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.
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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.
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The sensation has a built in crop tool, so you can just do it easy on your phone.
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Zooming loses a ton of quality. Best to take the shot un zoomed then crop with photoshop mobile or whatever.
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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.
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Zooming loses a ton of quality. Best to take the shot un zoomed then crop with photoshop mobile or whatever.
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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.
The camera won't focus on objects close up when trying to take macro shots.
Does this happen to anyone else?
If you are fully updated try tapping the screen to focus on something specific.
Be aware that the (tiny, generally low-quality) lenses used in phones are going to usually be bad at macro anyhow. Do you know what the minimum focus range on the Focus' camera is supposed to be?
Yes, the name "Focus" is a bit of a bad joke considering the camera quality...
The closest I can take a picture is about three inches, when using the camera in Macro auto focus mode. Any closer than that and it's always blurry.
Reading all the reviews the one thing most of them take issue with is the camera on the Moto X. There is something very common between them, the inconsistency from picture to picture. Most say the Moto X is capable of taking good pictures but you need to put up with several bad ones as well. If you take the info from the reviews it's not a "Camera" issue as much as a "Software" issue. The timing of the auto focus to the shutter seems off as well as possibly the color & sharpness of the pictures.
I own a Nexus 4 currently and it doesn't take the greatest pictures either with the AOSP camera. One thing I have noticed is Cyanogenmod's Focal camera app takes better pictures. I tried taking pictures with AOSP, Focal and ProCapture app and comparing them. While I am not using the paid version of ProCapture the pictures are sharper and the color is spot on vs AOSP and Focal, even though ProCapture is taking 3.2mp shots and AOSP/Focal are taking 8.0mp pictures.
Link to ProCapture(Free) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neaststudios.procapture.free&hl=en
I know someone using ProCapture with their new Droid Maxx and says it has made a big difference in the image quality. This should obviously translate over to the Moto X as well. The full version is a few bucks and if someone is willing to purchase it and post their results for everyone that could help lots of X owners out.
Here are three pictures I took today and you can see how ProCapture's are sharper and the color is not washed out. First picture is AOSP, second Focal and last one is ProCapture.
I like the ProCapture app. I have the premium version. I will have to take some test shots to compare the two. However, I cannot find anyway of changing which app is launched when you use the twist gesture to open the camera. Every time I do it, it opens the stock camera. I have made the ProCapture app the default when swiping from the lockscreen but that does not apply to the gesture. Any ideas?
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edit: One thing I wish the ProCapture had was an HDR setting.
HDR setting is in Focus/Scene option menu(second down on the left).
I'm very interested in seeing side by side shots you take. If you can take a variety of shots, in bright sunlight, the sky(good for color comparisons), low light, indoors, close ups, action shots, etc with both camera's and post them here.
As far as the gesture opening the app that's something you can't probably change with the stock software. Once developers start making rom's & mods for the Moto X I'm sure the gesture will be able to be reassigned to another app.
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I like the ProCapture app. I have the premium version. I will have to take some test shots to compare the two. However, I cannot find anyway of changing which app is launched when you use the twist gesture to open the camera. Every time I do it, it opens the stock camera. I have made the ProCapture app the default when swiping from the lockscreen but that does not apply to the gesture. Any ideas?
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edit: One thing I wish the ProCapture had was an HDR setting.
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HDR setting is in Focus/Scene option menu(second down on the left).
I'm very interested in seeing side by side shots you take. If you can take a variety of shots, in bright sunlight, the sky(good for color comparisons), low light, indoors, close ups, action shots, etc with both camera's and post them here.
As far as the gesture opening the app that's something you can't probably change with the stock software. Once developers start making rom's & mods for the Moto X I'm sure the gesture will be able to be reassigned to another app.
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That's a lot of pictures. I will see what I can do.
As for the HDR setting, is it called something other than HDR? Cause it is not listed under the Focus/Scene option. I have the following:
Focus > Auto, Continuous, Infinity
Scene > Auto, Action, Portrait, Landscape, Night, Night portrait, Theatre, Beach, Snow, Sports, Sunset, Steady photo, Fireworks, Party, Candlelight, Backlight
Color effect > None, Mono, Sepia, Negative, Solarize, Posterize, Aqua, Blackboard, Whiteboard
Any comparison pictures you can take will be helpful for everyone. It can show its a software issue that can be fixed.
I'm using the free version of ProCapture, here is the HDR setting.
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Any comparison pictures you can take will be helpful for everyone. It can show its a software issue that can be fixed.
I'm using the free version of ProCapture, here is the HDR setting.
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Looking forward to the results... :good:
Xious1 or someone else give ProCapture a try and post pictures taken with it and the stock camera. I don't have a Moto X yet so I just know how much of a difference it has made on my Nexus 4 and my wife's Razr i.
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Can I squeeze zhe phone to activate this like the original app?
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I'm really not so sure I see much of a difference. Here's my samples:
Moto X Stock Camera:
Moto X ProCapture Free:
Moto X Focal:
Olympus E-PL1 with M.Zuiko 17mm F2.8 lens:
iPhone 5:
Nexus 4 Stock Camera:
Nexus 7 (2013) Stock Camera:
This is done with zero tweaking at all, straight out of the cameras. Even the mediocre Nexus 4 camera makes the Moto X look bad.
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I'm really not so sure I see much of a difference. Here's my samples:
Moto X Stock Camera:
Moto X ProCapture Free:
Moto X Focal:
Olympus E-PL1 with M.Zuiko 17mm F2.8 lens:
iPhone 5:
Nexus 4 Stock Camera:
Nexus 7 (2013) Stock Camera:
This is done with zero tweaking at all, straight out of the cameras. Even the mediocre Nexus 4 camera makes the Moto X look bad.
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I understand testing the app without tweaking, but the reason I did a search for moto x & Procapture was simply, the X doesn't give users the ability to access settings like white balance, exposure, etc. I'm currently on an S3, and was set on either an X or a Droid Maxx, but the camera quality was holding me back. To get decent pics on my S3 I have to play with those settings, but with the stock Moto camera software, I wouldn't have that option. Now if it's possible to get rid of the purple tint that some reviewers are seeing, or give it better contrast, I wouldn't be so apprehensive. But I thought the point of getting an app like that was so you could tweak the settings to get it closer to the better cameras out there.
ProCapture allows many more options to tweak your shots. I used backlight mode this weekend to take pics were my daughter was standing in front of a large glass wall of windows with the sun coming through. With out back light mode you could hardly see her, with it on she popped to the front of the image. This is on my Nexus 4.
Now if you haven't heard Moto is pushing out an update to T-Mobile users right now that fixes the camera issues. The pictures side by side show a dramatic change in quality.
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/09/23/moto-x-camera-update-new-vs-old
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7353/moto-x-update-dramatically-improves-camera-quality
Downside is can't use the cool wrist flick feature thing.
i agree, procapture is a very good camera, expecially to take panorama pics.
but in my opinion the big limit of this app is when you play with options and effect, because, while stock's camera reset values when you launch the app, procapture doesn't do that, but only for exposure (if you check it in settings).
so if you play with values when you launch in another time the app you have to reset all the values by yourself. i sent an email to the dev to make the app reset values when you lanch it.
I used Procapture far a while and was very pleased with it. Had you given FV-5 Camera try? I use it for now and for now i stay with it as it makes for me the best images.
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I used Procapture far a while and was very pleased with it. Had you given FV-5 Camera try? I use it for now and for now i stay with it as it makes for me the best images.
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I'll try it!
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I used Procapture far a while and was very pleased with it. Had you given FV-5 Camera try? I use it for now and for now i stay with it as it makes for me the best images.
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Camera FV-5 doesnt adjust focus/Exposure!
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Camera FV-5 doesnt adjust focus/Exposure!
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It has Autofocus and Autoexposure. You can also do that manulay.
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Camera FV-5 doesnt adjust focus/Exposure!
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You can do a separate exposure and focus though. I used to enjoy ProCamera but I think I can produce better shots with Camera FV-5.
Wow I just saw this post. I was about to give up on my Moto X camera and call it a loss for indoor photos.
Camera FV-5 changed that. This thing is great. Once you read through the manual to figure out adjustments, this thing takes great photos.
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Wow I just saw this post. I was about to give up on my Moto X camera and call it a loss for indoor photos.
Camera FV-5 changed that. This thing is great. Once you read through the manual to figure out adjustments, this thing takes great photos.
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yes i use it since my RAZR. You have to read the manual (pdf) to get knowledge of the full potential of the app. The developer is releasing in some weeks a beta app for taking videos
by the way, there was a big bug when taking photos in portrait with Moto X. The images freezes. This was solved in the last update.
Well, I was looking everywhere online to find an app that can assist me in taking macro photos - found nothing.
I have a question to the camera lovers:
When I try to take an up close photo and try to focus, no matter what app I use, I see the focus getting there, I see the object clearly for a glimpse and then it gets blurry again.
I was wondering is there a way to make the focus a little more manual and just stop where the image is clear?
Thanks in advance,
Liad.
I took a lot of great macro shots with my nexus 5 stock camera app ( hint : you shouldn't have a bright light at the background ) :
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no. you have to find that line between too close and focused, then never cross the line. if its too close, youll never focus on it. generally, its about 4-5 inches from the phone. also, use touch to focus to focus in on macro shots. here are a few examples..
For perfect focusing use camera fv 5 , best for macro shots
na, the aosp camera is best for macros..
Even when I'm really close it gets focused for a moment and loses it, can't I keep that place where it focuses somehow? I'm trying to take a picture of a bug on my wall, its size is less than 0.5mm so I have to be really close
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Even when I'm really close it gets focused for a moment and loses it, can't I keep that place where it focuses somehow? I'm trying to take a picture of a bug on my wall, its size is less than 0.5mm so I have to be really close
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you cant get that close. you have to be at the point to where it can focus on it, or past it. ut cant shoot any closer. take the shot, then crop it(but not to close). thats how youll get the macro. again, its about 4-5 inches, no closer.
And there's no way to make the focus less automatic?
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And there's no way to make the focus less automatic?
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touch to focus. use a flash as well. and you cant wait too long, as it wont stay focused long. what i do is ususlly take several shots. ill have the flash on, and ill touch to focus and shoot. i dont wait until it focuses. ill press the shoot button before. but it wont actually shoot until it focuses on the object.
Got it. Must say it's really annoying to see the device's focus CAN get there but skips the right place.
Thanks a lot anyway and have a good one!
Liad
Some more macros with the nexus 5 with the default camera app :
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On my quest searching for a good camera app found this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=58750434&postcount=2
For those who want good quality photos with low light (aosp problem)
Make sure you use night mode!!!
To bad panorama mode and 4k don't work
Hope I'm not breaking any rule posting this
Will try it . Thanks!
Can you post example photos in normal/low light?
There is a significant noise reduction when using night mode
Best camera app ive had on AOSP so far
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Great! Will try right now and report back :good:
EDIT:
The app is great! The camera response is very fast and the app includes lots of modes ! I do notice that the camera is somewhat blurry at close range, the long range is normal but when trying to focus on objects within 50cm I get a picture with somewhat blurry edges. This is not the case with the stock LG camera/software or normal AOSP cam. Great app and I prefer it over the stock AOSP camera!