Hi,
So I tend to take a lot of super close up pics, mostly of different small computer parts and it's really annoying that the Nexus 6P cannot focus on close objects.
Is there any possible way to make it focus on close objects, any possible way is fine with me.
Use a camera app that has macro focus?
I've actually been wondering this as well.
velveteen71 said:
Use a camera app that has macro focus?
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Do you have any suggestions?
seboj said:
I've actually been wondering this as well.
Do you have any suggestions?
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I don't use this app myself, but I've read this app has the possibility: HD Camera Pro .
i have the same gripe, but i have come to find out that the camera doesnt really have to be sooo close to the subject to take good pics.
use MANUAL CAMERA, it allows you to adjust focus manually to macro... and u will see that the minimum working distance is about 4-5 inches away
I've used Manual Camera as well for macro shots, seems to work pretty good.
swallowingled said:
I've used Manual Camera as well for macro shots, seems to work pretty good.
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chaco81 said:
i have the same gripe, but i have come to find out that the camera doesnt really have to be sooo close to the subject to take good pics.
use MANUAL CAMERA, it allows you to adjust focus manually to macro... and u will see that the minimum working distance is about 4-5 inches away
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That's nice to know, but which settings to modify for macro shots?
Not a software solution, but you can buy on ebay for a few bucks macro lens. I have played with it a little bit, and the results are excellent. And since you are working with computer parts, if you have nearby old CD/DVD drive, try to pull out lens from it. You will be amazed with result (but it will give you blur effect on everything that is not in the center of the image, opposite to macro lens where everything is clear).
srdjannj said:
Not a software solution, but you can buy on ebay for a few bucks macro lens. I have played with it a little bit, and the results are excellent. And since you are working with computer parts, if you have nearby old CD/DVD drive, try to pull out lens from it. You will be amazed with result (but it will give you blur effect on everything that is not in the center of the image, opposite to macro lens where everything is clear).
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Wow, thanks, I do have a couple of old DvD drives lying around, I will give it a shot.
[email protected] said:
Wow, thanks, I do have a couple of old DvD drives lying around, I will give it a shot.
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cool macro lense i used to have was the outer lense of a disposable camera
u opened it, cut the lense with some plastic from the front housing and used it
now that i have a 3d printer, i would venture to print a holder for one of them... guess i gotta go get another disposable camera
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I searched for a camera fix for the HD camera with no success. Does anyone know if there's going to be a fix in the near future? I'm sure that ya'll have the same problem that I do. Camera takes pictures that look old & rustic. Brownish tint to them & not very sharp for a 5 MP camera. I have adjusted all the settings for light & junk but nothing fixes it. As far as I'm concerned, it should take pictures IDENTICAL to a normal 5 MP digital camera. I can promise you that it's not doing that. Any help would be great, thanks in advance.
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I searched for a camera fix for the HD camera with no success. Does anyone know if there's going to be a fix in the near future? I'm sure that ya'll have the same problem that I do. Camera takes pictures that look old & rustic. Brownish tint to them & not very sharp for a 5 MP camera. I have adjusted all the settings for light & junk but nothing fixes it. As far as I'm concerned, it should take pictures IDENTICAL to a normal 5 MP digital camera. I can promise you that it's not doing that. Any help would be great, thanks in advance.
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Why should it take pictures identical to a 5MP camera. The lens on the front is going to be vastly different, the sensor maybe 5MP, but what is the spacing on the sensor pixels? The closer together, the noisier the image. Colour balance will be down to the sensor too.
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I'm not talking about the front camera. The normal camera on the back. I understand about the pixel thing, but it still shouldn't be so brownish, right? The pictures look like an old Polaroid picture. You know, the one's that spit the picture out as soon as you took it. Old, brown & nasty looking.
My pictures come out fine...
Hmmmmmmm...................... I'll just keep playing with it.
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I'm not talking about the front camera. The normal camera on the back. I understand about the pixel thing, but it still shouldn't be so brownish, right? The pictures look like an old Polaroid picture. You know, the one's that spit the picture out as soon as you took it. Old, brown & nasty looking.
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I'm not being flippant, but is it possible you might have a dirty lens?
Lol, that was the first thing I tried. Cleaned both sides of the back cover & cleaned the lens on the camera. Good idea, though.
The "5mp" doesn't really mean much, as stated earlier, if the sensor and lens are poor quality. As far as I know, HTC haven't released a phone with a reasonable quality camera, yet.
I bounce between different smart-phones (just coming back to WM now, after a year with S60). I can say that many of the S60 devices (in particular the Nokia N95, but also the N82 with Xenon flash) have very good cameras, being similar to low-end digital cameras in daylight. They lack optical zoom and tend to over-compress images, but have good quality lenses.
imho hd camera is excelent
pictures look old & rustic only if you make them inside house without using the artificial light setting, and this is also a general rule, not specific to HD.
Never seen a good phone camera yet, including the latest 8mpixel ones. They're all terrible.
Never
This camera will NEVER take pictures anywhere near what real cameras do. The photo sites are so tiny, they are smaller then the length of waive of light. Therefore noise, lack of dynamic width, etc. No patch will ever fix that. Sorry
open back cover , clean the lens , you will see a huge difference in quality
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Lol, that was the first thing I tried. Cleaned both sides of the back cover & cleaned the lens on the camera. Good idea, though.
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Not that I'm doubting you or anything but you do realize that the back cover only has a hole through to the lens?
You might try setting the brightness higher:
If you touch the small rectangle near the bottom right side of the screen (when holding landscape)
Then select the gear symbol, then select brightness from the menu and hit the "+" until it looks better that will remove most of the darkness.
The camera is a plain disappointment. In the time the camera autofocusses, I could have bought a Sony Ericsson C905's, create a good looking photo (with xenon flash) and upload it to imageshack.
If 'your object' makes the slightest move, your photo will be blurry . This is also the case when you attempt to make a photo of someone that isn't aware he or she has to be waiting for the autofocus lag. Head moves >>> blurry pic.
iPhone camera shots are way better quality, don't ask me why. Overall my Touch HD scores 8/10, where atleast 1 full point is taken up by the camera
and it's better don't speak about the very laggy video recording
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iPhone camera shots are way better quality, don't ask me why.
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Too many megapixels on a tiny sensor = major noise problem = blurring from denoise.
Even 2mpixels is too much for sensors this size, but people buy on marketing numbers of megapixels, not quality. You can just imagine the whining that would occur if the Touch HD came out with 1.3mpxiels, even though it would produce better pictures.
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Too many megapixels on a tiny sensor = major noise problem = blurring from denoise.
Even 2mpixels is too much for sensors this size, but people buy on marketing numbers of megapixels, not quality. You can just imagine the whining that would occur if the Touch HD came out with 1.3mpxiels, even though it would produce better pictures.
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hehe, thats true.
mpixels dont count as much as the general public belives. the more mpix. the higher rezolution you can print the picture in. but for ordinary photos, 1.3 mpix would be enough, as long as the optics is good.
Personally, I rarely use a phone camera.
I use either my Olympus 720SW or Canon EOS.
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the camera sucks **** compared to the n95 and the video recording is horrid. i know it's not meant to be as good as a dedicated camera but this is pretty bad given the price of the device.
i concur with mach03, move the camera a slight bit and eveyrthing gets blurred. one way i've semi gotten aorund this is to unlock the burst functiona nd take a sequence of pics and hope one or two coems out alright, not the most economic way to do it though...
i would ahve thought that maybe there's a way to tweak the camera to stop the blurring or even affect how much light is picked up by the lens which should also help with clarity
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I'm not talking about the front camera. The normal camera on the back. I understand about the pixel thing, but it still shouldn't be so brownish, right? The pictures look like an old Polaroid picture. You know, the one's that spit the picture out as soon as you took it. Old, brown & nasty looking.
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A silly idea, but seriously, did you check if maybe, just maybe, you left the "sepia" effect turned on???
Hey Guys,
I have a 100% bricked unit a person donated for work.
I took some macro shots. First time. If anyone can give me hints on how to get them more clean / close etc. I will do more.
But, here you go.
Smaller images
http://www.mrcellphoneunlocker.com/vibrant_macro
Raw Images
http://www.mrcellphoneunlocker.com/vibrant_macro/Raw/
Well, you basically need to change the resolution to something higher, and change the settings in the camera to macro mode. From the looks of things though, your camera won't allow close-ups in high detail.
I change to macro. I think i need a tri-pod to keep it steady. my hands shake
Yeah, change resolution to something much higher. Even if you camera doesn't have a macro mode, we should be able to zoom in pretty well. The more natural light, the better.
New pics up using a tri-pod.
http://www.mrcellphoneunlocker.com/vibrant_macro
let me know
Hard to tell on there... not even close to macro though. You'll need to get a macro lens to get real close.
Here's true 1:1 ratio macro of the sim card slot along with a 100% crop from the same photo
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4896772122_450859da8d_o.jpg
100% crop
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4896176925_ee3f0d09f9_o.jpg
I took the screws out of the plastic cover and was going to take some close up shots for you, but when I did it didn't seem to come loose on it's own. I assume that I'd need to pry it apart which I wasn't going to do since it's not bricked, lol....
Mine is just a simple 12M cam. Nothing special. Its not a SLR. But if you have a vibrant open. please take using a prof cam
How did you get the black plastic cover off? Are there some tabs or anything I need to push in, will it go back on nice after I take it off? I'd glady take real closup shots of all the components if it's easy to get that off.. I took out all of the screws thinking it would just come loose, but it didn't. I don't want to jack it up, I'm not the most graceful when it comes to working with small breakable parts. Would hate to jack up my new phone, haha.
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How did you get the black plastic cover off? Are there some tabs or anything I need to push in, will it go back on nice after I take it off? I'd glady take real closup shots of all the components if it's easy to get that off.. I took out all of the screws thinking it would just come loose, but it didn't. I don't want to jack it up, I'm not the most graceful when it comes to working with small breakable parts. Would hate to jack up my new phone, haha.
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Well this phone was taken apart already. and its a total brick.
He told me he had to remove the silver plastic.
The rest I just removed the screws and the connectors. Very simple.
What you have uploaded is maybe a 1mp image. When pulling images off the camera dont allow any resizing, and when uploading to the webpage dont allow any resizing. We need that 10mb+ file to view things properly. If your using your vibrant to take a picture of this vibrant, dont waste your time.
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What you have uploaded is maybe a 1mp image. When pulling images off the camera dont allow any resizing, and when uploading to the webpage dont allow any resizing. We need that 10mb+ file to view things properly. If your using your vibrant to take a picture of this vibrant, dont waste your time.
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Yes, You are right. the app is making them smaller. Ill upload over night. so they are bigger.
Thanks for the idea. I forgot about that
Uploading now.
Huge raw images: http://www.mrcellphoneunlocker.com/vibrant_macro/Raw/
I can't wait to see this development blossom...
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i wonder if the FF camera from the SGS is a combined vga FFC / 5mp main camera? you can see the hole in the chassis clearly in your pictures and its RIGHT behind the main 5mp camera.
it'd be interesting if you could obtain the FFC or the dual lens (whatever, forgive my lack of knowledge on the proper terminology) unit from the SGS and put it in a vibrant.
probably more trouble than its worth, but maybe not?
MOD, Why were these two threads moved? These are DEV threads. not Gerneal threads. Please move them back.
Thanks!
Ok so its fairly obvious that the camera bites. Is there a decent app on the market which can take nicer pics?
htc camera's always been like this, even if there's an app, i think you will be better of getting to know the limitations, and get used to manually specify the settings, this way you can really get some decent shots with it. the main purpose of a camera in a phone isn't to replace camera's at all, it's a way of having a way of the ability to quickly take a snapshot when you forgot your camera.
learn to hold your hands still, the best thing to do with a HTC phone if you use the camera
and for the app, search the market in the free section, you can always try them out to see if one suite's you
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Ok so its fairly obvious that the camera bites. Is there a decent app on the market which can take nicer pics?
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I have to agree when it comes to using the flash the pics are cap all yellow and washed out. It's like the timing is off or the auto white balance is not changing to flash.
A toy camera out of a Christmas cracker could do better.
Example of flash pic
twitpic.com/34l2mp
it seems your camera didn't even focus on that event, the yellow glow can also be caused by a street light nearby? if street light was nearby it uses the flash to fill in the photo, and leaves the shutter open to receive the lighting as it is, so the faces don't shine etc. otherwise the timing and or white balance is of, or even possibly be a smudge on the flash or lens? finger near the flash unit could also cause this.
I took about 10 pics all look the same I ended up using my old n97 which took a perfect pic.
you still get the yellow from the flash indoors aswell and I tried all the white balance setting none look right with the flash.
If no one else is finding this maybe I have a bum phone.
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So dose anyone else het pics as bad as me with the flash or should I take my phone back?
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Ok so its fairly obvious that the camera bites.
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ok so its fairly obvious that this guy is rude and obnoxious and doesnt mind insulting a product we all paid a serious amount of money for.
I am a professional photographer specialising in weddings for over 12 years and the camera is perfectly adequate for a phone.
panyan said:
ok so its fairly obvious that this guy is rude and obnoxious and doesnt mind insulting a product we all paid a serious amount of money for.
I am a professional photographer specialising in weddings for over 12 years and the camera is perfectly adequate for a phone.
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I would say it depends what you are comparing it to. It rubbish compared to a good camera phone like the N86 or N97 but ok compared to the iphone. So if you have only had bad camera phones I guess that's why you may think it ok.
panyan said:
ok so its fairly obvious that this guy is rude and obnoxious and doesnt mind insulting a product we all paid a serious amount of money for.
I am a professional photographer specialising in weddings for over 12 years and the camera is perfectly adequate for a phone.
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my old nokia n95 camera thats 5 years old takes better photos, though ive found it does take nice close ups, SGS camera is perfectly adequate though
@jeffmason : have you tried setting the flash to 'on' instead of 'auto', mine takes blurry night photos too unless the flash is set to always on.
Does anyone know how to enable/ toggle the macro option on the s4 or is there no such option? tried looking but couldnt find it.
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Does anyone know how to enable/ toggle the macro option on the s4 or is there no such option? tried looking but couldnt find it.
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I read in one of the reviews that the camera can take macro pictures in auto mode. There is no separate mode anymore.
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Does anyone know how to enable/ toggle the macro option on the s4 or is there no such option? tried looking but couldnt find it.
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No option, but it is unnecessary.
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Yea focus is very good up close. Guess it doesn't need a macro. Thx for the replies
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So is there anyway to install a 3rd party camera for macro mode? I take pictures of circuit boards up close at work and it cant focus in that great.
If your work has a requirement for taking macro photos, they should be providing you with more appropriate hardware to do so.
I love the auto macro focus! Especially when I can tap where I want the phone to focus before snapping the pic.
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We have a dslr camera but its not always available. My coworkers have S3s and note 2s and tge macro focus is noticeably better than the S4 macro focus. Its just convenient having a phone that can take macro pictures like the s3 did. This pic I attached was one of the few that came out ok.
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I am very familiar with circuit boards and know there is very small detail on them. My story as close as I can get to yours--
Have a fluorescent light fixture installed over a vanity up inside a soffet. Hard to get to and even harder to read the info on the ballast with my poor eyes even with glasses--
My son said take a pic. So, I held the phone up inside the soffet to the ballast within maybe 3 inches. My positioning was awkward and could not hold phone and hit camera button at same time to take the pic. So, I used the "by some called gimmicky" feature of say cheese.
End result a good "macro" pic and with a little zoom in could read the extremely fine Lamp Info chart on the ballast. I am on Auto, so think this feature is pretty good for most situations. Still maybe not yours--
Anyone ever solve this 'issue'? I work with circuitboards as well (hobby), and I often need to retap the screen up to 20 times for a decent focus to appear. Most frustratingly, it IS sharp for a moment but continues to focus until it is way OUT of focus. So I am not keeping the subject too close, it simply fails to focus properly.
A simple manual focus would already be a great improvement!
With a decent autofocus and 13MP, I should be able to get more detail than my cheapo (20$) USB microscope pen with 2MP (or so it says on the box, I think it is probably just VGA) resolution, but I often have to turn to that instead and then photograph my computerscreen to whatsapp a pic
Try taking the photo with the phone positioned on top of something, thus it will be steady. Have just tried taking a picture of some text 3 times and each was slightly blurred, took photo with phone on table and was spot on.
Shame that these phones don't have OIS
I must be having a shakey hand day!
Anti-motion blur scn mode help here at all ?
Finger prints or something on the lens, bad focus selection eg no good contrast variation for the camera to make a valid decision, or you have an issue hardware
Maybe your Z1 has some hardware issue. I always shoot handheld and no blur unless you are shooting in low light.
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You can try to use the micro distance photography pattern.
If you phone still can't automatically focus, it may be the camera has broken.
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You can try to use the micro distance photography pattern.
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Could you explain some more what you mean by this ?
One Twelve said:
Could you explain some more what you mean by this ?
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I believe it's some kind of pattern that you can print out in order to test/adjust your lens's focus
Gathered as much with a quick google, thing is cameras must have a facility to make this adjustment.
The Z1 or any phone for that matter does not have it.