the guys at mobilesyrup have done a nice shootout with the 2 cameras -- and the results are good, imo, on the X Play side.
indeed, it could've been better with an improved camera app from Motorola, but that could come in a later update. for now, all I can say, that for half the price of a S6/Edge, the Moto X Play does pretty well on the camera sector. so, can't wait for my order to arrive!
here is the link: http://mobilesyrup.com/2015/08/15/camera-shootout-moto-x-play-vs-samsung-galaxy-s6/
Nice, but my first impression using Moto X play camera is that, you still feel like using a motorola camera, not in a good way. Even with the previous generation moto x, i could take some good shot, but you know, still a little slow to focus, a slow starting camera. I'm coming from a Galaxy S6 edge, and i still have my moto x 2gen and Droid Turbo. I will make some everyday random shots and check the results.
Does anyone know if the X play supports camera2 api? a lot of these points will be moot for us that are more serious photographers if we can shoot .dng files
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Does anyone know if the X play supports camera2 api? a lot of these points will be moot for us that are more serious photographers if we can shoot .dng files
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I have the Nexus 5 and I use Camera FV-5 app to take RAW pictures. I just got the Moto X Play and when I installed Camera FV-5, it says that the device isn't compatible to take RAW photos. I have read somewhere (possibly on XDA) that it could be a software thing and Motorola just needs to enable it.
Hi all,
I have attached a few of the shots taken on my Moto x play running Android nougat 7.1.1 on Resurrection Remix 5.8.0. I was always let down by the phone in 2 Dept. Camera -for no camera api2 and panaroma shots. Battery- not good with such a huge battery pack.
Today I took some time out, and tried to explore the camera apps with panaroma shots. And to my surprise, only one app made me rethink abt it.
I used snap camera, Moto z camera, cm camera baked in the ROM and finally HTC camera app.
Please let me know abt it, and share your thoughts.
Hit thanks if helped.
Cheers
Please provide link for htc camera!!!
srinikethan1392 said:
Hi all,
I have attached a few of the shots taken on my Moto x play running Android nougat 7.1.1 on Resurrection Remix 5.8.0. I was always let down by the phone in 2 Dept. Camera -for no camera api2 and panaroma shots. Battery- not good with such a huge battery pack.
Today I took some time out, and tried to explore the camera apps with panaroma shots. And to my surprise, only one app made me rethink abt it.
I used snap camera, Moto z camera, cm camera baked in the ROM and finally HTC camera app.
Please let me know abt it, and share your thoughts.
Hit thanks if helped.
Cheers
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which htc camera version did you use?
It's v.8.10.. HTC camera, il upload a gdrive link later in the day
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B--KUg4rwf27WDZpbFZaa3o1aWM/view?usp=drivesdk
Here is the link to the camera app
I find taking a series of photos and letting Google Photos stitch them together works the best, the in camera panoramas are terrible and very compressed.
Clearly this cant been seen in a resized image but the full size version of this image is nearly 17,000 pixels wide.
How
MrBelter said:
I find taking a series of photos and letting Google Photos stitch them together works the best, the in camera panoramas are terrible and very compressed.
Clearly this cant been seen in a resized image but the full size version of this image is nearly 17,000 pixels wide.
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Hi, What setting do you use in Google photos to stitch photos?
Thanks
Hello, we have so great phone, but i want to sell it! one reason is that - word is talking about Google camera, which have amazing Hdr+ and Best portrait mode... Developer @B.S.G ported this camera for Xiaomi and after other develepers made mod versions for other phones (this mods is working almost at all phones), and this two amazing Mode (portrait, Hdr+) is working great and bad cameras with Gcam mod are shooting great pictures! We have so good smartphone, but camera is not so good that it must to be! And we can't use Google camera mod, because our phone have not full support of Camera2api And no one can to Port this great Camera for XZ Premium users But maybe there is someone who can help us to enable camera2 api and make Gcam mod version for us, it will be great and I think it will be work at our device very good....
I'm sorry for my bad English and I hope sony will make better smartphones, with better camera and design!
Shako1993 said:
Hello, we have so great phone, but i want to sell it! one reason is that - word is talking about Google camera, which have amazing Hdr+ and Best portrait mode... Developer @B.S.G ported this camera for Xiaomi and after other develepers made mod versions for other phones (this mods is working almost at all phones), and this two amazing Mode (portrait, Hdr+) is working great and bad cameras with Gcam mod are shooting great pictures! We have so good smartphone, but camera is not so good that it must to be! And we can't use Google camera mod, because our phone have not full support of Camera2api And no one can to Port this great Camera for XZ Premium users But maybe there is someone who can help us to enable camera2 api and make Gcam mod version for us, it will be great and I think it will be work at our device very good....
I'm sorry for my bad English and I hope sony will make better smartphones, with better camera and design!
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Really? Are you kidding or what? :laugh::laugh::laugh:
"this two amazing Mode (portrait, Hdr+) is working great and bad cameras with Gcam mod are shooting great pictures!"
Believe me, sell the Xperia. Buy a 150€ Xiaomi, and I am totally sure that with Google Camera you will have a super camera, better than any smartphone, near to a reflex... :laugh::laugh::laugh:
Come on man!
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Really? Are you kidding or what? :laugh::laugh::laugh:
"this two amazing Mode (portrait, Hdr+) is working great and bad cameras with Gcam mod are shooting great pictures!"
Believe me, sell the Xperia. Buy a 150€ Xiaomi, and I am totally sure that with Google Camera you will have a super camera, better than any smartphone, near to a reflex... :laugh::laugh::laugh:
Come on man!
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You have seen pictures taken with Google camera at other smartphones?
Shako1993 said:
You have seen pictures taken with Google camera at other smartphones?
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Yes.
Maybe a better question is: Have you ever seen photos taken by this Xperia?
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Yes.
Maybe a better question is: Have you ever seen photos taken by this Xperia?
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I have XZ Premium, and i took with this phone great pictures.
But if google camera will work at xz premium, we can take amazing and sharp portrait.
Shako1993 said:
I have XZ Premium, and i took with this phone great pictures.
But if google camera will work at xz premium, we can take amazing and sharp portrait.
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I repeat man: if this is your opinion buy a 150€ Xiaomi and good luck
OT: Rome, cool, I am from (south) Italy
alexs784 said:
I repeat man: if this is your opinion buy a 150€ Xiaomi and good luck
OT: Rome, cool, I am from (south) Italy
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No, I don't need xiaomi, now i have second phone Mate 10 pro, I won it At Huawei competition and this smartphone have good camera. I just want to say, that from childhood i'm Sony fan and i want, that sony have better camera and Possibilities, than other smartphones!
I'm from Georgia, i was in Rome this summer and it is very beautiful city!
alexs784 said:
I repeat man: if this is your opinion buy a 150€ Xiaomi and good luck
OT: Rome, cool, I am from (south) Italy
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Yo dude google camera is indeed improving the picture you took with your smartphone, in fact it's a lot. Take a look at this video comparing <€150 Xiaomi phones with stock camera, Ported google camera, and Google pixel 2, and you can see that the result is night and day compared to the stock camera app, and even matching the photos taken with the Google pixel 2! So don't underestimate this app, it's ported and wanted by many community for a reason, it's not just a ****ty apps in play store, this is the app that makes the google pixel known for its camera.
https://youtu.be/Ds8AJFo0GC4
https://youtu.be/_LClIl7Gh90
I don't know why but google camera works fine on my xz premium ._.
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I don't know why but google camera works fine on my xz premium ._.
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If this is so, what version are you using? And does HDR+ and Portrait work?
Is your bootloader unlocked or your phone modded?
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If this is so, what version are you using? And does HDR+ and Portrait work?
Is your bootloader unlocked or your phone modded?
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The google cam version is 5.1.018.177470874.
HDR+ thing doesn't work, in fact the app is detecting my phone's rom as custom ( my phone is NOT unlocked or modded... Yet)
There's no "Portrait mode" but instead the "Lens blur" mode which is actually the same? Correct me if im wrong
The app itself runs smoothly, no crashes. Just like the stock camera app. Just tell me if you want the link though. And i'll try to make comparisons between the stock camera app and google cam app soon. (My connection is so bad rn i can't upload images)
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The google cam version is 5.1.018.177470874.
HDR+ thing doesn't work, in fact the app is detecting my phone's rom as custom ( my phone is NOT unlocked or modded... Yet)
There's no "Portrait mode" but instead the "Lens blur" mode which is actually the same? Correct me if im wrong
The app itself runs smoothly, no crashes. Just like the stock camera app. Just tell me if you want the link though. And i'll try to make comparisons between the stock camera app and google cam app soon. (My connection is so bad rn i can't upload images)
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8mp max no 19 mp
karrouma said:
8mp max no 19 mp
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Yeah i forgot about that. It is funny that the primary cameras max is only 8mp but the secondary cam is 13mp max
There is standard google camera, but hdr+ and portrait mode is not there just lens blur and it's take time to take portrait or something. I found thread about unlock camera2api, anyone tried unlock it?
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I found thread about unlock camera2api, anyone tried unlock it?
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Link?
failax said:
Link?
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi...google-camera-camera-api2-fix-t3655211/page80
Sadly you need root for that , which is not attainable right now without unlocking the bootloader.
Lack of RAW mode is a real turn off on this Phone, my old Lumia 950XL took amazing photos and had an insanely powerful flash. If I'm completely honest, the camera and flash are the weakest part of this device so I can easily see why folk want to try and mod it. Actually, in an ironic twist, the screen delivers a brighter flash then the actual flash, to bad its the wrong way around to help the camera.
It is very sad that such a good smartphone would turn into this huge disappointment. Most of the camera apps that I've used are Laggy and use only 8mp
Maybe there is someone, who can active full camera2api? And make gcam mod for sony?
Hello,
I'm diving now into the Google Camera world and with the G8 Plus, I'm not really sure which version of Gcam is the best for this phone model, and also i dont know exactly which settings we should tweak to take good pictures, any guidance would be super appreciated.
Thank you.
-MOTO-G8-Plus-PMGC_7.0.009_FinalBuild_v14.apk
-Camera_MX_4.7.200.apk
-My favourite is Open Camera.apk by Mark Harman -free on Play Store
You must know that you cannot store photos on SD with GCamera on unrooted Moto G8 Plus.
The next two allow you to store on SD.
Choice is yours
All the best !
Petrica said:
-MOTO-G8-Plus-PMGC_7.0.009_FinalBuild_v14.apk
-Camera_MX_4.7.200.apk
-My favourite is Open Camera.apk by Mark Harman -free on Play Store
You must know that you cannot store photos on SD with GCamera on unrooted Moto G8 Plus.
The next two allow you to store on SD.
Choice is yours
All the best !
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Thank you very much, works great!
Did the wide angle camera work on this version of GCam? Thanks.
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Did the wide angle camera work on this version of GCam? Thanks.
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Hypercam strike is the one that works.
jasonhelene said:
Hypercam strike is the one that works.
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Thank you very much for the suggestion. Hypercam works nicely, but I'm not able to use the wide angle lens.
Otherwise I've found that you con choose the lens you want with Urnyx05 GCam port.
https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/dev-urnyx05/
https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/google-camera-mods/google-camera-urnyx05-t3937515
Works nicely, and apart from the distorsion of the preview, you can use the wide angle lens: any suggestion to correct this??