So, is anyone else having focusing issues when you get nice and close?
I've moved over from a Nexus S, which could get reasonably close to objects when taking photos and still manage to focus on them... but I'm finding the auto-focus on the One X simply refuses to latch onto the things I point it at.
Is it just me, a software issue, or can the camera on this thing not get that close?
A couple examples below. Red = where I touched, green = where it focused.
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I have the same problem with mine. I can't get the camera to focus on close objects, even when setting it on macro mode.
I hope it's only a software bug that can be fixed.
JP.
Macro mode?
Hmm. Maybe I should look for that.
Yeah, I'm hoping it's something that gets sorted out in 1.28... whenever that comes out. Soon, please.
Me as well... Tried it today with no luck... It refuses to focus when I get really close... Tried turning on Macro "close up" mode and it still didn't focus...
I also just gave it a shot, no good. I'm going to be really sad if this is not a software issue
I've seen a ton of macro close-ups on the web shot with the x, look in the best pictures thread...there a bunch of nice macros...I agree though, the field of focus is rather small and inconsistent in some...others look fine. hopefully it does get worked out for all.
it should be due to the limitation of the F/2.0 lens
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it should be due to the limitation of the F/2.0 lens
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Are you saying the limitations with close-up shots is because of the F/2.0 lens?
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I'm assuming i just got a faulty camera here... the camera screen is very grainy and artifact-y (coined). Im thinking i should take it back.... anyone else have this problem?
camera's fine here
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camera's fine here
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Before the photo is taken everything looks excessively grainy, but it seems that the dual LED's fix that right up. Unfortunately, video looks really bad at night.
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Before the photo is taken everything looks excessively grainy, but it seems that the dual LED's fix that right up. Unfortunately, video looks really bad at night.
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It has nothing to do with the Dual LED's. Daytime shots in good light do not trigger the LED's so making statements like that only causes confusion. The grainy aspect is for quicker response times on the screen as you don't need high resolution screen quality to shoot high quality pictures. You just have to make sure it's in focus and what you want to shoot.
Videos looks really bad at night because you are using a PHONE CAMERA and LENS. Turn on the LED's with the Torch APP and light the way for a little better night video shooting.
Heck of a lot better than IPHONE right? No flash = no night time shots.
Have you removed the plastic from the camera? I have some friends who.didn't realize it had a plastic.
Noticed a white fading band at the top of my camera image. Here is a screen grab where u can see what I'm taking about. It fades son its hard to tell if its even all the way across as some sort of UI design or if its my camera being faulty/ shifted out of position . Any thoughts?
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Noticed a white fading band at the top of my camera image. Here is a screen grab where u can see what I'm taking about. It fades son its hard to tell if its even all the way across as some sort of UI design or if its my camera being faulty/ shifted out of position . Any thoughts?
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Wow. I see it. Took me awhile to figure it out. My phone has the same thing. It might be normal or a theme thing. Lets see what other people have to say.
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I have this as well, it seems more pronounced when viewed on the phone but when you look at the screengrab on the pc, you can barely notice it.
Also i tried taking a picture of what was in the viewfinder and the picture comes out as pure black, with no fading band. I'm assuming this is a software issue rather than a faulty camera or bad camera placement.
Have you noticed when you take a picture in low light and then click on the thumbnail on the right and start moving the screen around the edges of the photo go all weird ?
I also have this, I think this is just a frame around camera app.
I'm a photographer coming from an iPhone 5. Has anyone else noticed when using the front camera pretty significant distortion?? Please try yourself. Take a pic of yourself and see if the top of your head is exaggerated. This is my second m8 Like this. I hate to have to use software to fix it
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I look awesome, maybe you naturally have a big head?
Nevermind, I get it too. Look at my eyebrows!
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The front facing camera is has a wide angle field of view to be able to capture multiple people at arm's length. Hold the camera too close and this wide field of view will cause distortion. No amount of returning phones will change this.
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Right which is what I figured. They should have put some type of compensation in the software to correct distortion. The iPhone front camera is fairly wide, but doesn't suffer from this. Software can fix it. Which is unfortunate, makes me not even want to use the front camera
So had anyone got a way to fix this, I got my HTC One yesterday and noticed this distortion on the front camera? If someone could reply with a easy way to fix then please do, but if its more complex could someone possibly take my email and help me as I ain't too good with fixing issues that are complex, it's really annoying as I use the front Camera a lot.
First of all, I've been meaning to make this thread for a very long time. I got the M7 about 3 months ago, and I noticed that the pictures don't come out very good.
I'm rooted, using a Google Play rom (4.4.2), and using the new Google Camera app to take these pictures.
But my problem is, most of my pictures come out like this:
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And what I noticed happens is:
When I'm looking through the camera, the picture LOOKS fine.. and then as soon as I hit the camera icon to take the pic, the images automatically just blurs itself out. It seems like it wants to focus, but it ends up just becoming super blurry.
Then I can click ANYWHERE on the screen to focus, but then the rest of the images becomes blurry.
Any suggestions please? I don't even enjoy taking pictures anymore because of this.
Definitely not normal. My phone takes phenomenal pictures. Only downside is occasionally in really dark areas; the white balance is off a little. Here ill attach a few in a minute.
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Defiantly not normal. I would try a different rom before saying its the camera.
attached is a pic i took with the Google Camera app but running Bucks AOSP build 4.4.3
you might want to try his rom, it's like GPE but without the bugs that follow from a port sometimes.
OP may wanna try updating firmware and maybe try 4.4.3 GPE posted here, instead of 4.4.2.
It has improved quite a bit in my opinion.
Make sure you aren't in lens blur mode
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Oh and another thing; although I'm sure you already tried this; wipe your lens with a clean t-shirt or microfiber cloth (comes with glasses). Sometimes Ill touch my lens; and even if i don't have greasy fingers, a slight smudge can really destroy a photo.
Just look at the picture I included. Zoomed out looks fine, just a little over sharpened. The minute you zoom in, you can see the oil painting effect. You guys think this can ever be fixed?
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did u try with google camera?
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did u try with google camera?
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Yeah its the same with Google Camera.
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Yeah its the same with Google Camera.
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I had this on my s5. Could be a software issue
Dumb questions but it appears you sent screen shots of the pictures.. Can you upload the actual files? It could be the screens over sharpening but may not actually be in the image.. Also the stock camera defaults to 10mp but you can up it to 13 to see if it helps with the detail.. Also make sure your camera lense doesn't have a smudge on it.
Mine is the same way, though probably worse. Very disappointed in the camera on this thing. Its all software related, so hopefully someone can find a fix.
I posted a few pictures (linked directly, not uploaded) of something very similar in the picture thread. Seems HDR is a very big source of the issue, and looking at your picture, its certainly an HDR image. I'm on to A Better Camera, and its a little better but not much.
For as far as you zoomed in I think it looks OK. I can't shoot now zoom later with the g3. ?
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