Develop Bugs

Discovered a Camera (front) trick....

Everyone knows the weakness behind our Back Camera.. but does everyone know how POWERFUL our front facing camera is? I bet you didn't know you can crank the ISO to 12446 on the front facing camera
You can now take selfies in almost pitch black rooms (and come out grainy, but visible).
Inside the "Selfie" mode, click on EV +2 and go into a dark room.
Your image will automatically being super grainy but you'll be able to see yourself like no other!

im_high_tech said:
Everyone knows the weakness behind our Back Camera.. but does everyone know how POWERFUL our front facing camera is? I bet you didn't know you can crank the ISO to 12446 on the front facing camera
You can now take selfies in almost pitch black rooms (and come out grainy, but visible).
Inside the "Selfie" mode, click on EV +2 and go into a dark room.
Your image will automatically being super grainy but you'll be able to see yourself like no other!
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It worked...night vision now?

Isn't that an awesome trick?! I love it!

im_high_tech said:
Isn't that an awesome trick?! I love it!
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Yes...it's weird it only works on front camera and not on regular one...but yeah! Takes photos on pitch black room

Does anyone know if the rear facing camera has an IR filter on it? That may explain this, because if the rear facing camera has a filter but the selfie one does not, the selfie camera will let in more "light", and use ambient IR to illuminate your face slightly more. That's just my best guess.

Joren.ideas said:
Does anyone know if the rear facing camera has an IR filter on it? That may explain this, because if the rear facing camera has a filter but the selfie one does not, the selfie camera will let in more "light", and use ambient IR to illuminate your face slightly more. That's just my best guess.
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The reason you can do this with the front is because the camera used is exactly the 4UP sensor from the M8 which has larger pixels for better low light performance

Selfie quality

You're beautiful and everyone knows it. That's why you take selfies. Rate this thread to express how the front-facing camera of the OnePlus 3T performs. A higher rating indicates that the front camera produces fantastic results consistently.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

If light is very good, acceptable selfies. Indoors, even with good light, usually very blurry shots

Indoors, nothing but TV for light and taken straight from Allo

At low light in front of my monitor:

beautify mode of the cam/app is the best, makes my ugly face so sweet !
for real, its pretty decent (the front cam).

With 16mp front camera the photos look crisp and sharp. Nothing bad to say about it.

Seems fine with or without beauty mode it's almost same for me

absolutely amazing with the 16m front camera

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I recently went on a trip with a selfie stick...front facing camera turned out to be pretty bad...they all turned out kind of like this one:
https://goo.gl/photos/cpev9cRgS4TEnhQs8
Some look better than others, but everything looks soft and out of focus...is this normal?

sm753 said:
I recently went on a trip with a selfie stick...front facing camera turned out to be pretty bad...they all turned out kind of like this one:
https://goo.gl/photos/cpev9cRgS4TEnhQs8
Some look better than others, but everything looks soft and out of focus...is this normal?
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The front facing camera has fixed focus, made so that the subject is in focus when the phone is at arms length. this photo looks like it was taken with a selfie stick so you were not in focus.

yohouse2 said:
The front facing camera has fixed focus, made so that the subject is in focus when the phone is at arms length. this photo looks like it was taken with a selfie stick so you were not in focus.
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Well that explains it...are you aware of any work around for this? I imagine the limitation is the software.

sm753 said:
Well that explains it...are you aware of any work around for this? I imagine the limitation is the software.
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I believe that it it a hardware limitation, so I'm not sure how a software upgrade or any workaround might help significantly. Maybe you might want to try the back camera instead or use the front camera at arms length, or be somehow lucky to find a clip-on lens that can either increase the camera's field while somehow still keeping the correct focus distance or a clip-on lens that will correct the focus when the device is on the selfie stick.

Good!
The front camera is really good. Clean and bright selfies. Love it.

Amazing, outstanding camera quality...

Such a awesome phone. It have best camera that is very useful for taking high resolution selfies.

low light sux
Well lit ok

Camera driver
How to develop camera driver? What are the things one should know for device driver development?

Camera quality

I'm not 100% convinced about how good this camera is.
I heard the mate 9 had an update which made the camera better. Will this apply to us as well?

my note 7 camera was 100 times better. I'm quite disappointed with this.
The mate 9 with update was better. Had both.

I have the Mate 9 Pro, which is the same hardware as the PD. Camera is IMO worse than the one in my iPhone 7 (not Plus). Front camera takes very yellow photos. Optical stabilizer is working too hard on the rear camera.

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I have the Mate 9 Pro, which is the same hardware as the PD. Camera is IMO worse than the one in my iPhone 7 (not Plus). Front camera takes very yellow photos. Optical stabilizer is working too hard on the rear camera.
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Hi!
I've just downloaded the Google camera and to be honest the results are pretty good!
Have a play and see what you think..
BTW.. Definitely get the sim tray thing looked into.. It should be conpletely flush

Not sure if you guys talking about pro or the Porsche design but my pro is the best camera I ever had on a phone. And I did have have s7 edge before
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charmz2k2 said:
BTW.. Definitely get the sim tray thing looked into.. It should be conpletely flush
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The demo phone in three individual stores in the nearest town center, Aalborg, suffered from the same "issue".
What is this "Google camera" you are talking about?
CandyAndy said:
Not sure if you guys talking about pro or the Porsche design but my pro is the best camera I ever had on a phone. And I did have have s7 edge before
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S7 Edge doesn't impress me particularly, either - too brown/yellow in the tint on the rear camera for my liking.

Quite pleased with this pic..
Not often I get to take artsy pics but I'm thinking this one is worth sharing.

I think that camera is pretty good in even low light situations, it takes pretty good shots.

I take back what i said about the camera...
Took a pic of a plane in the air..
I then zoomed in and took another pic...
Also took some pics of my kid on a rather fast fair ride and he came out completely clear!
Impressed!

The camera is for me quite good but in low light it is not as good as my xperia x performance. The colours could be more vivid though
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Question You hear a noise when shaking the phone?

If you hear noise when shaking the Pixel 6 Pro, it's normal. The noise is coming from the Telephoto Periscope zoom lens OIS. This happens on almost all the smartphone that uses this kind of camera lens for Telephoto.
The below video will play from the time stamp that talks about this one.
FYI... I have couple of Sony lenses for my A7 III. On those lenses I can feel something is moving when I shake the lens. Turns out this normal. This doesn't happen when the camera is turned on and I shake the lens.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/questions/sony-fe-20mm-f-1-8-g-ultra-wide-angle-prime-lens-for-e-mount-cameras/6405060/question/0bfcffef-0ee4-3f69-917e-45d2dd49a2ff

It's apparently the telephoto lens and it is normal. I've just tried mine and the noise stops as soon as I open the camera and select 4x zoom level.

krips2003 said:
If you hear noise when shaking the Pixel 6 Pro, it's normal. The noise is coming from the Telephoto Periscope zoom lens OIS. This happens on almost all the smartphone that uses this kind of camera lens for Telephoto.
The below video will play from the time stamp that talks about this one.
FYI... I have couple of Sony lenses for my A7 III. On those lenses I can feel something is moving when I shake the lens. Turns out this normal. This doesn't happen when the camera is turned on and I shake the lens.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/questions/sony-fe-20mm-f-1-8-g-ultra-wide-angle-prime-lens-for-e-mount-cameras/6405060/question/0bfcffef-0ee4-3f69-917e-45d2dd49a2ff
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Good to know that its "normal" - I already talked to the Google support, made them a video about the noise (mine is pretty loud, louder than in the video for sure) and they now want to replace my device. Mh.

Question Selfie camera quality

I've been taking a lot of photos as of late, both with the front and rear cameras. I've noticed for a while that the selfie camera doesn't really produce clear and crisp images the way my old 2XL did. I've come across a thread where some folks have encountered the same issue, and wondering if anyone else here is experiencing this?
I've included a link that best shows exactly what I'm talking about, although the person isn't me in the thread.
If the camera is this bad I hope it can be fixed.
Pixel 6 selfie camera is very blurry and won't focus - Google Pixel Community
support.google.com

RetroTech07 said:
I've been taking a lot of photos as of late, both with the front and rear cameras. I've noticed for a while that the selfie camera doesn't really produce clear and crisp images the way my old 2XL did. I've come across a thread where some folks have encountered the same issue, and wondering if anyone else here is experiencing this?
I've included a link that best shows exactly what I'm talking about, although the person isn't me in the thread.
If the camera is this bad I hope it can be fixed.
Pixel 6 selfie camera is very blurry and won't focus - Google Pixel Community
support.google.com
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I have the same issue and it is frustrating, I also tried with 3rd party apps but still, the selfie images are kinda blurry. Is this a software issue or a hardware issue?

I've noticed the same compared to my 4xl. The selfies under lower than normal light come out a bit blurry or not as good as I remember them on my previous phone.

The front camera is a fixed focus lens. Physically it has a sharp spot and only that spot is sharp, the rest of it is all processing.
No real way around physics and lack of autofocus.

coilbio said:
The front camera is a fixed focus lens. Physically it has a sharp spot and only that spot is sharp, the rest of it is all processing.
No real way around physics and lack of autofocus.
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This. Some older models had front facing camera autofocus, P6 does not (unfortunately)

coilbio said:
The front camera is a fixed focus lens. Physically it has a sharp spot and only that spot is sharp, the rest of it is all processing.
No real way around physics and lack of autofocus.
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Do other phone manufacturers have this design, or is it only google?