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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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Purple veil in photos (mostly outside)

Hello all,
since a couple of days i own a HTC One X and i really like it.
What i noticed when using the camera, when i am outside i always get a purple veil, when changing the AWB it gets green.
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Now i want to know, has anyone else experienced this? (i have seen lots of pictures with this purple veil even from professional testers)
Is this generally on the HOX or is it a failure in a couple of models?

I read "purple vein" and had to come in here to look.
I was expecting something else...

This is what happens when bright light shines onto the camera lens.
Worsened when the camera sensor is overloaded with light.
It happens on any camera but it's pretty bad on this camera.
Try to block bright light sources with your hand, or better yet, avoid shooting into the light.

flar2 said:
This is what happens when bright light shines onto the camera lens.
Worsened when the camera sensor is overloaded with light.
It happens on any camera but it's pretty bad on this camera.
Try to block bright light sources with your hand, or better yet, avoid shooting into the light.
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Ok so it happens on all devices of the HOX?

Galaxy s6 changes screen saturation in camera??

I was playing with the phone in Best Buy, and noticed one thing.
I put the screen in basic mode and launched the camera.
The screen would get more vibrant in the camera app! If I exit out of the camera app, the screen stayed saturated for a second or two, then returned to the normal basic colors.
What's Samsung doing here? Putting the phone into AMOLED photo mode when using the camera or something?

I notice that as well. I went into the camera app in each of the screen modes and all of them changed in saturation except Adaptive. So maybe it is putting it into Adaptive Mode.

Xandlinger said:
I notice that as well. I went into the camera app in each of the screen modes and all of them changed in saturation except Adaptive. So maybe it is putting it into Adaptive Mode.
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Why would Samsung do that [emoji32] is it the same case for the other Galaxy phones?

Autofocus and laser autofoucs

This is probably a silly question but went out this morning to take some shots and if I am honest I wasn't that impressed with the auto focus. My previous phone was an s7 edge so i have probably been spoiled bu the superfast focus speeds but considering this has phase/contract and laser autofocus i thought it would have been faster.
At times I did feel it struggles to find focus, this makes me question the laser auto focus. On my previous LG G4 and nexus 6p you could actually see the laser auto focus working, a small red light (one assumes the laser) emits from the black square near the camera module on both those phones but i don't see anything from the xz premium in dark or light conditions. Are you supposed to see the laser auto focus on the these units? Can anybody try there and see if they can see it.

jms.flynn said:
This is probably a silly question but went out this morning to take some shots and if I am honest I wasn't that impressed with the auto focus. My previous phone was an s7 edge so i have probably been spoiled bu the superfast focus speeds but considering this has phase/contract and laser autofocus i thought it would have been faster.
At times I did feel it struggles to find focus, this makes me question the laser auto focus. On my previous LG G4 and nexus 6p you could actually see the laser auto focus working, a small red light (one assumes the laser) emits from the black square near the camera module on both those phones but i don't see anything from the xz premium in dark or light conditions. Are you supposed to see the laser auto focus on the these units? Can anybody try there and see if they can see it.
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Try shooting the back of the phone with a camera. Most of the cameras can detect infrared light while humans can't. You will see it as a purple dot.
It's better to use another phone for this because some stand-alone cameras use infrared filter.

kot5nik said:
Try shooting the back of the phone with a camera. Most of the cameras can detect infrared light while humans can't. You will see it as a purple dot.
It's better to use another phone for this because some stand-alone cameras use infrared filter.
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Yeah you're right its was there firing away.
Still a fantastic camera even if i am being picky about the auto focus.

Question Google Camera - update

I thought Google camera was supposed to be top quality. The picture showing in the view finder looks like its got a brownish/grayish filter over it with colors washed out, and the display keeps dimming with Adaptative brightness off. Often the picture looks blurry. Coming from OnePlus it's a very disappointing camera.
Update: Turns out I have a bad unit. After comparing camera quality to other Pixel 7 Pro, the difference is incredible. RMA back to Google

K1nsey6 said:
I thought Google camera was supposed to be top quality. The picture showing in the view finder looks like its got a brownish/grayish filter over it with colors washed out, and the display keeps dimming with Adaptative brightness off. Often the picture looks blurry. Coming from OnePlus it's a very disappointing camera.
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Sounds like your phone is defective because my OnePlus 9 was the most disappointing camera I have had since my HTC Mogul. I have yet to be disappointed with a picture from my 7 Pro.

EtherealRemnant said:
Sounds like your phone is defective because my OnePlus 9 was the most disappointing camera I have had since my HTC Mogul. I have yet to be disappointed with a picture from my 7 Pro.
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Im leaning towards defective too. Im about to factory reset to see if that clears it up. It only seems to be the front camera, rear is good

The biggest thing i dont like about this camera is the extreme oversharpening wich destroys the image

yes, processing is up a notch since the 6. also the 7p tele is a downgrade from the 6. it's a shame. I use the tele on the 6 loads and love it. I don't think I can give it up for the 7 tele.