I am stock unrooted(till my 30 days are up) anyway I have seen a bunch of concerts recently and recorded video using my HTC Inspire, then with my brief time with the LG Thrill, and now with the Galaxy S 2 and while the galaxy s 2 seems to give the best quality recordings it seems while recording it will blur the video for a few seconds like its trying to focus then it will go back to normal it may do this once or twice during a 2-3 minute video yet I never had this problem with my Inspire or LG Thrill just wondering if I am missing some settings or what the deal is?
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bbubel said:
I am stock unrooted(till my 30 days are up) anyway I have seen a bunch of concerts recently and recorded video using my HTC Inspire, then with my brief time with the LG Thrill, and now with the Galaxy S 2 and while the galaxy s 2 seems to give the best quality recordings it seems while recording it will blur the video for a few seconds like its trying to focus then it will go back to normal it may do this once or twice during a 2-3 minute video yet I never had this problem with my Inspire or LG Thrill just wondering if I am missing some settings or what the deal is?
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Most likely the other phones do not have the feature of
continuous auto focus during video recordings.
Perhaps one of the devs will include a mod in these custom roms
which can enable or disable the auto focus feature while recording
video clips.
(not many camera phones have auto focus during video recordings)
I guess I don't understand the continuous auto focus, to me that would mean it would auto focus always so I wouldnt get the blur issue. I went through the video recording settings didn't really see anything I could do that would remedy the situation.
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bbubel said:
I guess I don't understand the continuous auto focus, to me that would mean it would auto focus always so I wouldnt get the blur issue. I went through the video recording settings didn't really see anything I could do that would remedy the situation.
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Continuous auto-focus in i777 SGS2 means that it will
auto-focus as needed automatically while recording video.
So when the foreground or background changes and people
or objects are closer or further from the lens that's when
it will automatically try to auto-focus for optimal results.
I don't see too much of a problem on my test video but then it's not moving "too fast" like people/motion.. only cars passing by.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRat0Drzu6s
This happened to me while at the gun range, kind of anyways. The camera was blurry for the first half of the video like it wasn't even trying to focus, then when it did I guess it didn't go out of focus again. Very odd. Now that I'm on MIUI this doesn't happen, this video is from when it was stock unrooted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcBAAOPvhv8
To be honest, on the stock/unrooted version I was running, I was having the exact same difficulties. You would expect that the camera wouldn't have to test its entire focus length before finding one that works and goes back to it.
It's not as noticeable when recording objects far away whose distance isn't changing, but when something passes in front of the camera or you move it to something slightly closer and it loses focus at all, it takes a good 1-2 seconds to refocus. That's a lot of time.
I was just thinking, could this be caused by my video recordings running off a 16gb class 4 kingston sd card? If so would I need to up the class or could I just switch my video recordings to go onto the 16gb of internal storage space? I may just switch it to internal and try a video and see if that is part of the problem.
Hello,
I recently got the Razr XT910 and everything is nice except for the camera quality.
When i take pictures 99.99% of the pictures i take are BLURRY and i try hard to make my hands stand still... not to mention the video recording quality.. i have an ipod touch that have a vga camera that can take pictures way better than my Razr XT910.
Is there a program or update or mod or driver that i need to install to get it to work correctly ?
i will upload some pictures ASAP to let you show you what i mean.
update 2.3.6, camera should be better. And, the the picture view by Razr always dark but not when view on PC
Iorveth said:
Hello,
I recently got the Razr XT910 and everything is nice except for the camera quality.
When i take pictures 99.99% of the pictures i take are BLURRY and i try hard to make my hands stand still... not to mention the video recording quality.. i have an ipod touch that have a vga camera that can take pictures way better than my Razr XT910.
Is there a program or update or mod or driver that i need to install to get it to work correctly ?
i will upload some pictures ASAP to let you show you what i mean.
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2.3.6 update plus get ICScamPro it's an amazing app for taking pictures. There's an ultrajpg mode that really makes magic. Also, focusing are much better than default camera.
cheers
The second thing i did after charging my phone fully is doing the update and indeed it updated to 2.3.6.
here are some of the pictures i just took and i tried hard to make my hands stand still !
thanks for the replies.
pedrotorresfilho said:
2.3.6 update plus get ICScamPro it's an amazing app for taking pictures. There's an ultrajpg mode that really makes magic. Also, focusing are much better than default camera.
cheers
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do you mean "Camera ICS+"?
Oh, also forgot to say that when you select NIGHT PORTRAIT the picture will lag a lot to the level it will take 10 seconds to take the picture after hitting the Take Picture Button !
use camera zoom fx instead
When the light is low the picture are pretty bad, it's like that, try to be in a room with lot of light and make test again.
Thanks for the tip with ICS camera i'll give it a shot
iolinux333 said:
do you mean "Camera ICS+"?
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Exactly.
Your pics seem really blurry anyway. Maybe playing with camera settings would fix it.
Make sure you have a faster sd card. Cheap sdcard do the same to pics and vids. Gota a class 10 kingston pro (95mbs) replacing a cheap kingston 16mg sdhc class 4 and video quality, also pics were really improved. You may have a defective (cheap) sdcard too. lol
pedrotorresfilho said:
Make sure you have a faster sd card. Cheap sdcard do the same to pics and vids. Gota a class 10 kingston pro (95mbs) replacing a cheap kingston 16mg sdhc class 4 and video quality, also pics were really improved. You may have a defective (cheap) sdcard too. lol
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This is incorrect. Sd card speed do not affect picture quality. 10 years ago when memory cards were slow, digital cams are still able to capture high quality pics.
As for video, sd card speed may cause instability like lag. From my experience, video capture on digital cameras like Canon EOS will stop recording on its own after 5-20s because of slow sd cards.
Lastly, defective sd cards do not cause pictures to blur.
Nikorasu said:
This is incorrect. Sd card speed do not affect picture quality. 10 years ago when memory cards were slow, digital cams are still able to capture high quality pics.
As for video, sd card speed may cause instability like lag. From my experience, video capture on digital cameras like Canon EOS will stop recording on its own after 5-20s because of slow sd cards.
Lastly, defective sd cards do not cause pictures to blur.
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Hi Nikorasu,
Try recording and playing a video with a low speed sdcard. I got 2, my first sdcard was a class 4 and vids were really weird, there were some lags or low frame rate with it. Then I bought a class 10 sdcard (sandisk extreme pro, a class 10 95mb/s) and my vids quality were really improved, specially frame rates.
I had recorded this vid in february, from my apartment windows with the old (cheap) sdcard, take a look how laggy it is:
http://youtu.be/Ok2BWDmYfQY
You may note the lag in frames.
Cheers
Edit: This is my actual sdcard
http://img2.mlstatic.com/s_MLB_v_O_f_223334251_21.jpg
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1. My vids stop recording with low speed sdcard, as you told.
2. The pics quality were also improved maybe due faster recording images on sdcard. I can't explain, just told about my own experience with razr and low speed sdcards. I think focusing is faster too with my new sdcard.
Don't know about pro cameras, like Canon EOS as you mentioned, but with android cameras that what I noticed.
I'm not seeing this blurring issue. Pretty much all of my pictures came out sharp. The color balance can sometimes be off and there's a lot of digital noise in darkened settings, but under normal light... no complaints.
sRDennyCrane said:
I'm not seeing this blurring issue. Pretty much all of my pictures came out sharp. The color balance can sometimes be off and there's a lot of digital noise in darkened settings, but under normal light... no complaints.
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Seems nice. What is your sdcard speed?
Thanks man
try saving pics on the internal memory and see the results, also try a different app but also save them on the internal, if the proble persists try having someone else to take them and if it still does it then sent it for a replacement
my comparison
stock vs ics camera+
Shezoid said:
my comparison
stock vs ics camera+
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Cool.
I think Galaxy Nexus pics and the last one, from Razr, with Camera ICS+ are better. This really seems to be a GB issue, don't you think? What is the speed of sdcard of each smartphone you use? cheers
I didn't use sdcard, I saved pictures to internal storage.
By the way on razr I use this memory
I agree with you, it should be a software issue.
pedrotorresfilho said:
Hi Nikorasu,
Try recording and playing a video with a low speed sdcard. I got 2, my first sdcard was a class 4 and vids were really weird, there were some lags or low frame rate with it. Then I bought a class 10 sdcard (sandisk extreme pro, a class 10 95mb/s) and my vids quality were really improved, specially frame rates.
I had recorded this vid in february, from my apartment windows with the old (cheap) sdcard, take a look how laggy it is:
http://youtu.be/Ok2BWDmYfQY
You may note the lag in frames.
Cheers
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Yup it's exactly as I said, slow sd card may cause instability like lag. However, don't confuse lag with picture quality.
A video with lag taken with a slow sd card, and a video without lag with a fast sd card will have the same picture quality when paused. The lag in your videos are caused by missing frames because the software is unable to write to your sd card fast enough before more information are coming in. When some software knows this is happening, it stops recording.
That is for video.
As for pictures... SD cards are not analog like VCR tapes where the low quality tapes will result in low quality pictures as the videos are "printed" onto the tapes. They are in digital format made up of 1s and 0s. When a sd card is slow, it simply takes the software a longer time to write in that information (1s and 0s), and you'll have to wait longer to take another picture. The picture quality will be the same.
As for focusing faster with faster SD card, high chance it's just a placebo effect.
Can we see some pictures taken with the leaked ICS for RAZR?
Actually, i am using the internal storage i dont have any SD card yet.
Do you think its a software issue ? i updated to 2.3.6 and 65.1.40.XT910.PSHAsiaRetail.en.03 system software even tho i bought it from the US.
OR could it be a defictive product ? plaese i dont want to return it as this was the last on in stock and it will not be back on stock... so i cannot replace it unless i contact motorola support...
do you think that changing te software to the EU stck ROM will be okay ? and will fix the issue ?
Thank you people for the replies !
Hi all,
I´m running a standard S2 with latest LP7 ICS Stock-Firmware.
recently I discovered a very odd thing about the S2´s video recording. While the general abillities are quite good, it seems the device is recording every video with a random fps rate ... especially when recording 720p or 1080p ... i recorded 4 sniplets in a row and EVERY one slightly differs in frame rate ... 29.384 fps, 29,031 fps, 29,782 pfs ... this sucks the big hairy meatball folks! How am i supposed to cut and edit those to one clip without re-rendering all to one steady frame rate?
Also tried LG Camera pro but same problem, despite fixing the frame rate to exactly 30 fps. Anyone hading the same problem? or even better - having a solution to fix this?
Thanks!
K.
Use a good transcoding software.
Anyone?
Hey, is there way to decrease camera delay before taking next picture?
It would be handy for HDR applications where your steady position is very important.
SGS III has burst mode so it shots 3 pics per seconds. I'd like to have it on SGS II, so far it shots 1 picture per second, but I tested shutter speed it is about 200 ms delay only so...
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You can try fast burst camera lite https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spritefish.fastburstcameralite, capable of taking 30 shots per second. And yes, the no. of shots will be still limited by your hardware.
Or Ultra Burst Camera https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spritefish.ultraburstcamera (from the same developer though), can take up to 40 shots per second, but in black and white colors only.
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yeah I am aware of such apps but they do small pictures so rather are not useable at all, because I could just cut frames from the full HD video
I am curious about because sensor of SGS II is capable to record full 8 Mpix movies 10 frames per second... so what stops this from taking 3 pictures in 8 Mpix, if is capable doing so 10.
Isn't there any driver trick to achieve such feature?
BTW: any of you tried SGS III with HDR Camera+ or ProHDR Camera? I am curious about speed
the reason why it cannot process faster is due to pink spots taking longer to process lol,was reading your other thread
i want to know this too, on GB the camera delay was shorter than the ics roms ive tried, i even got a class 10 card for it, wait for JB and see if they improved
write to ram then storage?
Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast said:
yeah I am aware of such apps but they do small pictures so rather are not useable at all, because I could just cut frames from the full HD video
I am curious about because sensor of SGS II is capable to record full 8 Mpix movies 10 frames per second... so what stops this from taking 3 pictures in 8 Mpix, if is capable doing so 10.
Isn't there any driver trick to achieve such feature?
BTW: any of you tried SGS III with HDR Camera+ or ProHDR Camera? I am curious about speed
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Ohh... You're seeking more in depth, sorry that's beyond my knowledge. Having this said, I am interested to know more too!
Bump!
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Alright guys, did some looking and finally after searching around decided to make a post with this question.
Does anyone know what the max throughput of write speed is recording at 720 or 480?
Has anyone had any experience with a class or speed of card that actually hindered video recording?
What is the average file size of video recording per minuet of footage?
Thanks for the help, just ordered a Joby pod with magnet feet so I can record some of the Pickleball tournaments I entered and want to be prepared.