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Anyone know of a decent zoom app that works with the nexus?

Camera Zoom FX works for zoom (paid)
FX Camera (search "ymst" in the market) is a great free camera but no zoom.
Zoom on the device is fake anyways (digital), so you can get the same results with better image quality if you use no zoom and post-crop.
Know-Fear said:
Anyone know of a decent zoom app that works with the nexus?
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It's true about the zooming. If you just use Picasa or Photoshop "zooming" will turn out better.
I have Camera Zoom FX and use it as my default. It's a great little app. Beyond "zooming" there are millions of useful options that the stock app lacks. There are also skins if that's your cup of tea. The only gripe is that there is no video within the app, but then again you buy it for its camera options..

Camera that dont take forever to load?

What is the best Android phone when it comes to pictures?
Looking for something that takes good quality pictures, but also loads the camera app quickly. I used to have a samsung a990, which had the twist and swivle screen, making the phone transform into a camera. it loaded the camera "app" almost instantly (compared to my android phone).
sharing the photos was also fast, just flip the phone back into phone layout mode and it was ready to send the photo, asking where it should go.
Is there a hope?

might be looking at the wrong platform for now. WP7 is soo much quicker at loading cameras

Camera 360. Really depends on your device though...

fast camera burst or camera zoom fx
imo camera zoom fx is the best!

HTC Sense 3.0 Camera

I was testing out the HDR options for this and they do not seem to do much at all. There is a difference, but it is VERY minor. I took a shot without HDR, one with HDR, and then one using the free HDR app, and the HDR app simply blew the HTC HDR mode completely out of the water...
Has anyone else had any experience with this? Is there something I may be missing?

HDR always seemed like something better left to photo editing software to me (like photoshop). Phone camera filters always seem kind of lackluster, but then again, none of us are taking professional shots with a cell camera I assume
On topic though, I wouldn't doubt it being better. Sense stuff isn't exactly always perfection as far as software quality and HDR was probably just an afterthought tied into the camera so they could tick off a notch somewhere on some sheet for features.

Absolutely the same as my experience. I used HDR Camera from the market before this (free), and I really loved its results. When I installed the 3.0 Sense camera and saw the HDR setting, I was happy until I tried it. My theory is that it is NOT taking multiple pictures, but only doing an image adjustment --->> NOT the same thing. HDR Camera doesn't have the issues that some of you described. You do not have to be rock steady and my phone is plenty fast enough to take the three photos within about a second. The image settings are also adjustable (color, etc.).
On the other hand, the panorama mode in the Sense camera is Awesome!

yareally said:
HDR always seemed like something better left to photo editing software to me (like photoshop). Phone camera filters always seem kind of lackluster, but then again, none of us are taking professional shots with a cell camera I assume
On topic though, I wouldn't doubt it being better. Sense stuff isn't exactly always perfection as far as software quality and HDR was probably just an afterthought tied into the camera so they could tick off a notch somewhere on some sheet for features.
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Software cannot do what HDR does. HDR takes 2 pictures, adjusting the gain on the sensor between low and high. It combines the best of both images to gain detail in low light areas and avoid over exposure in high light areas. Software will not work after the fact because the extra information gained from low/high gain is not present. Unfortunately the HDR option is poorly implemented by HTC. If you try HDR on the Iphone, you can see a drastic difference.

Actually, I use Pro HDR on my Evo, and it takes fantastic pictures in true HDR. It is a touch slower than a pro camera, but it does actually meter the scene and adjust the camera's aperture accordingly. It then allows for adjustments between the composite image and allows for saving the final as well as the source images, meaning you can do further editing elsewhere. Outside of some cropping, I haven't had problems.
With that said, I would be curious to know what the deal is with Sense. What's interesting is if you put it in HDR mode, it shows the little icon in the top right with multiple images...like whoever designed it at least understood how true HDR *should* operate. Then, if you push and release it instead of the regular shutter button, it beeps and you hear the lens go, and the image focuses itself. So...idk. I don't see a noticeable effect in the regular images at all...

Camera zoom in ics nexus s

Hi there youknow that there isnt zoom in gingerbread nexus s and i want to know will there be in ice cream sandwich?
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I don't think there will be.

There should be. Currently sent my Nexus s for repair so cant check but i watched a video demo in youtube and i think i saw there is zoom.

No, camera zoom will not be present in ICS but if you really want it Get Camera Zoom FX from market, it has digital zoom.

Romonster said:
No, camera zoom will not be present in ICS but if you really want it Get Camera Zoom FX from market, it has digital zoom.
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application you mentioned i have tried
i don't know how to say , it's just like you took a picture and then zoom in , it doesn't real zoom in like professional camera , it just zooms in like you looking at picture in the computer by use scroll wheel.
the picure which i took is fuzzy , exactly like you zoom in photo in computer at high rate !
sorry for my poor english , i don't know if i have made myself clear

qtwrk said:
application you mentioned i have tried
i don't know how to say , it's just like you took a picture and then zoom in , it doesn't real zoom in like professional camera , it just zooms in like you looking at picture in the computer by use scroll wheel.
the picure which i took is fuzzy , exactly like you zoom in photo in computer at high rate !
sorry for my poor english , i don't know if i have made myself clear
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That's the only kind of zoom you're going to get on a mobile phone in the near future. It's called digital zoom, and that's what pretty much all mobile phones (including Galaxy Nexus) have.

I think the feature will be available to only capable devices as far as i know our Nexus doesn't support zooming although it might be possible that in ICS they implemented digital zoom which is of less quality

There's no point in a digital zoom, you're simply cropping a section of a picture.
Without a lens that can zoom, there's no point in zooming.

I thought it was confirmed that the base firmware reports to the rest of the system that camera doesn't support any type of zooming, including digital on the Nexus S.
The Galaxy Nexus does though. Sometimes digital zoom is better than no zoom when you want to quickly focus on a particular subject and that you don't want to fiddle with desktop editing software.
deltatux

polobunny said:
There's no point in a digital zoom, you're simply cropping a section of a picture.
Without a lens that can zoom, there's no point in zooming.
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+1
well-said

[Q] 3rd party camera apps vs. stock

What's your experience on 3rd party camera apps such as Snap Camera, A better camera, Camera Zoom FX etc. in comparison to stock google cam app? Do they perform any better in point-and-shoot scenarios? Some of these apps recently got support for camera2 API on Nexus 5. Does that actually change anything except RAW support and 4k video recording?

I use "A Better Camera", and shoot in "Super" mode. I took several pictures with the google camera in various levels of light, on normal and HDR, and took the same with A Better Camera using normal, HDR, and Super. Super looks hands down the best. When zooming the pictures in all of the way, you can easily see that A Better Camera's pictures taken as Super contain the most detail and most accurate colors. A Better Camera's HDR also beats the stock camera HDR in detail. For low light A Better Camera destroys the Google Camera.
Edit: Also, A Better Camera focuses better than the stock camera, and doesn't need to refocus every several seconds.
I do not use any post processing.

DeathKoil said:
I use "A Better Camera", and shoot in "Super" mode. I took several pictures with the google camera in various levels of light, on normal and HDR, and took the same with A Better Camera using normal, HDR, and Super. Super looks hands down the best. When zooming the pictures in all of the way, you can easily see that A Better Camera's pictures taken as Super contain the most detail and most accurate colors. A Better Camera's HDR also beats the stock camera HDR in detail. For low light A Better Camera destroys the Google Camera.
Edit: Also, A Better Camera focuses better than the stock camera, and doesn't need to refocus every several seconds.
I do not use any post processing.
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Just have it a shot and your right!! Thanks for the suggestion!
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I installed it and it certainly takes a better picture, but I cannot find any "super" setting.
Where is the super setting?

You need premium

Also, do I need premium for it to zoom? I can't get it to zoom like the regular camera does.

You shouldn't need premium for the Super setting. Tap the circle at bottom right to get shooting mode settings, and Super should be the tile in the middle. For zoom, swipe down from the top to get the settings menu, tap More settings (at bottom), tap Viewfinder settings, tap More, and make sure Show zoom control is checked. Then, when you go back to the main (picture-taking) screen, swipe from left to right to bring the zoom slider out.

Thank you for the clear explanations.
I found the zoom control hidden on left. I had been trying to zoom using 2 finger stretch like in other apps but didn't work here.
But super is not there. I purchased the app but as you see in the screenshot there is no super.....

Odd... yours has Night where mine has Super (2nd screenshot). Super was there for me in the free version too.

Well, at least I'm not going blind.
I have the latest version. Just purchased it.

I thought I edited my post to say I'd figured it out, but something didn't save... anyway, if you are running Lollipop, pull down your settings menu, tap More settings, tap General Settings, tap More, then make sure Use Camera2 Interface is checked. Then you will have the Super option available. (If you're still running KitKat, that won't work since KK doesn't use the Camera2 interface.)

Thank you.
I'm still on kitkat. So no super mode. ?