Yeah, many options to change, but there is one missing!
When focusing on a bright light for example, it doesnt drop the brightness/aperture for the whole scene so you get a picture that the light is extra bright with no option to be able to change that...
My LG Optimus 4X had that option when the camera quality was VERY bad. Even my Alcatel 995 had this feature!
Tap on dark area of the scene, it brightens it, tap on the bright area of the scene, its darkens it.
Not matter where you tap on the screen to focus the aperture/brightness or whatever its called doesnt change
Is that a camera limitation or software? Is its a software limitation, is there an alternative one?
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There's a couple of options in the camera app that aren't entirely self-explanatory. Anyone able to shed any light?
Anti-shake: The manual says, "reduces image blur due to the movement of the subject of the photo or hand movement." Any ideas why this is disabled by default? Are there any downsides to reducing shake?
Auto contrast: The manual says, "provides a clear image even under backlight circumstances where intensity of illumination can vary excessively." Does anyone have any idea what this is doing? Is this HDR?
Outdoor visibility: The manual says, "allows you to take better pictures when outdoors." Anyone know if this does anything besides just make the screen colors brighter?
Anyone have any ideas?
Anti-Shake is an option to use to help reduce the effects of the camera moving while shooting a picture. I see no downsides to enabling it unless you like blurry pictures. It might reduce battery life a tiny bit more while using the camera.
Think of it as mouse smoothing in games, if you do that sort of thing.
Auto contrast is a nice feature (if it works well) that adjusts the pictures light levels in case of a dark subject and a bright background, or vice versa. It should help to make a better overal balanced picture.
Outdoor visibility has to do with the LCD screen itself. If you are outside on a bright day you want that on. It makes sure the backlight is on full and the colors are bright so you can more easily see the screen.
I have a LG G3 on hand now, and after fiddling with the magic focus camera function, I realised that it hardly works. Every photo i take of the object has to be very close (less than 3 cm) and even than, during refocus selection mode, the slider bar is often set to Infiniti or one bar below infiniti no matter how close i get to the object. This means its impossible to blur out the background. Moving the bar downwards would just result in the entire photo being blurred out, include the object.
I've tested this on another G3 with the same object and distance, and it seems to work fine. There's more range in the slider bar to choose different depths of focus, and the pic quality is far superior to my set. On auto mode, both perform the same though. Both sets are also running the same firmware.
I've tried clearing cache and even doing a factory reset, but the problem persists (only on the magic focus mode). Its really annoying as my G3 works great in every other aspect, but this function appears to be impaired.
Is anyone experiencing the same issue? I wonder if it is a hardware problem and if i should get it fixed.
plsdunbiteme said:
I have a LG G3 on hand now, and after fiddling with the magic focus camera function, I realised that it hardly works. Every photo i take of the object has to be very close (less than 3 cm) and even than, during refocus selection mode, the slider bar is often set to Infiniti or one bar below infiniti no matter how close i get to the object. This means its impossible to blur out the background. Moving the bar downwards would just result in the entire photo being blurred out, include the object.
I've tested this on another G3 with the same object and distance, and it seems to work fine. There's more range in the slider bar to choose different depths of focus, and the pic quality is far superior to my set. On auto mode, both perform the same though. Both sets are also running the same firmware.
I've tried clearing cache and even doing a factory reset, but the problem persists (only on the magic focus mode). Its really annoying as my G3 works great in every other aspect, but this function appears to be impaired.
Is anyone experiencing the same issue? I wonder if it is a hardware problem and if i should get it fixed.
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Magic Focus mode is meant to focus on something close by, that is pretty much the entire point of it. It is designed so you can vary the blur effect of objects in the background, or of the object itself to make the background look a bit clearer.
That is why it only seems to focus on objects fairly close up.
Lennyuk said:
Magic Focus mode is meant to focus on something close by, that is pretty much the entire point of it. It is designed so you can vary the blur effect of objects in the background, or of the object itself to make the background look a bit clearer.
That is why it only seems to focus on objects fairly close up.
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I understand, but when I'm comparing both G3s side by side taking the same shot at the same distance, one offers greater depth of focus than the other. Hence i'm wondering why there is such a marked difference in performance between 2 supposedly identical sets.
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I understand, but when I'm comparing both G3s side by side taking the same shot at the same distance, one offers greater depth of focus than the other. Hence i'm wondering why there is such a marked difference in performance between 2 supposedly identical sets.
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Google camera works better at the blur effect
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I have LG G3 but in mode option there is no magic focus option found, and also gridline option is missing
so with my old iphone, i could pull out the camera, and click where i wanted to focus. furthermore, if say.. i was taking a picture of someone near a bright light, and their face was really dark because the light was really bright, i could press near their face or somewhere dark, and the camera would adjust the lighting, and brighten up the face and darken the background.
so far that ive noticed, the g3 camera doesnt do that..is there one that does?
Camera FV-5 has touch to focus and touch to meter features. In fact it has many more controls, and is the only camera app for Android I have used since discovering it a few years ago.
Hey, I'm pretty new to my G4, and I was wondering how to get the most out of my camera.
I haven't downloaded any camera apps or anything, and just use the stock one. For pictures I take, I just leave the settings on auto, seeing as I don't know a whole lot about photography. How could I tweak the custom settings to work better under different circumstances and just get a better picture in general?
The automatic settings will give you great picture under most circumstances. Playing around with the manual settings will involve knowledge of basic photography concepts around ISO, shutter speed, etc. If you want to get into those, YouTube is the best place to start with tutorials
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Depends how you define better picture. in low light the slowest shutter will be 1/9. is this the best picture at that light ? no. A slower shutter with a lower ISO will get a cleaner shot and will display more. But to use a shutter slower than 1/9 requires you to stabilise the camera some how.
a tripod is one way if you use slow shutters that run into seconds. The G4 can go up to 30 seconds. But to improve over auto's 1/9 a 2 second will improve things noticeably.
on the other side you sometimes want a faster shutter to freeze motion. A slower shutter creates blur and auto might not pick a fast enough shutter. The camera has no idea what you are taking a photo of just a rough guess. If the light isn't enough you will have to pick a higher iso to compensate. If its in daylight then only a faster shutter that might be in the thousandths of a second is required.
other times you want to fix the focus or auto focus won't manage it, this is where manual focus comes into it.
white balance determines the colour, auto white balance does a good enough job but at times can get it wrong, if it looks too cold for your liking a warmer white balance will add yellow. If it looks too warm a colder setting will add blue.
A simple tip is to tap on the screen on your subject before shooting. It will focus there, and it will also set the exposure based on that area. Making your subject sharp, and properly exposed.
But it only holds those settings for maybe 2 seconds, so take the picture quickly after you tap on the screen. Wait too long, and it goes back to assuming you want the center of the frame.
I do this even if my subject is in the middle, as I prefer to let it finish focusing before taking the picture. If it focuses wrong, I may notice it on the screen before shooting.
Hey
So I bought the phone (Note10+ 5G) about 3 days ago and everything was working fine even the selfie cam
But today when I changed live focus effect everything get ruined especially in low light
In the viewfinder there is a color flicker and a part of the screen changes to green or red effect
And everything get worse in video
Here is a 2sec sample in low light:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-3bzKBjWNgb2OtRRSEwcwiGFniwd5d9b/view?usp=drivesdk
So what is wrong here?
edit / nevermind, watched the video and do not understand your problem...
live focus ? color flicker?
In live focus the effect green/red exists as part of the background effect. Your video does not show anything since there is nothing to focus on. You need a face for it to show anything correctly.
And you can change the live focus effect at the bottom of the screen, you have several icons for this and the far right icon is the red/green thingy.
If you cannot manage to get the settings right, just reset the camera (settings -> scroll down to initialize parameters).
Also, do not activate HDR+ for videos (available for 1920x1080 30p). This option is in beta and is buggy with many colour artefacts.
he's trying to take **** pics in the dark. doesnt like the out come. he thinks filters can correct small penis syndrome.
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