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Glad i didn't buy a Nexus 5 for the camera

I just got the OTA 4.4.2 upgrade. Observations:
1. Faster auto focus
2 Faster shooting, less shutter lag
3. Sharper images
4. Noisier images
I'm surprised that it took a month to raise the ISO and up the sharpening.

No effing way!
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I think some of the reviews had mentioned some sacrifices were made in ISO to allow for faster focus and less shutter lag. It's definitely better and I'm no longer ashamed of the camera.
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dpvu said:
I think some of the reviews had mentioned some sacrifices were made in ISO to allow for faster focus and less shutter lag. It's definitely better and I'm no longer ashamed of the camera.
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Some snapshots are nice, some are horrible. Basically, nothing has changed much.

Improved camera samples?

I am considering buying a Mini and I would like to ask, if there was a camera update thats targeting the actual photo quality? I red that there was some functions update, but did this improved the photos? All sample photos I saw on reviews were not much good, so I am interested in this.
Thanks

When I first received my maxx the photo quality was hit or miss. After the initial camera update the quality is very consistent. Just be sure that your lighting is good and your hand is steady. I think that many people expect these tiny cameras to be able to take excellent pictures under any circumstance. This is never going to happen.
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@work said:
When I first received my maxx the photo quality was hit or miss. After the initial camera update the quality is very consistent. Just be sure that your lighting is good and your hand is steady. I think that many people expect these tiny cameras to be able to take excellent pictures under any circumstance. This is never going to happen.
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Thanks, the camera update is that from Play store or it is a new android build? If so, can this be now taken and not kitkat?

It was the first or second ROM update that came through. The app seems to have added features like the ability to select a point of focus or exposure. That has proven to be a useful feature too.
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@work said:
It was the first or second ROM update that came through. The app seems to have added features like the ability to select a point of focus or exposure. That has proven to be a useful feature too.
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That's a KitKat feature.

Low light compared to iPhone s4 is still not good.
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doogald said:
That's a KitKat feature.
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Ahh yes I forgot that feature became available after the update.
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Here are a few I took today in HDR and not HDR. I think the colors are rich and you can see a lot of contrast.

Hmm there must be compression on this forum. They appear much sharper on my computer.
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Interesting would be to try to photo the same scene before and after camera update...

as shipped my moto maxx took horrible pictures. I wasn't on the 4.2.2 camera update long enough to get a good sample, but the pics are much better after the kitkat upgrade (which may have been improvements from camera update)

X users are getting even better low light performance after this last update they got so I would expect the ultra line will also see an improvement soon.
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Try Focal camera in play store. May have a few issues but for more tweaking it's nice. Also love aviary for photo editing or snapseed
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camera settings question

really quick, where is the image stabilization feature, ISO, and the white balance options? I can't find these 3 for the life of me!:silly:

chillsen said:
really quick, where is the image stabilization feature, ISO, and the white balance options? I can't find these 3 for the life of me!:silly:
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Unfortunately, none of those are options you can control...

droidiac13 said:
Unfortunately, none of those are options you can control...
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no freakin way.....

chillsen said:
no freakin way.....
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I know. Pretty stupid if you ask me. This camera doesn't have the settings the G2 has. Not sure why.

droidiac13 said:
I know. Pretty stupid if you ask me. This camera doesn't have the settings the G2 has. Not sure why.
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LG opted to have less bloat so that's why. I think the camera is fine how it is, although options are always good.
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Try a third party camera app with those settings, it's possible they're there just the stock app doesn't have control of them
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screwyluie said:
Try a third party camera app with those settings, it's possible they're there just the stock app doesn't have control of them
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good point, any recos?

Sorry no, as long as it goes click when it's supposed to that's a good enough camera for me lol
But I've seen them, there are more advanced camera apps in the play store, perhaps Google it?
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chillsen said:
good point, any recos?
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Try this ... A Better Camera

I also recommend A Better Camera. It's what I use and I can confirm that even the free version allows you to control the ISO and White Balance settings (along with lots of other things too). I haven't seen anything about the stabilization settings, so I think you are out of luck there.
PS - you can change the stock action of holding down the volume down key when the screen is off and it can start A Better Camera instead of the stock camera if you want. That's what I do. I think I'm doing this with the G3 TweaksBox xposed module.

Image stabilization.... it's hardware, you can never turn it off
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chillsen said:
good point, any recos?
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Try the stock Google Camera. I did several shots using it and the stock and favored the Google shots over the stock in 2 of the 4 comparisons. It doesn't have a lot of settings but ISO is one of them.

Moto x Pure Cam update Nice difference !

Anyone agree that the Cam update in play store made a Huge diffenece in focus quality and over all image quality.
To me its way better .
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What version? I currently have 5.1.13.12

That little focus circle disappeared until you touch the screen, What else changed?

aznflawless said:
What version? I currently have 5.1.13.12
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I've got that same version installed as well. Wonder if op has a newer one.
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5.1.13.12
It really made a difference
Now on the other hand of you look at blisspop 6.0.1 ROM that camera is even better
All types of modz baked in even jpg quality increase to 100%
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Does anyone know of there's a way to make the focus and final picture in settings without having the initial object being the only clear image and not the back ground blurry
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How do you update the camera? I'm also on version 5.1.13.12? Or is that the three updated version?

joe1blue said:
How do you update the camera? I'm also on version 5.1.13.12? Or is that the three updated version?
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5.1.13.12 is the current version.

Up until now I pressed on the focus button and I took the pic. Now this doesn't work.
Am I wrong?
You now press anywhere on the screen apart from the focus point.
Also by tapping and holding the focus button you can lock focus? Was this there before?

Corduroy-21 said:
Up until now I pressed on the focus button and I took the pic. Now this doesn't work.
Am I wrong?
You now press anywhere on the screen apart from the focus point.
Also by tapping and holding the focus button you can lock focus? Was this there before?
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Those are both new features I believe. The new camera update is super nice. I'm even getting pretty good low light photos. I'm shocked.
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Agree. The camera update is great! Better even in low light.

Chuckleb0ne said:
Those are both new features I believe. The new camera update is super nice. I'm even getting pretty good low light photos. I'm shocked.
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Thanks, I was just wondering.
Haven't tried the camera a lot with the new update. I'm eager after these comments about the quality.

How is it updated? Through Play Store?

Yes. If you'll be able to update camera app it'll be able in play store.

kamykowsky said:
Yes. If you'll be able to update camera app it'll be able in play store.
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Thanks. I haven't actually gotten the phone. Which is weird because I decided to buy it this late in the year. Pretty excited to install the update for the phone once I receive it.
Edit: Just started wondering if the this can be installed on the XT1572 Style..

Hey guys, how is the exposure improved? Other than low light improvement, I sure hope the overblown highlight is fixed as well. The overblowing problem makes its photos less attractive than others.

Terrible font camera quality when using Snapchat

Hello,
I recently bought a google pixel 2 XL. Coming from the previous model, google pixel XL.
I never had any kind of photo quality issues.
But on the Google Pixel 2 XL the front facing camera provides extremely bad quality photos.
Before the photo is actually taken it looks decent, but when the photo has been made it just blurs the photo, you can clearly see pixels on the photo and everything gets greyish.
Im running android 8.1
I enabled camera hal hdr+ in developer options.
Also tried a previous version of snapchat but that didnt provide me any difference.
Anyone else experiencing this and knows how to fix this?

Could anyone confirm having this issue too? doesnt matter if this is for Snapchat or any other kind of app with picture taking features.
Google Support isnt taking me seriously cuz noone else has reported this issue before.

Pretty poor on the Pixel 2. Instagram looks fine.

beno619 said:
Pretty poor on the Pixel 2. Instagram looks fine.
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Instagram also has poor quality for me

Because snapchat screenshots what is on your screen hence the super decreased quality
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Prattham said:
Because snapchat screenshots what is on your screen hence the super decreased quality
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Yeah but its weird cuz it looked fine on my google pixel XL

Dude yeah, it's REALLY bad. Like awful.

Snapchat needs to update their app to use updated hdr api like Instagram
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SkiaTheShade said:
Dude yeah, it's REALLY bad. Like awful.
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Im wondering if this is the issue on the app or the phone it self or android...
Because im having this kind of quality on more apps. Google Support always end up leading me to the app developers