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First noticed it - Two months after launch
When I take a picture in my living room, it's usually dark. So the image would look like this:
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But I joke you not, right before the camera settles and finishes its adjustments, I can quickly get a snapshot out that looks like this:
That's freakin amazing! How can I make it stay like that manually? I've been messing with the settings but nothing I do can duplicate it manually.
Is there a solution to this?
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Its the camera focus, in first photo it focuses on ur tv, so it drops lighting from everything else to get a clear image of tv image, 2nd photo did not get chance to focus so there is no drop in lighting
This should be the reason
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Is there any way to manually manipulate it before the shot to get the desired focus like in the second shot? Because I was in the dark and I think it's damn cool that it saw the surrounding area.
Any camera in auto mode would do this. One trick is to make in focus on something else. Point the camera how you want it but tap the wall in the image. This will tell the camera too focus there instead of the center. You can also shift the camera so it's point at something else, half press the shutter button, keep it half pressed, point the camera back to where you want it, then press the shutter button the rest of the way. Second method may cause the focus (not exposure, which controls the brightness) to be off.
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Ah, now that makes sense. I wonder if there are any mod cameras out there that allow us to use manual focus. Hmmmmn.....
oohaylima said:
Ah, now that makes sense. I wonder if there are any mod cameras out there that allow us to use manual focus. Hmmmmn.....
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I'll have tried like 5 different camera apps and get the same results. At my daughter's swim practice, the sun sets behind the pool. If I focus, it takes a super dark photo and you can't even see her. So I have to focus on the concrete, and hit the button and instantly aim at the pool. Lol. Then everything is bright and crisp. It's weird. I too tried playing with every setting I could, with no luck.
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Lol Well it's good to know I'm not alone in this . Guess we'll just have to make due.
It's auto exposure setting for the brightest object in the shot. It is NOT the focus. Focus = blur or no blur. Exposure = brightness. Use my suggestions and it should be much better. Any camera would do this in auto mode.
Source - I am a video producer dabbling in photography.
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Ah. Correction made!
I'll give this a tweak next time.
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Two things I've found with the camera now with a few weeks of casual use - one, it produces blurred images unless i hold my breath and hold the thing as still as possible while it records the image. Even then it might have half the image clear and the other blurred, like its taking too long to poll all the pixels. It also seems to produce dark images even with the brighness setting on +2.0.
I have it set to take 3 mp images, on superfine quality, recording to the microdrive. Does anyone think any of these settings might be contributing to the problem? Maybe recording to memory and/or taking lower quality pics will fix the blurring (or half blurring) issues? I would hate to lower the quality.
Just curious what others have found as the best settings.
Ive tried so many different conbinations of settings and I almost always end up with a blurry picture, unless the lighting conditions are perfect and I mean perfect. If it's even slightly dark, or any form of artificial light, I get blurry images
i find the flash is useless n the device has to be resting on something and subject has too be still else it just dosent work!!!!!
If you get it right (and using the centre of the joystick as a camera shutter release button helps) then you can get some pretty decent lowlight shots.
Exposure is still horrible, but I've seen worse (universal was much worse than this).
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I've already switched to using the joystick's OK button as the shutter release, after holding the camera button half-way to prefocus. I wish the regular OK button below the joystick would work since it has a shorter throw (therefore less chance of motion), but it appears the camera doesn't read that button. < rant > On a related note, I wish the browser button would be disabled while the camera is active, I've lost track of how many times I've pressed it while gripping the right side in order to press the camera button half-way. Then I have to close the browser, interrupting the photo session. < /rant >
I just switched to recording to memory and a few test shots under my desk where its dark appear to be clear, even when I wiggled the unit while taking the shot. I guess a few weeks more of use will determine if its a solution or not. If not, then I'll try moving the quality or size settings downward.
Still interested if anyone has found any "good" settings.
My Streak used to take very good photos which came out natively at 2592x1944 pixels, around 300kb in size. But suddenly that has changed and now photos are only 640 x 480 pxls and about 80kb. I've made no changes nor can I find any means of returning to the higher quality. Can anyone shed any light, please?
When using the camera there are settings for this. I am on my IPAD so i cannot provide instructions. Maybe later when I am on the phone.
Hi,
There is a strip of very small settings buttons down the left hand side of the viewfinder area, touch the top one and a scrollable box comes up, somewhere in there are the resolotion settings. Make sure you check the superfine option, then pick 5MP option.
The buttons are really fiddly, it takes me a couple of tries to get the settings menu up.
Hope this fixes your problem.
The pics I take with my streak are usually around 800MB
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Guest69 said:
Hi,
There is a strip of very small settings buttons down the left hand side of the viewfinder area
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Not on mine I'm afraid! There are five buttons on the right side (brightness/contrast, store location, white balance, flash mode and zoom), but none whatsoever on the left side???
I remeber that being the case before the Froyo update. Are you on 2.2?
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I remeber that being the case before the Froyo update. Are you on 2.2?
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Yes, I am. And I had high quality photos both before and after updating to 2.2. It's only recently that this has happened and I can't think what I must have done to have caused it, nor can I find any resolve. The last thing I want to do is a cold reset, so if anyone can suggest how I might be able to reinstall just the camera app, perhaps?
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Yes, I am. And I had high quality photos both before and after updating to 2.2. It's only recently that this has happened and I can't think what I must have done to have caused it, nor can I find any resolve. The last thing I want to do is a cold reset, so if anyone can suggest how I might be able to reinstall just the camera app, perhaps?
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HI AidanBell,
the option to set the quality of the camera is just below the brightness and contrast option.
Once you click on it just scroll it and you will find it.
Thank you so much. At first I still couldn't find it, but eventually I realised that the brightness/contrast menu is scrollable - which is not in any way obvious nor have I ever known before! So of course scrolling down I've now finally found all the quality controls. So simple and yet so beautifully hidden! Thanks again to everyone who helped with this. Job done.
Whenever I try to macro focus on something, I see the camera adjusting its lens, and I can see the clear image but it quickly goes to be blurry.
Is there some sort of tweak to allow manual focus through like a slider or something?
I have the same issue since I've had the phone. Still haven't figure out how to take a great photo with this phone lol
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Yeah, it's extremely annoying. I hate when you're doing a video and it won't keep full detail sometimes. There has to be a way to control it all manually.
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That would be awesome if someone could do it
if areas are too bright the camera will go dark, just tap on a dark part of image and it will brighten and focus automatic
helps to take better pics
manual focus on an area anytime by just tapping on that area and then take pic with screen button
hardware button is nice but will sometimes lead to a shake of hand and give blurry pic.
this evo has the best camera in a phone ive had to date, like the extra features too
I have the same experience trying to focus for macro shots. Manual focus would be a cool feature! (not to be confused with tapping to set the autofocus point)
I know that this isn't the same thing as manual focus, but what you can do is tap to focus on a point and then hold down the physical camera button halfway. What that does is lock in the focus and exposure settings until you press the shutter all the way down. If you are familiar with Nikon cameras it's similar to the AF-S focus mode, just also combined with AE-Lock.
I know that this isn't the same thing as manual focus, but what you can do is tap to focus on a point and then hold down the physical camera button halfway. What that does is lock in the focus and exposure settings until you press the shutter all the way down. If you are familiar with Nikon cameras it's similar to the AF-S focus mode, just also combined with AE-Lock.
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Cool, that's how I use my Nikon too, almost always with single focus point... the real issue I have with ltevo is focus for macro shots hunts in and out of focus, and rarely lands in focus despite having moved past good focus. Some have said zooming while focusing helps, but it hasn't worked for me...
I usually have to increase my distance from the subject to get decent focus like in this shot...
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Hopefully this is a software bug htc will fix soon!
kindarandomz said:
Whenever I try to macro focus on something, I see the camera adjusting its lens, and I can see the clear image but it quickly goes to be blurry.
Is there some sort of tweak to allow manual focus through like a slider or something?
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Same here. Just yet another annoyance with this phone. Grr
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Try camera app FV-5 in market. Doesn't do manual focus, but has some other macro/focusing options to play with, as well as other neat features.
Thank you so much for telling about the tapping feature that will help me out so much!
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I just got my droid dna couple of days ago, its an amazing phone, but the camera wont focus on anything sligtly away from the phone, it has amazing close ups (macro shots) but fails to focus on something as close as 15 inchs to the camera, I have tried using other settings, and other modes such as landscape mode, iv tried various camera apps, iv tried doing a factory reset. But no luck at all its killing me, I hope its not a hardware problem because I dont live in the states, and I wont be able to have it replaced, please help
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I just got my droid dna couple of days ago, its an amazing phone, but the camera wont focus on anything sligtly away from the phone, it has amazing close ups (macro shots) but fails to focus on something as close as 15 inchs to the camera, I have tried using other settings, and other modes such as landscape mode, iv tried various camera apps, iv tried doing a factory reset. But no luck at all its killing me, I hope its not a hardware problem because I dont live in the states, and I wont be able to have it replaced, please help
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I know it sounds stupid, try cleaning the lens. It's free
That was the first thing I did, again the camera does an amazing job when focusing on really close objects, but fails to do so when the object are sligtly away from the camera, so I guess This does not have anything. To do with the camera, Being dirty.
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When you say won't focus, are you touching screen to focus on that area first, and if so does it look like it is trying to focus, but doesn't seem to properly focus.
I tried mine, and when I touch the screen to the 15" away object it focuses fine to that object, and takes a clear pic.
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Yes I touch the screen and the shutter sound sample plays and it looks like it's trying to focus but no luck, do u suffer from the same problem? Did anything work? Do you think it's a hardware or software Issue?
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Hello,
New user of this phone, the camera viewfinder goes black in dark scenes check the screenshot and the shot taken. Shots come out okay but cannot compose. Can anyone check?
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I have tried both google camera and stock miui one, does the same thing in both. I still have some days left to exchange it, is there a fix or should I go the exchange route?
Thanks in advance.
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couldn't this be just normal behaviour? it seem's like you're trying to make a picture in an almost completely dark room, just some low light LEDs.
live view doesn't get enough light to show you anything brighter. the final shot is taken with night mode and i bet it makes a long exposure time over 1 second+ and high ISO.
live view = multiple frames per second, it can't get as many light as the final shot with 1sec exposure.
though, I'm just guessing.
one more hint:
at the bottom of the live view screen, select "more" and then "night". it will show you live view with high ISO
in your case it's probably the same as "night sight" at the bottom left, just select it.
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one more hint:
at the bottom of the live view screen, select "more" and then "night". it will show you live view with high ISO
in your case it's probably the same as "night sight" at the bottom left, just select it.
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My note 3 pro showed proper exposure at this light but this can't, so I'm thinking there might be something wrong with the sensor.
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couldn't this be just normal behaviour? it seem's like you're trying to make a picture in an almost completely dark room, just some low light LEDs.
live view doesn't get enough light to show you anything brighter. the final shot is taken with night mode and i bet it makes a long exposure time over 1 second+ and high ISO.
live view = multiple frames per second, it can't get as many light as the final shot with 1sec exposure.
though, I'm just guessing.
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Which rom are you using
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@rayulove69 in the too dark picture you posted above you have NOT activated "night sight" or "night", just do that and see if it works.
you have actively selected "camera" and this is not supposed to give you the same brightness as "night sight" or "night" mode in live view.
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@rayulove69 in the too dark picture you posted above you have NOT activated "night sight" or "night", just do that and see if it works.
you have actively selected "camera" and this is not supposed to give you the same brightness as "night sight" or "night" mode in live view.
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doing so does the same thing and the darking is arbitrary ar also blurs the **** out of those dark parts