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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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Front camera w/flash seems to produce very blue tinted pics

Anyone have issue with the front camera w/flash producing terrible pictures? My pictures get a very bright blue tint, especially taking pictures of people.
It is driving me nuts. Any suggestion on tweaks or camera settings that seem to work best for you guys/gals?

Not here.. this thing takes amazing pics.. very clear.. I just have a few settings on ..like "no shake" and auto res...

This will happen when taking pictures indoor in which the surrounding lightening is incandescent (warm lighting). The flash emits a whiter/fluorescent flash which will make your picture look blue'ish behind the surrounding warm lighting. The pictures wont look as bad if the surrounding light is fluorescent.
Unfortunately, the way around this is not to use the flash. Try to get as much surrounding lightening as possible and use Auto ISO. Don't forget you can hold down the shutter button to pre-focus so when you release the shutter button, there is minimal shutter lag. Still difficult if your taking pictures of kids that can't stay still, but this is my approach to avoid the blueish white tint from the flash.
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Mine did this. exchanged it and the new one does not do it
If you search posts by me you will find some of my blue pics i posted
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Is my camera defective?

Had the phone for 3 days noticed a small blue dot on camera app and other defects the first is a screenshot of the stock camera app, the second is a photo on HDR I noticed some red and white dots on this. Was wondering what the issue is.
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The red and white dots are iso noises overlapping themselfes which lead to significant distractions like they are in your case. Usually it's after 2 years (like it was with my Canon) so it isn't that normal. But if this problem doesn't appear in bright conditions it isn't that bad.
I'd be interested in photos in daylight. If the problem appears there, you should change your phone.
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Is your video a lot dimmer than photos?

Hey guys, I just got my nexus 5 for Christmas, I'm coming from a nexus s, it's not rooted or anything but my video camera is a lot dimmer than my regular photos, I've attached pictures of what I mean, I took them at night in poor lighting.
Is anyone else's like this?
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Usually it's due to a higher frame rate than regular pictures. When you record videos it's either at 30fps or 60fps therefore less light can be captured per frame in video mode.

I know that but there's no option to change it, is it a hardware fault Because the audio is weird as well, it's either completely silent or jittery
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This is a known issue that first showed up in 4.4.1. Basically, this phone consistently shoots 30fps video in any lighting, whereas a lot of phones max out at 24fps in good lighting and drop frames all over the place when the lighting is bad.
In order for the N5 to shoot such smooth video, the exposure time for each frame is really short. Since the exposure time is so short, it doesn't take in much light and it looks dim (if you're in good light, it looks fine).
I was really annoyed by it at first when 4.4.1 and then 4.4.2 hit, but in practice I've found the smoothness of the video to be well worth the tradeoff. Most of my videos I take are still usable even with the dimness.

I see, thank you for the answer. I don't suppose you know what's up with the audio?
When there isn't much noise, it's completely silent, no background noise see or anything, but then when someone starts talking, it might jitter or a second and then be fine, I'll try posting a sample later but until then, any ideas?
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TechMitchell said:
I see, thank you for the answer. I don't suppose you know what's up with the audio?
When there isn't much noise, it's completely silent, no background noise see or anything, but then when someone starts talking, it might jitter or a second and then be fine, I'll try posting a sample later but until then, any ideas?
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The noise cancellation is over-aggressive. It's something that we're probably going to have to deal with until Google fixes it in a future release.

maxpower7 said:
This is a known issue that first showed up in 4.4.1. Basically, this phone consistently shoots 30fps video in any lighting, whereas a lot of phones max out at 24fps in good lighting and drop frames all over the place when the lighting is bad.
In order for the N5 to shoot such smooth video, the exposure time for each frame is really short. Since the exposure time is so short, it doesn't take in much light and it looks dim (if you're in good light, it looks fine).
I was really annoyed by it at first when 4.4.1 and then 4.4.2 hit, but in practice I've found the smoothness of the video to be well worth the tradeoff. Most of my videos I take are still usable even with the dimness.
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How come it does it on sphere and pano too?
With average evening indoor light, video, sphere, and pano is worthless.
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[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..