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Camera blurry photos.. Possible fix!

I was getting a lot of blurry photos because auto-focus required holding the phone steady for longer than usual and the slightest move would cause a blurry photo..
So, I found that turning off auto-focus in the camera settings menu will make the photo snap quicker meaning it is less likely that you'll get a blurry photo because you don't have to hold the phone steady for as long as you do with auto-focus on. Hope this helps!

I haven't had any problems with mine...Photo or video; they all come out looking ok. My wife's phone is fine, too.
Below is indoor low-light from my wife's phone (size reduced, taken tonight).

ummm my pictures dont come out sharp at all example below my nexus one takes amazing pictures compared to my MT4G and they both have 5 megapixal camara

Oh yeah same here it took 4 or 5 shots to take a decent pic with mine today then again I have always had a heck of a time holding my hands steady

This is a test I took in low light, no flash. Doesn't look bad to me, although you can definitely see the noise.

TheManMountain said:
Oh yeah same here it took 4 or 5 shots to take a decent pic with mine today then again I have always had a heck of a time holding my hands steady
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i think the auto focus is horrible on this phone IMHO....ive had tons of HTC phones and this is the only phone ive had to take 4 to 5 shots before getting a decent non blurry pic

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I found a fix (somewhat)! Turn off auto-focus in the camera settings menu.. the photo will be taken in milliseconds, resulting in less bluriness! You can still focus if you want by tapping on the screen or lightly pressing down the camera button. Try it now and let me know if it helps
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This seems to aide in taking better pics. Thanks!
Aspeds2989 said:
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I found a fix (somewhat)! Turn off auto-focus in the camera settings menu.. the photo will be taken in milliseconds, resulting in less bluriness! You can still focus if you want by tapping on the screen or lightly pressing down the camera button. Try it now and let me know if it helps
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Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App

my pics come out fine. here are a few of them.

my old treo 650 took better pictures....lol ....now only if we can fix the video recording also..... 720p doesn't mean nothing if all we see is blur and ghosting. hope tmo/htc comes out with a fix for the camera and video.

Aspeds2989 said:
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I found a fix (somewhat)! Turn off auto-focus in the camera settings menu.. the photo will be taken in milliseconds, resulting in less bluriness! You can still focus if you want by tapping on the screen or lightly pressing down the camera button. Try it now and let me know if it helps
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Wow thank u thank u!! It helped me too....now I'm a picture taking machine
*Sent from my Tmobile MT4G*

i just use the Camara App Vignette. it takes way better looking pictures than the stock Cam App.

[Q] Camera help!

Everyone seems to think the froyo camera (2.2) is phenomenal, but I really must be missing something, because mine sucks. This is my second G2X, and both cameras had the same issues. The biggest issue is that the focus is always slightly off, no matter what setting I choose (yes, manual setting can make the focus somewhat better, but that's not a real fix for me as I can't always be manually focusing the camera to catch a shot in time). Basically, the picture looks decent, but if you enlarge any details at all, they are fuzzy. I'm obviously doing something wrong, and if anyone could help me figure out what that is, it would really be a huge help.
Thanks in advance!

Try pixel peeping on a PC. The gallery app does not seem to render properly when zooming on the phone.
Sent from my Nexus One using Tapatalk

I have checked out the pics on my pc, and they're almost ALL fuzzy. Doesn't matter what the lighting was like, the setting of the phone, whether the object was stationary...they are decent from far away, but up close, not that great at all. If you're getting great shots, what settings are you using? Auto everything? Some preset scene? Or specially tweaked settings?

Erislover said:
I have checked out the pics on my pc, and they're almost ALL fuzzy. Doesn't matter what the lighting was like, the setting of the phone, whether the object was stationary...they are decent from far away, but up close, not that great at all. If you're getting great shots, what settings are you using? Auto everything? Some preset scene? Or specially tweaked settings?
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Try taking off the battery cover and taking a pic. If its better than you may have forgotten to take off that little liner that covers the lens or the battery door camera hole is dirty or something

Even with the back cover off the phone, the pictures look the same.
Just to make sure we're all on the same page - when I look at the pictures on my pc, they look fine, but when I zoom in at all, the pixelation is extremely obvious. I do not have this problem with pics from my sony camera (non-phone).
Are people saying their photos are good FOR A CAMERA-PHONE, or are they actually good photos?? If they are actually good, are people using special settings??

Mine are great. Do you have the settings set to very fine image quality? Also make sure you are taking them using 8mp rather than 2mp.

jrwingate6 said:
Mine are great. Do you have the settings set to very fine image quality? Also make sure you are taking them using 8mp rather than 2mp.
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Yes, I have it set on very fine and 8mp.
See http://www.flickr.com/groups/[email protected]/?added=2
These are a couple of shots I just took without the back cover on the phone. Notice the pixelation. Can anyone with consistently great photos please post theirs?

Erislover said:
Yes, I have it set on very fine and 8mp.
See http://www.flickr.com/groups/[email protected]/?added=2
These are a couple of shots I just took without the back cover on the phone. Notice the pixelation. Can anyone with consistently great photos please post theirs?
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I dont see any photos in Flickr. Can you post the images in this thread?

jrwingate6 said:
I dont see any photos in Flickr. Can you post the images in this thread?
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well, if I post them here, they'll be shrunken photos!
this link should take you to "photos taken by g2x group" on flickr. http://www.flickr.com/groups/g2x/pool/

bump...i also have this issue. did u ever resolve it?
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App

that photo looks fine to me. remember this a camera phone, just because it is an 8MP camera that doesn't mean it will take crystal clear shots. A lot of the issues will come down to a poor/cheap lens, overall the camera take good pics for a camera on a phone.
Until manufacturers start using quality lenses like the new WP7 device named sea ray from nokia which uses a carl zeiss lens, pictures will not be great.

Erislover said:
Yes, I have it set on very fine and 8mp.
See http://www.flickr.com/groups/[email protected]/?added=2
These are a couple of shots I just took without the back cover on the phone. Notice the pixelation. Can anyone with consistently great photos please post theirs?
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I checked out your link and it that pic looks very good to me. I do not think a camera phone is going to give you the clarity and detail a larger ccd does in a $400 digital camera.

[Q] Photo app able to crop scene before shooting

does anyone know if there is an app which would allow me the select on screen which part of a scenery to shoot before actually shooting the picture? - like croping a picture before actually shooting it.
Thank you for your advise!

Don't think there's actually an app for that, but u can tell the camera where to focus if u tap object on screen, then crop the pic after.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e

eadred said:
does anyone know if there is an app which would allow me the select on screen which part of a scenery to shoot before actually shooting the picture? - like croping a picture before actually shooting it.
Thank you for your advise!
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Try zoom with the volume button. Should accomplish the same thing as cropping afterwards.

samnada said:
Try zoom with the volume button. Should accomplish the same thing as cropping afterwards.
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Zooming loses a ton of quality. Best to take the shot un zoomed then crop with photoshop mobile or whatever.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA Premium App

The sensation has a built in crop tool, so you can just do it easy on your phone.

howetechnical said:
Zooming loses a ton of quality. Best to take the shot un zoomed then crop with photoshop mobile or whatever.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA Premium App
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Cropping after causes the same loss of pixels as digital zooming. There's no optical zoom on a phone far as I know. The one advantage of cropping after is you often need to adjust the rotation to get things level, so some cropping is required. If you compose right to the edges it leaves no room for rotate and crop. Or maybe I'm the only one who doesn't always get their shots perfectly level.

howetechnical said:
Zooming loses a ton of quality. Best to take the shot un zoomed then crop with photoshop mobile or whatever.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA Premium App
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No it does not. With digital zoom, the phone is capturing the same picture at all times, now matter what your zoom level is. But when you zoom in, it's simply only that part of the picture that your phone's gonna use. The quality is better if you do that and save just once. If you capture the big picture and save it, then open it, crop it and save it again (as JPEG) you have 2x saved it with loss what makes 2x loss.

[Q] GB front facing camera issue

Hello, im new to the G2X but coming from the Hd2 im pretty familiar with rom flashing and what not so yesterday i flashed WeaponG2x rom to my phone, but the lg camera was super dim on my screen. so i flashed the stock camera which fixed the dimness, but now the FFC photo quality is super poor Is there another camera i can use that will give me decent quality FFC pics? on the HD2 i used the MIUI camera, is that possible on the G2X? or can anyone recommend one from the market? thanks

Not sure if you are actually experiencing an issue. The FFC has significantly less resolution than the rear camera so image quality will be much lower.

regP said:
Not sure if you are actually experiencing an issue. The FFC has significantly less resolution than the rear camera so image quality will be much lower.
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thats what i was thinking too at first but the pics look actully kinda staticy not just blurry. the pics come out so bad theyre pretty much useless
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that "statis" is due to the crappy image sensor. nothing u can do about it.

Try taking a picture in daylight outside. Should be better.

I am having the same issue after updating to Weapon G2x 2.4 Rom. Its great because I finally got the original LG camera back, but the FFC when in camera mode shows the picture in a horizontal layout while I am holding my phone in a veritcal position. Also, when in Camcorder mode the video start cutting out (green screen, static, lines, etc.) unless pretty much. I wonder if this would be fixed down the road and hopefully they dont remove the original LG Camera. I noticed the developer has a link to update to Gingerbread camera. I am new to all this and is my first time flashing a phone due to (LG/T-Mobile) allowing such a bad product to be sold.

You have to wait for update
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LG camera a work in progress
mayco86 said:
I am having the same issue after updating to Weapon G2x 2.4 Rom. Its great because I finally got the original LG camera back, but the FFC when in camera mode shows the picture in a horizontal layout while I am holding my phone in a veritcal position. Also, when in Camcorder mode the video start cutting out (green screen, static, lines, etc.) unless pretty much. I wonder if this would be fixed down the road and hopefully they dont remove the original LG Camera. I noticed the developer has a link to update to Gingerbread camera. I am new to all this and is my first time flashing a phone due to (LG/T-Mobile) allowing such a bad product to be sold.
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Yeah the LG camera is still a work in progress they are definitly aware of it. They will have it fixed. You can follow progress if you go to the development section and find the post for stock froyo camera on gingerbread. then you can update yourself when they come out with the next version. I am using the LG camera on zboarders stock tweeked rom and the only issues really are like you said the FFC is horizontal and in video mode the zoom only works wile not recording. If you press the vol up\down while recording it shows the zoom bar but it doesnt zoom. And if you notice most video cameras dont do that anyway. I have not experienced the cut outs or green screens yet but I also dont shoot alot of video. Here is a link to the dedv page for the LG camera http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1166531

[Q] Flash too bright on close ups?

Anyone have issues with the flash on close up shots in a dark area. Like taking a picture in my pc case. It basically comes out as a white picture. I basically can't take a picture like this, tried stock camera and pro capture.
Maybe its a setting thing?

thats how it normally would be with any camera and a close up(macro) with a flash. you have to manually turn down the exposure before shooting that kind of photograph.

simms22 said:
thats how it normally would be with any camera and a close up(macro) with a flash. you have to manually turn down the exposure before shooting that kind of photograph.
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Camera noob here. Thanks man, didn't seem to have issues with my previous phone. (Note 2) But either way that helped a lot.

lightsout said:
Camera noob here. Thanks man, didn't seem to have issues with my previous phone. (Note 2) But either way that helped a lot.
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ive had that issue on every nexus since the first, lol

Haven't experienced this one, my nexus 5 is givng me quality shots even in low light condition. You just have to tap the screen first and let it focus on the object.

shaqshaq said:
Haven't experienced this one, my nexus 5 is givng me quality shots even in low light condition. You just have to tap the screen first and let it focus on the object.
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This is macro shot. As in camera lens only a few CM from object.