The Result is highly comparable when adjusting/playing with settings(Contrast,saturation, bright..etc.) of the camera & gives huge difference in the picture.
I've attached samples as examples.
Pic 1 is over Uni's factory settings with DayLight(ON)
Pic 2 is over Uni's adjusted/changed settings with DayLight(ON)
Pic 3 is over Uni's settings as of Pic 2, but with Contrast +3 with DayLight(ON)
I'm still testing on different settings trying to get the best result possible.
I request other users also to TEST & Post their pics according to their settings, & we'll see who HAS THE BEST PIC, in what Setting?
I realize that HTC camera isn't as clever as that of Sony Ericsson or Sharp ones. I choose EXEC because of its WM6.1 superiority. It doesn't mean that EXEC's camera is useless. I took some night photos with it and really like what it produced. The camera is slow so its effect to the traffic lights in the photos(Car's and motrobike's lights) is very amazing.
before I upgraded to Blue Lightning Rom I had a more recent camera app version. I wouldn't say I liked the interface changes (tap screen shutter suxx IMHO), but I lack know the HDR wich was present in it
Is there a way for:
a - run separate camera app simultaenously?
b - flash between them (less preferred)
if only the latter is possible, is there a place where both the JB and KitKat versions can be found/DL-able (say without anything else(no gapps, just the cam app))?
Hello All...i newbie here... I like take a picture with my experia Z3, can samebody tell me how to upgrade or modified the Camera for the Best one... Oh ya...if i write with my language whats that will be some problem to Make conversation here..? Thanks 4 ur answer..
You mean the camera app? The Xperia one seems to be crippled in that it can only access the full 20 megapixel in manual mode, auto drops it down to 8 (!!)
But there are some good free and paid-for camera apps that will do full auto at 20 Mp - Camera Fv 5 is good, Archos camera is good..
If you mean upgrade the physical camera - no really possible.
I just recently bought Xperia XZ and I'm very disappointed to see that the "Full Manual Controls" in the camera UI and Camera2 API are actually pretty limited. Manual settings, such as "Saturation", "Contrast", "Sharpness", available since a long long time in Samsung and HTC devices, are absolutely unavailable and inaccessible here, neither in the default camera UI, nor in third-party applications, such as FreeDCam, Camera FV-5 and so on. For example, if you check this video, showing the capabilities of the FreeDCam application - youtube.com/watch?v =PWg0KaXbv5I (I can not post links yet, so you have to remove the spaces) , you can see how many settings at the bottom of the screen can be manually adjusted. But when I installed this application on my Xperia XZ, I got only "Manual focus", "ISO", "Manual exposure time", "Exposure compensation" and "Zoom". All other settings are missing. I read some time ago that Sony finally enabled the full manual settings, but from what I see quite a lot of settings are missing... Is there any way to enable them, maybe by rooting the device or I don't know, but I need them, otherwise I'll have to sell the phone and look for other options...
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I just recently bought Xperia XZ and I'm very disappointed to see that the "Full Manual Controls" in the camera UI and Camera2 API are actually pretty limited. Manual settings, such as "Saturation", "Contrast", "Sharpness", available since a long long time in Samsung and HTC devices, are absolutely unavailable and inaccessible here, neither in the default camera UI, nor in third-party applications, such as FreeDCam, Camera FV-5 and so on. For example, if you check this video, showing the capabilities of the FreeDCam application - youtube.com/watch?v =PWg0KaXbv5I (I can not post links yet, so you have to remove the spaces) , you can see how many settings at the bottom of the screen can be manually adjusted. But when I installed this application on my Xperia XZ, I got only "Manual focus", "ISO", "Manual exposure time", "Exposure compensation" and "Zoom". All other settings are missing. I read some time ago that Sony finally enabled the full manual settings, but from what I see quite a lot of settings are missing... Is there any way to enable them, maybe by rooting the device or I don't know, but I need them, otherwise I'll have to sell the phone and look for other options...
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Most likely it's an app limitation. Just like when I tried to install Camera FV-5 and Manual Camera apps for lower shutter speed but unfortunately they only provide 1/10 SS while the stock camera has 1 second.
ermond012 said:
Most likely it's an app limitation. Just like when I tried to install Camera FV-5 and Manual Camera apps for lower shutter speed but unfortunately they only provide 1/10 SS while the stock camera has 1 second.
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That one as well, I forgot about that one, as well as the ISO limited only up to 800, and many others, all these limitations are set by Sony to their Camera2 API so that no third-party apps can use the full potential of that sensor, which is a shame. Clear evidence is that when you install the same application, even from the same apk file, on other phones, such as Samsung or HTC, these additional manual contrrol options are present, they are missing only on Xperia phones...
The reason why I need these settings is because of the camera's very poor performance with the default camera app, mostly because of the dull and poor colors, and I want to compensate that by boosting the saturation and the contrast. Even my trustworthy 5 years old Xperia Pro takes much better photos - with less noise and better colors... I'm very disappointed with Xperia XZ's camera...
mediar said:
I just recently bought Xperia XZ and I'm very disappointed to see that the "Full Manual Controls" in the camera UI and Camera2 API are actually pretty limited. Manual settings, such as "Saturation", "Contrast", "Sharpness", available since a long long time in Samsung and HTC devices, are absolutely unavailable and inaccessible here, neither in the default camera UI, nor in third-party applications, such as FreeDCam, Camera FV-5 and so on. For example, if you check this video, showing the capabilities of the FreeDCam application - youtube.com/watch?v =PWg0KaXbv5I (I can not post links yet, so you have to remove the spaces) , you can see how many settings at the bottom of the screen can be manually adjusted. But when I installed this application on my Xperia XZ, I got only "Manual focus", "ISO", "Manual exposure time", "Exposure compensation" and "Zoom". All other settings are missing. I read some time ago that Sony finally enabled the full manual settings, but from what I see quite a lot of settings are missing... Is there any way to enable them, maybe by rooting the device or I don't know, but I need them, otherwise I'll have to sell the phone and look for other options...
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Try switching to camera 1 api in freedcam
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defcomg said:
Try switching to camera 1 api in freedcam
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I made two screenshots with my Xperia XZ, the first one with Camera1 API, the second one with Camera2 API, and the third screenshot, which I took from this site - en.miui.com/thread-269521-1-1.html , shows the UI of the application as seen on Samsung, HTC, MIUI and other brands or ROMs (basically the default manual controls, provided by stock Camera2 API in stock Android). Clearly the ones from the Xperia miss quite a lot of manual options...
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I made two screenshots with my Xperia XZ, the first one with Camera1 API, the second one with Camera2 API, and the third screenshot, which I took from this site - en.miui.com/thread-269521-1-1.html , shows the UI of the application as seen on Samsung, HTC, MIUI and other brands or ROMs (basically the default manual controls, provided by stock Camera2 API in stock Android). Clearly the ones from the Xperia miss quite a lot of manual options...
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try save camera parameters from camera 1 Settings > Save camera parameters you should find txt file in dcim/freedcam
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try save camera parameters from camera 1 Settings > Save camera parameters you should find txt file in dcim/freedcam
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F8331_CameraParameters.txt is created with camera1 -> Settings > Save camera parameters (for some reasons I can't find "Save camera parameters" when using camera2);
log1.txt is created with Camera FV-5 with camera2 set;
log2.txt is created with Manual Camera Compatibility application.
Maybe someone should provide such logs from other phones so that we can compare them.
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F8331_CameraParameters.txt is created with camera1 -> Settings > Save camera parameters (for some reasons I can't find "Save camera parameters" when using camera2);
log1.txt is created with Camera FV-5 with camera2 set;
log2.txt is created with Manual Camera Compatibility application.
Maybe someone should provide such logs from other phones so that we can compare them.
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i see the params its because the device is using sony camera hal and not qualcomms thats why the parameters in camera 2 you maybe able to control sharpness via edge mode and contrast via tone curve .
dunno if you have raw option in camera2 if you tap on jpeg to the left of ui there should be raw10 or raw_sensor if there is neither the best you can hope for is for an aosp rom with qualcomm framework on know the z5c had full qualcomm hal so it had all the options available including raw
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i see the params its because the device is using sony camera hal and not qualcomms thats why the parameters in camera 2 you maybe able to control sharpness via edge mode and contrast via tone curve .
dunno if you have raw option in camera2 if you tap on jpeg to the left of ui there should be raw10 or raw_sensor if there is neither the best you can hope for is for an aosp rom with qualcomm framework on know the z5c had full qualcomm hal so it had all the options available including raw
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It is known issue that the Xperia XZ (as well as all Xperias so far, not sure whether Z5 makes exception) have no RAW capture, so the jpeg option on the left of the UI has only option at all - jpeg and that's it But I'm very disappointed to hear that previous generations Xperias had more manual controls than the latest ones, that's really a shame
Not sure where to start this thread, this is more of a dev question.
I've decompiled the S7 camera app and taken a look at the source code. In case you haven't done this, the rundown is this: there is a main camera app with pluggable modules. Most of the downloadable camera add-ons are already implemented inside the stock app. For example, "Sports" is just a really basic camera, probably to make focusing and capturing pictures as quick as possible. By downloading an addon you are essentially adding an icon in the camera modes.
I mainly want to achieve two things: 1) lower the sharpness from 0 to -1 and 2) create a mode where the shutter time does not go above 1/30 or so.
1) There are a few generic Android camera properties that control that, is there a way to add them to some properties file? The keys: sharpness, sharpness-max, sharpness-min
2) Is there a way to inject my own method inside some class from the camera app? For example there is a method inside the "Pro" mode that does exposure calculation, I think I implement some stuff there.
Obviously, both features can be added with a bit [more] of coding, but it's not without pain. For example some icons would need to be created, handle resizing and different resolutions, handling device rotation, etc.
Other things that can be done by taking control of the camera app: add RAW in any mode, control OIS and video stabilisation, anti-fog mode (?), finer control over focusing modes and speeds, HDR, low-light detection. Hopefully this sparks someone's interest.
Just as an update, to underline the fact that it's doable: http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-look-inside-samsung-s7-camera.html
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Just as an update, to underline the fact that it's doable: http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-look-inside-samsung-s7-camera.html
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Nevermind then lol.
Thank you for the reply, but not sure whether to read it as information or advert.
Consider me interested.
Did you achieve this ?! I am trying to compile the code in android studio but there are alot of errors. Even when i have managed to compile it, when i install it on my Note 8 there is nothing. Any working source code ?!
"add RAW in any mode, control OIS and video stabilisation, anti-fog mode (?), finer control over focusing modes and speeds, HDR, low-light detection." isn't that on some other app that we can port it from? (in my head that would be less coding)
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Consider me interested.
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+1 this can be a great mod
good
When i installed through app I am getting this error that "camera failed" and unable to attach here and I am using TGP rom
I created an app duovision camera. You can try the dual camera feature. It may not work on some devices. Cheers
Hi Agonsh.
I have a galaxy S6 which the dual camera app from samsung works on but your duovision does not. Did you make it from decompiling S8 onwards for it to work?
Yes i did with using the newest Semcamera jar library which has an integrated dualcamera feature. And i know that it does not work on older versions.
Thanks Agonsh, appreciated. Cheers.
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Yes i did with using the newest Semcamera jar library which has an integrated dualcamera feature. And i know that it does not work on older versions.
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Pardon my ignorance and sorry to bother. New to XDA. Is the latest semcamera jar library available for download here or somewhere else?