So every time I'm video recording/shooting a person's face and make a video or vlog, whenever the phone/camera moves, it blurs and then auto focuses. How can I turn off continuous auto focus?
Anyone please help me with this?
Switch around different ROMs and maybe try the 2.20 ruu. If none of that fixes it then you might have a camera defect.
-Sugardaddy Duncan
No I know I dont have a defect camera. Everyone that has the one x has the same problem. But how can I turn off or remove the continuous auto focus?
Anyone please? :/
It would be nice if someone found a solution to this... video recording sucks on One X especially in low light conditions it just keeps going out of focus
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I'm using the camera and I'm noticing one thing. On any other device I've used, you can touch on a dark or light area of the screen and the camera will focus accordingly. Either brightening or darkening. Any ideas why that doesn't work on the GS3?
It's harder to describe than I thought. Let me know if that doesn't make sense.
It works on CM10, I thought it was the same on TW too... been a while since I've been on TW.
I've never seen that on either our Incredible, Incredible 2 or Galaxy S III phones - touching on the active camera screen sets focus to where you pointed.
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ooofest said:
I've never seen that on either our Incredible, Incredible 2 or Galaxy S III phones - touching on the active camera screen sets focus to where you pointed.
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he's talking about tap to focus and exposure.. and yes that was indeed a feature on the Incredible camera. say that you are taking a photo of a cloudy sky.. tap on the darker area and the camera would adjust the exposure on that spot to lighten it up a bit
i thought it did work on the S3 camera.. but now you mention it...
i'll try to take some photos at the Yankees/Red Sox game tomorrow night.. should be a cloudy day and a good time to test.
EDIT: i've turned on 'Auto contrast' under setting, and it did a similar effect.. now when you pan your camera to a darker area.. it should adjust itself (no need to tap!) :highfive:. you'll also notice that your 'Exposure value' setting has been greyed out, since it's adjusting it for you automatically now.
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he's talking about tap to focus and exposure.. and yes that was indeed a feature on the Incredible camera. say that you are taking a photo of a cloudy sky.. tap on the darker area and the camera would adjust the exposure on that spot to lighten it up a bit
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I've never heard of this, admittedly - even the manual only states that tapping the camera display will focus on that spot. Holding it down takes a picture with that spot as the point to concentrate focus, exposure, etc.
Took out my Incredible and tried different metering modes, but tapping only changed focus. Are you talking about holding a finger down to take the picture, as I described above? This might be semantics, then.
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I've never heard of this, admittedly - even the manual only states that tapping the camera display will focus on that spot. Holding it down takes a picture with that spot as the point to concentrate focus, exposure, etc.
Took out my Incredible and tried different metering modes, but tapping only changed focus. Are you talking about holding a finger down to take the picture, as I described above? This might be semantics, then.
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radiohead's got it right. ooofest, I can take a video of my Incredible doing it if you like. I tried the Auto Contrast feature but it's not having the same effect. Thanks for all the responses.
EDIT: here's a quick, shoddy video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f09wOV7WXQ&feature=channel&list=UL
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I tried the Auto Contrast feature but it's not having the same effect.
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hmm.. i did have default settings before turning "Auto contrast" on. maybe there's something you had changed that's preventing it? i know how when you turn on "Anti-shake", it prevents being able to take a photo while in video mode.. maybe something like that is happening.
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hmm.. i did have default settings before turning "Auto contrast" on. maybe there's something you had changed that's preventing it? i know how when you turn on "Anti-shake", it prevents being able to take a photo while in video mode.. maybe something like that is happening.
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I've tried it with anti-shake on and off, I tried it while adjusting the exposure, tried with auto-contrast on, I tried it with all different kind of scene selections. It does work well just by tilting the camera towards the darker or lighter area but then it's cutting some of what I wanted to take a picture of. I did try my friends original Galaxy from 2 years ago and it works like a charm. Not sure what's wrong. I'm making a bigger deal of it than I should but when it's a feature I've used so regularly for so long, it's hard to let go. I appreciate your responses.
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radiohead's got it right. ooofest, I can take a video of my Incredible doing it if you like. I tried the Auto Contrast feature but it's not having the same effect. Thanks for all the responses.
EDIT: here's a quick, shoddy video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f09wOV7WXQ&feature=channel&list=UL
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Oh, this was my poor perception in this conversation, then.
To me, that Incredible's tap response was part of the refocusing feature when tapping our camera display: it setup to take a new picture at that spot, with all that entailed, though I admittedly cared most about it weighting focus . . . and then all aspects of the picture to that area of concentration (especially if I had metering mode set to Spot), regardless of whether I held my finger down on that spot to take the picture or tapped and then clicked the optical button. In either case, the Incredible adjusts the picture and not just the focus, yes.
The Galaxy S III TouchWiz camera is often more quick to take a picture, so I've tried different contrast and other modes to hope it will expose the shot well enough. Usually that's the case, but sometimes I need to readjust between Auto-focus mode, White Balance, Metering mode, etc. - I don't touch the display to take the picture these days, because it's usually close enough for my needs. But, I can see what you are missing.
Thanks,
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The autofocus in the camera is annoying as hell. It keeps readjusting itself and when it reaches the point of sharpness it goes back to blurry. Now my question is - is there a way to make it hold the proper focus, or set it manually? Or is there an alternative camera app with these functions?
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The autofocus in the camera is annoying as hell. It keeps readjusting itself and when it reaches the point of sharpness it goes back to blurry. Now my question is - is there a way to make it hold the proper focus, or set it manually? Or is there an alternative camera app with these functions?
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In recent weeks i've also searched a solution to the problem but nowadays i think's it's not possible, it's an Android limitation.
Look at here
http://www.camera.flavionet.com/faq.php#manual-focus
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The autofocus in the camera is annoying as hell. It keeps readjusting itself and when it reaches the point of sharpness it goes back to blurry. Now my question is - is there a way to make it hold the proper focus, or set it manually? Or is there an alternative camera app with these functions?
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Just got my red N5 and ive noticed the same thing more or less. its like if i click the shutter button it will focus then unfocus at the last second before taking the picture. other times it just doesnt like to focus lol. id say that probably half of my photos come out burry. I know when the N5 first launched it had camera issuesbut i was under the impression that those were fixed for the most part.
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The autofocus in the camera is annoying as hell. It keeps readjusting itself and when it reaches the point of sharpness it goes back to blurry. Now my question is - is there a way to make it hold the proper focus, or set it manually? Or is there an alternative camera app with these functions?
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Press and hold the shutter button should cause it to hold the focus. You can then release it to take a picture.
How to old a "proper" focus however, I have no idea.
You can tap to set your target focus. It will continue to auto adjust as it sees fit, however.
I've always had issues getting cell phone cameras to focus because of how easily they can shake but the OIS seems to help me get a good focus for 2/3 HDR+ pictures.
If you're using HDR+ it needs to stay still for a longer period of time.
I have noticed this problem a couple month ago but figured only today that I could post here.
So the issue is pretty simple to describe. When recording a movie, the focus moves just a little bit right after I click the record button.
So if get the focus straight before recording, the focus will move and the movie will be blurry.
It seems I can prevent this to happen if I focus manually, hold my finger on screen while I start recording with another finger. But it doesn't work 100%
Am I the only one with this issue? Any idea how to fix it?
When I found this out I was rolling with Chroma, since then I went back to stock but the problem is still there.
Thanks in advance for your help
Nobody?
I noticed a while back that when I take a photo using my text messaging app, it is constantly trying to focus. Yet, when I switch to my actual camera app, it will focus just fine. I would suggest trying a different app. I don't do much video, but I know what you are talking about. Its freaking annoying. Its already focused just fine but then its like it decides to just try again and it takes longer while you're recording. Definitely try a different camera app. There might be one with focus lock or something like that.
Hi everyone,
I'm facing an issue with burst shooting.
When I burst-shoot photos in mid to low light conditions using the HTC stock camera app, I can see that most of the photos (except the first 3-5 photos) are filled with colorful noise all over them...
I'm using an EMEA HTC U11 128GB model with 1.27.401.5 software and camera app v9.20.9740975.
Am I the only one that facing this issue?
Please refer to the attachments to see the problem yourself.
Left image is the third burst-shot and looks OK.
Right image is the fifth burst-shot and looks very grainy (all the burst shots from the 5th and on look like that)
There is nothing wrong with it. Burst mode does not have the noise reduction algorithms which are available in hdr auto mode. Therefore these shots are perfectly normal in bad light conditions. Mine does the same.
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There is nothing wrong with it. Burst mode does not have the noise reduction algorithms which are available in hdr auto mode. Therefore these shots are perfectly normal in bad light conditions. Mine does the same.
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When I capture burst shots on the ported google camera app, all photos are looking just fine without all that densed noise so I think you are wrong. You can try it yourself.
Something is very wrong with this feature on stock camera app on my side, I'm sure that it doesn't need to look like that at all.
I see a clear difference between the 3 to 5 first shots and all the rest, it's like they were taken by a different sensor!
I thought you were asking if your phone has a problem or not, so I answered according to what I understood.
It's how the stock camera app is. It needs some updates to fix these issues, there is nothing we can do about it except waiting.
I do believe that google camera is superior to stock app with good settings in almost every condition therefore I use google camera.
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I thought you were asking if your phone has a problem or not, so I answered according to what I understood.
It's how the stock camera app is. It needs some updates to fix these issues, there is nothing we can do about it except waiting.
I do believe that google camera is superior to stock app with good settings in almost every condition therefore I use google camera.
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Thanks for the clarification.
Meanwhile I will continue to use burst captures only on Google Camera app.
Hope that HTC knows about this issue and trying to fix this as we speak. :fingers-crossed:
It's not happening because of the lamps above, it happens on natural lighting too. It happens when camera focuses to a new area where the lighting level is different. Is this a defect, or is it the same for everyone ?
Here are 2 example videos:
It's really weird because it doesn't happen on the photo mode or on other apps when i'm taking a video, it only happens in the camera app video section. It happens on auto fps mode too. I tried taking videos with other phones on the same condition, and they just focus normally without that weird flicker. Is this a software issue or is my camera defective ?
Would be happy if y'all can help, thank you.
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It's not happening because of the lamps above, it happens on natural lighting too. It happens when camera focuses to a new area where the lighting level is different. Is this a defect, or is it the same for everyone ?
Here are 2 example videos:
It's really weird because it doesn't happen on the photo mode or on other apps when i'm taking a video, it only happens in the camera app video section. It happens on auto fps mode too. I tried taking videos with other phones on the same condition, and they just focus normally without that weird flicker. Is this a software issue or is my camera defective ?
Would be happy if y'all can help, thank you.
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Video Flickering at 60fps
Anyone else notice this? I did find a small thread on Samsung.com so not sure if its a hardware issue or if all of them have it. -...
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@hyelton check this, the exact same problem. Hope it's not a hardware problem and they fix it with an update
Yep same issue here. Glad I'm not the only one to notice the issue
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Yep same issue here. Glad I'm not the only one to notice the issue
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Do you think it's a software problem ? Wish other people checked this and reported here too. Did you report it to Samsung ?
Does it happen if the camera is held in the proper orientation, i.e. landscape? Portrait mode should never be used for video capture. Hopefully in the future *all* phones will properly capture video in landscape mode regardless if the user holds it vertically or not!
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Does it happen if the camera is held in the proper orientation, i.e. landscape? Portrait mode should never be used for video capture. Hopefully in the future *all* phones will properly capture video in landscape mode regardless if the user holds it vertically or not!
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Orientation doesn't matter happens either way
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Orientation doesn't matter happens either way
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What about a different camera app? I use Filmic Pro and have never seen this.
If I did, it would definitely raise cause for alarm!
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Does it happen if the camera is held in the proper orientation, i.e. landscape? Portrait mode should never be used for video capture. Hopefully in the future *all* phones will properly capture video in landscape mode regardless if the user holds it vertically or not!
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Orientation and auto fps doesn't matter, it still happens. My post also says it doesn't happen on other apps.
I'm so happy to say that May update I just received (S908EXXU2AVDA) fixed this problem. Can you check if it's fixed for you too ? @hyelton I tried every specific condition that it flickered before and it doesn't flicker anymore, made me happy that it wasn't a hardware problem and they were aware of the issue.
Does it happen with adaptive refresh rate?
Because some apps flicker when this is turned on.
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Does it happen with adaptive refresh rate?
Because some apps flicker when this is turned on.
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No, it was happening on 60fps video shooting, it's not about 120hz. It got fixed with the May update.