Develop Bugs

mimicry photo crop?

i dont know why but when i take photos on mimicry on my phone it seems to crop out a part of the image, it doesnt take an image that fills the whole of the desire Z screen but instead takes a picture with two black bars either side of the image.
is there a reason why this happens?

The screen resolution of Desire Z is 800x480, which is the aspect ratio of 5:3. You are probably taking pictures with aspect ratio 4:3. If you want to display a (whole) image with aspect ratio 4:3 without stretching you have to display black bars on sides.
Try to change the camera resolutions to “4MP(W)”. There are two “4MP(W)” settings, one of them has the aspect ratio of 5:3.

Rear camera too dark

Anyone else find the rear camera almost pitch black compared to front camera? I've changed various settings but it doesn't go any brighter.

Q8-V08 said:
Anyone else find the rear camera almost pitch black compared to front camera? I've changed various settings but it doesn't go any brighter.
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Most units have the dark camera. Some have a brighter camera.
The best you can do is adjust the exposure setting.

I just posted in another thread that I had this issue, even adjusting all the setting makes very little difference when using the camera in video mode, picture mode is fine though, no issues with darkness etc.

Gilly10 said:
I just posted in another thread that I had this issue, even adjusting all the setting makes very little difference when using the camera in video mode, picture mode is fine though, no issues with darkness etc.
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Sorry I didn't see your thread, yes I have exactly same problem in video mode being darker than camera mode with the rear camera no issue with front one though, my bad I should of stated which mode it was in.

Don't know about the dark only in video mode issue.
What I've seen is most cameras look find in bright rooms, but in dimly lit rooms, everything is very dark. I just figured this was normal for this level camera, but then I saw a unit that was able to have the same image my eye could see, rather than being so dark it was hard to make out details.
That's when I came to the concusion there are different cameras or the same camera with different variances.
I could adjust the exposure in the dark camera to the highest level and get about 75% of the brightness of the bright camera, but never as bright. By bright, I just mean you can make out the details in the scene.

It seems to be more of bug though because it's also doing it on sphere & panoramic modes too, it's like it's automatically setting the exposure to -2 when your under unnatural light. The setting shouldn't be any different to camera still mode as all it does is stitch multiple stills together.

Q8-V08 said:
It seems to be more of bug though because it's also doing it on sphere & panoramic modes too, it's like it's automatically setting the exposure to -2 when your under unnatural light. The setting shouldn't be any different to camera still mode as all it does is stitch multiple stills together.
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I went back and tested my camera in more depth.
When I turn on video mode, it ignores any exposure setting. Is it possible you have exposure turned up (not necessarily by your own doing) in the camera mode and when you switch to video, it doesn't honor the exposure?
Basically what I'm asking is, rather than video mode being dark, is it possible video mode is "normal", ie no adjustments to exposure, and camera mode has exposure upped up, possibly some change/fix that was made to account for an overly dark camera?
I know this makes no "effective" difference to you, but might explain why it behaves differently in camera and video/stitch/etc. mode.

Sometimes it also goes redish dark in picture / still mode too but that can be fixed by pressing home and then returning to it via recents, you can hear the shutter or lens reset.

4.4 gives a slight improvement, it's lighter now hopefully with another tweaked update it'll be fixed.

[Q] Native camera aspect ratio

I was just wondering if the 16:9 mode that our camera defaults to is the native aspect ratio because I know I had to switch to 4:3 on my S4 to get the full 13MP resolution. I was just wondering if anyone knows if it's the same way on the One or if the lens natively shoots 4MP in 16:9

Crawshayi said:
I was just wondering if the 16:9 mode that our camera defaults to is the native aspect ratio because I know I had to switch to 4:3 on my S4 to get the full 13MP resolution. I was just wondering if anyone knows if it's the same way on the One or if the lens natively shoots 4MP in 16:9
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It's default to 4mp either way. It just swaps the format between 1520x2688 and 2688x1520. It comes out to 4085760 pixels which is just a little over 4mp.

ze550ml Super resolution mode when zoom?

Is there a way to automatically switch to super resolution mode when zooming? I mean, just like taking a high resolution photo and crop it.Digital zoom on normal photo is terrible.

@chan said:
Is there a way to automatically switch to super resolution mode when zooming? I mean, just like taking a high resolution photo and crop it.Digital zoom on normal photo is terrible.
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superesolution is just more pictures made in different zones, making zoom will change nothing

Question Question related to camera / screen size / fotos

Hi, basic question maybe, but when I take a picture with the camera (horizontal, normal mode, 1x), then view in Google photos, is it normal then that the picture does not fill the while screen (black bar at top and bottom)? Same for vertical pictures (black bar left/right). See example screenshot in attach.

I think that's just the ratio 16:9 of the shot you took.. the actual screen itself isn't 16:9, which is why you have the bars

foobar66 said:
Hi, basic question maybe, but when I take a picture with the camera (horizontal, normal mode, 1x), then view in Google photos, is it normal then that the picture does not fill the while screen (black bar at top and bottom)? Same for vertical pictures (black bar left/right). See example screenshot in attach.
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Yes, that's normal. Your cameras' aspect ratio does not match your phones.
Horizontal -> 16:9
Pixel 6 Pro -> 19.5:9 ratio

Morgrain said:
Yes, that's normal. Your cameras' aspect ratio does not match your phones.
Horizontal -> 16:9
Pixel 6 Pro -> 19.5:9 ratio
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OK thanks for confirming ... I though I had accidently changed some setting.

foobar66 said:
Hi, basic question maybe, but when I take a picture with the camera (horizontal, normal mode, 1x), then view in Google photos, is it normal then that the picture does not fill the while screen (black bar at top and bottom)? Same for vertical pictures (black bar left/right). See example screenshot in attach.
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Check your ratio setting in the camera app.
Edit: Possibly disregard.

I have it set to 16:9 ...