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Camera defective or is it normal

Is it just me or is the camera for this phone terrible in the dark with no flash? While taking a picture the screen starts to get all blue in the corner. Is this just an effect with the new 2.3.3 colors?
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Heh that's the result of high ISO with a small image sensor. Most cell phone cameras will perform poorly in dark situations so they have to crank up the ISO to get a picture. Unfortunately this results in a ton of noise. Even dedicated compact cameras are crappy in low light... for real photography I always use my dSLR =\
Edit: Just saw this post below http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1004661
Is this what you're getting? If it is, that's a bug in CM7 apparently. I'm running CM7 with netarchy 1.3.0 but I don't get thsi problem.
Darrien13 said:
Is it just me or is the camera for this phone terrible in the dark with no flash? While taking a picture the screen starts to get all blue in the corner. Is this just an effect with the new 2.3.3 colors?
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exactly what dinan said
with special emphasis even on normal point & shoot dedicated non-pro cameras
even the top of the line still sucks at night shots without enough ambient lights, or poor Flash flood
unfortunately dSLR cameras are too freaking chunky, heavy, and always uses special battery packs (which i hate)

I have this problem
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[Q] Low light pictures with camera

Does anyone experience a pixelated picture when using the stock camera in a low light setting? I find it kind of annoying. The picture during the daytime is great but as it gets darker.... doesn't do so well. Is there a fix for it? Does anyone know if the camera mod fixes this issue??

try adjusting the ISO settings in the camera app. This is mostly a limitation of the camera sensor on smart phones.

it's still pretty pixelated. I'm guessing there's not much more you can do about it since it's a hardware limitation?

digitizedremix said:
Does anyone experience a pixelated picture when using the stock camera in a low light setting? I find it kind of annoying. The picture during the daytime is great but as it gets darker.... doesn't do so well. Is there a fix for it? Does anyone know if the camera mod fixes this issue??
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can you take some picture and upload them im gonna do the same and beside i have noticed the same thing. to me it look like the screen is burning and the pixels are shining very bright which make the screen look crap and beside can you try some different camera app from market. try pudding camera the screen look way better than stock.
this picture i took around 2- 3
have a look

[Q] Photo app of N5 takes photos os a larger area then what is shown on the preview

Hi
I noticed this odd thing with the Nexus 5 camera and searched over all different reviews and forums but could not find a single mention of it.
When I take a photo with the Nexus 5 native camera app, the photo taken will always cover a larger area then what was seeing in the preview. For example, Lets say you want to take a photo of your monitor screen and (regardless of using the zoom or not) you position the phone so the borders of the monitor cannot be seen in the photo. Once you snap the photo you will notice you can see the border of the monitor and some... the resulting photos always cover a larger area then what is seen on the phone.
Has anyone noticed this or am I missing something?
Thanks

icbraz said:
Hi
I noticed this odd thing with the Nexus 5 camera and searched over all different reviews and forums but could not find a single mention of it.
When I take a photo with the Nexus 5 native camera app, the photo taken will always cover a larger area then what was seeing in the preview. For example, Lets say you want to take a photo of your monitor screen and (regardless of using the zoom or not) you position the phone so the borders of the monitor cannot be seen in the photo. Once you snap the photo you will notice you can see the border of the monitor and some... the resulting photos always cover a larger area then what is seen on the phone.
Has anyone noticed this or am I missing something?
Thanks
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Resolution. The camera resolution is superior to your screen resolution. Compare the screen spec. to any full res shot details to see the difference.
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Screen is 16:9 but the camera sensor is 4:3.
If you drop the camera down to 2 mpx widescreen, what is in the screen will all be photo
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Thanks
Thanks guys for clarifying. It makes sense. I didn't think about it as somehow this wasn't an issue with my old Note2 even though the screen resolution was lower, with the same 8mpx camera.

Depends if it was taking widescreen pictures or not.
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The Nexus 5 also has a wider angle lens than most phones too. That might have something to do with it as well.

i had this finding too not long ago.. at the expense of some important photos of precious moments "ruined" by this mismatch of screen preview and actual resolution..
and my way out is to use apps that handle this situation..
e.g. "Snap Camera HDR" has a "Preview Cropping" setting.. when this setting is turned off, the screen preview shows exactly as the current resolution ur photo is set at (with some blank margins at left/right or top/down sides to cater for the resolution differences..)
im just a happy user of this app and am in no way associated with it.. there is free version in the play store and xda here so u may give it a try..

My findings with the s4 screen

So as you know the kit kat update brought back the smearing (which was more or less hidden until know) and is the most noticable when you are on the lowest brightness. But also there is a green tint on lowest brightness, most noticeably in videos. Now as you know apps like screen adjuster reduce this problem but what i found is that when activated screen adjuster (15 on contrast in my case) does the following: i was in youtube app to test and in portrait the video didn't had any green tint, while in landscape the tint appeared. And with some other video player (like mx) the tint was gone and the smearing was reduced or even gone. Note that in mx i wasn't using the screen adjuster app. So maybe just maybe there is something in the software that samsung messed up. If a dev can look into this maybe we can figure out something.
Thanks in advance and i apologise if these things were known and i wasted your time.
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Been using Samsung phones aswell as others for years and never had a single fault. They all latest over a year before being sold on with zero issues. I've had an S4 since launch and it's still working perfectly. As far as reliability and build-quality goes Samsung is the best in the business, and by build quality I mean how well its assembled and reliability NOT the material the case is made of which many of you care so much about.

Cristi10 said:
So as you know the kit kat update brought back the smearing (which was more or less hidden until know) and is the most noticable when you are on the lowest brightness. But also there is a green tint on lowest brightness, most noticeably in videos. Now as you know apps like screen adjuster reduce this problem but what i found is that when activated screen adjuster (15 on contrast in my case) does the following: i was in youtube app to test and in portrait the video didn't had any green tint, while in landscape the tint appeared. And with some other video player (like mx) the tint was gone and the smearing was reduced or even gone. Note that in mx i wasn't using the screen adjuster app. So maybe just maybe there is something in the software that samsung messed up. If a dev can look into this maybe we can figure out something.
Thanks in advance and i apologise if these things were known and i wasted your time.
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I can't say that I've had any problems with my s4 since upgrading to kit kat

Chea2k said:
I can't say that I've had any problems with my s4 since upgrading to kit kat
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Same for me, i keep my screen at about half brightness and it is fine, i can't say i have looked overly close at all though..

Since the s4 true black pixels get completely turned off, the smearing you see are those pixels turning on again. It's a hardware thing.

Can't say I've noticed any difference. Can you elaborate at all?
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You can see it in this video. Black pixels leave a purpleish trail on the screen. http://youtu.be/DOQ91ujRFxU

I see what you mean now, so is this a hardware limitation or somehow linked to the software (os version)
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jimmy2x2x said:
I see what you mean now, so is this a hardware limitation or somehow linked to the software (os version)
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Hardware limitation of OLED screens. Pixels take some time to go from completely off (black) to a lighter color such as blue or gray resulting in that weird trailing. AFAIK, the older version of the software didn't use pure black (pixel off) in the menu but a slightly lighter shade of black (so that the pixel would not be completely off). I still noticed it in some moving scenes in movies though when pure black was used.
For the green tint I don't know, I remember when I switched from LCD on my Sony phone to the S4 I noticed it had tinted whites and weirdly saturated colors but now I'm used to it and I don't notice it anymore and I actually kinda like the saturated colors even though they aren't very realistic.

Haven't seen one since switching from my bloody ****ty Galaxy W I8150 which had a really bad white smearing effect (v3 HW rev). Using the exynos version with MFD: 2013:12:24 (christmas eve baby!)
There MIGHT be differences with screens manufactured at different time/version/revision but that's just an uneducated guess.

Camera issue

Faced with a rather unobvious problem by comparing the honor to 6S. Almost all photos in Honor blurred background and details compared to iphone. But I have not seen anything like it from other users. Specifically, the problem I'm talking about is visible here on these CROP (ie the background and details of a smear, as if the camera does not have time to synchronize):
I'm new user and can't post pics(((

Does this happens in all camera modes, like Pro, beauty, good food...

You tried rebooting already?
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unicornwaves said:
Faced with a rather unobvious problem by comparing the honor to 6S. Almost all photos in Honor blurred background and details compared to iphone. But I have not seen anything like it from other users. Specifically, the problem I'm talking about is visible here on these CROP (ie the background and details of a smear, as if the camera does not have time to synchronize):
I'm new user and can't post pics(((
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Also, do you have your H8 fully updated? Might be a bug fixed in some update.

Is this a problem with a mark on the lense either? That could cause your photos to blur if there is a tiny piece on it?