Coming from a Nexus 5, the hdr mode made significant difference to photos but took about 2 seconds to capture the pic. That makes sense as it captures multiple pics at various exposures.
But on the G3, it takes the same amount of time as taking a normal pic. And both (normal and hdr) pics look identical. Has anyone else noticed this? Or is it just my phone?
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Hi everybody!
I've recently installed mango on my HD2 (awesome os btw) and while taking photos with a camera-button, they are all blurry (because hd2 doesn't have a 2 press button for camera). Now in mango you can click on the screen and then it focuses.
What I've seen is that photos have a different tint when taking pics with focus or without it. When you focus first it does some color correction and it's almost as it's a HDR (the brights are not as hard as they are in preview or on pics without focusing first).
In the attachment you can find the comparison. The first two pics show the difference of focusing or not before taking a picture. Note the increased color vibrancy and contrast.
For the last photo I don't have a comparison, but on the image without focusing first the light of the lamp was blown out and everything else was too dark. This time it's almost as it was shot with HDR.
Now I don't really know if anybody has noticed this on official devices, but if you can, try taking a picture of a dark room with a bright light source, with and without focusing. I'm sure it will make a difference. I'll try later to take some more pics. But this is interesting Maybe that's one of the 500 new features.
NOTE: these images were not edited with photoshop! Only the brightness of the first 2 was increased by 100 units, because it was a dark picture. The last one is the original one. Also: these were not "auto-fixed" in WP first
EDIT: One other thing I'm noticing now is that the screen brightness changes when viewing these photos. The screen goes brighter when viewing the photo with focus. Microsoft is probably playing the eye-candy-game with us by manipulating the color/brightness and contrast of the photo.
Hey guys/gals,
Just wondering on how the quality of the pictures are with this phone. I've seen pics taken by reviewers, but it's always better to look at it from a user's perspective. Has anybody tried playing around with the camera?
Also, can someone be kind enough to upload some sample pictures of random shots, like daylight shots, night time, and macro shots? I know the camera is supposedly very good, but it'll be nice to actually see a few real samples, especially the night time shots.
bump, anybody? hehe
Actual pics to come, but from my own experience as both a previous user of the Nexus One AND a hobby digital photographer are;
All of this is using the default Camera, default settings (except for turning OFF the shutter sound).
1. The Nitro does a rather good job in low light situations. Opting to raise the ISO more than use Flash. On more than a few occasions where I expected to see flash, it didn't. When blown-up you certainly can see the picture is grainier without the flash, but for web/facebook viewing the results are quite good and a LOT LESS harsh from not using flash.
2. LONG shot-to-shot time! I wonder what the buffer size with the camera is, IF there's even a buffer that comes with it! Because it takes me about 6 seconds between taking one picture before I'm able to take the next. Even when I try using a 3rd party app (Camera Zoom FX) I only got the time down to 3 seconds. Do NOT plan on using this phone's camera for any kid's birthday parties!!
That's all I've got for the moment, will add more when I've done more playing/testing.
Guess I can upload a bunch I took.
A note, some are taken with HDR + and others with Camera Zoom FX.
http://thewisedumbass.tumblr.com/post/14540968432 (Had to make it a post on Tumblr, pics kept messing up here)
The photos looks decent for a phone, nothing spectacular, at low light is more like "meh" - an average or slightly above, but when it comes to movies at low light I'd prefer have grain (Atrix 4G / Nitro) rather then ghosting (any other phones). On Nitro and Atrix 4G regardless of the light the picture is smooth 30fps, as opposite to Skyrocket or ANY HTC phone with 5fps and all smugged.
Here are some shots to compare:
Nitro with flash (left), no flash (right):
Atrix 4G with flash (left), no flash (right):
Also note Nitro has much lower lens focal length, which makes it capture wider surroundings. The photos were taking from 4 feet away and Nitro's photos captured much more surroundings then Atrix. Even when you hold both phones side by side the image at Nitro looks at pretty much correct distance, rather then on Atrix it looks like zoomed in. Yet, in low light Atrix's ISO captures much more light.
This is first phone camera that beat Atrix's (IMO). /me very happy with it.
Nice!! thanks guys for the details comparisons. I am liking wat i see with the Nitro. Do any of u guys find the auto focus annoying, or is there an option to do manual focus, like the atrix??
Not sure what manual focus you are talking about, but the camera does allow you to touch to pick the area to focus. Still auto-focus to the region, but better than the normal.
aquariuz23 said:
Nice!! thanks guys for the details comparisons. I am liking wat i see with the Nitro. Do any of u guys find the auto focus annoying, or is there an option to do manual focus, like the atrix??
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Neither stock nor MIUI camera has manual focus on Atrix...In fact Atrix doesn't allow you pick which part on the picture you want it focus to, it's always at the center.
Any one else allready noticed that all one x's have lag in the burst shots? tested it on 3 different units all the same result.
When you keep taking burst shots the lag will increase because phone is to slow to store them in time. thats not the worst part. the worst part is that these delayed burst shots will not be saved once you stop shooting. so when the object you want to picture is passed by and you stop shooting you still dont have it in your burst shots. because all taken pictures that are in queue to be saved are lost when you release the camera button.
Also picture are never really sharp. HTC put a filter over it to let them look sharp. but the smae thing can be done sharpen it in photoshop. it only creates noise on the picture so it looks sharp on small screens. but when viewing it full size it gives pretty ugly pictures.
HTC always had crappy camera units build in to their devices and the one x is no exception. only now they put in software to make it look like its better.
Hi Everyone,
I just bought my GN2 a few days ago and was just trying to take some HDR photos, but when I take the picture it just seems to take 2 pictures at different exposures but does nothing with them. Can anyone else confirm this issue?
Btw I am stock, but rooted with no custom recovery.
UPDATE: looks like it processes the original with some filter but just leaves the original there looking like it's two pictures.
Not to hijack the thread but what is that hdr photo feature? What is it for?
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ssCISengineer said:
Not to hijack the thread but what is that hdr photo feature? What is it for?
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I'm no expert on photography, but real hdr I believe is when multiple pictures are taken of the same thing but at different exposures then stitched together to create one picture that has high detail in both the dark and light areas of a picture. It is usually best when there is a large light difference, for instance if your taking a picture into the sun usually peoples faces would be dark because they are relatively dark compared to the really bright background. HDR should improve the picture in that situation.
Again, I'm not expert. :laugh:
k1ng617 said:
Again, I'm not expert. :laugh:
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I think K1 is correct. The effect can sometimes be cartoonish, but other times it will record detail in either the whites or blacks of an image that you'd lose in the conventional mode. On my T889, the "Strong" HDR mode brings everything towards middle brightness.
My T889 also saves a conventional copy of the same image... Presumably one of the views from which the HDR file was stitched together. Once I figured out what it was doing, I was really pleased! First of all, you have a non-cartoon image for those occasions where the HDR is too silly-looking. And when you can compare the HDR and regular views for each picture, you get a much better sense of what's going on with your photography.
Now I want a way to have HDR turned on all time. I suppose I'll have to learn to burn Roms and all that....
I've seen in some reviews and spec sheets on the G4 that it has HDR video capability. But after digging around in the camera's limited options I just don't see it. Is there some way to do this with an alternate camera app?
There is no such thing as HDR for videos yet. The experiment that comes close to this would have been a researcher who used two Canon 5D Mark 2. He shot videos with different exposure on each camera and attempted to combine the videos. It didn't work well.
maybe they can implement a function to alternate exposure between frames, so exposure goes -3, 0, +3, 0, -3, ...
Actually my old 2013 HTC One M7 has HDR video. It takes two different exposure frames, then tries to combine them and stabilize for motion between them. This causes the overall field of view to be cropped a bit. I think some other phones in the past couple years have this feature too.
Wow, interesting. I had assumed HDR video was not possible. I hadn't considered constantly bracketing the exposure using individual frames.
It seems like this would at least partially reduce your effective framerate? Say you have 2 moving items in the shot, one bright, one dark, along with a neutral-brightness background. The background might be correct in 0EV frame 1, dark subject correct in +3EV frame 2, bright subject correct in -3EV frame 3, and so on. But the subjects are moving, the bright subject is somewhat ignored in frame 2, and the dark one ignored in frame 3. So the moving bright/dark items might appear slightly jerky, as they are not properly captured in all 30 or 60 frames captured during that second.
But it's interesting, regardless, that this can be done. With more processing power available in the future, and maybe a higher-framerate camera, plus some fancy image-processing, maybe HDR video will become more practical.
I know I'm a bit late to the party, since I too was researching how to shoot hdr video on the g4, sadly there isn't. But the S6 and S7 both can shoot hdr video, take a look
HDR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dfLFVz6WCU
No HDR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWKSCKDDhNI
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Wow, interesting. I had assumed HDR video was not possible. I hadn't considered constantly bracketing the exposure using individual frames.
It seems like this would at least partially reduce your effective framerate? Say you have 2 moving items in the shot, one bright, one dark, along with a neutral-brightness background. The background might be correct in 0EV frame 1, dark subject correct in +3EV frame 2, bright subject correct in -3EV frame 3, and so on. But the subjects are moving, the bright subject is somewhat ignored in frame 2, and the dark one ignored in frame 3. So the moving bright/dark items might appear slightly jerky, as they are not properly captured in all 30 or 60 frames captured during that second.
But it's interesting, regardless, that this can be done. With more processing power available in the future, and maybe a higher-framerate camera, plus some fancy image-processing, maybe HDR video will become more practical.
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kyleruggles said:
I know I'm a bit late to the party, since I too was researching how to shoot hdr video on the g4, sadly there isn't. But the S6 and S7 both can shoot hdr video, take a look
HDR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dfLFVz6WCU
No HDR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWKSCKDDhNI
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HDR version horror bad.
Oversharpening and over saturated. blury....
4K much better.But OIS not to effective.
Anyway great quality thanks mate!
The HDR to me looks pretty decent given the advantages of boosting the shadows, yeah it's oversharpened and over saturated but other than that, it makes a huge difference. Just wish LG implemented HDR video as well.
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HDR version horror bad.
Oversharpening and over saturated. blury....
4K much better.But OIS not to effective.
Anyway great quality thanks mate!
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