any way.

vcespon said:
This can NOT be solved in any way.
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How did the nokia n8 solve it?

inurb said:
How did the nokia n8 solve it?
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By using a 1/1.83" sensor; almost the same size as the sensor found in well-regarded compact cameras like the Panasonic LX3/5, the Olympus XZ-1, the Canon G12, S90, S95, and S100.

Post your photos taken with your Redmi Note 2

Hello guys!
I know it might be a little earlier, since the device is soooo young, maybe any lucky one who's got it can post some pictures taken with the Redmi Note 2?
I'm so curious about the camera of this phone
Mine is coming this week and I'm looking forward to test it!

i am also interested

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Here are some photos I took with my Redmi Note 2 in Vietnam
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Here are some photos I took with my Redmi Note 2 in Vietnam
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Nice ones!
If you have some spare time can you please get us some other samples maybe with low light?
Thank you in advance

My Photos
Hi all
on flickr /photos/logrus/albums/72157657458978308
Had to post in a funny way as i'm new here.
These are the pics i have taken with mine.

I just took some photos of nothing special, just the shower, but it is 4pm and low light indoors. I took the first photo with the Note 2, flash off, then second photo with the flash on, then for comparison I took a photo with my Canon EOS M in auto mode with the nothing special 18-55mm lense. It is a small camera with a huge sensor. No flash on the EOS M. The Note 2 .JPG files were nearly 2MB, and the EOS M is 6MB before the forum downsized them.
I am no expert, but in the first photo, there is a lot of noise and the green bottles are blurry. Also look at the ceiling fan.
The second photo is an improvement but it is brigheter with less noise but still some. The tiles are washed out and the white balance is wrong.
The third photo, of course with the huge sensor and proper glass lense is the best, the green photos are well defined, it captured nearly as much light as the Note 2 with a flash,

More random photos, first one is Note 2 in HDR mode, second is with flash, third photo is Canon EOS M in auto mode again. Terrible low light conditions, 4pm on an overcast day, indoors with no lights.
All have been resized by the forum.

Thank's zan5hin,
The second photo (Note 2 flash) is very good. Better quality than most of phones...
Tchao,
(Waiting to a Note 2 this week)

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-google octane http://chromium.github.io/octane/

OPO VS XRN2 automatic mode
OPO at left XRN2 at right

give us more pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

With HDR on
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Try other camera apps?
Hi guys, maybe if you tried other camera apps you would get better performance .. especially indoors? I remember my Z3 Compact took awful photos on the stock software. I would recommend google camera and Pro capture. There is also camera fv-5. I got much better results on these. Just a suggestion though as I have not got the phone myself but heavily thinking about it.

zan5hin said:
With HDR on
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Damn. Thats some nice looking burger.

Took by Camera fv-5 yesterday, Conditions, low light inhouse, at night.
I resized the image from 4160x3120 to 780x585.

I'm looking to buy this phone but I'm not sure how the camera is performing. I saw the pictures here and they're not bad.
Camera will decide if I'm gonna buy it so please post more pictures (uncompressed if it's possible) :fingers-crossed:

I hope tapatalk wont make the quality worse
Camera is much better than the one in Nexus 4 (my previous phone)

zan5hin said:
With HDR on
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Good shot

camera?

I had my essential but returned it due to numerous issues. Have software updates done anything major to the camera? Is it anywhere close to the pixel now?

Nope nor will ever be anything like Pixel camera. It's more like 2015 ish camera quality.

km8j said:
I had my essential but returned it due to numerous issues. Have software updates done anything major to the camera? Is it anywhere close to the pixel now?
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Camera is great with gcam. Stock app is still bad and compresses the pics. They just pushed another update today. I just took a pic using both came and gcam file size was 4.47 mbs while stock app was 1.4 mbs. Not sure why they can fix that but it's never going to be good compressing pics like that.

Gcam. 4.0., 3.8c settings.
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bill3508 said:
Gcam. 4.0., 3.8c settings.
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Where'd you get that gcam port from??

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Where'd you get that gcam port from??
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/essential-phone/themes/google-camera-port-t3665197

How about low light?

Bump

Has the quality drastically improved after the update? Any side by side comparisons of gcam and stock as I'm looking to buy this today

ermacwins said:
Has the quality drastically improved after the update? Any side by side comparisons of gcam and stock as I'm looking to buy this today
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I had an LG v30 and took multiple pics and showed them to my wife on my laptop. Out of 20 or so comparisons there were only 1 or 2 that she felt looked different and they weren't even that bad.
Is it going to beat the Pixel 2 no. Is it a more than capable phone that takes great pics most of the time, yeah!!
After the recent update it's WAY better than when it launched and I'm actually liking it.

Performance, both visually and functionally, has improved greatly from when I first bought the phone earlier this month after the drop to $499. Pictures are still compressed, would be great if they'd get rid of that, but to my/my wife's eyes, *that* is the difference between GCam and Essential Camera. It's like the pictures it takes are good quality, and then it compresses them down to less-than-good quality. GCam doesn't compress, and is visually nicer, but can be a bit of a pain to get the settings right. For quick/social media pictures, the camera is just fine, and hopefully soon they'll either give an option for disabling compression or just disable it altogether, which would (I believe) drastically increase picture quality. Until then, almost any other camera app that doesn't compress will be better.
Also, I've found the quality of the B&W pictures to be considerably better than they were, and that has also increased the quality of the low-light photos (though they still suffer from the same compression artifacting).
Short answer - if you're able to get it from Amazon for the $400 with the 360 Camera, it's well worth the price. It is an amazing phone for the current price.

Did they add EIS for video recording? If so does it also work I'm google camera?

The issue isn't the lens or optics. The camera hardware is legit.
The problem was the dodgy camera app which Essential has been ACTIVELY fixing and releasing speedy updates for.
I have an Essential; hell I'm writing this post from it right now; and I can tell you that with all the updates that Essential had pushed out, the native camera so had gotten MUCH better.
The stock camera is still about 1-2 updates from being perfect so in the meantime I alterenate between the stock camera app and the Google HDR+ app depending on what I'm doing and the effect I'm going for.
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Photo quality

Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Xiaomi Mi 9 SE come out. A higher rating indicates that photos offer rich color (without over-saturating), sharp detail (with all subjects in-focus), and appropriate exposure (with even lighting).
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

i made a comparison between Mi 8 And Mi 9 se Camera
it,s obvious that mi 9 se have better camera either main camera or zoom lens
mi9 se ultra-wide lens is not that good but i think it gets better with software improvement and when google camera will be available for ultra wide lens
all photos taken with AI on and HDR off
HDR in Mi 9 se make photos worse but i guess it should get fixed in the future update
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1X7tT1T1Y3y2qNVZ4puKrPMKgIRjtFOHi?usp=sharing

here is more camera sample:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Md8fHTcW0IAvC-NdmDaU2__-rMBJ6loT?usp=sharing
one thing that i don't understand is that zoom lens is 8 MP but image output is 12 MP!!

daniyal62 said:
i made a comparison between Mi 8 And Mi 9 se Camera
it,s obvious that mi 9 se have better camera either main camera or zoom lens
mi9 se ultra-wide lens is not that good but i think it gets better with software improvement and when google camera will be available for ultra wide lens
all photos taken with AI on and HDR off
HDR in Mi 9 se make photos worse but i guess it should get fixed in the future update
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Hi daniyal62, have you tried GCam on Mi9 SE? I'm thinking of buying it but I have some doubts about the quality of the camera (I now have a Nexus 6P which does great shots in any condition) and judging by your shots it could improve with the GCam.

Leyous said:
Hi daniyal62, have you tried GCam on Mi9 SE? I'm thinking of buying it but I have some doubts about the quality of the camera (I now have a Nexus 6P which does great shots in any condition) and judging by your shots it could improve with the GCam.
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hello i am very satisfied with the image quality yes i have gcam but i rarely use it because stock app most of the time take better image than gcam

daniyal62 said:
hello i am very satisfied with the image quality yes i have gcam but i rarely use it because stock app most of the time take better image than gcam
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Dadash dar kol mi 8 ro bedam bere va mi 9 se begirm vase tanavoo khube??
Dorbin o display o battery kodom bhtre

daniyal62 said:
i made a comparison between Mi 8 And Mi 9 se Camera
it,s obvious that mi 9 se have better camera either main...
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Thanks for the effort appreciate it!

I have Mi 9 SE since it became available in EU, April. There are some small things which bother me. One of them is camera. I tried latest gcam but it crashes and can't be used normally. I found that camera is worst in artificial lighting conditions. Both, main and selfie camera.
I visited Samsung brand store last week and tried to make selfies with almost all of their latest models. What surprised me is that selfies were better also on low budget Samsung phones compared to those I made with my Mi 9 SE in the same room under the same conditions. Room has lights on the ceiling and that was the biggest problem for Mi 9 SE - photos were foggy. Unfortunately I didn't save photos to show you examples.
The same problem occurred with main camera. I have one photo made by my phone, even Night mode was enabled while making that photo. You can see what I'm complaining about: drive.google.com/open?id=1-VvaDb8AQHGUKa5DVWNdEq3AfUsLkkSU
How does your phones act? Is there way to fix that problem?

My photos are Foggy too

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I would not buy this phone if Gcam did not exist.
With Gcam this phone takes at least better pics than iPhone X.
Also it really depends which Gcam you use and which settings you prefer.

Androidzor said:
I would not buy this phone if Gcam did not exist.
With Gcam this phone takes at least better pics than iPhone X.
Also it really depends which Gcam you use and which settings you prefer.
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Indeed, with the Urnyx 7.3 Gcam and the bufferfix flashed in TWRP, the results are much better than Stock Xiaomi Camera.
Google really makes wonders at treating the picture quality, whereas Xiaomi sucks at it, no details in the pics, strange colors and white balance. The hardware is good but poorly used.
The results would even be better with EIS, but for a 300€ phone, the results are already pretty good with Gcam

Low light

At the club, at the bar, or just in your mom's basement, nighttime is when you come out to play. Rate this thread to express how the Xiaomi Mi 10T / 10T Pro's camera performs when no or low light is present. A higher rating indicates that the camera sensor "sees" lots of light in dim conditions, and that the resulting photos have minimal noise. A higher rating also indicates that when the flash fires, the resulting photo is evenly-lit without any bright spots.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Low light performance is awesome. Better than my previously owned S20 Ultra
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Al3xxxinho said:
Low light performance is awesome. Better than my previously owned S20 Ultra
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Nice, are these taken using gcam?

No, they were taken using the xiaomi camera app and night mode

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Low light performance is awesome. Better than my previously owned S20 Ultra
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Wow that looks awesome! Thanks for sharing.

This place was very dark.
Stock xiaomi camera.
It's simply awesome

I'm not trying to be offensive but are you sure that those pics are better than s20ultra?
I feel I can take those pics with my note 10+

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I'm not trying to be offensive but are you sure that those pics are better than s20ultra?
I feel I can take those pics with my note 10+
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I agree only that it can't outperform S20Ultra - only to match sometimes. It has been proven that for Mi Note 10/ Mi 10 Pro there is better processing than S20 Ultra looking at the details. Even 9 to 1 bining does not work that good with this gen. But the margin is so small and noticable only in pixel peeping. Xiaomi's native cam night mode is very bad from Mi Note 10 and Mi 10 - I see that with this model 10T Pro they improved a little. Hope this will be fixed with updates in future.
For Note10+ I would not compare these much - yes for resolution like 'instagram' it would match looking at small scale, but at even slightly zoomed in (especialy in PC) it really outperforms Note10+ at everywhere - this is for night mode (gcam used on xiaomi). At day time yes, Note 10 series processing is great, only it lacks looking inspection at details. But for most uses the rendering on samsung is way aheat comparing to native xiaomi app (not gcam).

Makonator said:
I'm not trying to be offensive but are you sure that those pics are better than s20ultra?
I feel I can take those pics with my note 10+
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I doubt it is better than S20 Ultra.
I am not so impressed by this camera, when I take pictures of the letters on a Fanta can the letters are not sharp but with my Mi Mix 2S it is sharp.
I haven't tried to take pictures outside in daylight yet.

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I agree only that it can't outperform S20Ultra - only to match sometimes. It has been proven that for Mi Note 10/ Mi 10 Pro there is better processing than S20 Ultra looking at the details. Even 9 to 1 bining does not work that good with this gen. But the margin is so small and noticable only in pixel peeping. Xiaomi's native cam night mode is very bad from Mi Note 10 and Mi 10 - I see that with this model 10T Pro they improved a little. Hope this will be fixed with updates in future.
For Note10+ I would not compare these much - yes for resolution like 'instagram' it would match looking at small scale, but at even slightly zoomed in (especialy in PC) it really outperforms Note10+ at everywhere - this is for night mode (gcam used on xiaomi). At day time yes, Note 10 series processing is great, only it lacks looking inspection at details. But for most uses the rendering on samsung is way aheat comparing to native xiaomi app (not gcam).
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I've received some pics from mi10t pro (stock app) and compared with my gcam note 10+...Even on zoom in difference is minor.
I'm asking this coz I'm thinking of selling note 10+ and getting this one...than put gcam on it...Problem is, I like note (looks, spen, screen, ONE UI)...but I do love camera upgrade.

Makonator said:
I've received some pics from mi10t pro (stock app) and compared with my gcam note 10+...Even on zoom in difference is minor.
I'm asking this coz I'm thinking of selling note 10+ and getting this one...than put gcam on it...Problem is, I like note (looks, spen, screen, ONE UI)...but I do love camera upgrade.
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If gcam works on your note 10+, so its SD 855 processor?
In that case I would wait for next gen, Note10+ overall offers better experience.

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If gcam works on your note 10+, so its SD 855 processor?
In that case I would wait for next gen, Note10+ overall offers better experience.
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It's exynos and it works...there is only one gcam for exy. called zgcam...custom cfg etc...problem is in one ui 2.5...samsung lock RAW on front cam...