Has anyone used a clip-on lens with their Z5?
I tried this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CY0085U
However the wide-angle lens seems to be poorly sized as I see a circle (corners are black).
4K video seems ok as 4K seems to be zoomed in for some reason.
Looking two different kits of lenses of another brand on amazon, I noticed two different type of wide angle lenses, with or without le black corners you said. I thinks this depends by the type of lens, not by the Z5 camera...
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Anyone ever use one of these?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Wide-Angle-Macr...590532?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item3cae04d704
I was thinking about maybe checking it out. Looks pretty promising, but so do a lot of things you see online lol.
Curious to hear from someone who's used it.
its like those adapters for lenses of DSLRs or whatever. it pretty much puts a lens that gives you a magnifying effect like a magnifying glass or curved more for a more wide shot.. its a cheap piece of glass in that thing.. yah gives u the shot but most likely drops your quality down considerably
I have a cheap one (16USD) bought from dealextreme.com I use it with a kodak zi8 flip camera and my nexus one. on the zi8 it works great, on the nexus you can see vignetting from the lens.
there are several different lenses, and some are VERY low quality, blurred edges, etc. be sure to read reviews and view sample images of the specific lens you want to buy, if you can
it's a fun accesory to have when used with a photo app (picplz, photoshop express, etc)
mine is only a wide angle/fisheye lens, no macro.
Just noticed that when things are in the top portion of the picture with the camera tilted down slightly things get distorted. It makes heads oblong and alien looking. Wondering if other people have this same issue or if it's just my phone. So it's really a question of whether the phone is being exchanged or returned.
I've attached two pics. When the tv is in the top portion of the pic it looks a lot taller than when it's in the center of the pic. Both pics were taken from the same distance at the same zoom amount.
Did you take the plastic film off the lens that comes from the factory?
s197 said:
Did you take the plastic film off the lens that comes from the factory?
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I was gonna say the same! Although mine lately has not been focusing at all unless i shake it. View is immediately blurry, but up close to something it is fine. Like it is stuck in close up. Shake it and seems good. This is before ROOT and playing around. Any ideas?
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Did you take the plastic film off the lens that comes from the factory?
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Did you have a plastic film on your camera? I had one over the fingerprint sensor but if there is one on my camera it's near impossible to detect, I feel like I'm just scratching at the glass although my fingernail is definitely catching on something. I just cant tell if it's the edge of the glass for the camera or a film covering it.
i had the same issue so i boiled my kettle, and held the phone above it after it boiled and let the steam peel the lense sticker.
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Did you have a plastic film on your camera? I had one over the fingerprint sensor but if there is one on my camera it's near impossible to detect, I feel like I'm just scratching at the glass although my fingernail is definitely catching on something. I just cant tell if it's the edge of the glass for the camera or a film covering it.
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If you had the plastic on it, you'd know it. It was very noticeable on mine.
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If you had the plastic on it, you'd know it. It was very noticeable on mine.
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I really can't tell if it's there, if it is it lines up almost perfectly. It isn't causing me issues for now though so I'm not going to mess with it.
omgi0wn said:
I really can't tell if it's there, if it is it lines up almost perfectly. It isn't causing me issues for now though so I'm not going to mess with it.
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You would notice in the center of the lens. The plastic would have a cut. Once it's off, the lens is perfectly flat across the top.
The plastic was still on, but no change in distortion taking it off. I'm guessing the cutout in the center of the plastic makes it so it doesn't impact photos.
So I tested on my computer monitor and am able to somewhat replicate what is happening in your shots. However, this distortion is natural because you're tilting the camera downwards on its axis. Its called perspective lens distortion and is common to all cameras without a tilt shift lens (a lens that costs several thousand dollars). You should be able to replicate the effect with any camera phone.
Yeah I've noticed distortion in other cameras but it's just not so extreme. On the s6 the distortion makes any pics with the subject on the edge ridiculous and unusable.
I think I've narrowed it down to when the s6 is set up to shoot max resolution at 16:9. When I switch it to 4:3 the distortion is pretty much gone since that distorted area is just cropped out but that reduces it from 16mp to 12mp. Other phone cameras I've had (moto x 2nd gen and s3) crop the other way (max resolution at 4:3 and then crop to get 16:9).
So the s6 presumably has a 16:9 sensor where the others had 4:3. But the extra width is pretty much unusable.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. What's the point of having a 16mp camera if you can only effectively use 12mp?
Any update on this? I was hoping there's a post processing software in Android/Windows/OSX that can compensate for the lens distortion even though it'll reduced the resolution a bit. I have a AT&T Galaxy S6.
I tried DXO Optics Pro 8, and it works very good for shots from my Nikon D7000 to un-alienize the faces, but there are no modules for the Galaxy S6 lens.
Hi,
Assuming I want to get a smartphone with a wide-angle lens, is there any other top-notch phone out there worth the look, which can compete with the Z5?
And do all phones with wide angle lenses exhibit blur in the corners? Wide-angle seems tricky to get right.
Thank you.
Z5 has by far the widest angle lens of any flagship phone. The lens is in the ultra wide angle category (especially in 16:9 mode). Actually i don't know any camera phone with as wide field of view. So Z5 does not have any competition, in terms of FOV.
Yes, the soft corners are a trademark of bright ultra wide angle lens. It is a feature, not a flaw. If you hate soft corners, you better stay away from bright ultra wide angle lenses. Especially the one's with fixed aperture (like Z5).
frankm87 said:
Hi,
Assuming I want to get a smartphone with a wide-angle lens, is there any other top-notch phone out there worth the look, which can compete with the Z5?
And do all phones with wide angle lenses exhibit blur in the corners? Wide-angle seems tricky to get right.
Thank you.
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Sometimes in low indoor lighting I noticed some dark blobs that appear on the camera. They look like rather large particles scattered throughout the frame. I was suspecting maybe dust in the lens but I've seen a similar thing with my friend's Nexus 4 when is directly cast in sunlight - similar to when you look under a microscope and your hair eyelashes are in the way. Another thing I suspect it could be is some interference from the shiny black plastic ring within the camera lens (not the silver ring outside), as it appears to be made of a rough plastic-like material.
Sample (there are many more depending what angle the light is shining): https://www.dropbox.com/s/zm8h9jp3jhdy726/DSC_0476.JPG?dl=0
Has anyone experienced this as well?
Note that the lens/camera module that was replaced by Sony in Taiwan due to the left blur problem. They assured me that the phone was still waterproof. Unfortunately I am no longer in Taiwan so I can't get it repaired. In most situations the blobs are not visible but I do notice them when I'm filming in my room and the camera appears to be trying to pick up more light.
hmm, now that i look at my lens, i it appears there is a spot on the actual camera lens behind the main lens cover. Either dust got in during the lens replacement process, or it somehow got in later. So much for IP68 =/
Can you send it back and get a new device?
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Can you send it back and get a new device?
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Nope, I bought it in Taiwan, and am studying overseas now. Perhaps next time I go to Taiwan I will turn it in. It's not a huge problem as none of my outdoor photos seem to have this problem - I only noticed it in videos I filmed in my room indoors with a certain lighting or flare (if you cover the light a bit it's gone, like you have a lens hood). It's not as obvious as previous reports of dust in the Xperia Z lens etc.
I looked into it with a magnifying glass and it does seem like there is at least one speck behind the lens cover.
Maybe there was some dust or paper in my pocket that somehow got in, but I had the phone in a case, and there's a rear protector film I applied that goes around the lens
So the Mi Mix 2s has dual lenses. But just out of curiosity, what does the second lens actually do but zoom in? I can take every picture, incl. Portrait pictures with the top lens covered up without any ill effects. Is that lens just there for the zoom and to appear fancy? Or does it actually do something useful?
The second lens is a telephoto lens. If you go to 2x zoom it uses that lens to get a sharper and less noisy image than a digital zoom. The reason why they call it a portrait lens is because a telephoto lens compresses the person's facial features resulting in a more attractive face. It's also reduces the amount of background and blurs it.
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The second lens is a telephoto lens. If you go to 2x zoom it uses that lens to get a sharper and less noisy image than a digital zoom. The reason why they call it a portrait lens is because a telephoto lens compresses the person's facial features resulting in a more attractive face. It's also reduces the amount of background and blurs it.
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So basically, it never uses both lenses together for fancy effects? It's always just one lens doing what it's good at? Good to know Thx
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So basically, it never uses both lenses together for fancy effects? It's always just one lens doing what it's good at? Good to know Thx
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Exactly. The only reason it might use both cameras at the same time is to create a fake bokeh effect.
Speaking of cameras I have a camera issue with the phone, can you check it out?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/xiaomi-mi-mix-2s/help/glaring-camera-issue-live-exposure-t3797029