Lg g4 Invalometer Or Time-Lapse application for night photography ? - G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Guys I need an application to take pictures AUTOMATICALLY. I mean I want to set the shutter of camera 30" and when it takes the picture,it will start automatically to take another shot. Something like time-lapse ( Invalometer ).. ( Except the camera FV-5 ):good::good:

And what's wrong with camera FV-5? Unfortunately that is the only app I am aware of, which does what you want.

LapseItPro does time lapse for you automatically but I do not know of anything that will do long exposure and time lapse. You would get very weird motion and movement if you did stitch it together. 30 seconds between each photo is long, and would only work for very slow moving things. Also 30 seconds would create motion blur in each photo. It's a really interesting idea. I may try do it manually but that would take ages to get enough photos to stitch into a worthwhile length time lapse.

I would normally highly recommend Camera FV-5.
Edit: I recently decided to check out ProShot and it works pretty well if you're willing to spend a fair amount of money. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riseupgames.proshot2. There is a free version, but it is VERY limited.

you can try freedcam https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=troop.com.freedcam

Roars21 said:
30 seconds between each photo is long, and would only work for very slow moving things.
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Aren't stars (ok earth) moving slow enough?
I am looking for something like that too. Time lapse of starry sky rotating.
Anyone tried camera fv-5 on the G4?

EPa said:
Aren't stars (ok earth) moving slow enough?
I am looking for something like that too. Time lapse of starry sky rotating.
Anyone tried camera fv-5 on the G4?
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Yes stars will probably be ok, but if you do a 30 sec exposure you will start seeing small trails of the stars. But you probably won't notice too much. Have a look on youtube for time lapse tutorials. There are tons and they are specific to the different types of time lapses you want to do.

Try Freedcam , i never shooted timelapses but all i know that Freedcam is capable of anything you want

Seems it has potential, I hope the development continues.
But for now it can't do any timelapse on the G4 since it always crashes when pressing the button to start shooting (timelapse), no matter what options you choose.

Look at my thread, i discovered something
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/help/excellent-night-photos-lg-camera-t3337539

Spoookie said:
Look at my thread, i discovered something
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/help/excellent-night-photos-lg-camera-t3337539
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Thats not a discovery thats what manual camera done but keep up your experiment and amazed us with your beautiful photography . Always keep your ISO values lower , i can see noice in your photos clearly . First image is bit much exposed but good work . I am little busy now a days will post mine samples when get time.

rajkatiyar07 said:
Thats not a discovery thats what manual camera done but keep up your experiment and amazed us with your beautiful photography . Always keep your ISO values lower , i can see noice in your photos clearly . First image is bit much exposed but good work . I am little busy now a days will post mine samples when get time.
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-discovery_guy do you read? Manual mode means manual mode also some tips
Edit: tips2
I hope this helps you even more

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Xperia Arc LT15i Photography Setup.

As I'm big photography fan, I use my Xperia Arc to take photos. Photos are very live and colors are very vivid, but I have some problems with camera, I have focus problems while taking video, when I press cam button it wont focus that minute it needs some time, about 10 secs to re-focus, as for Auto focus as for Face Detection in any scene mode. In additon I'm looking for BURST mode, because I managed to take photos of lightnings with my C905 and this phone has very slow camera, I'd ask to improve the driver somehow. And anyone would edit camera driver so we could change the iso and other options it would be great. Please suggest anything , maybe application or something. Thanks in advance.!
You may use this app, it's just like BestPic..
Pick Pic Camera
Arc or any android phone doesn't have camdrivers like that of C905.. If manual controls were possible, we would have seen it by now.
Check out this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flavionet.android.camera.pro . It's paid, but you can adjust ISO, custom exposure, save in PNG and some more. Don't know if some options work, but I tried it with longer exposure (10 secs, under very bad light) and while I got a black photo with stock camera, this got me something a bit better. But there is a lot of color loss with custom exposure (the pics turn out pinkish on the places where there's light).
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sunbriel said:
Check out this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flavionet.android.camera.pro . It's paid...
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That doesnt mean that we can adjust iso on our arc.
Try fast burst camera. Looks promising
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Thank you, and others too, you helped me, photos look better now )
giorgobiani554 said:
Thank you, and others too, you helped me, photos look better now )
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Which application did you use eventually and you are able to take better looking photos?
I use Camera360 Ultimate - quite often, it takes full resolution photo, not HD or Full HD that's one of the reasons I use it.
you can also use lgcamera (not LG related). there is a thread in the app section
^^ +1 to that! Though I use it mainly for some custom video bitrate settings

camera on moving subjects (g3 camera)

I've just seen pictures (taken on a g3) of players playing football. When I take pictures of people walking fast they turn out blurred. How do I take pictures of moving subjects? Or should I use a different camera app?
thanks
koppee1 said:
I've just seen pictures (taken on a g3) of players playing football. When I take pictures of people walking fast they turn out blurred. How do I take pictures of moving subjects? Or should I use a different camera app?
thanks
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I am seeing this too. Took a look at the camera settings, but didn't see anything that would address this. I thought the laser-focusing was supposed to make the camera very speedy in taking pictures.
Thoughts?
Laser autofocus makes it speedy to focus. The shutter speed defines if moving subjects are blurry.
The only thing to change on stock camera app is to set HDR to OFF (it's auto by default). Maybe this will help, if it's using HDR on these photos.
Default camera app in burst mode works just fine - press and hold shutter.
koppee1 said:
I've just seen pictures (taken on a g3) of players playing football. When I take pictures of people walking fast they turn out blurred. How do I take pictures of moving subjects? Or should I use a different camera app?
thanks
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Move youre phone in the same direction as the object and take the picture
Also, make sure your outside on a bright day. Put the sun behind you (so that it's shining on your subject).
Any camera will struggle to freeze an object in motion if it's not bright enough.

Lucky Shot - who knows what it is?? NOT SmartBurst

Does anyone know what the Lucky Shot feature is?!?!? I'm the only one in the world trying to figure it out apparently. I'm wondering if it is on both 6P and 5X. I know that 5x has 120fps slow motion, and no burst mode. but this Lucky Shot thing has me confused, apparently it is NOT the same thing as SmartBurst.
from Nexus enginners Q&A on reddit:
"We've done a bunch of things to provide image stabilization: 1. The Nexus 6P/5X has a large 1.55um pixel camera and the amount of motion blur due to hand-shake is lower when you have large pixels. 2. We have a feature we call "lucky shot" internally. When you take a picture, behind the scenes, we select the best of 3 bursts of images. 3. When you use video, we have optic-flow-based image stabilization. 4. When you use SmartBurst, we select the best image from the burst (for example a shot with eyes open)."
It just means when you take a picture it actually takes 3 and chooses the best for you automatically.. It's not a setting or anything.. Just something that happens behind the scenes
cool, got it, but does it work on the 5X or just the 6P.
Both
clninja said:
It just means when you take a picture it actually takes 3 and chooses the best for you automatically.. It's not a setting or anything.. Just something that happens behind the scenes
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I like this implementation better than the Moto X's one. It gets cluttered with double takes of pics, thus having me to look through them to see which to delete. I trust Google to pick the best pic
But I think only HDR+ uses this feature.
Because Google advertised HDR+ with exactly this feature.
http://googleresearch.blogspot.de/2014/10/hdr-low-light-and-high-dynamic-range.html?m=1
"HDR+ also begins the alignment process by choosing the sharpest single shot from the burst. Astronomers call this lucky imaging, a technique used to reduce the blurring of images caused by Earth's shimmering atmosphere."

SWAP my OnePlus 3 for HTC 10?

hi, i do not know if you came to this dilemma before but i have Oneplus 3 and a friend offered to swap phones... i was looking for a better camera... Oneplus 3 has a "thing" when shooting at moving objects and if you try to take a photo of your baby its impossible... almost every picture is blury.... how is the HTC 10 camera when you shoot moving objects? i am looking forward for your replies!!! thanks!!
every camera will blury when you take a moving objects unless you speed up the shutter speed, so it just depends on if you know how to use the camera with shutter priority/full manual.
DummyPLUG said:
every camera will blury when you take a moving objects unless you speed up the shutter speed, so it just depends on if you know how to use the camera with shutter priority/full manual.
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Correct.
Try to shop Manual mode on Oneplus3, set shutter speed minimum 1/60 minimum (if indoor), depends the baby moving,
try to shot outdoor, you can set 1/500+, shot flash to baby eyes it NOT allowed (i forgot 3/5 years old is allowed, just search on google)
try to learn about Exposure in photography (iso, aperture, shutter speed) this will useful in life of photography.
i have oneplus3 for testing, is a great device. so swap to HTC10 will not resolve this issue, if you still using Auto. :fingers-crossed:
thank you very much guys!! it might be a software issue of the app... when in auto mode it selects wrong iso/exposure??? before OP3 i had a galaxy S6 and i used it always in auto mode with fine results... i will definetely try your advise!!
That's because Samsung camera app will detect the scene, if it found something moving fast then it will switch to "sport" mode(something like that, forget the actual name). For HTC 10 I dunno will it have similar function in auto mode, but the 10 official camera app really lack of function

RAW Support and long exposures

Hi
Does anyone know if there is a way to save images as RAW in the Moto Z Play?
Also, the manual (pro) mode allows you to change the exposure duration but this seems to be maxed to 1/6 - any way to get to longer exposure times?
Thank you.
No idea about the RAW support but if you want to take long exposure shots there are a few camera apps on the Play Store which should do the trick (Camera FV-5 Lite for example) but I never tried any so you may have to try a few in order to find something you're happy with.
DadOudidOuda said:
No idea about the RAW support but if you want to take long exposure shots there are a few camera apps on the Play Store which should do the trick (Camera FV-5 Lite for example) but I never tried any so you may have to try a few in order to find something you're happy with.
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Cheers! I've got Camera FV-5 installed and it does present longer exposure times, but I cant tell the difference between them and the stock camera photos. For example, photos taken in stock camera at 1/6 look the same as FV5 at 5 second exp. I don't have my phone to hand but will post some examples later.
A331709 said:
Cheers! I've got Camera FV-5 installed and it does present longer exposure times, but I cant tell the difference between them and the stock camera photos. For example, photos taken in stock camera at 1/6 look the same as FV5 at 5 second exp. I don't have my phone to hand but will post some examples later.
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I'm not surprised if there's no differences between the 2 but I thought you could make 30 seconds exposure shots with Camera FV-5 (which would surely make a difference with the stock camera)
About RAW support, from what I've read the Z Play doesn't support it unfortunately. You'd need the TrueZoom mod to get RAW support, which is quite an expensive buy.
A331709 said:
Hi
Does anyone know if there is a way to save images as RAW in the Moto Z Play?
Also, the manual (pro) mode allows you to change the exposure duration but this seems to be maxed to 1/6 - any way to get to longer exposure times?
Thank you.
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Edit: Tried to save RAW with Snap but although it gives me the option I was not able to find a RAW image on my card...
I use the Snap Camera app from Playstore. It's extremely versatile and gives you tons of options and it has RAW support with our Z Play.
It needs some time to try out all options and find out the best for the phone and it also costs a few bucks (although there is a free version too). But I think it's worth it. For example it's also the only app I've found which let's you tourn of the denoise filter which is sometimes very helpfull when making pictures of landscapes which lots of details.
The interface is a little annoying at first but you can turn off everything and build your own interface with the free customizable shortcut buttons (settings - advanced - on screen settings).
It has also a good support on XDA.
Thanks for this. It's odd, camera fv 5 says the phone does not support RAW. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What really bugs me though is the exposure times. I'll give it a try to see what sort of image I get with a 30 sec exposure now.
A331709 said:
Thanks for this. It's odd, camera fv 5 says the phone does not support RAW. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What really bugs me though is the exposure times. I'll give it a try to see what sort of image I get with a 30 sec exposure now.
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IMG image - Stock camera with everything auto and exposure at 1/6s. Looks like garbage.
DSC image - Camera FV 5, everything auto and exposure at 20s. Looks like dark garbage.
If im not mistaken, Camera2API supports raw format. Whenever Lenovo finally enables it (Nougat?) we should be able to export to raw format.
A331709 said:
IMG image - Stock camera with everything auto and exposure at 1/6s. Looks like garbage.
DSC image - Camera FV 5, everything auto and exposure at 20s. Looks like dark garbage.
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I found that long exposure shots have a very limited use :-\
True it's not something you'd use everyday, but it would've been good to have this work as it should. The only other thing I can think of is that they've nerfed it on purpose so the camera mod sells.
noisyriver said:
Edit: Tried to save RAW with Snap but although it gives me the option I was not able to find a RAW image on my card...
I use the Snap Camera app from Playstore. It's extremely versatile and gives you tons of options and it has RAW support with our Z Play.
It needs some time to try out all options and find out the best for the phone and it also costs a few bucks (although there is a free version too). But I think it's worth it. For example it's also the only app I've found which let's you tourn of the denoise filter which is sometimes very helpfull when making pictures of landscapes which lots of details.
The interface is a little annoying at first but you can turn off everything and build your own interface with the free customizable shortcut buttons (settings - advanced - on screen settings).
It has also a good support on XDA.
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Raw does work if you enable camera 2 api or modify hal lib it works even in camera 1 mode
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