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[Q] Camera Questions

Hi everybody, I have recieved my N5 2 weeks ago and Im loving it. The only problem I have is with the camera. Lets face it, the camera app is not so great and Im curious if there is a good replecement for it. I have a samsung galaxy s2 from almost 3 years ago with 8 megapixels and it takes much better pictures therefore I know it is the camera app, not the camera itself. Yes, Ive tried some camera apps from the play store but none of which I tried really work great. I am more curious in ports from the lg g2 or galaxy s2-4 if possible? What are the best alternatives or what is possible? Thanks.

powerplayer28 said:
Hi everybody, I have recieved my N5 2 weeks ago and Im loving it. The only problem I have is with the camera. Lets face it, the camera app is not so great and Im curious if there is a good replecement for it. I have a samsung galaxy s2 from almost 3 years ago with 8 megapixels and it takes much better pictures therefore I know it is the camera app, not the camera itself. Yes, Ive tried some camera apps from the play store but none of which I tried really work great. I am more curious in ports from the lg g2 or galaxy s2-4 if possible? What are the best alternatives or what is possible? Thanks.
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did you get the 4.4.2 update yet? made the camera much better. Zoom Fx is also a camera ap that has always done right by me

mb3030 said:
did you get the 4.4.2 update yet? made the camera much better. Zoom Fx is also a camera ap that has always done right by me
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Yes I did . My only problem is that I want to take fast action shots without blur and that isnt going so well........

mb3030 said:
did you get the 4.4.2 update yet? made the camera much better. Zoom Fx is also a camera ap that has always done right by me
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I will try Zoom FX and see how that works

the camera app is fine, no issues with it and taking fast and motion shots. maybe its something you need to learn?
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Were there any special settings you used?

powerplayer28 said:
Were there any special settings you used?
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ill adjust exposure occasionally, but rarely change anything. but i do not rely on autofocus, ever. i touch to focus where i want it focused. just pressing the button and getting a general focus is satisfactory, i like making sure what i want gets focused on.

Camera Artifact

Hi Everyone
I noticed that there's some kind of artifacts in pictures taken by my galaxy s6 ... What's the name of this artifact ... ? Does your s6 camera have this Artifact ? My S6 Sensor is sony imx240 ...
Here are samples :
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does anybody have this issue ? Is that normal or my s6 lens is defective ?

Does anyone have this issue ? Is it normal what kind of artifact is this ?

Take a photo of something else.
My old S6 Edge had a defective sensor where a blue artefact would show up. Samsung replaced the camera module without a question under warranty.

DaryllSwer said:
Take a photo of something else.
My old S6 Edge had a defective sensor where a blue artefact would show up. Samsung replaced the camera module without a question under warranty.
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I have taken the pictures of my keyboard LED if you have a keyboard please take some pictures of it's led and share it here ...
Tnx

Anonymous 6687 said:
I have taken the pictures of my keyboard LED if you have a keyboard please take some pictures of it's led and share it here ...
Tnx
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If you aren't willing to take a photo of something else, I'm not willing to help you. Considering the fact that taking a photo of the LED on a keyboard isn't really the greatest way to test a camera and it's pretty stupid. If anything, in that photo, that's just the camera's incapability to adjust the exposure properly, which could be reduced by enabling HDR. Which is why we have HDR in the first place.

DaryllSwer said:
If you aren't willing to take a photo of something else, I'm not willing to help you. Considering the fact that taking a photo of the LED on a keyboard isn't really the greatest way to test a camera and it's pretty stupid. If anything, in that photo, that's just the camera's incapability to adjust the exposure properly, which could be reduced by enabling HDR. Which is why we have HDR in the first place.
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Ok thank you so much and bye

@MikeChannon, considering closing this thread down. OP seems to have been mistaken about an issue that doesn't exist.

It is just a case of dirty camera lens glass. Just wipe it with a cotton rug and you will be good to go.

silent_freak said:
It is just a case of dirty camera lens glass. Just wipe it with a cotton rug and you will be good to go.
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The lens is clean, I think it's due to f1.9 aperture

Strange problem with camera

I noticed some strange phenomenon with my Mate 9 camera - it looks like pictures come out blurry if the phone is tilted upwards / downwards after focus has been locked.
Could someone try to reproduce the problem?
The instructions are as follows:
1. set the camera to pro mode and Manual focus.
2. hold the camera normally in portrait position
3. compose with some distant subject in the middle
4. press on the subject to focus on it
5. press the shutter button to take a picture.
6. tilt the camera upwards/downwards (while keeping the subject in the frame). Do not refocus.
7. press the shutter button to take a picture.
In my case, the picture that I get from step 5 is perfectly sharp, while the picture I get from step 7 is very blurry.
It's important not to refocus after step 6. If I refocus at that point, the picture from step 7 comes out fine.
I noticed this accidentally when I tried to take a vertical panorama and saw that the image gets less and less sharp the more I tilt the camera vertically. Example of such result:
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Some observations:
1. It doesn't matter if I'm holding the camera in portrait or in landscape mode; Tilting it upwards / downwards after focus was locked makes the output blurry.
2. The more I tilt it, the blurrier the output gets.
3. The problem appears only when the camera is tilted vertically. Tilting it horizontally is fine. So normal panoramas come out OK, but vertical panoramas do not.
4. The problem appears in both Color mode and Monochrome mode (when only 1 camera/lens module is in use). So at least I know that the problem is not related to the optical image stabilizer (that only the color camera has) or to alignment between the two cameras.
5. It is not a narrow depth-of-field issue: the subjects I checked are very far away from the camera, and basically everything should be in focus. Furthermore, the distance between the camera and the subject is held pretty much constant and still - in one picture they come out sharp, while in another, after tilting the camera upwards/downwards, they come out blurry.
Help to reproduce the problem and to understand it will be appreciated.

Tilt Shift
Wow, that photo looks almost like a tilt-shift photo! Not what you were wanting, but pretty cool looking.
https://iphonephotographyschool.com/tilt-shift/

p51d007 said:
Wow, that photo looks almost like a tilt-shift photo! Not what you were wanting, but pretty cool looking.
Indeed.
Do you happen to have this phone?
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assaft said:
p51d007 said:
Wow, that photo looks almost like a tilt-shift photo! Not what you were wanting, but pretty cool looking.
Indeed.
Do you happen to have this phone?
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Yes I do, but I haven't even thought about trying to mimic tilt shift
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p51d007 said:
assaft said:
Yes I do, but I haven't even thought about trying to mimic tilt shift
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Neither do I
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Hi, I am facing the same problem, do you have a solution? Is this a software bug or am I doing something wrong?
I this is a bug, I dont understand, why I only find your concern via google...
Even on EMUI9 I have still this blurry vertical panorama issue

Weird camera bug

Hey xda forums, not sure exactly where else I could post this as this seems like a weird software bug.
The problem is the cameras; they are not working as they should. The main lens apparently does not exist, and the cameras are glitched to the point where only the telephoto lens appears on one side (with it having the ultrawide icon and apparent 0.6x magnification when in reality it is using the telephoto lens zoomed in as normal)
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By pressing the "flip cameras" button, the flipping mechanism does not work. However, the view is flipped 180° and suddenly the ultrawide lens appears! (Disguised as telephoto lens on the app and apparent 3x zoom when it actually is just the ultrawide lens working normally). I would need to manually adjust the flip camera tool to have the camera flip out to me. Also, when taking a picture the app just crashes, and no picture is taken.
The problem also exists in other applications. Snapchat only uses the wide angle lens. However, pressing the flip cameras button does trigger the flip mechanism; a problem here is that the cameras are 180° (upside down).
When using the flashlight feature from the notifications bar, the flashlight turns on and immediately the camera flips, blinding me with the flashlight facing me lol
Anybody have any suggestions on what to do?
Things i noticed before this happened was an error message "The cameras are being used by another application. Please try later". When this message started appearing, all 3 cameras were viewable in the camera app, but when flipping the camera, the app would crash if i tried to flip with the main lens. This lasted for about a week, then the camera app degraded to what I have just described
Things I have tried are:
- Use an alternative camera, such as GCam (won't open, immediately crashes)
- Safe mode
- Factory reset
- Install TWRP and Magisk, advanced wipe and download the ROM off asus website (The ROM which my phone came with as the cameras were working normally for about a month before this happened)
- Install another version of AsusCamera (internet or make backups of system/priv-apps/AsusCamera onto an SD Card and then install)
None of these seem to work. If anyone could help that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

This forum looks dead for Zenfone 7/7 Pro. Try here:
https://zentalk.asus.com/en/categories/zenfone-7-series

antykat said:
This forum looks dead for Zenfone 7 Pro. Try here:
https://zentalk.asus.com/en/categories/zenfone-7-series
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Thanks, i'll post it there too

I saw a similar article;
Cant use my cameras
Hello everyone ! i have problems with my camera, first of all when i tried to take pictures , it freeze at blackscreen and error message: other aplication is using camera. After factory reset, same thing. Tried flash my phone , then camera opens and there is only 0.6x camera, on slefie mode it...
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And the only response was to contact for repair. Is there any chance by software that this can be fixed?

Question macro camera shots?

i'm looking for a phone with a good macro camera to view and take shots of PCB surface mount components. (resistors etc)
looking at the Moto G Stylus G5 since it's macro camera is 5MP. however none of the reviews i've seen include macro shots.
dear reviewers... just because YOU don't have a need for a macro camera, don't assume it's the same for others.
can some owners be kind enough to post some macro shots please?
the closer to an object the better.

A little late but the moto g stylus 5g (original quad lens model) has awful macro shots so hopefully you were able to find something else.
The main rear camera quality is pretty decent at least.
The issue is with the dedicated macro lens, it's really hard to get a good focus on your subject since the lens is fixed focus, so no tap to focus. It's kind of boggling to be honest. I ended up just never using macro mode on the phone and use the main rear cam lens for close up shots.

mathesar said:
A little late but the moto g stylus 5g (original quad lens model) has awful macro shots so hopefully you were able to find something else.
The main rear camera quality is pretty decent at least.
The issue is with the dedicated macro lens, it's really hard to get a good focus on your subject since the lens is fixed focus, so no tap to focus. It's kind of boggling to be honest. I ended up just never using macro mode on the phone and use the main rear cam lens for close up shots.
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many thanks for the info. i've ended up using an old Galaxy S5 (not as a phone) which does a good job at close work.
i can clearly read the surface mount resistor 18R0 (18Ω)
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i may break down and get a dedicated macro image device as i'm getting tired of trying to find 'the one' ungoogled phone.
thanks again. cheers