Hello,
I wanted to know if there is an app for the nexus which can allow you to take a picture of someone but blurs out the rest of the background. For example I take a picture of a person who remains in the reticle within the app, so the person's picture comes out clear but the background around him/her is blurred slightly. My friends htc one camera does that.
Thanks
omgbuffguy said:
Hello,
I wanted to know if there is an app for the nexus which can allow you to take a picture of someone but blurs out the rest of the background. For example I take a picture of a person who remains in the reticle within the app, so the person's picture comes out clear but the background around him/her is blurred slightly. My friends htc one camera does that.
Thanks
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Use the Google Camera. To focus on a certain person or object just touch it on your screen. It will autofocus on that object.
This is with the stock camera app.. Simply touch to manual focus what you want
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And there's the new Google Camera with Lens Blur.
google camera?
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gonemad02 said:
google camera?
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Yeah, this one -> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.GoogleCamera
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And there's the new Google Camera with Lens Blur.
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Lol over a month later... You should've gotten a time machine then post that!!
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Hi xda just a general question is it just me or does the camera's autofocus is pretty crap. When the I am about to.take a picture but before the picture is taken and the shutter button is pressed a little bit the image quality becomes amazing but when the picture is taken the quality sucks
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Also the quality is the best when led is on
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dj008 said:
Also the quality is the best when led is on
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Can you explain that a little more? How do you test that?
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Can you explain that a little more? How do you test that?
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SO what I am basically saying is that camera quality becomes really good when the camera is autofoucusing but it gets worse when he camera is about to take picture. Also I would post a picture taken from the cellphone
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From a purely "mechanics of photography" standpoint, the image with flash will have a much faster shutter speed while the picture without flash the shutter is open longer & more susceptible to to camera shake. What about a picture taken outside with good lighting & no flash? Does that produce an acceptable picture?
I will try that later
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I for some reason cannot get a decent picture out of this thing. No matter how I adjust the ev settings, in any lighting, the pics always come out blurry. Example below
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So what's the trick for better pics?
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Look up camera apps in the market. Fxcamera and camera 360 and Vigenette are popular for good picture quality
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That does look bad... It looks like you didn't auto-focus, have you tried that? I think it's a long press on the camera button in the standard app.
Of course make sure the Picture Size is set to 5MP (2560x1920) and set the quality to 'Super fine'.
For third party applications, Vignette is indeed a good way to go. Has many more options than the default camera application.
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1. most important! be sure to keep the back lens cover clean. one fingerprint can mean the difference of a good picture and a blurry one.
2. lighting. watch for good lighting.
3. motion. a moving object(or your movement) will translate into a blur.
nexus s pics, stock camera app.
i have vignette and get the same results
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i have vignette and get the same results
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clean the lens cover with windex(glass cleaner). it looks like the lens cover is dirty/greasy. no app will give you better pictures, only you can control the quality of your pictures.
Long press the button for focus, release to take the picture.
Hey all...
I am thinking of replacing my droid 2 global with a captivate. The only thing holding me back is the lack of a flash. Does anyone have any feedback on both indoor and outdoor shooting with the captivate? Does the camera suffer with no flash?
Feel free to post a sample if you like.
Thanks
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Hey all...
I am thinking of replacing my droid 2 global with a captivate. The only thing holding me back is the lack of a flash. Does anyone have any feedback on both indoor and outdoor shooting with the captivate? Does the camera suffer with no flash?
Feel free to post a sample if you like.
Thanks
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I am not a professional photographer by any means, but I personally don't miss not having a flash. My old phone had one so I thought it was a feature I would miss, but it takes great pictures in fairly low light. Of course if it's dark out, you're screwed, but I think it does pretty well without one in most other situations, IMHO.
Yeah that's kinda the answer I have been getting.
Mu Droid 2 global sucks big time...and it has the flash!
I'd rather have an ever-so-slightly darker picture than a completely washed-out-by-the-flash picture any day of the week
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I'd rather have an ever-so-slightly darker picture than a completely washed-out-by-the-flash picture any day of the week
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Touche Salesman!
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Touche Salesman!
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Now that we have all of this red tape out of the way, let's talk price....
Does anybody know if there has been an attempt at trying to get the nexus s to auto focus while its capturing video? I don't understand why it has a fixed focus when shooting video. I know it can't shoot any HD video but I think it could take some pretty cool macro video if there was some way to not have a fixed focus.
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What is macro?
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What is macro?
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Extreme close up, though used loosely in the case of phone photography.
The flower on a digital camera. It allows you to put the camera close without zooming to get a clean and clear close up. A feature that would be great on a phone.
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Something like this would be "macro". I shot this the other night with my nexus s and its been color corrected slightly.
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Something like this would be "macro". I shot this the other night with my nexus s and its been color corrected slightly.
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amazing shot. If I had no respect I would take this a post it in instagram and say u took it with my iphone. But that will be really gay of me to do so I'm just going to say, amazing shot. And read online how to get in photography without a slr
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I was about to take a photo of my excercise book and i aligned the screen of the phone (in the original camera app) on the 2 sides of the excercise book. But when i took the photo i noticed that even a portion of the table was in the photo, that i didn't focused before the shot. It's like if i had the zoom on, but i checked and it was off.
It's difficult to explain so i'll explain it with 2 images:
This is what i see in the camera app:
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This is the photo:
There's a noticeable picture frame more than what i wanted to photograph.
It's a bug of my phone or even yours have this problem?
PS: sorry for bad english!
Screen UI is 16:9 ....camera only take pics in 4:3 format.
It sucks yea.
So the "bug" is in the original camera app that doesn't show the image preview in the real output format. It's ridiculous...!
EDIT: i've just realized that i have disabled the navbar buttons, probably it's for that!!
sorcio91 said:
So the "bug" is in the original camera app that doesn't show the image preview in the real output format. It's ridiculous...!
EDIT: i've just realized that i have disabled the navbar buttons, probably it's for that!!
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Yup, that is the cause. On mine what I see is what I get.
uh60james said:
Yup, that is the cause. On mine what I see is what I get.
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Thank you for the confirm. I feel like a stupid lol
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