Hi guys, I tried looking everywhere but I haven't beem able to find any info about whether or not the wide angle lens has any focus (autofocus) or even touch focus? Or is it fixed at infinity only, with no focus? Or maybe my camera is broken? For example if I put the main camera close to my leg and focus I can clearly see the hairs, but if I do that with the wide angle it is blurry (however things,far away seem clear). If I touch the screen while in wide angle mode the green focus square briefly appears, such as with the main camera, but it does not focus neither does it make the focusing sound.
Also the front camera has no touch focus or autofocus, right? This is driving me crazy, and would appreciate anu feedback so that I know if I should send my phone back for repairs or not. I heard that some G5 phones are suffering from hardware failures regarding the main camera focus, but I want to know if the wide angle supports focusing in the first place. Thanks guys, I really appreciate it!
H850, unlocked, unrooted, Nougat.
My wide angel & front cam are also without focus. They seems to be only fixfocus cams!
Informations about the cams
-> http://www.anandtech.com/show/10217/the-lg-g5-review/5
-> https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/lg-g5-camera-review
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Hi!
I recently got my lovely OnePlus X. Everything is where it needs to be, can't be more happy!
Except for the front facing camera, where the phone suffers from the wide-angle lens distortion syndrome which lots of new recent phones have.
The only way where I can fix this is by zooming a little bit so that the warp map for the camera no longer is "being used" even though it's already there?
The point is that I pretty much liked my front facing cam back when I had my Nexus 5.
Since I use Snapchat alot; when taking dank selfies, I just look like a fat fish in certain angles. If I use the default camera app however and zoom a little bit in, it's all fixed. How can do this for Snapchat, since it does not support front zooming for Android (yet?).
I have it rooted with Xposed installed and ready to go. Should I use some alternatives? Can I remove the warp map hardware wise? Can I change some "hardware-ish" setting so that it returns to normal mode? I just want it to be like my old lower fov Nexus 5.
Thanks!
Hi guys, I tried looking everywhere but I haven't been able to find any info about whether or not the wide angle lens has any focus (autofocus) or even touch focus? Or is it fixed at infinity only, with no focus? Or maybe my camera is broken? For example if I put the main camera close to my leg and focus I can clearly see the hairs, but if I do that with the wide angle it is blurry (however things,far away seem clear). If I touch the screen while in wide angle mode the green focus square briefly appears, such as with the main camera, but it does not focus neither does it make the focusing sound.
Also the front camera has no touch focus or autofocus, right? This is driving me crazy, and would appreciate anu feedback so that I know if I should send my phone back for repairs or not. I heard that some G5 phones are suffering from hardware failures regarding the main camera focus, but I want to know if the wide angle supports focusing in the first place. Thanks guys, I really appreciate it!
H850, unlocked, unrooted, Nougat.
Smooth Wind said:
Hi guys, I tried looking everywhere but I haven't been able to find any info about whether or not the wide angle lens has any focus (autofocus) or even touch focus? Or is it fixed at infinity only, with no focus? Or maybe my camera is broken? For example if I put the main camera close to my leg and focus I can clearly see the hairs, but if I do that with the wide angle it is blurry (however things,far away seem clear). If I touch the screen while in wide angle mode the green focus square briefly appears, such as with the main camera, but it does not focus neither does it make the focusing sound.
Also the front camera has no touch focus or autofocus, right? This is driving me crazy, and would appreciate anu feedback so that I know if I should send my phone back for repairs or not. I heard that some G5 phones are suffering from hardware failures regarding the main camera focus, but I want to know if the wide angle supports focusing in the first place. Thanks guys, I really appreciate it!
H850, unlocked, unrooted, Nougat.
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Hi,
I can see you have already created a thread on this here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g5/help/wide-angle-camera-focus-t3590660
so I'm going to close this one up
Regards
Sawdoctor
I've seen recently released phones which have a similar setup like the G5 with one normal and another wide angle sensor on the back, such as the Xiaomi A1. And they have the ability to combine the inputs of both sensors to post-process the blurry 'bokeh" portrait mode effect.
Which makes me wonder why this can't be done on the G5/G6? How much modification of the A1 camera app would it take for this to work? I'm pointing out A1 specifically because the camera app has already been ported to other Xiaomi phones.
These other phones don't have a wide angle lens. They use a telephoto one instead which helps create the effect
You probably would not be able to just port over that app. But it might be possible to create the same effect by cropping the wide angle lens back to the same or slightly more than the standard camera. But that probably won't work too well, since you already have half the resolution on the wide angle lens, and you need to cut it down even more to even get close to the other lens' angle
The A1 uses a wide angle as the secondary camera with the primary being a telephoto. But I've seen the wide angle shots and they don't look like they have much of a fisheye effect that the LG G5 has. But I do think with a bit of lens correction this may be doable.
But I don't have the skills for this.
Sorry to diggout this old subject
But I bought a LG G5 recently for 150$, I'm very happy with (apart from ghosting screen effect) and I'm really interested in portrait mode
I'm a java developer (and recently Android), if anyone still interested, I can spend time on it, it would be possible I think
Portrait mode for lg g5 request
Please please develope portrait mode for LG g5 ... And thanks in advance ...
The cameras on the Mate 10 are great, but would definitely benefit with some more tweaking. The primary camera performs really well and offers fine tuned control over almost all the variables. I've found that the auto-exposure in low light raises the ISO quite a bit and the picture ends up looking fake, plastic and grainy. This can easily be fixed by under-exposing or by lowering the ISO in manual mode, but only with the primary camera. The front camera always seems to expose for the face. There are no controls to set exposure or focus, and there is no manual mode. Although it performs well in good light, the results are poor in low light and the lack of any control restricts any creative photography. For instance, if I move the camera off my face, it exposes for the background but it doesn't lock. The exposure switches back the instant I reframe the shot. Is there any workaround for controlling the front camera besides using another camera app?
Front facing camera manual focus
I have the same problem, the front facing camera is almost unusable where there is a lot of light.
Workaround
isvellopez said:
I have the same problem, the front facing camera is almost unusable where there is a lot of light.
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I have installed open camera, and this app let me lock the exposure of the front facing camera.
any solution found of this? i can hardly use the front camera because of this issue
The front facing camera on the Mate 10 Pro is great for taking outdoor selfies, as long as you want a solid white background behind you. I can't believe more people aren't complaining about this and that there isn't an official fix.
I got my G8X yesterday. Overall it is a great phone. One thing I noted was only standard camera can do autofocus, while wide and selfie camera doesn't. For example, using selfie camera, if I put the phone at the distance I would normally use, I got a blurry image because it does not focus. You can tap the screen, all you get is adjusting exposure. You dont get focus sound. This is not a deal breaker for me. But just would like to mention to you guys.