Hi all,
I have recently bought the Samsung Galaxy Note II and I really am disappointed with the camera quality of this phone. The pictures taken from my Galaxy S2 were much better compared to this.
General Problems:
1. Grainy,Shaky and Blurry images
2. Auto focus not effective all the time
3. Photos in good light conditions are also grainy.
Is there any mod or anything with which i can improve my camera "image" quality. Please help. I couldn't find any mod on the website till now.
I am using note2 from 6 months. But I have not faced any problem regarding camera.
Even its camera is much better then S2.
Check out this thread. All photos are posted from note2. And all are very nice.
There are many camera apps in play store. You can try any one and check.
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what firmware are you on?
Maybe its because tou had ISO on auto. It tend to pock a high value for auto. Have you try manually set iso to 100.
Ofc it work best in bright conditions or else iso=100 will make the photo darkwr than usual.
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Or maybe, just maybe, you tend to notice the noise and etc more now cuz of the size of the screen(?)
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this is not dslr ok?
try taking picture in a place where have a good sunlight..
IINM bigger ISO,more grains in the picture...
Post some taken pictures, maybe we can tell if we experience the same, or if it is something strange om your device (camera/focus broken?)
Try cleaning the lens before taking pics. ..it tends to get smudgy. .. silly but true
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I was using Nokia N8-00 before I get N7100. Back in those days I can't stand symbian but god knows I miss the camera of N8. I can't say that there is a distortion or anormality on pictures taken from Note 2 but simply I can't satisfied. I hope that Note 3 would have better camera quality.
The biggest problem with our camera is that the cover over the lense is always 'smudgy', usually with greasy residue from your hands. Make it a habit to very gently wipe this clean on your shirt before taking any pictures, even the slightest bit of cloudiness will result in crappy pictures.
All phones suck at taking pictures indoors, outside they are all generally pretty good. If you want DSLR quality then pack around one of those monsters everywhere you go - otherwise, clean your lense and try to rely on adequate lighting.
Note 2 Camera Quality
MBariya said:
I am using note2 from 6 months. But I have not faced any problem regarding camera.
Even its camera is much better then S2.
Check out this thread. All photos are posted from note2. And all are very nice.
There are many camera apps in play store. You can try any one and check.
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I agree the camera quality and focus does not focus correctly and picture image is not sharp. My HTC Thunderbolt took great photos and it was more than 2 1/2 years old also had a 8 megapixel camera. Not sure who made the lens for Samsung and not sure if that is the issue. But I can tell you this some people think the images are great. They are not camera people the clarity and focus are not right.
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Let's post here your (maybe best) photo shots taken with Galaxy Nexus.
Just to share your experience with this 5MP camera, and let everybody make an idea on the quality of the NExus camera.
Thanks in advance to everyone!
Nobody?
Here's a quick one I've just taken.
Only had the phone 48 hours so far and not had much chance to take pictures outside with so little daylight hours.
Good, thank you!
Here is one, I will sent some more later!
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Can I post one from my atrix??
On a serious note, those 2 photos look good. Can't wait for my gn to arrive
Thank you guys, but be careful , don't RESIZE images!
Use something like imageshack, or dropbox, but don't resize images.
Thanks.
Uploaded some full res photos now, straight off the camera.
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/9498/img201111241131181.jpg
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/7321/img201111241243261.jpg
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Nice photos. Has anyone managed to take any good low light shots?
C'mon guys don't be lazy
I've done a low light one.
There was a security light on the area and also had the flash on on the phone... but still low light
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24851860/IMG_20111118_235748.jpg
I've just uploaded a few pictures onto my blog, along with some of my thoughts.
I don't know if any of the theories I have are correct or not; it's all guesswork
My Galaxy Nexus pictures and thoughts
Taken yesterday. Very good weather
Edit: strangely this pic looks great in my gallery, on FB but looks ****ty here. I think it's the size of the photo (100kb)
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dumb donkey said:
I've done a low light one.
There was a security light on the area and also had the flash on on the phone... but still low light
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24851860/IMG_20111118_235748.jpg
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looks a bit grainy in the corner; still miles ahead of my Atrix camera though
my SGS1's camera was so much better than my Atrix
I get the feeling this camera is just really random, some pics i've seen look truly fantastic, and some are just...whut..?! Hope a software patch can make it more consistent.
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Tjotte said:
I get the feeling this camera is just really random, some pics i've seen look truly fantastic, and some are just...whut..?! Hope a software patch can make it more consistent.
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same here; like the ones on google+ were really nice
yet some with good lighting i've seen seemed below average.
anyhow; its bound it be an improvement over my craptastic Atrix camera
I love Galaxy Nexus camera. It is super-fast and with the option to tweak the photos on the phone before sharing then with your friend, it works absolutely brilliantly.
The purpose of a camera phone is to be social and on-the-go. You don't go photographing nature with a camera phone. You take pictures of things you happen to witness or find interesting. You take pictures of friends or some food you like. You can easily edit it and share with friends.
The camera of Galaxy Nexus serves those needs better than some 8MP camera would. It is wickedly fast, I can take multiple photos while on the go of a subject and then pick out the one I liked the most.
This photo I took of two dogs that were difficult to take a picture of. The sun had just set, so the forest was already getting dark. I entirely forgot about selecting a proper focus point, but that did not matter. I tweaked the picture a little on the phone, the contrast and colors, added soft vignette and shared it. People loved it.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.ne...1787878641_578863640_8424837_2044298629_n.jpg
The purpose of a camera phone is to take pictures of things you cannot put into words and share them. For that purpose I have found Galaxy Nexus camera phone to be perfect.
I remember the camera being rubbish on the SGS2 initially also, and was improved significantly over time with firmware updates. I really hope its the same on this, as the camera is a a little hit and miss for my liking
winwiz said:
I remember the camera being rubbish on the SGS2 initially also, and was improved significantly over time with firmware updates. I really hope its the same on this, as the camera is a a little hit and miss for my liking
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Same here. I came in here with the express purpose of researching the camera. Side by side shots with other phones show a lot of fuzzy and blurry photos. Hopefully that gets fixed with a firmware update....if it does that will eliminate my last concern with the Nexus.
I think people have hit the nail on the head with the "variable" comments.
Sometimes the pictures are really good - other times not so good. Not finding a pattern as to why yet though!
The camera takes beautiful pictures in well-lit environments, but it fails demonstrably in low-light areas and a lot of detail is lost if there's even a moderate lack of light. Why is the optics so bad? I thought everything that was featured in the iPhone 4S camera as far as back-lit senor and aperture were concerned?
So why does the iPhone 4S still capture more detail in low-light conditions than this phone? I thought they largely featured the same camera features as far as optics went. Is there any special way to alter how much light the lens lets in on the S III?
I am with you on this. My low light pictures are really bad... Really dispointing.
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Did you use flash?
Mine look very good.
The best camera on an Android phone right now is on the HTC ONE X ans S, (just pictures), video is much better on the S3, but, there is a mod the get the HTC ONE camera to best the S3 on video. I'm trading my S3 for a HOX just because of the Camera.
MadRed said:
Did you use flash?
Mine look very good.
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I am also accounting for the front facing camera. So its not like you can use a flash.
Hi all,
Quick question about the quality of images on my HOX.
They are absolutely terrible, for a HOX, especially when one of their major selling points was the apparantly, amazing camera?
The quality of images out doors, is acceptable, but again for a camera such as the HOX I think they should be better.
But indoors, they are almost un-viewable they are that bad.
Im no camera expert, and don't know much about what to do to produce a good image.
Has anyone else experienced terrible HOX images?
Is their anything I can do to improve the quality of the images?
Thanks all !
In my experience indoor performance of the One X camera is as good if not better than other well regarded smart phones out there. I have personally compared indoor performance against the Galaxy S3 and the iPhone 4S; picture quality in most cases turned out to be better than 4S and on par with S3. However, having said that, don’t expect the quality of a DSLR or even a cheap point n shoot compact camera.
What exactly is the problem with your indoor photos? Are they too dark, noisy or blurry? When taking photos indoors try to hold the phone as stable as you can, because under low light conditions the shutter stays open longer to take in more light, this causes even the slightest movement to make your photo very blurry.
PhoenixFx said:
In my experience indoor performance of the One X camera is as good if not better than other well regarded smart phones out there. I have personally compared indoor performance against the Galaxy S3 and the iPhone 4S; picture quality in most cases turned out to be better than 4S and on par with S3. However, having said that, don’t expect the quality of a DSLR or even a cheap point n shoot compact camera.
What exactly is the problem with your indoor photos? Are they too dark, noisy or blurry? When taking photos indoors try to hold the phone as stable as you can, because under low light conditions the shutter stays open longer to take in more light, this causes even the slightest movement to make your photo very blurry.
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Hi, thanks for the reply.
I compared with the S3, and the HOX looked like a disposable camera compared to the S3.
Indoors they look very pixlated and blurry as you said.
I hold it as steady as my hands allow me.
Im not sure what noise etc is.
Thanks for the reply mate, is there anything I can do to improve?
Wilks3y said:
Hi, thanks for the reply.
I compared with the S3, and the HOX looked like a disposable camera compared to the S3.
Indoors they look very pixlated and blurry as you said.
I hold it as steady as my hands allow me.
Im not sure what noise etc is.
Thanks for the reply mate, is there anything I can do to improve?
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Same issue here on my gf's htc one x.
Blurry pictures. Setting iso to 800 manualy helps a bit but still not like my note 2.
And the low light setting I have been reading about is night setting I presume?
My note 2 has a low light setting and with it you make awesome pictures.
Doesn't work like this on one x.
Real shame because outdoor pictures are great.
If you advertise with it make it f***** work.
Focus is wierd to. Note 2 flashes long for focus then again short and adjusted during the shot.
The htc focusses in darkness then flashes and takes the shot.....no wonder they're out of focus.
Anyway we are not happy. Especially when we heard they don't take it back.
Now she's stuck with a crappy indoor phone camera for 2 years.
Htc better update on this issue quick
Nathalex27 said:
Same issue here on my gf's htc one x.
Blurry pictures. Setting iso to 800 manualy helps a bit but still not like my note 2.
And the low light setting I have been reading about is night setting I presume?
My note 2 has a low light setting and with it you make awesome pictures.
Doesn't work like this on one x.
Real shame because outdoor pictures are great.
If you advertise with it make it f***** work.
Focus is wierd to. Note 2 flashes long for focus then again short and adjusted during the shot.
The htc focusses in darkness then flashes and takes the shot.....no wonder they're out of focus.
Anyway we are not happy. Especially when we heard they don't take it back.
Now she's stuck with a crappy indoor phone camera for 2 years.
Htc better update on this issue quick
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Same here, gutted.
Can't understand how they can advertise a man jumping out of a plane with it, and getting focused stunning shots, but yet us trying to take a picture of a dog in our bedrooms is not stable enough and comes out blurry.
Yet again, HTC successfully blags its consumer base.
Anything we can do?!
Wilks3y said:
Same here, gutted.
Can't understand how they can advertise a man jumping out of a plane with it, and getting focused stunning shots, but yet us trying to take a picture of a dog in our bedrooms is not stable enough and comes out blurry.
Yet again, HTC successfully blags its consumer base.
Anything we can do?!
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I called with htc customer service and they said if enough complaints come in that they'll update on the issue.
So report it and hope for the best
Edit: I had mine replaced with a galaxy s3.
Better flash, more functions ( that actualy work and do what they should do. )
Very sharp indoor pictures.
With flash is perfect but without and low light mode is perfect too.
I'm just gonna stick to samsung phones from now on.
Save myself the trouble of going through countless discussions with htc and customer service to replace a phone.
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Hi, I bought a Galaxy Nexus on august and it is a really good device, the only thing that I dont like about it is the quality of the pictures of its camera, is it just me or this device has a relly crappy camera?
Have any of you tried to improve its quality using the GNtoolkit or any other method?
If so, please advice...
Thank you very much
Lol the toolkit? really?
The camera performs poorly in low light, and nothing is really going to fix that except... more light. In well lit and composed pictures, the camera has the capability to produce good pictures. They turn out pretty well. This camera isn't the best, but isn't nearly as bad as people like to think. Just check out some of the pictures in the General section. Lots of great stuff in there. It's not impossible to take good pictures with the GNex.
Most issues with the camera can be attributed to the photographer, not the device. There are many camera apps that can help you achieve different affects with your camera (like HDR, scene modes and editing), and there are even some in the stock Gallery.
Don't use the 'zoom'
Beamed from my Grouper.
The best apps that I think produce good quality pics with the Gnex camera are Vignette and HDR Camera+. Honestly I don't ever use the stock camera because I feel they produce the worst pics.
I mentioned the toolkit because I saw an option there, so... Im pretty ****ed right? LOL
donchele said:
Hi, I bought a Galaxy Nexus on august and it is a really good device, the only thing that I dont like about it is the quality of the pictures of its camera, is it just me or this device has a relly crappy camera?
Have any of you tried to improve its quality using the GNtoolkit or any other method?
If so, please advice...
Thank you very much
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the camera is awesome. you probably need to learn how to use it correctly.
I think it is pretty decent. Again I don't compare pics with other phone because missing a few pixels isn't going to make huge difference.
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Beats, and I mean beats the **** out of my Thunderbolt's 8MP camera. Low light, lots of light, magic, doesn't matter, Nexus wins every time.
Magic doesn't exist, just making my sanity clear.
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I have found that the gnexus camera out performs my HTC sensation , lumia 800 iPhone 4s when it comes to low light pictures. They come out a lot less blurred and precise than the other phones. Day photos are perfectly good for a mobile phone. Want an amazing camera buy a SLR , Facebook photos it does just fine
J
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i bought my galaxy note 2 like a month ago.. i am pretty happy with the phone. good battery life, good sound quality and the screen is so nice but recently i found out that i have very poor picture quality. i get a lot of noise in my pictures and with a little amount of zoom it is noticable that all the details are blurry.... .... my gf has a galaxy note 1 and her camera quality is way better then mine :S can anyone help me out why is this happening? fyi i always used to take photos on auto but now im trying out with different moods but with no satisfactory results. :S :S is there any way to know what camera you have with any app or something? please help me out :S..
i am attaching some photos that i took via my phone camera and uploaded them via instagram
have u clean the lens and if cover over the lens? try take some outdoor photo under sunlight, just to compare
before take those photos, clean the data and cache for camera app to make sure all setting is default
I have also noticed decrease in photo quality from note 1 to note 2 although note 1 was slower but quality was much higher.
Sometimes I feel like clicking photos from an old 2 MP camera.
Lowering ISO helps a bit but picture are darker. I am gonna try another rom today so I will check the difference in camera quality.
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emprize said:
have u clean the lens and if cover over the lens? try take some outdoor photo under sunlight, just to compare
before take those photos, clean the data and cache for camera app to make sure all setting is default
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how can i clean cache for camera app?
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how can i clean cache for camera app?
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Goto settings/application manager under the 'all' tab look for camera ....there you can clear data and cache for an app.
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Goto settings/application manager under the 'all' tab look for camera ....there you can clear data and cache for an app.
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i did that still no improvements thank you for your suggestions though.
I realize that too
I also feel that my girlfriend note 1 camera is much more clearer and better in taking photos. Much brighter in her screen when we take photos together under the same lightning. Why is our camera so bad? Im not satisfied with this camera. Any help on this devs?:crying:
Two things, as I kept saying and saying,
1- The default ISO of the stock camera application is too high. Result- blurry photos. So either manually decrease it or use third party app like Camera Zoom FX.
2- The LED flash is terrible. In dark you will notice that it ain't strong as it should be. Under low light you should use 'low light' mode, always, that'll cause higher ISO photos causing grainy shots however.
The quality of the Camera sensor is below average overall, so don't expect great results.
Personally I have my D90 and 550D for basic stuffs, that's why I don't give a damn about this crappy camera, but I feel sad for the people who are forced to use this camera often.
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The above post is the truth.
Overall, indoors performance is not all that good, except from low light mode which works nicely, but I find outdoor shooting to trump all other mobile cameras I've ever tried, by a huge margin.
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Clean the lens and take the photos. .. compare
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Is there any way to get note 1 camera app on note 2 if it helps...???
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Is there any way to get note 1 camera app on note 2 if it helps...???
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It's the Note 2's camera sensor that the problem, not the camera application. You could just use any application from the Play Store.
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jujuburi said:
It's the Note 2's camera sensor that the problem, not the camera application. You could just use any application from the Play Store.
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I agree that the camera sensor itself is a problem. Before I bought my n7100 i hade S2 and it's a huge difference between the camera quality of those two phones. The S2 camera was absoluttely amazing. Best photos ever taken by me with a phone. I was very dissapointed about the quality of note 2 camera, i tried a lot of "fixes" but no result. I hope Note 3 will have a better camera, at least same quality as S2, in fact, same quality as S2 camera will be more than enought.