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Better camera app for panoramic shots on HD2?

is there a camera app that has a better panoramic feature than the one that's already built into the HD2? the one that's with the factory camera app doesn't stitch together well. Auto stitching would be great.

Agree on that, "autostitching" should realy be standard. Almost impossible to make a perfect panoramic photo atm...

I really hope someone can make an app with auto stitching cause the HD2 takes beautiful pictures. So having a panoramic feature that actually works right would make it 100x better

Best solution is take individual photos that overlap, transfer to PC, then make panoramas with one of the many progs available for desktop.

I concur. In fact, the best panorama software I had the pleasure to use was (believe it or not) windows live photo gallery.
Here are some examples I had shot with my Canon 720IS...
I challenge you to find any seems, the image was made of 8 images stitched together.
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chvvkumar said:
I concur. In fact, the best panorama software I had the pleasure to use was (believe it or not) windows live photo gallery.
Here are some examples I had shot with my Canon 720IS...
I challenge you to find any seems, the image was made of 8 images stitched together.
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Oh, that's easy to find seems in that picture
Bottom left, something wrong with the tiles on the floor and the handrail/(other english expression for it).
Also, look at the trees from right to left, you'll notice something on the far right side, colours are different too
But that's a pretty good result for Windows Live Photo Gallery!
I still use Photomerge in Photoshop for making panoramas though.
I haven't seen any camera program on a mobile phone do some good stitching and I don't think they are capable of stitching a XX MPix-Pano together well...
I'd be happy if anyone could prove me wrong on this!
Regards,
Lukas

xILukasIx said:
Oh, that's easy to find seems in that picture
Bottom left, something wrong with the tiles on the floor and the handrail/(other english expression for it).
Also, look at the trees from right to left, you'll notice something on the far right side, colours are different too
But that's a pretty good result for Windows Live Photo Gallery!
I still use Photomerge in Photoshop for making panoramas though.
I haven't seen any camera program on a mobile phone do some good stitching and I don't think they are capable of stitching a XX MPix-Pano together well...
I'd be happy if anyone could prove me wrong on this!
Regards,
Lukas
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You got me!!! (though, I still can't seem to find the tree anomaly that you speak of )
As for the colour correction, the source images did not go through any post processing, they were straight from the camera (in full manual with preset white balance, exposure compensation, shutter speed, aperture as well as ISO) I guess the colour variation might be the result of the weird angle of the sun
But, I guess that would be 'good enough' for 99% of users here.
Also, if you are using a mobile for creating panoramic images, that would be the least of your problems.

My wifes iPhone has pretty good app. It's called "auto stitch". It actually works pretty well. Oh well i guess if there's no mobile app for the HD2 I guess I will make panaramic images with PhotoShop. Would be nice to just have it done right on the phone.

Are you looking for something that shows you markers whilst you take the pic, or just something that can stitch pics together?
I think one of the problems is HTC's camera driver (which you'd need access to to write such an app) is a bit of a closed cupboard for developers It's easy in code to access the images after they've been taken (so it would be possible to have an app thatt could stitch existing photos), but not easy (impossible?) to access the real-time video feed bit so that you could overlay stitching markers whilst taking the pics. If you do it the way you're meant to in code I think you get a really low-res version of it from what I've read. Probably HTC being lazy (getting it to work for them but not for any developers). Shame as I reckon we'd have a few iphone-esque augmented reality type apps if things were a bit clearer on that front
James

I found a way to get pano pic´s on the HTC HD2!
Just install this cab... i tried to put it to work and it didn´t worked... I uninstalled it and after it keep on working fine...

I tried the above cab on my HD2
and in panarama mode it takes a very light/bright first image then freezes and reboots the phone in about 30 seconds. Just FYI.

Strange, because i having enabled panoramic photo function by my own registry mod and this mode working very good (of curse best results are when we set light, ISO etc. manualy).
Unfortunely panoramic photos maked in this mode having low resolution, so i suggest is better take few normal photos in different sides and join in some piece of software in PC, because this give much better results.

Captivate's Camera

What up guys..just got my Samsung captivate this week..but I'm not new to android scene.. (all hail ANDROID)...I have my personal cell a moto Droid.. and I had a nexus one, which I lost/got stolen
I missed my Nexus one..until yestarday..I was playing around with the camera app the captivate comes with and I found something that made my day...the PANORAMA MODE!!!!!
I have to say guys...so many extras..so many settings..so many modes...
thank you samsung..I always had choosen my moto droid over my nexus one..but now I have a new favorite ..

yeah the camera is hella good. man, especially the 720p recording!

I thought panoramic was awesome too.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Remember to apply all the appropiate mods, and fixes to get your phone running 400% faster even though froyo's not even out yet!
This phone is stupid fast.

The panarama is better than any I tried before.the fact u don't have to snap each picture is ap plus
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

my phone says 0.3M with a rectabgular shape around it kind of at the top left of the camera screen. any idea what that means?

,3M means 0.3 megapixels...thats probably the only downside..but the picture still looks great!!
I removed the twiz or whatever is called home app..and deleted all crapware..and yes..is really fast....faster than froyo on nexus one..I can believe is running android 2.1....what other mods can I install??

thindery said:
my phone says 0.3M with a rectabgular shape around it kind of at the top left of the camera screen. any idea what that means?
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Thats your camera's resolution. Change it by going into the camera settings....

well first read up on the pimp my captivate guide
http://www.multiupload.com/4X0O96JYTV
it'll explain the basics for backing up, nandroid, etc.
But here's my set-up:
Flashed stock JH2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7614957&postcount=6
(How to flash tut = here) Basically shows you how to access dl mode.
First download all the files for the JH2 (the firm, tar, and pit) then you must have odin running first, select the tar, and pit file in their respective directory and extracting. THEN you enable download mode in phone.
After you have stock JH2
SRE 1.0
here
Roots, overclock, integrated wireless hotspot/usb tethering, market fix, lag fix, ad block, market uncensor, allows you to install apks directly from phone, removes att crapware, and boot animation, adds fonts, and gps fix.
After all's ready, enjoy your amazing fast phone (Raped my friend's evo nasty)

This is from the Vibrant forum. They have the panorama feature as well.
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All of this is done INSIDE the phone. No post processing or anything needed. Press a button one time, just follow the green box and your done. Samsung makes real digital cameras by the way.
You can also make action shots when you select the action mode. Not sure if the Captivate has this:

I cant seem to change the resolution in panoramic mode

I believe thats normal. Having a higher pixel count might lead to massive picture sizes and would probably cause a problem for the phone imho.

Belaflek said:
I cant seem to change the resolution in panoramic mode
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Its resolution is fixed to 0.3 mp.

ConceptVBS said:
This is from the Vibrant forum. They have the panorama feature as well.
All of this is done INSIDE the phone. No post processing or anything needed. Press a button one time, just follow the green box and your done. Samsung makes real digital cameras by the way.
You can also make action shots when you select the action mode. Not sure if the Captivate has this:
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OMG!!! Do they have panoramic with a higher res or is that at the .3 mp res?

tytdfn said:
OMG!!! Do they have panoramic with a higher res or is that at the .3 mp res?
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I believe its the same 0.3mp

All cameras even high end sony digital cameras when shooting panaroma shoot in a lower then their native.

No big deal..ill use my 7d for that

Photostitch lets you make panoramas with a much higher res but you have to manually snap each shot. Anyone had success with vertical panorama shots?

I love the camera on the Captivate. It blows my old iPhone camera away. These pics aren’t the best, but its more than capable of performing well. The detail is amazing especially when viewing on the phone.

I took this panoramic today, was pretty excited to mess around with it
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Discovered 3D gallery in 2.1

So I was playing with LauncherPro and discovered there's a 3D gallery in the phone now, and it is much much more sleek than mediascape.
When LauncherPro was set as the default home, press the menu button, preferences, Appearance Settings, Dock Background, select custom, and then the 3d gallery appears!!
Anyone know how to access this gallery without all those annoying steps, and use it like a regular app? Screenshots are posted here:
http://www.xperiax10.net/2010/10/26/leaked-eclair-xperia-x10-screenshots-hit-web/
(Bottom row, far right)

I saw this last night when i was playing around with the picture frame widget...looks pretty good

long press screen, then shortcuts, activities, then select gallery. Easy peasy

i also saw it last night and it really amazed me, quite fast and looks really good

themoog said:
long press screen, then shortcuts, activities, then select gallery. Easy peasy
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I dont see activites in the list??

you must have launcher pro if i'm not mistaken

17mayis said:
I dont see activites in the list??
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Hmm, wot version you using, im using Launcher Pro Plus v0800

themoog said:
long press screen, then shortcuts, activities, then select gallery. Easy peasy
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Yes works great!! Thanks a lot!
Edit: I'm using v0.8.1.1, downloaded it last night off the market

Have a look in the themes and apps section look for a post titled "Gallery and Music Launcher for Xperia X10 2.1", some nice fellow has made an app

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=826311
here ya go

Yeah, I love this gallery.
Two questions:
1. Is there a way to add it to the app drawer in LauncherPro?
2. It doesn't really seem that 3d, as the only time it tilts to show the wall is when I reach the end. What am I doing wrong? I've used Cooliris and know how it should work.

Gallery 3D is only the name, its an CoolIris gallery.
The 3D parts is only when you scroll horizontally in the collections.
No actual 3D presentation more than that.

xeviro said:
Gallery 3D is only the name, its an CoolIris gallery.
The 3D parts is only when you scroll horizontally in the collections.
No actual 3D presentation more than that.
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I get that. I've used Cooliris in Chrome on my PC.
It's kind of hard to describe, but when I pan across my galleries (either using either a swipe motion or the slide scroller at the bottom of the app) they simply scroll by flat. The "wall" doesn't tilt away from the point of view and pan across at a perspective angle as it does in Cooliris. The only time I see the "wall" perspective effect, is when I reach the end of the gallery and try to pan further.
Using readily available online images as an example, this is what I expect to see::
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
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"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
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Whereas this is what I actually see:

Very true. Lol.. this question should be forwared to CoolIris forum instead. The other funny thing is that when you tilt your phone, the gallery is also tilted.

xeviro said:
Very true. Lol.. this question should be forwared to CoolIris forum instead. The other funny thing is that when you tilt your phone, the gallery is also tilted.
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OK. Interesting. I hadn't noticed the phone tilt thing. Cool, though less useful IMO than tilting the wall when you scroll.

This is what I see from my phone....the screenshot was taken from my phone..

Whoo. Nexus gallery. Love it.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=826311
Shortcut apps made by me

it looks great

themoog said:
long press screen, then shortcuts, activities, then select gallery. Easy peasy
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SWEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!! I so love the 3D Gallery!

Someone post photo samples! :)

As some of our friends have their one s now, we're waiting to see for some photos taken by One S, right ?

Yes, yes we are

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More pics:
http://i39.tinypic.com/309r3tl.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/34tcown.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/zme52u.jpg

Thanks for the photos. but photos seem blurry, why is quality lacking?

Here are some pictures I made:
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120405/tzstfyt9.jpg
http://s1.directupload.net/images/120405/83ckfknt.jpg
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120405/c6p8n7li.jpg
http://s1.directupload.net/images/120405/jwrwqn9v.jpg
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120405/5pt4uyrh.jpg

^ you should really resize the pictures.
I'm not sure the camera quality is as good as HTC wanted us to believe in the launch event... way better than what my Desire delivers, but by far not the best smartphone pictures I've seen. Hm.

ok I just post the links, thought there would be something like thumbnails

@Leviathan2k: not sure about you, but they don't look blurry to me...then that might be due to me being on my cell & not my desktop
Sent from my stock, rooted LG-P999WA using XDA Premium

I can only see the blur on full-size images, not if they are scaled down to a reasonable size. I guess it's OK quality for a phone... but my very old, cheap 7.2MP Sony camera shoots much better images. Not so good at sharing the images or doing anything at all with them, however

The camera was one of the things that interested me about this phone. I take a LOT of pictures. what other tmobile phones have really good cameras?

ossy1337 said:
Here are some pictures I made:
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120405/tzstfyt9.jpg
http://s1.directupload.net/images/120405/83ckfknt.jpg
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120405/c6p8n7li.jpg
http://s1.directupload.net/images/120405/jwrwqn9v.jpg
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120405/5pt4uyrh.jpg
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quite nice picture.

ossy1337 said:
Here are some pictures I made:
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120405/tzstfyt9.jpg
http://s1.directupload.net/images/120405/83ckfknt.jpg
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120405/c6p8n7li.jpg
http://s1.directupload.net/images/120405/jwrwqn9v.jpg
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120405/5pt4uyrh.jpg
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These look absolutely brilliant! Something i noticed, when viewed at full resolution there seems to be much less post processing than photo samples i've seen in reviews. Did you by any chance disable or reduce sharpness in the settings?

Wow, you just sold me on this phone. Great pics....
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA

ossy1337 said:
Here are some pictures I made:
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120405/tzstfyt9.jpg
http://s1.directupload.net/images/120405/83ckfknt.jpg
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120405/c6p8n7li.jpg
http://s1.directupload.net/images/120405/jwrwqn9v.jpg
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120405/5pt4uyrh.jpg
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These ones look amazing. Nice colours, nice shots. Much better than sensation on colour.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA

Here is a batch of my first few outdoor shots, notice I am not a good photographer at all (no good eye for the motives etc.).
The pics are unresized, sizing down would be pointless if you want to find out about how the camera performs IMO. Those were shot on general standard settings, with only face detection turned off. Some are "best shot takes" from burst mode, some singles, some panoramas.
http://s7.directupload.net/file/d/2854/xzrf2m3v_jpg.htm
http://s14.directupload.net/file/d/2854/374d35il_jpg.htm
http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/2854/29aoekyk_jpg.htm
^^^ Single Shots
http://i.imgur.com/wGM7K.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ygMl0.jpg
^^^ One 3shot and one 5shot panorama which were >4MB so i resorted to imgur. I am not sure if they resize the pics after upload or not.
http://s7.directupload.net/file/d/2854/zceh66zg_jpg.htm
http://s7.directupload.net/file/d/2854/43rz7xju_jpg.htm
^^^ Two burst mode "best pick shot" selected on the phones thumbs.
http://i.imgur.com/sRTU1.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/mxQ0s.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/AmgOo.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/c2rMo.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qhcbn.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/trBlb.jpg
^^^ Two three shot bursts with all pics included. It could be just me but it seems that the colors look "duller" on some bursts for some reason.
http://i.imgur.com/DN5X5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/JgumO.jpg
^^^ Two shot burst both pics with much brighter colors.
http://s14.directupload.net/file/d/2854/skoblstj_jpg.htm
^^^ Last but not least, burst mode single pick done on the notebook instead of the phone itself.
Sorry for not having a high variety of motives... It was just a quick test run anyways

They did improve quality. Not has good as my sony hx5v.
But for picture that was taken with a phone it is perfect.
Now you can use it for vacation picture not only to send MMS.
Thanks for the samples !

the macro shots are quite awesome for a phone

jodue said:
the macro shots are quite awesome for a phone
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Agreed. That looks great!

my pizzaView attachment 1011911

F-stop and shutter speed
I noticed that on all the pictures I take on the HTC One S, none of them report out a f-stop, shutter speed - at least not in windows explorer. Any idea how I can get to this data?

Instagram on Android- Picture Quality ***Fixed in 4.1 and alternate fix on page 7***

Hi, I know a lot of you hate on Instagram so please move on.
I was looking at my pictures and found that Instagram was destroying my pictures a little bit in excess of what I would normally find respectable for such a software.
So today I took a picture I shot with my 5DMKII (DSLR) and did the following...
I took my I9300, open instagram, applied no filter and this is what came out:
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"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
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Then I used a iPod 4th gen I got today for cheap and did the SAME thing, this is what came out:
WTF is wrong with the Android app ? Is this a SGSIII issue or is everyone on Android affected. This is really horrible.
This is the same picture using Eyeem : http://www.eyeem.com/thumb/h/682/5555a77bfa5ad9e6b13e91398485d5b6b188f2b0-1347659393
This is the original picture I used : http://goo.gl/hMun0

Err is it my eyes? I don't see any differences bro, could you describe it on words?
Sent from my LG-P940

i see that the picture from the ipod comes out sharper, as you can see it looks less pixelated.
I've come across this at one point in my own head, like maybe its an android affected problem.

I, too, have noticed this, and am starting to believe a conspiracy is growing. My pictures look incredible on my phone, then once I upload them to instagram....its pixelated. I have found that screenshots are even worse.
Maybe, its the type of image it gets saved as in the phones directory. Can anyone confirm this?
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda app-developers app

I believe it's a compression issue
Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

saiz136 said:
Err is it my eyes? I don't see any differences bro, could you describe it on words?
Sent from my LG-P940
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Look at it on a computer. Full size. It's horrible the Instagram pictures have jagged edges all over the picture.

Instagram app for android uploads a crappy downsized version of the modified original. What I do is go to the Instagram folder with my favorite gallery browser where you'll find the hi-res version and upload that one instead.

polobunny said:
Instagram app for android uploads a crappy downsized version of the modified original. What I do is go to the Instagram folder with my favorite gallery browser where you'll find the hi-res version and upload that one instead.
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Ok you mean, after editing the image before uploading it to Instagram, i should cancel it then uploads the saved Instagram image and upload that one instead??
Sent from my LG-P940

polobunny said:
Instagram app for android uploads a crappy downsized version of the modified original. What I do is go to the Instagram folder with my favorite gallery browser where you'll find the hi-res version and upload that one instead.
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The quality of that one still sucks and is not on par with the iOS version.

I've sent an email to instagram, will see what they have to say.

what about taking it with the normal camera app? that way we can see if they are helping iOS

I have noticed that too. It sucks makes my edits look horrible.
Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda app-developers app

I think that a lot of apps are gonna be better on ios because they only got one phone to work with as oppose to android.. so many freakin phones that do the same things.
DMolina ツ

Plain and simple, Instagram on android is useless. It ruins every pic it touches.
Sent from my XperiaS via transwarp conduit.

Ok. I have seen the BIG difference. I used my wife's iPhone4S and mine, uploaded the same image shot in my phone and guess what, a bit disappointment for my phone, as if my camera is just a 3.5-5.0MP camera? And the one I uploaded on the 4S was the original quality of my phone which is an 8.0MP.
Ok Instagram you must fix this, my wife is now insulting me right now!:banghead:
Sent from my LG-P940

alankstiyo said:
what about taking it with the normal camera app? that way we can see if they are helping iOS
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What's the point ?
saiz136 said:
Ok. I have seen the BIG difference. I used my wife's iPhone4S and mine, uploaded the same image shot in my phone and guess what, a bit disappointment for my phone, as if my camera is just a 3.5-5.0MP camera? And the one I uploaded on the 4S was the original quality of my phone which is an 8.0MP.
Ok Instagram you must fix this, my wife is now insulting me right now!:banghead:
Sent from my LG-P940
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Yeah it's a shame that no big blogs are speaking about this IMO. This is one major issue on a major app.
The issue is motly with aliasing it seems, I'm no dev but I have a hard time understand why this would happen.
Still waiting for Instagrams answers.

By the way the result is the same on my TF201 and my Girlfriends HTC One X.

I indeed have noticed the horrible image quality when uploading pics from my Galaxy Note, whether they are pics I've taken with my phone, or pics I made on my PC, quality is unacceptable!
Instagram, even if you have to charge $1 for a PRO version of your app, as long as the images weren't "destroyed" by compression, I'd gladly pay for it!

This was actually fixed with version 3.2.0 released today.
This was process on Android with 3.2.0 on both my Prime and I9300 the output is the same :
I also just posted this image from my DSLR and it's perfect.
(From Instagrams servers)
Yippppppiie!!

CasseTrop said:
This was actually fixed with version 3.2.0 released today.
This was process on Android with 3.2.0 on both my Prime and I9300 the output is the same :
I also just posted this image from my DSLR and it's perfect.
(From Instagrams servers)
Yippppppiie!!
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Glad to see that Instagram for Android is getting some love from the developers!
The pictures look gorgeous!