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Camera 360 works much better then stock cam software.

So I took some pics with different settings in Camera 360 program. I forgot what the settings I selected were but its pretty much all of them.
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This was all done on the phone. No computer side processing.
Oh P.S. these are all seprate pics of the same thing.

better because it has some extra filters?
take some long distance shots with the default camera app, then take the same shot with camera 360, and we'll see which picture looks sharper.

Berserk87 said:
better because it has some extra filters?
take some long distance shots with the default camera app, then take the same shot with camera 360, and we'll see which picture looks sharper.
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Will do in the morning

Yeah, I've taken pictures just as good of close-up flowers with the stock camera app. Those look great though! The camera is pretty excellent on the Captivate IMO.

Some of those filters look fantastic!!
/downloading camera360

for some reason i find that my camera is sub-par.. pictures always come out blurry even though i am very steady. i will try camera 360 and hopefully it will help

So what color is the flower supposed to be? Purple or Red. I'd say that only one of those photos looks good. I think the one where its red looks good, the leaves look a good solid green. The rest look kind of like "neon" lights or something.

I find that my Touch Pro w/ it's 3.2MP camera takes sharper photos than the captivate does indoors. I have a 30" monitor so I can actually verify if the camera is keeping up with the horizontal resolution of 2560. I would rate the effective pixel resolution only at like 2.5MP for the captivate. I would say the rest of the 2.5MP seem extrapolated w/ noise.
While YellowGTO's shots look good, we must remember that they are downsized. I tried out camera 360 as well. But imo that application only applies some digital filters to beef up the picture - I can do this w/ picasa. In the end TP's shots blow those of captivate to dust. Captivate lacks refinement.
Engadget did say that the camera quality is better on the vibrant than it is in the captivate. It would be nice if someone who also has access to the vibrant or the i9000 can compare the refinement abilities.

looks awesome!!!

Does this app let you use the camera on a low battery (unlike the stock)?

Those all look severly over saturated to my eye.

hokiemoto said:
Does this app let you use the camera on a low battery (unlike the stock)?
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Yes it does.

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Yes it does.
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Which is one of the main advantages of this program. I also like Fxcamera, though the pictures quality looks far worse on the computer than when viewed on the phone.

Camera replacement? Want ISO

Is there a camera replacement that lets me specify the ISO?

I read something about the Desire camera apk but can't find much more info. Anyone know anything?

Heh, what do you know! That isn't adjustable either!
I tried 3 camera apps and no luck

herbthehammer said:
Heh, what do you know! That isn't adjustable either!
I tried 3 camera apps and no luck
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I haven't found any great camera aps for the Nexus S.
I use Camera 360 for it's HDR feature, but it's not ideal: it doesn't offer 16x9 option, the HDR is so-so and you have to keep the stock camera for video.
And of course, I wish someone would figure out how to get 720p video from the Nexus S.

MacGuy2006 said:
I haven't found any great camera aps for the Nexus S.
I use Camera 360 for it's HDR feature, but it's not ideal: it doesn't offer 16x9 option, the HDR is so-so and you have to keep the stock camera for video.
And of course, I wish someone would figure out how to get 720p video from the Nexus S.
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I care a lot less about 720p video than manual ISO. Cranking the ISO can really help get much better pictures in low light. I used my Evo to take some incredible photos of Iron Maiden in concert at the Garden, but I had to shoot at ISO 800 for it. On Auto they were just too blurry.

jonnythan said:
I care a lot less about 720p video than manual ISO. Cranking the ISO can really help get much better pictures in low light. I used my Evo to take some incredible photos of Iron Maiden in concert at the Garden, but I had to shoot at ISO 800 for it. On Auto they were just too blurry.
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Heh, to each their own.... But the fact is still that there isn't a great camera app which does anything truly useful that the stock camera doesn't.
BTW, how did the pics look on a big screen at ISO 800? Did you get tons of noise, or were the shots useful?

Large images, but it doesn't seem the thread is good for much else anyway
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That was done with an evo? You have to have a steady hand too with low light. I certainly can't do it.

Yup. In the pit. The pics at auto ISO were just blurs.

[Q] camera quality [SOLVED BY FACTORY RESET]

Hi everybody,
lately I've been very not satisfied with the quality of photos from my sensation,
I'll upload three examples and explain afterwards:
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basically in all photos the sharpness is very poor, in the first photo you can see my face is very much blurred and in the second photo the whole forest is very blurred, also my car looks blurred and the colors are very weak..
in the third one you can see the structure is smudged and very blurred as well as can be seen best on it's lower left side.
some info -
sensation is not rooted and has the 2.3.4 update.
photos were taken with auto settings.
tried setting the ISO to 100 and all the way up, the blurriness is present still.
camera is set to 8 MP.
car photo weighs 1.65 MB, mine weighs 704KB and the third ones weighs 354KB.
restarted the phone several times.
reset the camera settings.
*cleaned the lens only after taking these photos but it wasn't foggy or dirty.
I get this blurriness when taking pictures outside at daytime or in sunset, photos at night are really terrible and look like they were taken with a 10 year old nokia crap.
sometimes I can get really nice photos, macro looks great, took a photo in my garage of the concrete ground with water on it in low light conditions and came out nice.
photo of the car was taken an hour before sunset with quite sunlight outside, did not use flash, and all of the photos in that session came out blurry and very low quality.
thoughts???
P.S. I'll add the original photos to the thread too, the blurriness can be seen better in the originals.

Try to play with some setting ect. download a couple of camera app's from the market, and play with those settings.

HTC compresses the photos a lot for some reason, that's why they come out bad at times. You might want to try a camera mod.

HTCs seem to always have this white washed out picture look.
Even my HTC hero did not produce images this bad D:

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Factory reset solved the quality issue, camera now again takes amazing photos

FACTORY reset of all phone or ??
I have same problem, but I don't want to wipe all

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FACTORY reset of all phone or ??
I have same problem, but I don't want to wipe all
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Yeah.. I used the 'factory data reset' in settings > sd and phone storage.
shouldn't be too much of a hassle, just make a list of your most important stuff and re-install it.. a factory reset does only good I'm very pleased with the phone now, even more than before

I need to try a reset I think. The photos taken with my XE are shockingly bad, so much so that I'm wondering if I have a duff camera.

Yeah that's exactly the blurriness I was experiencing, try a hard reset and let me know if that helped.
Take in mind that the sensation's caera does decode the pictures to a mind blowing small size photo so maybe that's the issue..

Well, it hasn't helped, worth a try though.

Camera Quality on Moto G - is it really this bad?

So I bought a camera for my wife, and we're really unhappy with the camera - I read reviews indicating it was average but compared to loads of the sample shots seen online, appear to be way below what is acceptable
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This was taken a few minutes ago - but clearly shows the quality issues...
Is it really as bad as this? Other people seem to be getting very reasonable results!
Thanks for taking the time to read and hopefully reply.

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So I bought a camera for my wife, and we're really unhappy with the camera - I read reviews indicating it was average but compared to loads of the sample shots seen online, appear to be way below what is acceptable
This was taken a few minutes ago - but clearly shows the quality issues...
Is it really as bad as this? Other people seem to be getting very reasonable results!
Thanks for taking the time to read and hopefully reply.
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If you're the kind of person who knows enough to know what to look for to depict if a camera is bad or not than it's probably not what you're looking
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Looks way too soft for an outdoor shot. Make sure there isn't any sweat or oil coating on the lens. I find mine can often get stuff from my hands, which impairs the quality. I always give the lens a quick wipe with my shirt before taking important photos.

I agree with Gone Tomorrow - the biggest problem I have seems to be the lens getting mucky. It's not the best camera in the world, but for the usual shots of kids growing up, tourist photos etc its perfectly usable.
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Maybe the software post processing on stock camera is too high. Do you think it's possible to find a camera app with low post processing overall?

Someone can port the HTC one m8 camera app?
http://www.trustedreviews.com/htc-one-m8_Mobile-Phone_review_camera-app_Page-5

Well, motorola has acknowledged there's an issue.
https://forums.motorola.com/posts/e2f2722bfc?commentId=801623#801623
We’ve been exploring several options to improve the camera. Some items are already on the list – we will fix the intermittent split-flash problem that produces a picture split into light and dark halves. We are working on the intermittent red-tint issue. Other areas are more difficult because any change to improve one area will create other artifacts -- and someone will object to those.
That being said, we have a plan to improve, and much of it is based on the feedback gathered from this thread and others. Thank you. It won’t be fast because it requires changes beyond what we can do through updates to the Camera app itself. But we’re going to make changes that in addition to the items above, should improve sharpness and detail.
I cannot comment on the timing of updates, so I can only ask for patience as we work through this. And again, thanks for the feedback; the photos and observations posted and sent via email were instrumental in helping us get to this point.
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Probably that timing will be for Android L's release on our phone.
EDIT: Meanwhile, make sure the lens is always clear, and take pictures using the continuous mode. That is, tap on the screen as if you were to take a picture, but hold it. Once you see 1,2,3,etc numbers, you can release. That's the number of pictures taken.
The thing is, taking pictures that way, they turn out sharper and a bit noisier.. but much better overall. Afterwards you can delete the extra ones and keep the best.

Question Terrible front camera performance (Colour balance + Saturation)

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone else experienced this, I quite often make pictures with my front cam and the camera is such a downgrade from my 4 year old Xiaomi Mix 3! The colour balance is all off, almost like they forgot to make a profile for the front cam.
The back camera is just fine, but the front camera often looks like a $20 toy camera just because of this terrible colour balance. I can fix most of my selfies in Google Photos by using a combination of adding warmth (Colour Balance) and adding saturation which makes them look just fine.
For a phone this expensive... this shouldn't be needed. I'd say most mid-level phones even make better selfies then this.
I've tried cleaning the lens but this makes no difference, the Samsung camera app just fails to properly process the colours in the front camera's images.
Because I apparently don't value my privacy, here is a picture as taken by the Samsung camera, and the same picture after adding warmth and saturation.
The original image makes me look lifeless with the skin being very pale, like a zombie almost. It was a nice and sunny day, why do I look like I'm 10 seconds away from my death?
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Anyone else with this issue? Does a modded version of the Samsung camera exist with the possibility to manually define post-processing settings? I just need to have it add more saturation and offset the colour balance

I'm searching for a solution myself, google's Gcam camera is great but I can't find a way to make it use the front camera. I'll be back if I find a way..

beanbean50 said:
I'm searching for a solution myself, google's Gcam camera is great but I can't find a way to make it use the front camera. I'll be back if I find a way..
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I've searched high and wide for a way to make another camera app the default one to get a better front camera selfie (even by disabling Samsung camera) but it seems like the cover screen and Samsung camera are intertwined and cannot be separated.
What we really need is a developer to have a look at the system framework or whatnot and see if something can be done to change the default camera, but they (developers) are a rare breed nowadays.
But on the bright side, if they ever do a remake of the movie weekend at Bernie's I'm pretty sure they'd offer you a part with photos like that..!