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Panoramic Shots With Raphael

Anybody use the Panorama function yet? Pretty awesome if you ask me... I took this shot early morning, so the lighting was hard to deal with (plus I left it on auto, didn't turn it to daytime)... But you get the idea of how it really does mesh the 3 pictures very well.
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New Touch Pro owners, I encourage you to test out this new feature and post some pictures up here. I'd be curious to see what people can be creative with.

That pic looks awesome for a phone, espcially being a panoramic shot. I cannot wait until I can order my Touch Pro on 29th August from Vodafone UK!
Thanks
Regards,
Neil

Wow
Can you post up some more different shots and a few test video samples? Just ordered mine - I hope the video quality is good enough via the tv-out.

sonhy said:
Can you post up some more different shots and a few test video samples? Just ordered mine - I hope the video quality is good enough via the tv-out.
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You can't tell the quality of the video AT ALL because photobucket had to compress/convert it so much...
http://s13.photobucket.com/albums/a258/The300ZX/?action=view&current=VIDEO0001.flv
Looks a hell of a lot better than that on the device, needless to say. Also, the picture quality is on "Normal", it has a "Fine" and "Super Fine" mode but I'm not shooting for gold here so whatever.

From my Tilt actually but I do love the Pano mode nonetheless. I think this was a 6 shotter.
Seaside Florida

juiceppc said:
From my Tilt actually but I do love the Pano mode nonetheless. I think this was a 6 shotter.
Seaside Florida
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:O 6 shotter? I don't think you can go beyond 3 with the touch pro... Did the tilt come with that?
Nevermind, found the setting... WOW that's cool. The more I use this phone, the more impressed I become.

Black93300ZX said:
:O 6 shotter? I don't think you can go beyond 3 with the touch pro... Did the tilt come with that?
Nevermind, found the setting... WOW that's cool. The more I use this phone, the more impressed I become.
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I think by default the 6 shotter only does 1mpxl but you can edit the Reg to allow 3mpxl 6shotter pano's. Essentially having an 18mpxl shot!

Heres a reg tweak from the Development and Hacking forum
"Camera.reg
Setting the capture delay to 0, enabling 6 MP Panorama Shots and setting the correct rotation - all tweaks from KaiserTweak and Advanced Config."
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2499101&postcount=3
Dont know if it will work for the TP...
...anyone dare try? be a nice tweak to add to the list!
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Pictures\Camera\OEM\DisablingConditions]
"CSPValue"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Camera\Captparam]
"CapKeyDelayTime"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Camera\P6]
"MainCamSupportCaptSize"=dword:000006d4
"MainCamCaptSize"=dword:00000400
"Enable"=dword:00000001
"SaveFolder"="My Pictures"
"EnableRecLimit"=dword:00000000
"RecLimitSize"=dword:0000005f
"RecLimitedType"=dword:00000000
"EncodeFormat"=dword:00000002
"CaptureFormat"=dword:00000002
"Property"=dword:00200099
"CaptureType"=dword:00000005
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Camera\General]
"EnableDCIM"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\State\Hardware]
"CameraEnabled"=dword:00000001

Black93300ZX, beautiful place! You live there?

Nice, guys... just makes me want this phone even more.. (I'm pretty sure my mind is made up now. was going to be the X1, it just looks a whole load cooler, but the TP is definately the better phone.)
Tell me, if you would, are you having to move the camera as it takes the pics or does the camera itself have some kind of tracking system?
Payday 2 weeks away..................

rakdoll said:
Black93300ZX, beautiful place! You live there?
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Yeah, some of the time... Might go back to NY soon, who knows.

Someone Walkin' said:
Tell me, if you would, are you having to move the camera as it takes the pics or does the camera itself have some kind of tracking system?
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Neither. You take a picture, and it ghosts the right part of it on the left part of your screen... You move the camera to the right a little, match up the ghost image, and take another picture... Etcetcetc. Up to 6 times to lengthen the photo, and it digitally syncs it as well as it can.

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Neither. You take a picture, and it ghosts the right part of it on the left part of your screen... You move the camera to the right a little, match up the ghost image, and take another picture... Etcetcetc. Up to 6 times to lengthen the photo, and it digitally syncs it as well as it can.
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Yeah. The kaiser has pretty good digital sync. I don't usually line it up because I don't have enough time to >.> so it's pretty good at finding it by itself

Shots full of trees make it very hard to tell how good it is. Try it across the front of a shopping center, or somewhere where there is a long line of "logical" things, like a long banner with letters / words, for lack of a better example. Or a long row of topless women.

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Shots full of trees make it very hard to tell how good it is. Try it across the front of a shopping center, or somewhere where there is a long line of "logical" things, like a long banner with letters / words, for lack of a better example. Or a long row of topless women.
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Psh, I'm not gonna take a trip to take a picture, I just walked outside and snapped those.

juiceppc said:
I think by default the 6 shotter only does 1mpxl but you can edit the Reg to allow 3mpxl 6shotter pano's. Essentially having an 18mpxl shot!
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Not really. The resolution is the same for a given focal length. Zooming in will have the same degradation.

Black93300ZX said:
Neither. You take a picture, and it ghosts the right part of it on the left part of your screen... You move the camera to the right a little, match up the ghost image, and take another picture... Etcetcetc. Up to 6 times to lengthen the photo, and it digitally syncs it as well as it can.
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Cheers. yeah, I can see a bit of blurring but I suppose it would ultimately decide on what you took a pic of. Nice feature, I think that about swings it for the TP, although.... the N96 can pick up UK digital terrestrial TV, 700 quid is a bit much though, I even baulk at the the price of the TP.
I'd like to see how it handles a more detailed background. you chose a perfect one, the garden, lots of green and the blurring just melts into the background.

Lake Champlain, up in Vermont where I spent the last 3 days. Still tryin to get this whole camera thing down.

Black93300ZX said:
Lake Champlain, up in Vermont where I spent the last 3 days. Still tryin to get this whole camera thing down.
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Vermont, cool, pistol-packin' country

[Q] bad screen and camera quality

hi guys,
I'm an android no0b ... soon fix that problem though.
anyway here is my situation and question:
Does the phones with the 'Bad Screen Issue' take the same quality pics as the ones with the Good screen
I love to take pics... my old nokia 3.15mb cellphone take great shot, I simply love cellphone that take great pics... but
I might be getting a used a mytouch4g (rooted still on froyo) [decent enough price (well as decent as living in Jamaica goes) ]
and from the first day that I saw the the phone I commented "oh i thought it would be nicer... the screen looks so bland... washed out"
the owner didnt even realize that it look bland, and said that its just looks that way , it doesnt affect the camera/pic quality.
I played around with it for a few minutes... my first experience with an android device... I AM IN LOVE WITH ANDROID NOW. but I still could not get around how bland the screen showed..
he only had it for a week before and didnt have much experience with android either.. he got it from someone b4 ... and all he knew is that its rooted.
I really like this device, and checked around online and was shocked to find out about the 'BAD SCREEN ISSUE' , and first i say some comments where persons said that they first say it after the rooted their device and a some1 even said that the unrooted their phone and the issue went away..
but that to this forum and youtube and realized that is a real hardware issue literally a 'BAD SCREEN' most like TFT vs a SuperLcd issue. ( right ?)
I still purchase it from him, and i said the the price is pretty sweet...
i know only know two person who own the mytouch/glacier and I asked them to send me a sample of pics that they took with their phone... just to compare camera quality. In fat hey did n't even know about the BAD screen issue (fortunately for them their devices are ok) ...
I took some pics with the one that i would be getting and I must say I am disappointed ... the pic when send to my pc looks just as washed out and bland as on the phone screen. i seriously doubted that the screen would affect the camera quality.. i may be wrong though.
I am not considering not to buy it... just because of the bright/washed out screen... but it not likely that i'm getting another decent Android phone for any where near this price again.
So guys I'm asking
.1) Does the phones with the 'Bad Screen Issue' take the same quality pics as the ones with the Good screen
.2) (if the forum allows it) some of your guys with the 'bad screen" phones upload your pics so i and have a better judgement of the camera quality. Prolly the camers secsors are determined by th e screen output (?)
.3) If u think that think that unrooting/rerooting will help the camera issue ( yeah unlikey )
4) If updated the android build / ginger bread or cm7 or so would improve the camera quality.
thanks in advance.

You have Resolution turned all the way up?
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estallings15 said:
You have Resolution turned all the way up
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thanks for the prompt reply...
sadly I can not answer that question, as:
1) I did not check (dont know how to as yet), I am assuming that it at its default setting
2) the phone is not currently in my possession ( prolly not for the next two days) .
once again thanks

The menu button (second hard button from the left) will bring up settings. Check Resolution. I've noticed that pictures in lower light aren't too great. Remember though, its a phone with a camera. The camera is, at most, second.
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estallings15 said:
The menu button (second hard button from the left) will bring up settings. Check Resolution. I've noticed that pictures in lower light aren't too great. Remember though, its a phone with a camera. The camera is, at most, second.
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hope fully I can get my hands on it tomorrow...
I am hoping that the camera can be adjusted to take quality pics...
sad if my old nokia kicks the teeth out a glacier

The LCD panel and the camera picture quality are not related. The good/bad screens basically refer to the two vendors HTC sourced for the MT4G's LCD, with the good one being the Sony S-LCD and the bad one being manufactured by Sharp. The differences between the screens lie in their contrast, color rendering, and off-axis viewing angles. There are some theories that the differences are not actually caused by the screen, but rather by the digitizer, but unless the digitizer was replaced, the screen and digitizer seem to go hand in hand.
The camera on the MT4G simply isn't that good. Unlike the camera for the Amaze, I've never read of an editable image compression setting for the MT4G's camera, so I'm inclined to believe that one doesn't exist.

Snakecharmed said:
The camera on the MT4G simply isn't that good. Unlike the camera for the Amaze, I've never read of an editable image compression setting for the MT4G's camera, so I'm inclined to believe that one doesn't exist.
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judging from the pics that my friend took with their good screen phones.. am leaning to agree with u... its no carl zwiess lens but , i expected better from a 5mp flagship device
hopefully i can adjust the camera setting to suit my needs (crosses fingers)
what a waste if it doesnt..

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I had two mytouch.
One good.one bad.
I have to say the cm7 camera from tdj's 12/30/11 cm7 Kang took some great pictures.
I tested every camera option available(alot of basketball/baseball games),and for some reason that Kang was the best as far as cameras.
Should it have been different? I do.t know why! Cant explain it!
Those pictures were crisp and clear.
I sure I posted a pic in that thread to check it for sure.right around new years.
Found the picture.posted it above.
On both phones the camera was super bad.
Thats why thr darkside was the best side.
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[email protected] said:
judging from the pics that my friend took with their good screen phones.. am leaning to agree with u... its no carl zwiess lens but , i expected better from a 5mp flagship device
hopefully i can adjust the camera setting to suit my needs (crosses fingers)
what a waste if it doesnt..
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I was not impressed with the quality of the pictures from the MT4G before it died. The outdoor pictures in daylight still had significant compression artifacts, soft focus, and undersaturation. Not natural saturation. Undersaturation. Blacks weren't black. Indoor pictures with incandescent lighting were just dreadful. Honestly, the picture quality was comparable to my Motorola RAZR2 V9x with an extra three megapixels.

Lol.haha.its a phone.its a 5mp camera.
Not bad for what it is.
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iPhone 5 vs GS3 camera comparison

Just put this together on the Macrumors board. Even they seem to agree
iPhone 5 pictures will always be first in the series:
In these pictures you can see the iPhone 5s purple flare at the top. No matter how I tried to take the picture, it was always there. In a room with a lot of lights, its just going to happen sadly. The GS3 performed better here and more accurately.
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Next up - Tennis ball. The tennis ball is not new, however, judging by the iPhone 5 picture, Apple wants to make old objects new again. Also, the counter top I am taking these on has a purpleish tint to it, so keep that in mind:
Anyone up for some coffee? The letters on dunkin should be a darker shade or orange to your eyes.. lets see how they did:
Next up - same ball, with flash:
Last but not least - a set of 2 outdoor pictures
So what do you think?? Which one is better to you?

Also a side note on the outdoors pictures - Both sets were taken at the same distance. The GS3 appears to get more in the picture than the iPhone... maybe its my eyes playing tricks on me - neither phone's zoom settings were touched.

psufan5 said:
Also a side note on the outdoors pictures - Both sets were taken at the same distance. The GS3 appears to get more in the picture than the iPhone... maybe its my eyes playing tricks on me - neither phone's zoom settings were touched.
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Maybe the iphone is set to like 28mm while the S3 at 24mm (when compared on 35mm?)

I don't get how you guys are getting decent shots with the GS3. My pictures are just awful and almost always blurry in identical situations that my Rezound and iPhone are able to take excellent photos. I really hate the camera on this phone.

Maybe you dont have a steady hand? Turn anti-shake on?

tekhna said:
I don't get how you guys are getting decent shots with the GS3. My pictures are just awful and almost always blurry in identical situations that my Rezound and iPhone are able to take excellent photos. I really hate the camera on this phone.
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Make sure the camera lens cover isn't smudged. If mine is, pictures look terrible, but if I wipe it off with my shirt and then take picture, it looks so much better.

Maybe. But it doesn't happen with any other camera, if that's the problem my hands would be shaky no matter what.
Quick and dirty comparison I did just now.
GS3:
Rezound:
iPhone 4

I love the pics on mine..Here is a sample of my lake house view from the back deck:
As you see it takes great pics..

My S3 takes both good and bad pictures. If I am holding it in just my hands, it usually takes not so good pictures. But when I us4 something solid to prop it against, it takes great pictures. But, that is the least of my gripes with this thing.
I just flashed the latest ROM five minuets ago and am finally getting thirty hours of battery time! This is sick!!

I take some okay pics
Gs3

Tyggy said:
I love the pics on mine..Here is a sample of my lake house view from the back deck:
As you see it takes great pics..
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Nice picture and interesting landscaping - curious about the choice of what appears to be a birdbath in the center: that green expanse to the lake might appear even more like a welcoming path or inviting runway there without the visual breakup, I figure.
- ooofest

Honestly I think the iPhone 5 takes better pictures.
I have 2 lines on my plan...mine with my GS3 and the other person on my plan has an iPhone 5. I did my own comparison tests and found the iPhone 5 camera to be better every time. I love my GS3 and the camera is alright but... nothing beats my DSLR.

The S3 also seems to be really sensitive with shaky hands compared to my old Apple. This can easily cause blurrier pictures. Also, another thing is phone covers can really alter the flash...... I had to learn this this the hard way.

Good stuff here... Honestly to me both seem to be amazing cameras but it's nice to see there are significant differences. Maybe I'm bias
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One thing I noticed with the iPhone is it gets surrounding detail a bit better, but its not as focused. On the iPhone I can focus on someone 15 feet away, but still read a paper that is in the photo just under the camera. On the GS3 it appears to overexpose it, and makes it illegible. Ill do a bit more testing, but it might only be an issue with white paper

I'm impressed with the macro on the S3
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josh995 said:
Honestly I think the iPhone 5 takes better pictures.
I have 2 lines on my plan...mine with my GS3 and the other person on my plan has an iPhone 5. I did my own comparison tests and found the iPhone 5 camera to be better every time. I love my GS3 and the camera is alright but... nothing beats my DSLR.
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I think the iphone is always easier to take good pics with (for a phone anyway) for some reason.
You can hand an iphone to anybody, leave everything in the auto mode & most of their pics will be fine.
As far as the DSLR comment, I agree 100%, I am a pro photographer & I use a *Canon EOS 1D Mark 2/with all L lens* all day at work.

yeah my GS3 doesn't take pics nearly as well as my rezound......but thank god it's better than that terrible, awful nexus camera. *shudders*

Mine does good panos
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tekhna said:
Maybe. But it doesn't happen with any other camera, if that's the problem my hands would be shaky no matter what.
Quick and dirty comparison I did just now.
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Your focus is on your keys that's why only your keys look clear and everything else is blurry. Try focusing it something else, like the middle of the screen. Auto focus does that to me sometimes. Nothing a good finger poke on the screen doesn't fix.

Post your 1020 pics!

I'll start it off:
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Timelapse Pro
I downloaded an app called Timelapse Pro to help me become a pro at, umm... time-lapse. Yeah. Well, Timelapse Pro failed. It needs to be updated so that the Lumia 1020 can take full control. See the test for yourself:
http://youtu.be/gcLwir7J9kY
That was taken from my balcony here in Seattle.

jjimenezjj said:
I downloaded an app called Timelapse Pro to help me become a pro at, umm... time-lapse. Yeah. Well, Timelapse Pro failed. It needs to be updated so that the Lumia 1020 can take full control. See the test for yourself:
(Link removed due to my account privileges.)
That was taken from my balcony here in Seattle.
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Incredible pictures! I must say how jealous I am of you guys in the states as we have to wait till the end of next month for this device. I am currently a Samsung Galaxy S3 user and have never used a Windows Phone 8 phone, I have checked the apps I use and have decided that I am getting the 1020 when it's released here in Europe.

I am a former Android junkie, owned (Google nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, Xperia S, HTC one X, Galaxy s3) and i jumped ship to Lumia 920 a month ago. I can still say with a smile on my face that thinking outside the box really helps, and i don't regret the change at all. Great device, great OS, great camera!! But Lumia 1020 has a breathtaking camera... It's now on my shortlist, and i will do whatever has to be done to get it when it will be released in Europe. Thaks for the pics, they really scream out loud that Lumia 1020 has by far the best mobile camera in the game...

I just bought LG Optimus G, but I'm sure that only when L1020 will come to my country (october probably) I'll buy it at day 1! I just fell in love with its camera.
Perfect quality and nice photos, dude!

Thanks for the comment guys! I hope you post your pics when you finally get your phones

lol
jjimenezjj said:
I downloaded an app called Timelapse Pro to help me become a pro at, umm... time-lapse. Yeah. Well, Timelapse Pro failed. It needs to be updated so that the Lumia 1020 can take full control. See the test for yourself:
http://youtu.be/gcLwir7J9kY
That was taken from my balcony here in Seattle.
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hy there..
i just watched ur video, erm did u edited it?
cause, well im unshure, but that aint a plane, jhahha
Look at 0:17 Sek. in the top right, theres a , um, well, something making a sharp turn and dunno, looks very strange..
Best start at 0:14 sek. and concentrate at the the top and then right u see what i mean.. haha
greetz BetA

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BetA3D said:
hy there..
i just watched ur video, erm did u edited it?
cause, well im unshure, but that aint a plane, jhahha
Look at 0:17 Sek. in the top right, theres a , um, well, something making a sharp turn and dunno, looks very strange..
Best start at 0:14 sek. and concentrate at the the top and then right u see what i mean.. haha
greetz BetA
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lol, that is indeed an airplay making a pretty wide turn, just looks sharp from a distance and sped up.

BetA3D said:
hy there..
i just watched ur video, erm did u edited it?
cause, well im unshure, but that aint a plane, jhahha
Look at 0:17 Sek. in the top right, theres a , um, well, something making a sharp turn and dunno, looks very strange..
Best start at 0:14 sek. and concentrate at the the top and then right u see what i mean.. haha
greetz BetA
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designgears said:
lol, that is indeed an airplay making a pretty wide turn, just looks sharp from a distance and sped up.
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He's right. Even though it looked sporadic, it was actually going slow. The video rendered 30 pics a second so that thing was going SUPER slow in reality.

Just messing around to learn the manual controls
5 bracketed HDR photo taken with my Lumia 1020. A little blurry, I was holding it without a grip or tripod
Full size
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=7AD100AA72C3C3F2!276&v=3

A little low light test
I went outside tonight and pointed my Lumia 1020 straight up. I sat it on the edge of my deck so I wouldn't move it and it captured this. Mind you it's not the best photo ever but this blew me away. THIS IS ON A PHONE!!!!

robamacaf said:
I went outside tonight and pointed my Lumia 1020 straight up. I sat it on the edge of my deck so I wouldn't move it and it captured this. Mind you it's not the best photo ever but this blew me away. THIS IS ON A PHONE!!!!
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That looks like the 5mp size file. This might not be the best camera for star pics with all the noise and streaking.

I shot this out my car window at a stop light. It might be the best photo I've ever taken, and it was with a PHONE!
Full res: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7420/9413470423_3281c908d5_o.jpg

...and also this sleepy boy. No flash, auto settings.

Wife and I stopped by a model home, then target, all pics taken on full auto. FYI, if you don't know the camera details:
6 element (5 plastic, 1 glass) F2.2 Zeiss lens, 41Mp multi-sampling sensor, LED flash for focus & Video, Zenon flash (same as real cameras) for pics & for more natural lighting.

Nice pics, guys! I have a few more low-light pics to share:
I hope you liked em'.
John J

Lobster Diving Off Miami

Hi.
My pictures sample taken with Lumia 1020
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjJ4TqMe

Shocked at photo quality

OK so im coming from a long line of iPhones and after getting bored of iOS this is my first venture into Samsung. I took this photo at the club I work at last night and seriously, what is going on here? The flash pics were pretty crap too, finding it very hard to focus after pressing the shutter.
p.s yes i know how to take good photos normally and no there isnt any plastic over the lens.
Here is the link to the full size image, zoom in yourself and look!! CLICK ON THIS LINK FOR FULL SIZE PIC
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Even that image is better than any iPhone I've seen, personally I've not had any problems with the camera although there are a few different types of modes that you can use while on the camera have you tried playing with them?
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H0rn said:
Even that image is better than any iPhone I've seen, personally I've not had any problems with the camera although there are a few different types of modes that you can use while on the camera have you tried playing with them?
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Sure, tried every mode available! Let me upload a similar iPhone 5 pic, hold on.

I also noticed the pictures weren't what I expected.
They tend to blur quite easily.
I'm hoping a software update will sort it.

It's a 13MP camera, you're either doing something wrong or your camera is bad.

vinokirk said:
I also noticed the pictures weren't what I expected.
They tend to blur quite easily.
I'm hoping a software update will sort it.
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I haven't used the camera too much but if there is any focus problems I'm guessing they can fix it that way.
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redpill2016 said:
It's a 13MP camera, you're either doing something wrong or your camera s ad.
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Definitely not doing something wrong lol, you can clearly see its actually a good picture in terms of light pickup its the smearing like an oil painting and thats nothing to do with the megapixels either

I agree with the poster, ive had many phones and by far the note 3 has the worst photo quality ever, im really dissapointed for a ~750 euro device to have such a bad camera. 13MP looks nice in the specs but numbers is not everything.
To me it looks like there is some kind compression on the image, maybe the firmware has some kind of compression method to keep the camera up to speed for zero shutter lag.
Hope samsung will look into this and give us an update in the camera firmware.

Thats weird.
In this post the camera pics are amazing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2462052

spridell said:
Thats weird.
In this post the camera pics are amazing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2462052
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Yes you are right, the bright and especialy daylight pictures are pretty nice, but when things get dark or far away they smudge out. You can see it happen in the bottom 2 pictures in that post, the last 2 are obviously lower quality than the flowers for example.

spridell said:
Thats weird.
In this post the camera pics are amazing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2462052
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Haha! That is taken by me.
Note 3 is the best phone camera I ever use, the photo quality is outstanding!

Andrewtst said:
Haha! That is taken by me.
Note 3 is the best phone camera I ever use, the photo quality is outstanding!
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Can u upload some more low level light pics?

spridell said:
Can u upload some more low level light pics?
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Here is some I post before - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45941670#post45941670 and also the differences between Smart Stabilisation ON/OFF.

Andrewtst said:
Here is some I post before - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45941670#post45941670 and also the differences between Smart Stabilisation ON/OFF.
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thanks for the link

What do you expect? The camera has a 1/3" sensor, a FX SLR has ~28 times the sensor area. This means that you would need 28 times the light (or time) to shoot a photo with same quality.
This is not possible because in the conditions where your photo was shot you would need a tripod and long exposure (which is not useable on moving objects) to make a photo which has comparable quality like an outdoor picture!
Anyhow, I have the N3 for one day now and I am happy with it so far, especially with the better camera!

djrm said:
Definitely not doing something wrong lol, you can clearly see its actually a good picture in terms of light pickup its the smearing like an oil painting and thats nothing to do with the megapixels either
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Well it does have to do with the megapixels because the more you have the less the typical blur will be visibly apparent as a result of movement, which seems to be the case here, whether that be movement by you or the subject.

redpill2016 said:
Well it does have to do with the megapixels because the more you have the less the typical blur will be visibly apparent as a result of movement, which seems to be the case here, whether that be movement by you or the subject.
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It isnt blur, it's the denoise that samsung is using. This is a software issue, among other things obviously. Whether or not they fix it I have no idea.

djrm said:
OK so im coming from a long line of iPhones and after getting bored of iOS this is my first venture into Samsung. I took this photo at the club I work at last night and seriously, what is going on here? The flash pics were pretty crap too, finding it very hard to focus after pressing the shutter.
p.s yes i know how to take good photos normally and no there isnt any plastic over the lens.
Here is the link to the full size image, zoom in yourself and look!! CLICK ON THIS LINK FOR FULL SIZE PIC
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What's wrong is there's too many fat ugly chicks at the club.
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Until manufacturers either quit trying to outdo each other with more megapixels on the same size sensor, lower the megapixels on the same size sensor (like HTC did with the One), or increase the sensor size (such as Apple just did with the 5s), low light photos are going to have more and more noise. The smaller the pixel, the less light it captures, which results in worse low light performance.

Here is the metadata for anyone interested .. It seems like the camera shot the picture in night mode
http://regex.info/exif.cgi?imgurl=http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/1652/qkly.jpg
here is a similar shot on a iphone 4s
http://regex.info/exif.cgi?dummy=on....com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/IMG_36372.jpg
iphone 5
http://regex.info/exif.cgi?dummy=on...nthemix.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/bild1.jpg
htc one
http://regex.info/exif.cgi?dummy=on...bemm.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/imag1352.jpg
night club shots are hard on any phone there are too many lights comings from odd directions.