Disable auto focus? - Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Is there any way to disable auto focus while recording video? I find it tries to focus on everything except for what is in the centre of the frame.
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That is because in photography, you never put your subject in the center. It must be a little on the right or the left!
Photography 101
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Say what? I was trying to get my girlfriends qualifying runs at the drags last night. It's hard enough to keep the car in frame at 400kph, let alone being able to control where in the frame it is.
I really need infinite focus because her car was out of focus after the first 50 meters as it was coming towards me half way down the track, then the focus just goes nuts as she passes me.
I use Videoreg Pro as a dash cam in my car and it has infinite focus, so I know the camera module can do it, just need to find a way to enable it in the stock camera app.

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[Q] Video focusing issue

I have searched and cant find this previously mentioned.
When recording video every minute or so the camera is re-focusing which looks really crap when watching it back as its constantly going blurry then coming back into focus. (very visible on a large TV)- is there a way to stop it doing this? e.g. turn auto focus off? If not i will send it back and use my old N8 till something better comes along.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Mark

Lock camcorder focus to infinity?

Is there any known way to disable autofocus in 'camcorder' mode & force it to focus to 'infinity' instead?
I was chasing a funnel cloud that was developing into a real tornado on Friday evening, but the moment I got off the freeway & was in traffic, the autofocus went berserk due to brake lights, and the best part of the video ended up being almost unwatchable because the autofocus kept screwing it up.
Also, are all the video modes 30fps, or is there any way to force 720p60, 540p60, or 480p60? I'm 99% sure the hardware is physically *capable* of it, even if the stupid camera app itself was dumbed down.
Finally, is there any camcorder app that can keep running in the background, so I can pull up a radar app like PYKL3 without terminating the video recording?
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good question. i am actually looking for a solution to my problem. i can't manually focus the camera. it seems like the autofocus is stuck and wouldn't want to focus on close up objects. i'm running this rom by the way

Camera focus stuck on N7100

After more than 1.5 yrs of using my Note 2, recently I noticed that sometimes the camera focus gets stuck. It seems to be at macro focus distance. So everything close to the lens will be clear, and things beyond that blurred. There is no way to refocus. No matter what I do (using manual touch focus, setting to autofocus, setting to macro focus, setting to video mode, killing the camera app or restarting the phone) it is stuck for some time. And then it just starts to work again by itself after few minutes. Completely randomly it seems. I'd say it gets stuck approx every 5th time when I turn the camera on.
If I look at the lens, while the focus is stuck, the lens, naturally, also don't move as they move when the focus is not stuck.
What could this be? My bet would be an issue with camera, but I'd like to exclude any possible known issue, before I RMA it. I still have few months of warranty. Normally I would be doing the factory reset, but I was kinda waiting for the 4.3 or 4.4.2 update, and fresh flash.
I'm running stock 4.1.2 (still the latest official for me), and it is rooted, and triangled away. Everything else is stock. I use stock camera app. Also I don't seem to have any other problems. When it does focus, the camera produces sharp photos. SO no problems there either.
PS The lens are clean and undamaged, as is the whole phone.
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LGG5 Camera is shaking (my warranty expires soon...help!)

Ois is on, HDR is on auto, the camera settings itself is on auto, but whenever I open the camera (or other apps with camera capabilities like Snapchat) the camera shakes violently (not to mention it hasn't focused when zoomed in since I got it). It will stop, but then start again when I reopen the application. I can hear a piece in the rear facing camera in the phone moving around, so I'm assuming it's a hardware issue. My warranty expires soon, so if anybody has any ideas on how I can fix this without having to send it in to LG for repair that would be great

Question HDR photos issue

Hello everybody. Im using this phone for about 2 weeks now and I have notice there are problems taking HDR photos. Almost every time taking photos while driving it looks like this:
Sometimes there are also same issues in portrait mode (look at water on right).
When HDR is turned off everything is ok.
Delete the data from the camera app in the app settings from the system.
If that doesn't help reset the phone to factory settings.
Is it still the phone exchange. Then it is a hardware defect that may come from the ISP that calculates the images.
It is possible that something has been damaged after puting phone into water for few seconds? (10 cm for 10-15 seconds). It is ip68 certified.
it has an IP certification that says it can be submerged in water up to 1m for 30 minutes.
If something broke, this is a warranty case.
Deleting app data doesnt help. Still same issue. Sometimes also sky is burned (all photos taken in same time and same direction).
So this is not only my unit fault. Another user send me photos he take while driving and he have same issue. Can you check yours phones?
You guy should understand how HDR works in real life. It takes multiple photos at the same scene and stacks them up together to get a better result compared to a single shot. Therefore, while you are driving at hight speed, the phone cannot take multiple photos at the same scene anymore, and the result when stacking up those photos is what you got with your pics above.
I know how HDR works. I have been using many phones and this one is my first that make crap with HDR on while driving. I have take plenty photos when driving with other phones and never have almost every photo with that issues. Maybe 1/50 was with bugs but not every one.
This is the worst i can find fron OP 7T
Portrait mode
(Yes i know first is not focus correctly)
These were not dynamic (fast moving) shots but still.
Another one with HDR problem. Static photo, not in move. I takie photos. One on normal mode and secondein night mode. Night mode is ok but normal have bugs.

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