I just tried to take a picture of something with Google Goggles. I cropped the image area to particular area of the subject I was taking a picture of, but the resulting image that Goggles stored and analyzed was actually about 1/2" lower than the area that was selected in the preview window. Has anyone else noticed this?
That's a pretty common issue with any non-SLR camera. The image on the screen is not always going to line up perfectly with what the lens captures.
Shrivel said:
That's a pretty common issue with any non-SLR camera. The image on the screen is not always going to line up perfectly with what the lens captures.
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Actually, if I just want to take a picture with the regular camera, it captures exactly what I'm looking at. But if I take a picture with Google Goggles, it's offset and is useless because if you're taking a picture of something fairly small, for example a paragraph of text that you want translated, it will take a picture and analyze the wrong paragraph.
This appears to be a known problem with Google Goggles 1.1, not specific to Galaxy S series phones.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=60d16cd86d28805e&hl=en
Shrivel said:
That's a pretty common issue with any non-SLR camera. The image on the screen is not always going to line up perfectly with what the lens captures.
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That would only be true if the "viewfinder" was optical rather than digital.
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Hi everybody,
I have a question about GS2 screen:
When I use the camera to take a picture, as soon as I press the shutter key to take the picture, the picture taken appears and then camera is prepared to take the next picture (assuming that review is off); my question:
the picture that appears immediately after taking the picture (which disappears after almost 0.5 seconds) seems to have a better quality from the picture I see in "Gallery" (to be specific, it's "brighter").
When I view the picture in my computer, I see the "brighter" picture , but when I look at it on my device, I see the "darker" one.
I'm not sure if I was able to make my point or not, but in a nutshell: when I review the picture on my device, it's darker than itself (!!!).
Thank you...
Nobody having the same experience???
Same Here
i think its the Super Amoled screen
miahegypt said:
Same Here
i think its the Super Amoled screen
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Why should it be like this?
No remedy for this???
I've been taking pictures with the Rezound & I notice the quality of the saved picture you see after taking the pic isn't the same you see in the gallery. Does anyone notice it? I tried fiddling with the settings it didn't change anything.
Gallery usually loads low-quality thumbnails first and then refreshes them with higher quality ones after its loaded and cached them all.. Is this what you're referring to?
The actual pictures my Rezound camera takes are always extremely high quality compared with any phone camera I've ever had before...
SmithO77 said:
I've been taking pictures with the Rezound & I notice the quality of the saved picture you see after taking the pic isn't the same you see in the gallery. Does anyone notice it? I tried fiddling with the settings it didn't change anything.
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I think I know what your referring to, and I find if you zoom in (a tiny amount) the picture quality comes out in full
First specs: Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon) running rooted with GPE ROM.
The issue occurs on every ROM I have tried, including TouchWiz, and its driving me and my friends INSANE.
I've attempted to look into this issue and I can't seem to find a good answer on this. Whenever I take a picture in portrait mode, the image rotates in the message to landscape mode. Not only that, but if I take an image holding the phone with the lens to the right the image appears upside down.
The image displays correctly in the gallery. However, if its transmitted in any capacity, it will always display upside down unless edited to display the correct way.
To make matters worse, if I take an image with flash, the camera will flash, show the adjusted "flashed image" for a second, and then immediately show me a different looking image, almost as if it was a "pre-flash" image. Many times, the image will look completely different on screen but when downloaded or transferred, it will look completely different. Lighting and all. In other words, the image on screen looks different than the image that was taken, making it almost impossible for me to tell what the image looks like until its transferred. Sometimes the image on screen looks better than the actual image taken, which is why it infuriates me so much.
Does anyone know what is causing this to occur and how to fix it?
I am just noticing this myself. Super annoying!! Anyone have any insight on this?
trud9340 said:
I am just noticing this myself. Super annoying!! Anyone have any insight on this?
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Nope, I posted this awhile ago and no one has responded to it but you.
I've found some mentioning of it being reported on the Galaxy S3 dealing with the hardware and then some excuse about fragmentation. There were comments regarding "well why are you taking pictures in portrait anyways?"
I hope that someone else has some more information than I do at the moment.
Usually when you take pictures the camera detects the orientation and physically rotates the image accordingly, as well as saving the orientation data as EXIF metadata. Samsung have apparently decided to only include orientation metadata and to NOT have the camera physically rotate the image--probably to give the camera better performance. Some apps are smart and will read the EXIF data to rotate the images correctly...most don't.
Unfortunately, this seems to be a hardware thing. Unless Samsung release a camera firmware upgrade with this enabled, or there's a way to force enable it through software, we're stuck using landscape or manually rotating.
Darthfuzzy said:
First specs: Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon) running rooted with GPE ROM.
The issue occurs on every ROM I have tried, including TouchWiz, and its driving me and my friends INSANE.
I've attempted to look into this issue and I can't seem to find a good answer on this. Whenever I take a picture in portrait mode, the image rotates in the message to landscape mode. Not only that, but if I take an image holding the phone with the lens to the right the image appears upside down.
The image displays correctly in the gallery. However, if its transmitted in any capacity, it will always display upside down unless edited to display the correct way.
To make matters worse, if I take an image with flash, the camera will flash, show the adjusted "flashed image" for a second, and then immediately show me a different looking image, almost as if it was a "pre-flash" image. Many times, the image will look completely different on screen but when downloaded or transferred, it will look completely different. Lighting and all. In other words, the image on screen looks different than the image that was taken, making it almost impossible for me to tell what the image looks like until its transferred. Sometimes the image on screen looks better than the actual image taken, which is why it infuriates me so much.
Does anyone know what is causing this to occur and how to fix it?
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I'm on stock TW (ME7)...I haven't noticed the rotation issues, but I definetly have the before/after issue where the picture looks different. It is super annoying and my wife always complains that my photos look too dark. I asked my question a little while back in this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2421173). I would love to know how to fix this!!
I'm on stock TW (ME7)...I haven't noticed the rotation issues,
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Can you do me a favor? Take a picture in portrait mode, then download Solid Explorer, browse to your camera storage directory, and tell me if the thumbnail for the image you took in portrait mode is correctly rotated?
Sure. Once taken in portrait, the "preview" image shows as landscape in the detailed list of files, however, upon opening the image in SE Image Viewer, it displays the picture in portrait correctly. I also have QuickPic and ES File Explorer installed. QuickPic shows the image in portrait correctly as well, but ES Image Browser shows the image rotated to landscape (incorrect).
Thanks. Since you were stock I was wondering if there was a camera firmware update problem for people who didn't take the official ME7 OTA. Looks like not.
Hey all, so I got the unlocked US model of the G5. First thing I noticed is a scratch on the back on the paint near the camera. I was upset, but thinking if I returned it, I'd get something worse back.
Anyways, when I went to use Snapchat, I noticed if everything is on the dark side I can see some lines on the video/photo viewfinder and it stays in photos/videos if it shows while recording. So far this only appears to happen in Snapchat, so I'm hoping it's something with the app, as it doesn't show in the stock camera. (See sample video below)
Can anyone who uses Snapchat check if this is a thing?
Sample: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8OF-gTbFNmSVVdLSlAtdGdYUWM (that's South Park in the background fyi)
Thanks for any input!
I think if you have your phone in any version of English other than US, it will change the anti-banding setting in all camera apps. I can't watch the video right now, but it sounds like what you're describing. Snapchat is working just fine for me.
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I think if you have your phone in any version of English other than US, it will change the anti-banding setting in all camera apps. I can't watch the video right now, but it sounds like what you're describing. Snapchat is working just fine for me.
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I don't think that's the problem. I'm in the U.S. and have it set to U.S. (just tried UK, as well).
It comes and goes and only on the right side of the screen.
I noticed also in the stock camera app it seems the viewfinder "lags" (has lots of motion blur) while taking photos., causing some photos to come out blurry. This never happened on my G5 H815.
My snapchat is the same, I get those lines down too
I have a Verizon G5 and have those exact issues in Snapchat. Strange, dully colored vertical lines when moving the rear camera, and a dark front camera.
The front seems to be a bit better from an update, but I'm thinking they have no idea how to code for the dual cameras.
I have the same problem on my g5 rs988
Update your Snapchat app, the issues I use to have is that front camera flashes on snapchat when trying to use it in low light photos or rooms, inside places, etc. Otherways the photo came extremaly grainy too, but no that lines.
Later I joined beta and it seems solved now i dont see that flashes from black to light or grainy selfies, even the resolution looks like normal camera even in low light
Same for me with G5 H850
The snapchat camera is fixed now.
of all the things wrong with this phone, this one is the most frustrating. i have to use my tablet for taking selfies.
the pictures come out mirrored by default. i can't find a solution for this. any suggestions?
The photos are only mirrored in the preview.
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The photos are only mirrored in the preview.
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not on my phone. it was like that for a while. now, the actual pics are mirrored.
i'm wondering if custom roms have this problem fixed. because it's clearly the coding and not any hardware faults.
I can confirm that the actual pics are not mirrored, only the preview is. I just held up some printed text and took a selfie, the words are reversed in the preview, but are not reversed in the actual picture.
I have seen a mirroring configuration for saved files but I can't remember if it was this phone with Android 11 or my other phone. Clearing the photo app's private storage is worth a try. Maybe it's stuck with mirroring on and there's no UX to change it. If my phone ever gets really weird I usually start clearing storage for the hidden chipset/system apps too.