Does anyone have a a clicky camera on their Prime? I'm running ICS and the latest firmware for the camera. Not sure what version exactly...
It's especially evident when shooting a video and you touch to focus. Can even hear it in the recorded video (sounds very loud).
Additionally, I've noticed that the picture quality isn't quite up to scratch...
Anyone reporting similar issues at all?
I've got it too, doesn't actually bother me...maybe it's related to the haptic feedback ticks...
I find it extremely loud to be honest. Thinking perhaps the firmware update broke the camera
Nah, I've had the "click" since HC...
It's just the camera focusing. My Rezound and OG Inc do it as well.
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yep, it's the camera focus. Doesn't bother me in pics obviously, but sometimes i can hear it in my recorded videos, which is slightly bothersome. The camera is fantastic though, really.
Yeah, I've noticed this as well, however, it only seems to happen during a manual/adjusted focus. I changed my video recorder settings to continuous focus and haven't heard it in a video since.
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I had the Evo and the camcorder and camera quality was terrible. They advertise 8MP camera and 720P video, but if you compare the pictures and video to an Iphone4 you'll see it's no where near the quality for clarity, sound quality, low light, etc. I've been scouring the net looking for tests of the Thunderbolt camera/camcorder and cannot find anything. I suspect that it is exactly the same as the Evo's. Anyone have any details?
What makes the iPhone better isn't the camera, its the hdr effect
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What makes the iPhone better isn't the camera, its the hdr effect
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Nah, I have the iPhone4 and before the update that added HDR (which stores both versions of pictures so you can compare) it was better than my EVO, especially the video. I'm probably going to be picking up the Thunderbolt so this is a curiosity for me as well, though it's not a dealbreaker.
I have been asking myself this very question.
I'm kind of expecting the quality to be very similar, if not the same, as the Inspire 4G.
Both phones are very similar (in hardware design anyway) and are being released fairly close to one another.
I've actually seen a few videos floating around on youtube and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed with the quality of the video that the Inspire takes compared to my Dinc.
Having said that, the audio still needs some work, but I don't think that the Inspire has a noise canceling mic like the Thunderbolt has so I'm really hoping that the sound is much better on the Thunderbolt.
Only time will tell.
Hey,
Just got my atrix today after huge fiasco with att stores. Anyway, so far i love it this thing is blazing fast compared to my captivate and the gps works =).
My one gripe is the camera quality, everything looks washed out almost like there is a film on the camera lense that can't be removed. The same thing applies to when i recieve an mms picture. The quality looks so bad that it's hard to even tell what it is sometimes
Anyone have any workarounds or tips on taking photos?
Yeah, noticed the same thing, especially coming from an iPhone 4, the photo AND video quality on the Atrix look washed out and grainy. Hopefully it would be a software fix.
The only solution so far is just to take photos in the 5MP resolution. the 3MP and Widescreen (which is like 3.?) are horrible.
was just fixing to post how horrible the camera and video quality is compared to the captivate! ughhh... i hope it is fixable via a software tweak this is nasty. like dirty sand
trapjawmusic said:
was just fixing to post how horrible the camera and video quality is compared to the captivate! ughhh... i hope it is fixable via a software tweak this is nasty. like dirty sand
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ahh, dirty sand is exactly how i would describe it
I only take pictures at the 5mp quality and it seems to be fine? : shrug :
can someone post a few test shots?
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Yeah, noticed the same thing, especially coming from an iPhone 4, the photo AND video quality on the Atrix look washed out and grainy. Hopefully it would be a software fix.
The only solution so far is just to take photos in the 5MP resolution. the 3MP and Widescreen (which is like 3.?) are horrible.
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Correct, I love the phone but MMS coming from iphone 4 purely suck!
Also coming from iPhone 4, setting the camera to 5mp does seem to help some for sure though.
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I only take pictures at the 5mp quality and it seems to be fine? : shrug :
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aye it looks fine when not comparing it to anything. But hands down the ip4 camera is far superior and even my captivate camera looks better, meanwhile they're all 5mp
Hi on my transformer prime I have noticed that the camera makes a clicking sound while focusing. I don't think it did when I first got it, and then there was a camera firmware update and ever since it has been making the sound. It can't really be anything bad but does anyone have any ideas about what/why it's is making the sound for?
I hear this too, not sure of the cause but I too would like to hear some peoples ideas on it.
Glad to know I'm not the only one
I have this on my HTC inspire I think its normal because of the movement of the lenses when it focuses
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I made a thread about this a while ago, and apparently the camera is mechanical, so it's just the lens or whatever focusing and moving. Make the focus mode "Infinity" and it will stop clicking, but the focus won't work very well (or at all?).
It has always clicked, yes.
And yes, clicking is reduced if you change the focus to 'continuous' mode. I haven't had a problem w/ focus on video recording on continuous.
lens moves when it focuses. its the same on my desireHD... and never bothered me at all
So I finally got the phone and it is beautiful. Though when I use snapchat I mostly use my front facing camera, and it is really not that good. Is this bothering anyone else, or is it my phone? There is a lot of distortion/noise on the picture and even my S3 front facing is better. The main camera is really great though.
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So I finally got the phone and it is beautiful. Though when I use snapchat I mostly use my front facing camera, and it is really not that good. Is this bothering anyone else, or is it my phone? There is a lot of distortion/noise on the picture and even my S3 front facing is better. The main camera is really great though.
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I can confirm that on snapchat the front camera quality goes right down.
Seems better in the camera app, could be snapchat issue?
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I can confirm that on snapchat the front camera quality goes right down.
Seems better in the camera app, could be snapchat issue?
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Yeah I tried the camera app, and while taking the picture it is exactly like on snapchat, but when you look at it after the shot is taken most of the noise is gone. Still on snapchat the noise is still there. It is a lot better in light, but terrible in medium light.
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Yeah I tried the camera app, and while taking the picture it is exactly like on snapchat, but when you look at it after the shot is taken most of the noise is gone. Still on snapchat the noise is still there. It is a lot better in light, but terrible in medium light.
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Yeah same here. Have actually been searching around the internet these last couple of days to see if anybody else has the same issue.
Front camera is fine in the day, but when inside, even with artificial lighting (nothing major like florescent lights) it goes grainy, like blue and red pixels flying about the screen.
And yes, the picture does improve when the picture processing takes place on the camera app and on Instagram.
But unfortunately, this picture processing does not happen on Shapchat so you get very bad shots in the dark.
It's not a huge issue for me as in most cases, say good to above advantage lighting conditions. the front camera is good enough for small things like Snapchat. But when things do get dark, the image processing can improve things when taken on the camera app.
Oh and the rear camera? Well, no complaints there :good:
I will post some shots later when it gets a bit dark here and see if you can compare
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Same here! Its annoying that in anything but perfect natural light is goes rubbish.
I found the new "video chat" type function is pretty poor on forward facing camera too. Slightly better on skype, but still not fantastic. The people I am speaking to on iPhones, it is crystal clear, but on my side its pretty awful. Have you noticed the audio when recording a snap video is pretty poor too? This could be where I am holding it, as my fingers tend to be at the bottom of the phone, so maybe I am blocking a mic?
I wonder if a software update will fix some of the issues with the camera like focus etc.. Does anyone know? Also, does the new Mate 7 have the same internal hardware for the camera since they are both 13mp? Guy on huawei chat said yes but I think he just read that both were same resolution.
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I wonder if a software update will fix some of the issues with the camera like focus etc.. Does anyone know? Also, does the new Mate 7 have the same internal hardware for the camera since they are both 13mp? Guy on huawei chat said yes but I think he just read that both were same resolution.
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I really do hope it does. The front facing camera is alright, can't really complain, but the rear is quite annoying.
What sort of issues are you having? I've had excellent results with the camera. I'm 100% stock, no mods, kernels or anything.
I don't use the huawei camera app or google. I use the Camera FV-5 app, because it has a ton of customizations.
I took this one this past Easter. Other than being cropped, straight from the camera on the Mate2.
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What sort of issues are you having? I've had excellent results with the camera. I'm 100% stock, no mods, kernels or anything.
I don't use the huawei camera app or google. I use the Camera FV-5 app, because it has a ton of customizations.
I took this one this past Easter. Other than being cropped, straight from the camera on the Mate2.
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That's a great pic. I noticed what most seem to notice when I googled. The camera has a focus issue and won't seem to lock on. Daily I'm taking pics and you think you got a good shot then the picture is blurry. My gf took some good shots with hers but the object has to be non moving with perfect light and just stand there and wait for the focus to grab versus all the other phones I've had before. I downloaded many different apps and took the same shot with all of them but non seem to do better and some weren't even capable of using 13mp. I'll check out the FV-5, thank you.
That picture is actually quite bad. Poor saturation and quite underexposed.... but meh, it's a phone camera. Pretty flower though!
I think the HAM2 rear camera could definitely be improved in software. It's my opinion that the front facing camera actually works better than the rear camera half the time. Take video for example... try shooting video in a somewhat darkened room with both cameras - you'll find out that the rear camera suffers a horrible loss of framerate while the video from the front facing camera is smooth as silk.
The front camera also has odd tap-to-focus issues especially when flash is enabled.
With that being said it's a cellphone camera and I've definitely seen much worse. And I love the question in the original post.... no one knows the answer but Huawei and their software development team. How would any of us know what Huawei is including in their Android 5.x based update? I'll still be quite surprised if we even get one, and that's WITH the Huawei blog announcements and the so far worthless 'beta' registration site.....
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That picture is actually quite bad. Poor saturation and quite underexposed.... but meh, it's a phone camera. Pretty flower though!
I think the HAM2 rear camera could definitely be improved in software. It's my opinion that the front facing camera actually works better than the rear camera half the time. Take video for example... try shooting video in a somewhat darkened room with both cameras - you'll find out that the rear camera suffers a horrible loss of framerate while the video from the front facing camera is smooth as silk.
The front camera also has odd tap-to-focus issues especially when flash is enabled.
With that being said it's a cellphone camera and I've definitely seen much worse. And I love the question in the original post.... no one knows the answer but Huawei and their software development team. How would any of us know what Huawei is including in their Android 5.x based update? I'll still be quite surprised if we even get one, and that's WITH the Huawei blog announcements and the so far worthless 'beta' registration site.....
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I was thinking more if anyone has noticed improvements in camera in previous upgrades of other devices so someone could comment "hey when the Honor 6 got it's new OS the camera problems were largely improved" or something like that. For sure nobody can know what the Huawei peeps are doing unless there is a Huawei peep on our lil ole forum. I'm sure you're right, if we even get an update they'll act like there was never an issue with the camera and do nothing. My friend ordered the Mate 7 but I read a review that sounded like it's the same camera as ours still and that's an expensive phone.
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That picture is actually quite bad. Poor saturation and quite underexposed.... but meh, it's a phone camera. Pretty flower though!
I think the HAM2 rear camera could definitely be improved in software. It's my opinion that the front facing camera actually works better than the rear camera half the time. Take video for example... try shooting video in a somewhat darkened room with both cameras - you'll find out that the rear camera suffers a horrible loss of framerate while the video from the front facing camera is smooth as silk.
The front camera also has odd tap-to-focus issues especially when flash is enabled.
With that being said it's a cellphone camera and I've definitely seen much worse. And I love the question in the original post.... no one knows the answer but Huawei and their software development team. How would any of us know what Huawei is including in their Android 5.x based update? I'll still be quite surprised if we even get one, and that's WITH the Huawei blog announcements and the so far worthless 'beta' registration site.....
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It sure doesn't match my dSLR, but like you said...it's a pinhole cell phone sensor...not much wiggle room.
Okay, I love this phone. I love the camera. Just work with the settings to get what you want. Now, THE ONLY THING, is the warp zones in the front facing camera. Always try to get the faces in the center of the screen or else itll appear warped.
Try it out and see for yourself. I guess that's the downside to having a long phone. The lens in the camera has to recompensate and redistribute the photons evenly.
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And cant forget about the alien beauty filter! Makes it look like you did some zoomers!
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