So I was bored and watched a YouTube vid on a mobile camera review. And wondered which camera was where on the back of my N10+.
After holding a finger over each lens, I concluded that the ultrawide lens is on top, the "main" lens in the middle. (as the marketing material and Google says) But the telephoto (2x zoom) doesn't "black out" when holding a finger get the bottom lens
None of the 3 options are "blacked out" when holding a finger get the bottom lens. The bottom lens moves slightly when you change from one of the other lenses
Can someone please explain that?
Is the 2x optical zoom just a 2x digital zoom of the main lens?
x2 zoom lens is only active in good light, if the light is low cameras logic will pick normal lens and use digital zoom, which supposed to have better quality that way. So I would assume you were doing your tests in low, artificial light, try it again in daytime.
Yup. He did the experiment wrong.
On your camera with 2x zoom, then move your finger slowing from bottom and you can see ur finger covering the bottom lens. Once you move your phone in different direction, the screen suddenly clear again but your finger still covering the bottom lens. So It did use the normal lens once telephoto lens is in the dark.
Lol, I have seen this same doubts\claims since the note 8 times
Aaah lol ? didn't know that.
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I was looking around for cell phone camera lenses and found these
Jelly lens
A forum notification is telling me I can't post the link but google it they're pretty awesome, 12 in all, and they're only 4.40 each which is pretty nice.
Kinds and Descriptions
Wide Angle / Fish Eye: Creates a wide angle panoramic shot or fisheye effect photo easily
Stretch: Turn the lens to stretch your photo horizontally or vertically
Hexa-image Mirage: Produces beautiful kaleidoscope effect with 6 duplicated images
Tri-image Mirage: Produces beautiful kaleidoscope effect with 3 duplicated images
Heart/ Blue Filter: 2 lenses included, put a heart shaped frame around your photo or filter it through a blue tint
Star/ Antique Filter: 2 lenses included, put a star shaped frame around your photo or filter it through a classic amber tint
Polarized/ Vivid: Reduces light reflections and turns the sky more blue
Macro Close Up: Enables your camera to take close up photos and focuses on tiny details
Soft Lens: Provides a romantic border to portraits
Starburst: The center of your image will stay focused while the edges are blurred outwards
Shaking Vignette: Blurs the surrounding like shaking while the middle remains clear
Sparkle: Adds twinkly stars to your photos. This lens makes lights and reflections appear as twinkly starbursts
Pretty clever little lenses! http://www.jelly-lens.com/index_main.php
I am tempted to grab a few to play with since they are so cheap, but my SLR would spit on me.
I was just curious which lense corresponded with which camera mode. I did this by covering each lens with my fingers, here's what I found:
TOP: ultrawide
Middle: standard
ok... good so far...
switch to 2x mode ... still using middle lens! WTF. Did Xiaomi lie? I noticed the zoom quality was pretty terrible, this explains it.
What do you guys think?
In good light condition, it use bottom Lens.
But in dim light, it is a digital zoom.
Ah can confirm! See I really wish it just used the 48mp crop in good light. The telephoto quality is worse than a crop!
My expectation when switching between the cameras in the standard photo mode, that each mode would use each sperate lens (1 lens per mode, 3 lens) but this is not the case. What is the bottom lens? Block it with your finger and no matter what setting you use, your finger will not actually block any use able camera. What actually is the lowest lens? What is it for? The s10+ has the same lens also.
nanoudge99 said:
My expectation when switching between the cameras in the standard photo mode, that each mode would use each sperate lens (1 lens per mode, 3 lens) but this is not the case. What is the bottom lens? Block it with your finger and no matter what setting you use, your finger will not actually block any use able camera. What actually is the lowest lens? What is it for? The s10+ has the same lens also.
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Bottom lens is the telephoto lens. It is only used if there is enough light. If it thinks that you can get a better photo using a cropped image from the main sensor then it will use that instead.
RaiderX303 said:
Bottom lens is the telephoto lens. It is only used if there is enough light. If it thinks that you can get a better photo using a cropped image from the main sensor then it will use that instead.
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Thank you! It's pretty hard to find any information on this.
Greetings Just got my hand on a LG G8S here in Norway and I'm pretty happy so far. I started exploring the (three) cameras and noticed today, that if I covered the tele-lens, it did not make any difference. Activating the zoom mode (big tree icon) still provided an image, showing that it was just using a digital zoom on the main lens. Wide lens works fine however.
I also noticed, in manual mode, I could not activate the tele mode at all. Seeing also that the aparture did not match the tele one witch should be f/2.4.
Could it be that I have a G8 firmware, which only supports two cameras?
Thanks!
Pål
Try This.
Guess this scenario is been discussed and tested on other LG triple camera phones with Telephoto lens.
G8s telephoto lens with F2.6 needs good light to work, in poor lighting it switches back to the main/standard lens and offer digital Zoom.
Try outdoors with good lighting,switch to tele lens and then cover this lens with your finger.
Not sure why the software has to decide which lens to choose, May be this is the so called AI camera feature
Try gcam. It uses telephoto lens even at night
Hey, if you want to force the use of the telelens lens long press the little tree button, and it will show a live mini-preview of each lens. Choose the tele view and take the picture. You'll notice the difference in the quality and stability of the preview opposed to when you try to scroll smooth past 1.9x zoom.
But you won't be able to do anything else but snap the shot.
As soon as you click in something out of this preview option, whether to adjust exposure or anything, you'll notice you'll leave the telelens to the main sensor 2x digital
It's not ideal, but Works... Looks like a.... Bug?
Know this has been dead for a while but I investigated this and it bases the lens selection on focus distance and light availability. If you try to use the tele lens on close up subjects it will auto select the main sensor. If used for shooting more generally the tele lens is selected. I imagine light availability makes a difference too. I wish it wasn't blocked in manual camera mode though.
I think Google should give a notice on foto flaring... Pixels has one of the worst flare effects...
What do you think about it?
Have you tried switching from wide angle to standard camera? (0.7x, 1, 2,4x zoom)
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Have you tried switching from wide angle to standard camera? (0.7x, 1, 2,4x zoom)
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Standard camera Flares
Light is reflecting off the lens. Since they probably don't make any ND filters, if you have some old sunglasses that aren't too dark, try placing the lens over the camera sensor. The lenses on my d-slr have coatings to help reduce it, along with the lens hood, but if you are shooting directly at bright light, it can still happen. When it does I just photoshop it out.
You can also try settings in manual mode (I use camera FV-5) to set the f/stop at a different setting to change the exposure.
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Light is reflecting off the lens. Since they probably don't make any ND filters, if you have some old sunglasses that aren't too dark, try placing the lens over the camera sensor. The lenses on my d-slr have coatings to help reduce it, along with the lens hood, but if you are shooting directly at bright light, it can still happen. When it does I just photoshop it out.
You can also try settings in manual mode (I use camera FV-5) to set the f/stop at a different setting to change the exposure.
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Thanks for the tips... I already knew some of them... Google should do something deleting them using software... S21 ultra and s22 ultra have reflections of the lens too but don't have so annoying Flares..
It is more the light reflecting off the glass sheet that covers the whole of lens assembly than just lens flare, a cheap skin on it reduces it significantly. When using the night modes however it is difficult to stop simply because you are using multiple exposures and therefore stacking any flare on top of itself and multiplying the effect.
FWIW you cannot change the aperture, they are fixed and there is no diaphragm to open and close, hence the reason why you get really, really high shutter speeds when the light it good.
You will be able to alter the shutter speed though I'd have thought, it is an electronic shutter so it can pick any number it sees fit to limit the light coming to the sensor.