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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
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/6600/pano201111241248141.jpg
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!
Hello,
I updated my Galaxy Nexus manually with the "official" Rom, but since I got android 4.0.4 my camera does have shutter lag instead of android 4.0.2. Is this normal, or did I download the wrong Rom he he?
Thanks in advance
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I'm experiencing the same exact problem. I loved the 0 shutter lag and desperately need it back. Can anyone please help? Or share some way to fix this problem? Thanks ahead
0 shutter lag has been reduced to get better focus image
a well focused images is better, even if it need a bit more time to take the pic
stop complaining for everything
andQlimax said:
0 shutter lag has been reduced to get better focus image
a well focused images is better, even if it need a bit more time to take the pic
stop complaining for everything
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I can't wait till I get 4.0.4. That's one thing I've found with my galaxy nexus, 90% of my photos turn out ever so slightly blurred
Matt08642 said:
I can't wait till I get 4.0.4. That's one thing I've found with my galaxy nexus, 90% of my photos turn out ever so slightly blurred
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manually flash it. and i agree, whats the point in 0 shutter if all the pictures are going to come out not focused and not clear?
i rather have a more stable camera with better picture quality.
quality over quantity
Now that you mention it, I think my pictures are a tiny bit better on 4.0.4 (Verizon version). Might just be the placebo effect...
zephiK said:
manually flash it. and i agree, whats the point in 0 shutter if all the pictures are going to come out not focused and not clear?
i rather have a more stable camera with better picture quality.
quality over quantity
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I'm still a little iffy about manual flashing. I have the yakjuux version and I don't know if flashing to 4.0.4 yakju will screw anything up
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I'm still a little iffy about manual flashing. I have the yakjuux version and I don't know if flashing to 4.0.4 yakju will screw anything up
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It won't. You'll just lose all of your data.
andQlimax said:
0 shutter lag has been reduced to get better focus image
a well focused images is better, even if it need a bit more time to take the pic
stop complaining for everything
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Excuse me? Complaining about everything? I just noticed the difference and that's why I asked.
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well, if you cant complain then ill do it for you, I wouldnt mind having the lag taken away BUT this was a feature, and if the feature didnt work, then its not a feature, so when I was excited about the phone last year, and I heard it was 5mp, I was let down, but then I was sold on 0 shutter lag, now the lag is back so we might have not even talked about the camera last year like it was special.
you cant sell a 1000hp car, first in the market, then after 3 months recall them to govern the engine to 750hp and still get credit for being a ground breaking car, so why should i give any credit to nexus for doing something special with the camera.
I used the time lapse feature today, what a JOKE! you need it propped up, and put it in airplane mode so that a text wont ruin your video, the screen stays on the whole time, you cant turn it off, and the smallest increment is 1 second, i washed dishes for a couple hours and had a 3 minute video that was a pain to watch because there was a window in the room that the camera adjusted for and me the focus was all dark.
I do like the built in photo editing, and the use of facial recognition, but when i saw the nexus get demolished by the one x, i cried, and now with 4.0.4 lagging more just to be a usable 5 mp camera, i think owners have the right to complain that a front page feature has been toned down for stability. though ultimately we want better pictures.
Focus once, don't move, take pictures in a bright area = insta pics.
I take them all the time.
Could you imagine how many EXTRA complaints there would be if it never focused?
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well, if you cant complain then ill do it for you, I wouldnt mind having the lag taken away BUT this was a feature, and if the feature didnt work, then its not a feature, so when I was excited about the phone last year, and I heard it was 5mp, I was let down, but then I was sold on 0 shutter lag, now the lag is back so we might have not even talked about the camera last year like it was special.
you cant sell a 1000hp car, first in the market, then after 3 months recall them to govern the engine to 750hp and still get credit for being a ground breaking car, so why should i give any credit to nexus for doing something special with the camera.
I used the time lapse feature today, what a JOKE! you need it propped up, and put it in airplane mode so that a text wont ruin your video, the screen stays on the whole time, you cant turn it off, and the smallest increment is 1 second, i washed dishes for a couple hours and had a 3 minute video that was a pain to watch because there was a window in the room that the camera adjusted for and me the focus was all dark.
I do like the built in photo editing, and the use of facial recognition, but when i saw the nexus get demolished by the one x, i cried, and now with 4.0.4 lagging more just to be a usable 5 mp camera, i think owners have the right to complain that a front page feature has been toned down for stability. though ultimately we want better pictures.
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Get a camera. All that stress and wringing of hands is now gone. Don't you feel better?
adrynalyne said:
Focus once, don't move, take pictures in a bright area = insta pics.
I take them all the time.
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This exactly. I take a lot of pictures of moving objects (my kids). Pre 4.0.4 they were *terrible*. They were so poor I bought an Xperia S for the camera. Post 4.0.4 they are now clear and of great quality (on par with the 12MP camera in the Xperia S which is no slouch). Let it focus and snap away. Move, refocus, repeat.
If you are rubbish photographer/videographer why blame the camera?
Like - I pointed camera at a window and everything else was dark. Doh.
Actually i was very disappointed with the camera i was like 5mp bullsh... Even my old 2mp blackberry bold camera took better pictures, with this 5mp crap camera i could not take a single good picture, im not a big fan of taking pictures so i just nevermind it, after reading they improved the camera i tried and damn, all my pictures looks awesome now
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msedek said:
Actually i was very disappointed with the camera i was like 5mp bullsh... Even my old 2mp blackberry bold camera took better pictures, with this 5mp crap camera i could not take a single good picture, im not a big fan of taking pictures so i just nevermind it, after reading they improved the camera i tried and damn, all my pictures looks awesome now
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Your 2MP BB Bold took better pictures before, and it now it takes amazing pictures?
Sounds reasonable to me!
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LOL some of these arguments are just ridiculous.
Dice62 said:
Your 2MP BB Bold took better pictures before, and it now it takes amazing pictures?
Sounds reasonable to me!
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Few words to smart People, i managed to take better pictures with my bb bold's 2mp camera before Google would upgrade the 5mp camera system on the gnexus. Is it clear for you now?
P.S: on a side note, Wonder why is there TROLLS everywhere
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P.S: on a side note, Wonder why is there TROLLS everywhere
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Are you asking yourself this question?
adrynalyne said:
Are you asking yourself this question?
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Yes sir
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I dont know if anyone else has noticed or just passed it off as a fluke thought, but I noticed a slight to moderate downgrade in cam quality with stock settings on the cam from my first white s4 to my now black s4 both .
The white one seemed way better quality like it was the true 13mp its said to be.. but my black s4 just seems shotty*
I cant compare to anyone else's in person but plan to.
Anyone compared with a buddys s4 and felt the same bizarre thoughts:what:
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at stock settings the camera is 9megapixels so it can maintain 16x9 aspect ratio
haldi15 said:
at stock settings the camera is 9megapixels so it can maintain 16x9 aspect ratio
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I know that its set to 9.6 mp stock im talking in any mpixel setting even 13mp.
Im just trying to see if anyone sees this as a real possibility of quality defect that lies between one device from another.
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do you have pictures from each phone? i have the black one and it looks fine
Almost certain you had a dirty lens. Happens everytime. Most of the time you won't notice it until you start getting crappy pics.
Watch out for case's altering pics with flash. Not sure if this is the issue but just wanted to remind
I think just like any hardware you're going to have some bad ones or in this case not as good. This isn't the first time I've seen this type of thing. I've had so many phones throughout the years and in some cases when I get a replacement the camera is not as good as the previous. I just exchange it again and hope the next one is better.
You sure you took the plastic film off the camera lens? I know, dumb question, but took me a few days to realize it was there.
How do you change 9.6 to the full 13mp?
Edit: nvmind found it havent messed much with the camera
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haldi15 said:
do you have pictures from each phone? i have the black one and it looks fine
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This. Pics or it didn't happen. (a.k.a. User Error)
I have motion set to on and the latest version of Google Photos. Yet I just get the standard view all option. No suggested shots. Anyone know what's up? I even tried the version of Google Photos going around that enables Top Shot on the Pixel 2, but it still doesn't work.
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When looking at the picture swipe bottom to top (up) you'll see a stream of photos at the bottom of the info. Tap on them and If the pic sucks the app will try to recommend the right ones for you.
Took me a minute to get it myself but now it is easy and helps a lot when I'm taking pictures of my 18 month old. Lol
Hope that helps!
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When looking at the picture swipe bottom to top (up) you'll see a stream of photos at the bottom of the info. Tap on them and If the pic sucks the app will try to recommend the right ones for you.
Took me a minute to get it myself but now it is easy and helps a lot when I'm taking pictures of my 18 month old. Lol
Hope that helps!
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I know all this. But after swiping up, I don't get any recommended shots. Ever. Just the usual timeline where you click "view all". It shows you a bunch of shots, with the original photo marked with a dot, but it doesn't jump to a recommended photo.
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Had that problem too, this sounds counterintuitive but try to take a blurry picture, as in shake your hands while taking a picture. I noticed that too shot only works when it "detects" the photo was bad in the first place. What constitutes bad, from my experimentation, has been blurry photos, when someone is moving to put their hand up so you don't get a shot of them (lol), and sometimes when the phone thinks the photo is "bad".
Took me a while before it really started working so I forced it by taking really bad blurry photos while motion was on.
Hopefully this helps you to get it working. I found it a bit fustrating at first cause I couldn't get it to work either but a little experimentation, research, and patience worked out. Lol
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Had that problem too, this sounds counterintuitive but try to take a blurry picture, as in shake your hands while taking a picture. I noticed that too shot only works when it "detects" the photo was bad in the first place. What constitutes bad, from my experimentation, has been blurry photos, when someone is moving to put their hand up so you don't get a shot of them (lol), and sometimes when the phone thinks the photo is "bad".
Took me a while before it really started working so I forced it by taking really bad blurry photos while motion was on.
Hopefully this helps you to get it working. I found it a bit fustrating at first cause I couldn't get it to work either but a little experimentation, research, and patience worked out. Lol
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Thanks, but what about blinking? I thought that was one of the main uses. That's how I've been testing. Blinking or just looking away from the camera real quick to get a blurry shot. Nothing works.
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Hmmmm, haven't had luck on the blinking. The best way to test it to see if it is "working" is to take a bad shot. My first test was to take a picture and while I was doing so I moved the phone to cause a blurry picture.
I just went through my own gallery using Google photos app and there are a ton of pictures that could have used too shot but didn't. Try taking several purposely bad photos and see if you can work it from there.
I don't think it's you or the phone but rather the phone doesn't think there is anything wrong with the pictures you are taking. ?
I will say that it's getting better over time, as in it seems to be able to recognize that a picture that I took needs to be corrected with the more photos I take.
since google hasnt officially released it, I wouldn't expect it to be working correctly, if at all yet.
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Hmmmm, haven't had luck on the blinking. The best way to test it to see if it is "working" is to take a bad shot. My first test was to take a picture and while I was doing so I moved the phone to cause a blurry picture.
I just went through my own gallery using Google photos app and there are a ton of pictures that could have used too shot but didn't. Try taking several purposely bad photos and see if you can work it from there.
I don't think it's you or the phone but rather the phone doesn't think there is anything wrong with the pictures you are taking. [emoji14]
I will say that it's getting better over time, as in it seems to be able to recognize that a picture that I took needs to be corrected with the more photos I take.
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Yeah, like I said, I've taken plenty of purposefully blurry photos. But all I get is "view all" instead of "recommendations". I have no idea how to get this working. At all.
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Sucky, not sure what else to say other than the tier I list of, check for updates, reboot, and try again.
I find it real strange that it's not working for you. ?
uicnren said:
since google hasnt officially released it, I wouldn't expect it to be working correctly, if at all yet.
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Huh ?!
Ok, perhaps an overstrong heading! But this is just my opinion - I actually don't find the superwide nearly as useful as I thought I would. First of all, the quality isn't great and secondly the distortion from it being such a small lens makes it interesting, but not particularly useful. It's especially bad if people are in the picture. I'm really interested to know where people have used it where it actually added some value.
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Ok, perhaps an overstrong heading! But this is just my opinion - I actually don't find the superwide nearly as useful as I thought I would. First of all, the quality isn't great and secondly the distortion from it being such a small lens makes it interesting, but not particularly useful. It's especially bad if people are in the picture. I'm really interested to know where people have used it where it actually added some value.
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I wouldn't agree for main camera superwide, i managed to took some nice pics that i couldn't capture otherwise, quality is not the point here, but what you can capture with it.
BUT! my real question is, what is the freaking point of 2 cameras on front?They make almost no difference between each other..
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I wouldn't agree for main camera superwide, i managed to took some nice pics that i couldn't capture otherwise, quality is not the point here, but what you can capture with it.
BUT! my real question is, what is the freaking point of 2 cameras on front?They make almost no difference between each other..
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You can't actually use the second camera on the front it is just solely for depth information to the other sensor
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oneandroidnut said:
You can't actually use the second camera on the front it is just solely for depth information to the other sensor
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Then what does the switch does?It changes between 2 what if not cameras, and angle changes just a bit.
ivicask said:
Then what does the switch does?It changes between 2 what if not cameras, and angle changes just a bit.
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It crops it. All from one sensor cover the one up and try it. Still will switch between cropped and not
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oneandroidnut said:
It crops it. All from one sensor cover the one up and try it. Still will switch between cropped and not
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I see now, still i think that button it pointless, it does nothing, its minimum crop, can someone explain me actually the point of it?
ivicask said:
I see now, still i think that button it pointless, it does nothing, its minimum crop, can someone explain me actually the point of it?
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Not a clue should have had a wide angle selfie lense like the pixel 3 xl
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ekerbuddyeker said:
Ok, perhaps an overstrong heading! But this is just my opinion - I actually don't find the superwide nearly as useful as I thought I would. First of all, the quality isn't great and secondly the distortion from it being such a small lens makes it interesting, but not particularly useful. It's especially bad if people are in the picture. I'm really interested to know where people have used it where it actually added some value.
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Extremely useful when travelling and trying to take pictures of architecture. Most cities in the world are very dense and objects are large, with limited space to position yourself for a photo. Your only choice here is to carry an ultra-wide lens. Most of my pictures from my recent trip to Vienna were done in ultra-wide. Stick it into DxO ViewPoint and correct the geometry and you have fantastic photos.
For me, Its a useful option in the right situations...
It's useless until you need it. I thought it was the useless but when in a tight space where you need to capture more area in your photo, the wide angle is extremely useful. Happens a lot to me when I take photos for site inspections (construction job).
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It's useless until you need it. I thought it was the useless but when in a tight space where you need to capture more area in your photo, the wide angle is extremely useful. Happens a lot to me when I take photos for site inspections (construction job).
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Or taking a photo for a group of people and the space is somewhat tight you cant go so much backwards
Completely useful since I remember in my LG G6 u can capture interesting perspectives.