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.
Which rom are you using
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.
Zirila said:
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.
Zirila said:
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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Stock miui
@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
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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.
All of sudden the contrast on my screen increased to ridiculous amount. I'm getting color banding, even the sign on power on screen is not sharp but has some extra grayish squares around the white letters.
Everything was fine, and after one charging cycle the phone lit up to inform me charging was done and the contrast (and brightness) was all the way up with no way of changing it back.
The 'Auto adjust screen power' option doesn't do anything for me now. Was on stock 2.3.4 KG2 when this happened
I've tried restart, removing battery, factory reset, even reflash (back to 2.3.3 stock, and now I'm on 2.3.4 KG 3stock), nothing works.
Here is screenshot from phone
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And here is photo of the same screen (photo quality is horrible, but it should give you idea)
Is there any way how to fix this or do I need to RMA my phone
Where is photo?
Make sure that you are not placing it under some light source which is causing the Auto Brightness to take effect, and also can't you decrease brightness from settings?
link for photo:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/picture.php?albumid=4411&pictureid=14582
The colors and brightness are way off even on manual brightness settings. When I purchased the set and set minimum brightness it was almost unreadable on direct sunlight. Now even with lowest brightness the display is readable without any issues on direct sunlight.
Goto display and set the screen mode to Normal instead of Dynamic.
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Goto display and set the screen mode to Normal instead of Dynamic.
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Don't have Normal there, only Standard, and it was already set on Standard.
Edit: It's not clearly visible on the photo, but the upper part (that's supposed to be full black) is covered with green dots on the display.
I've just experienced this last night, I was comparing the image I saw on my monitor to the SAMOLED and I noticed that the hair color was a very strong orange/red on my phone and its chestnut brown on the screen.. I checked the color mode and its standard.. I was playing around with the phone including rebooting it and it seemed to have gone away.
This was on XXKG6.
h4rr0d, this really looks like a hardware fault to me. Sorry to say, but I advice you to contact Samsung assistance.
Thanks for the replies guys, I've already RMA'd the cell, waiting for the service to respond now.
EDIT: Ok, so I've got the phone back today, the RMA report states they have 'exchanged an electric component', so no clue what it was. But I'm happy I've got my phone back fixed and they actually fixed it without any issues.
Sorry for my english xD but i dont use translate, D: i have a dream for buy a xperia mini or mini pro, i have xperia x10 mini pro and i love her taken pictures (great camera in macro pictures, minimal noise levels D:
Please xD post your macro pictures
Check out this link, you can do a head to head comparison.
http://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?...&idPhone3=3619
D: yep, xD not have personal macro pictures? u.u
Here's a quick test.
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D: yep, xD not have personal macro pictures? u.u
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Note I took several shots to get the sharpest one...Shutter speed is pretty slow at 1/16. This was taken in macro portrait mode. No flash, good indoor ambient light fluorescent, Auto WB
Actually felt it was pretty good, but the time from click to capture is slow.
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Shot under fluorescent light
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7708/dsc0150cd.jpg
Similar shot in better natural light, camera response time is decent.
http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/2472/dsc0163v.jpg
Issues with image:
1: Dark color speckles: If you look at the picture in actual size, you'll see the speckles. I'm not certain
what causes them, I'm guessing it's compression or NR or both. It's visible in on the Splenda packet brown letters. More visible on the blue tootsie roll, the wrapper is a solid color.
2: Wish it was easier to control shutter/ISO speeds. If you use sports mode, it pretty much doesn't allow the shutter speed to go below 1/125, which is not a bad thing, but the camera doesn't always choose a greater ISO to go along with it. The camera is able to do ISO 800, but it selects ISO 500 resulting in a dark photo. Even when I pump up the EV. Night portrait does the opposite, it pushes shutter speed down to 1/4 sec. This pretty much rules out any sort of people shots because any movement whatsoever will result in blur. Normal low light shots are done at 1/16 sec... Still too slow. Wish I could set it to at least 1/30.
3: Color dynamic range: Skin tones tend to turn out plastic due to the heavy NR. There's not gradual changing of color, just a solid look to the skin. This is most visible under low light situations.
Have to say the macro shots look better than the panorama shots (normal mode). The panoramas are significantly affected by the speckle effect. I haven't tried the dedicated panorama mode.
Mike
thank you mike, not buy this phone for me xD. Thank you for your time
is there any application can capture clear pictures in xperia mini pro?
Camera - Default
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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?
Bump
Still looking for a solution.
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.....
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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.....
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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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It's there any way to lessen the saturation of the picture without having to go into pro mode. Most of the colors in the photo are okay but the reds almost glow. I've never minded Samsung saturation but this is a bit much. Just not sure what settings that I could change to adjust this. Below I've attached S23U vs Pixel 7 pro. Pixel is more realistic.
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Post processing red channel contrast curve edit on a color calibrated monitor.
Yeah that's a pain.
Your display may be part of the problem. Set display to "natural" setting. The vivid setting will cause this. Regardless if it's cam or the display calibration is sort in the air.
Oh dang. I take this back. The pictures looked more vivid because I was viewing it in the sun. Coming back inside, the pictures look more how I like it.
Yeah try to avoid using in direct sunlight as it's hard on the display. In sunlight the vivid setting may help reduce washout. Don't know if it auto toggles that on for bright viewing conditions for that model or not. Sort of looks like it does...
Turning off scene optimization in camera settings will help some. You can also change the saturation after the fact with an image editor. Google photos has that built in. Also turn on raw+jpeg in pro mode and use pro mode for high value shots.
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Oh dang. I take this back. The pictures looked more vivid because I was viewing it in the sun. Coming back inside, the pictures look more how I like it.
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Still after looking these pictures via PC screen i can say that first picture is too much saturated than second picture.
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Still after looking these pictures via PC screen i can say that first picture is too much saturated than second picture.
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You're right. It's slightly more saturated than I would like but it's better than what I was seeing in the direct sunlight.
Saturation of most scenes is on the aggressive side, but the sky on a sunny day is ATROCIOUS. The blue is way way way too saturated and dark, and very difficult to correct in post.
The only way I have found to fix saturation via a permanent setting is in pro mode.Click the icon in the upper write of the screen, adjust saturation (-5 works well IMO), tweak other things (I brought up the shadows to +8, highlights down to -5, contrast down to -3). Then go to settings and under "Settings to remember" make sure that mode and filters are selected. You will have to always shoot in Pro mode for this to have effect, I think. Alas a saturation adjustment is not available in regular mode.
BTW I tried gcam with allegedly "natural processes xml" and it was the same fugly blue sky.