The simultaneous video and image capture from HTC is really amazing and very functional. Although according to reviews it's hard to frame a shot while capturing vids, it's really something good to have from time to time specially if you only have one cam and wants to capture videos and pics at the same time.
What I was wondering is if this is something that can be achieved with software? There certainly are some devices much better than the OneX in terms of camera quality, such as the Xperia S that I'm eyeing
Any ideas on this?
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PC World loves the MT4gS for still images - http://bit.ly/oPdFKn
Video they feel the opposite. Do you agree?
I think the still images are great.
Good to know we beat the 4s. I never use the camcorder so didn't really care about that.
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I just recently used the video portion and I agree. The video quality is no where near the picture quality. The audio for video is really bad.
This phone impresses me every time I use it to take a photo and I'm not surprised to see it rated as one of the best. It takes photos that are just about as good as a Canon point and shoot that I own. Does a great job with staying true to the original color of what you're shooting too.
Videos are not as good as the photos, but come on.... it's a phone. The image sensor is tiny - I don't know how people expect great video from anything with a sensor this small. Overall, I'm pretty impressed with the video quality, considering this is a phone. Would you be able to shoot a wedding with it? No. Well.... you could, but there are better choices out there if you really want to shoot great video. Will it do a good job of capturing your buddies acting like idiots in reasonably good detail? You bet it will.
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I just recently used the video portion and I agree. The video quality is no where near the picture quality. The audio for video is really bad.
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i agree, i love the camera for still photos, it works great, but i was under the impression that i would be able to produce some great footage and audio at concerts and such, not the case however 1080p still goes a long way.
Is there any way to fix the Razr HD camera? In its current form its seriously flawed.
For example, I record some 1080 video in front of my very bright projector screen in a pitch black room (game replays from F1 2012) and the video recording is extremely dark, greenish, and grainy. Compared to video I've taken with my SGSIII and Nexus 4 which capture video flawlessly and exactly as I see it on the big screen, the Razr is really really bad...
I've tried a few different apps, yesterday on recommendation I downloaded the Camera JB+ app but it also just seemed to make it worse (even darker and more green)..
Has anyone found a fix for the Razr HD camera? Is there a way to hack it?? I've even found that outdoor still shots vary too, some overexposed, some underexposed, even when taking several of the same shot in exactly the same light, one photo after the other....
Surely Moto can make it better, I use the video recording all the time on this phone, and its a total fail right now, so much so I'm going to sell it
I know this phone can take great video. Problem is, I share a lot of them on Facebook. I see people uploading videos with an old iPhone 4s or even some of the cheap Android handsets that looks better than my 1020. Even my old 920 videos looked better on Facebook. Any ideas of how to improve the situation. Even with HD turned on in Facebook, the videos still look grainy and bad.
Try changing your video resolution down to 720p, which will make the video match Facebook's limit of 1280px. Video shot at 1080p will have a width of 1920px and will then be rescaled by Facebook's encoder, which is probably what is making your videos look poor.
https://www.facebook.com/help/124738474272230
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Try changing your video resolution down to 720p, which will make the video match Facebook's limit of 1280px. Video shot at 1080p will have a width of 1920px and will then be rescaled by Facebook's encoder, which is probably what is making your videos look poor.
https://www.facebook.com/help/124738474272230
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Thanks. I'll give that a try. Maybe at least I can take some videos that way just for Facebook.
If anyone knows/hears of an app or other solution as well so I don't have to reduce the quality of my recordings or us a PC for upload it would be appreciated. I love my Lumia 1020 but it's just frustrating to see people post videos straight off an iPhone 4S to Facebook and it looks better than mine. Kinda hard to sell others on how great my phone is if it doesn't look better out of the box to them. Of course that would be more of an MS/Nokia issue.
SinisterJunkie said:
Try changing your video resolution down to 720p, which will make the video match Facebook's limit of 1280px. Video shot at 1080p will have a width of 1920px and will then be rescaled by Facebook's encoder, which is probably what is making your videos look poor.
https://www.facebook.com/help/124738474272230
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Ok. So I've had a chance to try every video setting on the phone. All of them looks worse than the video quality of a crappy flip phone. My Lumia 920 wouldn't do this. Facebook videos looked very nice when you switched on HD viewing. I just don't get it. This is supposed to have the better camera and yet every video looks crappy, and that's on a desktop system with the HD option on Facebook enabled.
The only thing I haven't tried at this point is manually downloading the videos to a regular computer and recoding with some third party app but what point is having it if I have to do that.
I noticed in your description you have a 1020. Do your Facebook videos look bad? I have Lumia Black. Only other thing otherwise is maybe I got a bum phone.
Honestly, I haven't posted any videos to Facebook from my 1020. At least not yet.
hey guys, today i tried using the slowmotion mode in the camera, and before you start recording the camera show good details but after you start recording the detail drops a lot, its like 360p or 480p....the resolution in fact is 720p but it doesn't look like it at all....is this how it supposed to be??
I've been wondering this as well. The slow-mo function on my Z3C was really crisp and miles better than what the S6 produces. Really weird, since the S6 camera beats it hands down in just about every other sense...
Your friends are never going to believe what you did. The only way to prove it to them is with that video you took. Rate this thread to express how videos shot on the Xiaomi Mi 5 come out. A higher rating indicates that videos are smooth (and not choppy) and that auto-focus works very well, and that the camera adjusts quickly to different lighting conditions while recording.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
My only complaint of this nice piece of gear is the video recording feature.
There is no [email protected] recording option. Even the recording quality in good light conditons at 30fps (1080p) is not smooth and really choppy
Have not see any advantage of the 4axis OIS future.
Hope to see developers that can fix this issiue with software updates.
I think the best video recording quality has the Samsung Galaxy S6/S7/Note series and the Iphone 6/6s line.
Hope to see other opinions and good nwes
skyhan01 said:
My only complaint of this nice piece of gear is the video recording feature.
There is no [email protected] recording option. Even the recording quality in good light conditons at 30fps (1080p) is not smooth and really choppy
Have not see any advantage of the 4axis OIS future.
Hope to see developers that can fix this issiue with software updates.
I think the best video recording quality has the Samsung Galaxy S6/S7/Note series and the Iphone 6/6s line.
Hope to see other opinions and good nwes
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Keep dreaming!!! You should have thrown your cash at the other phones instead.
Guys, I keep seeing constant complains and whining about this phone and yet the only person to blame is your self. Read the god damn reviews !!!!!
all reviews point that video recording is just ok, nothing great... OIS is almost non-existent...
no software update will fix that...
read more carefully next time
yorikkk said:
all reviews point that video recording is just ok, nothing great... OIS is almost non-existent...
no software update will fix that...
read more carefully next time
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It has a great video recording quality for it's price. OIS and auto-focus is better than the more expensive flagship op3.
watch?v=Z8H5kOnryEo
OIS is clearly there, try recording while driving a motorcycle. There will be no, or at least minimal, glowy images as in non-OIS enabled devices. Color rendering is still the best, S7 and 6S is behind for this one. Lighting is natural, however you may prefer S7's "always daylight" choice (i.e., it will show bright light even in dark environment), but that's completely preference. I choose natural. Slow motion is great, even if only single [email protected] choice (slowed down 4x from 120fps) I found it very useful to record fast motion videos to see it later in detail.
this is the worst think in this device
it cant shoot a good video
get a lot off blurry result every time video
For me its 75/100.
Miui makes it complicated to chenge to 4k, fullhd slow-mo quickly. Timelapse feature is great. There were problems with rotation for camera but software update solved them. So it is not great but nice to see they are improving littlle by little.