First let me say i love almost everything about my Note 8, except the camera i understand its a tablet so the camera wasnt a main feature but coming from the Note 2 i did expect the same quality camera if not slightly improved, but my Note 8 camera is super slow at taking pictures and the quality of the images are not great and easily blurred, it also lacks all the slow motion features of the Note 2 video recorder and in general i find it poor
So my question is is there anyway to improve the Note 8s camera with software from the Note 2 or an app or any other tweaks people know of. Or is this down to cheap low quality camera hardware and im stuck with it?
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I think it's the low quality hardware. I really thought I could use the camera to scan documents, but it's too bad for that.
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The only thing you can do is try and hold it's hand. Such as making sure there is plenty of ambient lighting to compensate for the tiny aperture.Something like Sony's clipon camera's in theory but not likely worth the effort/cost vs just using a point'n'shoot and packing a card reader/usb otg cable.
It's very basic hardware, at best equal to the Galaxy Nexus or worse than that.
Manufacturers have unfortunately relegated the cameras in tablets to being pretty crappy ones. Likely to keep costs down. And also probably for the fact that most folks will use their phone for their "snapshot" camera much more frequently than their tablet. And even though the Note 2 is a "phablet", its really more phone than tablet in form and function.
Likely not a lot you can do about image quality. You can try a 3rd party app, to see if the result is any better. But the culprit is likely the low cost camera module.
Ah well, cheers for the replys i did think that i was unlikely to beable to improve it with software, ill just have to get my girlfriend to stand more in the light when im taking pics of her in her undercrackers
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Try other camera like the focus camera from cyanogen Mod available on play store
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As the title suggests, just curious if there is any difference in the camera, lens e.t.c. compared to Note 1?
I've searched on google and can't seem to find anything on it - I know there is a difference in shutter speed etc, but wondering about the hardware side of things, because my SG3 shoots far better photos than my note!:victory:
Not really.just the type of the camera.its the same camera as on the galaxy s3 but with more features and improved
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I don't know what the differences are but the camera on my wife's S3 is significantly better than in my Note.
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If the camera is the same as the Galaxy S III's, then there's going to be no noticeable improvement in low-lighting conditions from the original Galaxy Note (on its original settings). Just additional camera features to utilize it differently. The camera optics are a joke on the Galaxy Note II/Galaxy S III - it's sad when a crappy little 1 year old iPhone 4S and even an iPod Touch from 2 years ago takes better pictures in environments that aren't well-lit.
darn.. i was really hoping for slightly better optics. is the GS III really not as good as the iphone 4s when it comes to low light?
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If the camera is the same as the Galaxy S III's, then there's going to be no noticeable improvement in low-lighting conditions from the original Galaxy Note (on its original settings). Just additional camera features to utilize it differently. The camera optics are a joke on the Galaxy Note II/Galaxy S III - it's sad when a crappy little 1 year old iPhone 4S and even an iPod Touch from 2 years ago takes better pictures in environments that aren't well-lit.
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Ipod Touch?! Are you serious?! The camera is a mess I don´t know what someone may expect from a smartphone...but pics on my S3 are *goddamned* extremely good...even better than the pics of my girlfriends 4S! It may appear that the new Nokia line will challenge this experience, as they seem to bring some really good functions...but till now, I can´t imagine I ever saw better pics on a SP.
I used the Night mode setting and took a picture at night under a poorly lit street light. The pic came out quite nice
Actually the only thing that is holding me back from fully commiting myself to the Note II is the camera quality,will wait till tomorrow after the new iphone is announced and will decide accordingly.
It was supposed to come with Sony's new 13 mega pixel camera but idk what happened and now the lg Q is first phone to come out with it.. :thumbdown:
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You DO realize that the Galaxy S III camera has the SAME optics as the iPhone 4S. They take virtually IDENTICAL pictures.
....you may be doing it wrong.
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It was supposed to come with Sony's new 13 mega pixel camera but idk what happened and now the lg Q is first phone to come out with it.. :thumbdown:
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I'd rather have 8MP and a better lens than 13MP.
8MP are more than enough, that doesn't say much about picture quality. More MP will just make the image files bigger, you won't see any real difference.
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I'd rather have 8MP and a better lens than 13MP.
8MP are more than enough, that doesn't say much about picture quality. More MP will just make the image files bigger, you won't see any real difference.
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You will see a big difference when zoomed in.
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I'd rather have 8MP and a better lens than 13MP.
8MP are more than enough, that doesn't say much about picture quality. More MP will just make the image files bigger, you won't see any real difference.
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+1, you are absolutely right. 8mp is more than enough to take good fotos, is much more important to have a good lens and a good camera that having more mb and take big foto files to fill your sd card faster.
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I'd rather have 8MP and a better lens than 13MP.
8MP are more than enough, that doesn't say much about picture quality. More MP will just make the image files bigger, you won't see any real difference.
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The Optimus G sports a mounted 13 megapixel camera, making it one of the highest resolution shooters we have seen on an Android device. LG’s camera is said to use Sony’s new stacked CMOS image sensor, which was slated to appear in the Samsung Galaxy Note II but then killed when Sony couldn’t meet capacity.*We will have to wait and see some sample photos from the LG Optimus G, but it has the technology to deliver some of the best phone pictures ever.
Also 1080p @ 60fps
More on the new camera http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201208/12-107E/index.html
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nice 60fps
Here's to hoping the Note II will feature a slow motion recoding feature.
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I sure hope the camera is great on this phone cause it will be a very important factor for me.
Lol all this talk about rather having a great lens and 8MP.
Why not have a great lens and 13MP? .... Xperia T style?
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Here's to hoping the Note II will feature a slow motion recoding feature.
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It does. No sound though. Someone posted sample vids on facebook.
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If the camera is the same as the Galaxy S III's, then there's going to be no noticeable improvement in low-lighting conditions from the original Galaxy Note (on its original settings). Just additional camera features to utilize it differently. The camera optics are a joke on the Galaxy Note II/Galaxy S III - it's sad when a crappy little 1 year old iPhone 4S and even an iPod Touch from 2 years ago takes better pictures in environments that aren't well-lit.
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You better don't post when you don't know.. cam on s3 is almost same that of iPhone 4s, forget abt. iPod stuffs...
I saw pictures sample from gsmarena that note2's photos are slightly better then s3's, well focused and little more details, I like it. They slightly improved from s3.
I also read about how Samsung is now developing their own camera technology for their smart phones. They just built a 13 Mega pixel with new lens technology.. they said it should be coming to future Samsung smart phones.
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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.
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.
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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.
I am using Note 3 right now, everything is good, except its camera. Today I received iphone 6+, I use iphone before but I wants bigger screen. then switch to note 2 and been fans of Android. In my option, Android is much fun to use and I can do lot more stuffs there than iOS. Normally I taking lot of photos from my phone. Camera is pretty important to me. Now iphone have bigger screen 6+, and its camera is much better than Note 3, should I back to iphone or wait till Note 4? Or note 4 will also have so so camera too? More mega pixels are not really mean anything, I really not understand when Samsung selling phones for $850 and they can't invest few bucks more to get better camera for their flagship phone, if my Note have good camera as iphone, I dont have to make decisions like this...
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I am using Note 3 right now, everything is good, except its camera. Today I received iphone 6+, I use iphone before but I wants bigger screen. then switch to note 2 and been fans of Android. In my option, Android is much fun to use and I can do lot more stuffs there than iOS. Normally I taking lot of photos from my phone. Camera is pretty important to me. Now iphone have bigger screen 6+, and its camera is much better than Note 3, should I back to iphone or wait till Note 4? Or note 4 will also have so so camera too? More mega pixels are not really mean anything, I really not understand when Samsung selling phones for $850 and they can't invest few bucks more to get better camera for their flagship phone, if my Note have good camera as iphone, I dont have to make decisions like this...
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Note 4 camera is much improved over Note 3. It also has optical image stabilization now and really fast focus. I think you'll be impressed.
If you just got the new iPhone 6 plus why not just keep it? Both camera would do pretty good so its subjective. There's plus and minus to both.
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Here's the camera comparison ipone 6+ vs. Note 4. I'm speechless!
Is in Russian, use google translate!
http://hi-tech.mail.ru/review/Apple_iPhone_6_Plus_vs_Samsung_GALAXY_Note_4.html
http://hi-tech.mail.ru/review/Apple_iPhone_6_Plus_vs_Samsung_GALAXY_Note_4.html
My concern is the camera as well. I discovered a couple months ago at the Jay Z Beyonce concert, the Note 3 camera doesn't video night images very well. It would record images ok under the normal white light. The stage lights would often change to different colors i.e. red, blue, purple and this where you see the weakness of the Note 3 camera. Whenever the stage lights were other than white, the color of the light would create an over exposure and drown out any other image in the frame. I pretty much could only get decent video footage on the white lights. I'm hoping that this area had been greatly improved with N4. Otherwise I might have to switch to another product with better capabilities.
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Feeling bent out of shape?
In case you are thinking of getting an iphone plus...
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...w-smartphones-bending-in-pockets-9752204.html
so if i read that correctly, the Note 4 took better photos? I also saw an article earlier showing how the 6 camera actually had some software issues with it.