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I'm a video editor and have been shooting and editing video professionally for the past 7 years. I don't work for Samsung, Sprint, or any affiliated companies.
The camcorder lags in low light because the shutter rate of the camera has to slow down in order to capture the image. The shutter rate is how many times the shutter has to open and close in order to take in light to make an image. On a nice sunny day outdoors, the light sensor can easily take in the light. Hence, you get a high shutter rate. Sometimes up to 1/5000 depending on the camera.
When you're shooting in low light situations, the sensor has to be open long enough in order to take in enough light to make an image. Thus, the shutter rate decreases to about 1/10 or so. When the shutter rate decreases, your camera can make a nice low light picture... but you get blur, grain, and what looks like a slower frame rate.
So, this camcorder "lag" you speak of in low light is NORMAL. It's inherent to all video cameras in low light. If you want a better image... get some lights!
If the low light performance on the camcorder was better with a different build, like in DI18, they probably locked the shutter rate at about 1/30 in order to keep a good framerate, but the low light performance wouldn't be as good as you have now.
TL/DR: It's normal. They just reduced the shutter speed so you can get a BETTER image in low light. Want a better image? Film in better lighting!
Edit: What Samsung should do to fix this is to lock the shutter rate at about 1/30. You won't get a good low light image, but the motion will be consistent. Seems to me you guys want good motion and not a good image. You can't have both in low light situations. You have to choose one or the other.
Thanks for your expert advice.....but we'll wait to hear back from someone that actually writes code
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I'm a video editor and have been shooting and editing video professionally for the past 7 years. I don't work for Samsung, Sprint, or any affiliated companies.
The camcorder lags in low light because the shutter rate of the camera has to slow down in order to capture the image. The shutter rate is how many times the shutter has to open and close in order to take in light to make an image. On a nice sunny day outdoors, the light sensor can easily take in the light. Hence, you get a high shutter rate. Sometimes up to 1/5000 depending on the camera.
When you're shooting in low light situations, the sensor has to be open long enough in order to take in enough light to make an image. Thus, the shutter rate decreases to about 1/10 or so. When the shutter rate decreases, your camera can make a nice low light picture... but you get blur, grain, and what looks like a slower frame rate.
So, this camcorder "lag" you speak of in low light is NORMAL. It's inherent to all video cameras in low light. If you want a better image... get some lights!
If the low light performance on the camcorder was better with a different build, like in DI18, they probably locked the shutter rate at about 1/30 in order to keep a good framerate, but the low light performance wouldn't be as good as you have now.
TL/DR: It's normal. They just reduced the shutter speed so you can get a BETTER image in low light. Want a better image? Film in better lighting!
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Wrong. You failed to understand the issue. This eb13 has either flawed drivers or the wrong ones. The dk28 froyo beta works flawlessly. I personally tested both builds. This is a programmers error that should be patched soon. When the patch is given, it should work as good as eclair or dk28.
DangerZone1223 said:
I'm a video editor and have been shooting and editing video professionally for the past 7 years. I don't work for Samsung, Sprint, or any affiliated companies.
The camcorder lags in low light because the shutter rate of the camera has to slow down in order to capture the image. The shutter rate is how many times the shutter has to open and close in order to take in light to make an image. On a nice sunny day outdoors, the light sensor can easily take in the light. Hence, you get a high shutter rate. Sometimes up to 1/5000 depending on the camera.
When you're shooting in low light situations, the sensor has to be open long enough in order to take in enough light to make an image. Thus, the shutter rate decreases to about 1/10 or so. When the shutter rate decreases, your camera can make a nice low light picture... but you get blur, grain, and what looks like a slower frame rate.
So, this camcorder "lag" you speak of in low light is NORMAL. It's inherent to all video cameras in low light. If you want a better image... get some lights!
If the low light performance on the camcorder was better with a different build, like in DI18, they probably locked the shutter rate at about 1/30 in order to keep a good framerate, but the low light performance wouldn't be as good as you have now.
TL/DR: It's normal. They just reduced the shutter speed so you can get a BETTER image in low light. Want a better image? Film in better lighting!
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It appears that on the older builds the camera gained up to deal with lower light situations. On the current build it slows the frame rate (not the shutter rate) even normal indoor lighting. You shouldn't do that with video. This would be fine on a still camera but totally unacceptable in video, even amateur video taken with a cell phone.
BTW, I'm a broadcast video engineer by trade.
abduljaffar said:
Wrong. You failed to understand the issue. This eb13 has either flawed drivers or the wrong ones. The dk28 froyo beta works flawlessly. I personally tested both builds. This is a programmers error that should be patched soon. When the patch is given, it should work as good as eclair or dk28.
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Here's the problem: You didn't say what the problem is. You just said "it doesn't work". What doesn't work? Please accurately explain and DETAIL the problem with the camcorder in EB13.
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Wrong. You failed to understand the issue. This eb13 has either flawed drivers or the wrong ones. The dk28 froyo beta works flawlessly. I personally tested both builds. This is a programmers error that should be patched soon. When the patch is given, it should work as good as eclair or dk28.
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Theres nothing wrong about what he said. He said that the programmers did it. They locked the shutter rate in DI18, to prevent lag. It just causes a lower quality video. The videos in low light were darker in DI18, but faster. Which is what he is saying.
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It appears that on the older builds the camera gained up to deal with lower light situations. On the current build it slows the frame rate (not the shutter rate) even normal indoor lighting. You shouldn't do that with video. This would be fine on a still camera but totally unacceptable in video, even amateur video taken with a cell phone.
BTW, I'm a broadcast video engineer by trade.
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The shutter rate slows down the GOP, but the frame rate remains constant.
It's not "normal". If you're really a video editor, you'd know that. Being able to explain an effect doesn't make it "normal".
That's like saying "I can explain your cancer. Cancer is just when cells mutate and crowd out other cells. It happens to a lot of people. It's perfectly normal!"
Phone sensors are smaller and therefore not as sensitive to light as sensors in professional or even semi-professional cameras. (Larger sensors can capture more light; just the laws of physics.) So image quality on phones is always a compromise.
However, the solution to this lack of light-gathering ability should not be to hold the shutter open for such a long time that it ruins the frame rate. That's cutting off your nose to spite your face. And no one should accept it.
I think we are all fine with a little graininess in the artificially boosted low-light images from our Epic camcorders as long as it means we have a stable frame rate. This is the way every other low-end camera works and it's the way this phone used to work, and should still work.
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Here's the problem: You didn't say what the problem is. You just said "it doesn't work". What doesn't work? Please accurately explain and DETAIL the problem with the camcorder in EB13.
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Fine, I figure everyone is aware of the bug. Go to a very dark room and launch the camcorder. Maybe turn on the tv so that's the only light source. Now pan around the room. You see that god awful blur? That's because the camera is barely pushing 5 fps. Compare that to eclair or dk28, in which keeps a steady healthy 30 fps with absolutely no frame drops.
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badasscat said:
It's not "normal". If you're really a video editor, you'd know that. Being able to explain an effect doesn't make it "normal".
That's like saying "I can explain your cancer. Cancer is just when cells mutate and crowd out other cells. It happens to a lot of people. It's perfectly normal!"
Phone sensors are smaller and therefore not as sensitive to light as sensors in professional or even semi-professional cameras. (Larger sensors can capture more light; just the laws of physics.) So image quality on phones is always a compromise.
However, the solution to this lack of light-gathering ability should not be to hold the shutter open for such a long time that it ruins the frame rate. That's cutting off your nose to spite your face. And no one should accept it.
I think we are all fine with a little graininess in the artificially boosted low-light images from our Epic camcorders as long as it means we have a stable frame rate. This is the way every other low-end camera works and it's the way this phone used to work, and should still work.
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correct. Being a pro photographer should hint him that its not normal. But we ask make mistakes. Just like samsung or sprint made resulting in what we are experiencing. Btw, sprint acknowledges the camera bug aswell.
It would be nice if they could just make options like the gain user adjustable so that we could tailer that setting to whatever lighting environment we're in....like the iso on a still cam.
I know that before when I had DK28, my videos would not capture past 3 seconds, I would get a message saying Recording Failed. With the new build this doesnt happen.
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Fine, I figure everyone is aware of the bug. Go to a very dark room and launch the camcorder. Maybe turn on the tv so that's the only light source. Now pan around the room. You see that god awful blur? That's because the camera is barely pushing 5 fps. Compare that to eclair or dk28, in which keeps a steady healthy 30 fps with absolutely no frame drops.
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Re-read my first post, sir, and you'll get your answer.
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I know that before when I had DK28, my videos would not capture past 3 seconds, I would get a message saying Recording Failed. With the new build this doesnt happen.
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How long do your recordings last now? Mine fail around 2 minutes, using a class 6 sd card. Never happened before.
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jonesy827 said:
I know that before when I had DK28, my videos would not capture past 3 seconds, I would get a message saying Recording Failed. With the new build this doesnt happen.
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There's an option to free record and to limit for MMS. However, I've had recording fail a few times on DK28 when I was on free record. I figured I had too many programs running in the background.
I've recorded a few times at varying lengths in EB13 and haven't had any problems so far.
The point is, something that worked fine before, (smooth video recording indoors) doesn't work now. It's not normal, anyone who has seen it can tell it's not normal.
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It's not "normal". If you're really a video editor, you'd know that. Being able to explain an effect doesn't make it "normal".
That's like saying "I can explain your cancer. Cancer is just when cells mutate and crowd out other cells. It happens to a lot of people. It's perfectly normal!"
Phone sensors are smaller and therefore not as sensitive to light as sensors in professional or even semi-professional cameras. (Larger sensors can capture more light; just the laws of physics.) So image quality on phones is always a compromise.
However, the solution to this lack of light-gathering ability should not be to hold the shutter open for such a long time that it ruins the frame rate. That's cutting off your nose to spite your face. And no one should accept it.
I think we are all fine with a little graininess in the artificially boosted low-light images from our Epic camcorders as long as it means we have a stable frame rate. This is the way every other low-end camera works and it's the way this phone used to work, and should still work.
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Samsung probably wanted you to get the best picture out of your camera and lowered the shutter speed to not add any artificial gain.
It's damned if you do and damned if you don't. Add gain and people complain about grain and artifacts. Slow down the shutter rate and get slower playback. Don't shoot the messenger here!
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The point is, something that worked fine before, (smooth video recording indoors) doesn't work now. It's not normal, anyone who has seen it can tell it's not normal.
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True. I'll add this to my original post.
I'll gladly take graininess over a what looks like a blurry Peter Gabriel video.
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Here is a video I shot of one of my DJ friends in low light using only the camera flash as the light source on my phone (along with the various disco/club lights). Even in low light, the frame rate was very smooth.
After the EB13 update, the fps is horrible and I would never be able to shoot this same video in the phone's current state.
Loving this phone so far except for one thing. When recording in low-light, there is a significant decrease of fps.
I realize that the 28mm f/2.0 lens is the best out there so why would HTC pair it with such a crippling software feature???
I'd rather have the software crank up the ISO or lose a little exposure to keep the video at a steady 30 or 24 fps instead of the stuttering/lag effect.
Some of my videos in low-light areas are averaging 20/fps.
Do any of you know if HTC usually updates the camera software or if an outside dev would come out with a camera hack allowing us to lock the framerate?
Zexell said:
Loving this phone so far except for one thing. When recording in low-light, there is a significant decrease of fps.
I realize that the 28mm f/2.0 lens is the best out there so why would HTC pair it with such a crippling software feature???
I'd rather have the software crank up the ISO or lose a little exposure to keep the video at a steady 30 or 24 fps instead of the stuttering/lag effect.
Some of my videos in low-light areas are averaging 20/fps.
Do any of you know if HTC usually updates the camera software or if an outside dev would come out with a camera hack allowing us to lock the framerate?
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alot of expensive video cameras will do this also.
it has to slow the shutter speed to let in more light. otherwise if you increased the shutter speed you wont see anything. i guess they could add a shutter speed control to let you increase that and ramp up the ISO.
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alot of expensive video cameras will do this also.
it has to slow the shutter speed to let in more light.
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Shutter speed is for pictures, lol. I am talking about frame rates for videos.
I am more than happy with the htc one for pictures but for low-light videos, I would love it if I can lock my frame rate at 24 or 30 fps for my entire video.
I would rather have less light/more ISO instead of choppy videos.
I think HTC allows the drop in framerate to keep the ISO the same.
Zexell said:
Shutter speed is for pictures, lol. I am talking about frame rates for videos.
I am more than happy with the htc one for pictures but for low-light videos, I would love it if I can lock my frame rate at 24 or 30 fps for my entire video.
I would rather have less light/more ISO instead of choppy videos.
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Just curious, are you running a 1.29 based firmware?
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Shutter speed is for pictures, lol.
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I've never facepalmed so hard before.
Shutter speed applies for both pictures and videos; with videos, it's the amount of time the sensor (or that particular slide of film, in the 'old days') captures light for a frame in said video.
If it's low light, the video needs to let in more light by increasing the amount of time the sensor captures light for a given frame. Thus increasing the shutter speed.
Now, here's where frame-rate comes into the picture (see what I did there? ;D)...
For example (I'm not using real numbers here, as I don't know what numbers are used for the One, plus maths isn't my strong point. But...) in normal lighting the frame rate is 1/30th of a second, and it's shooting at 30fps. All's well.
However, if it's in 'low light mode', it'll need to lower the shutter speed to 1/20th of a second (again, just example numbers). It'd then need to lower the fps down to 20fps.
TL;DR: pictures and videos both have shutter speed.
Um, I'm sorry OP, can you point to the phone that is currently shooting usable 60fps video in low light?
Maybe in a few years. Right now you just have to deal with the current state of the art instead of complaining that HTC is making crappy decision decisions.
You could probably have 30fps video in low light right now. It will just look very very dark.
I'm guessing if they went that route, you'd complain about that decision too.
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M_Woody said:
I've never facepalmed so hard before.
Shutter speed applies for both pictures and videos; with videos, it's the amount of time the sensor (or that particular slide of film, in the 'old days') captures light for a frame in said video.
If it's low light, the video needs to let in more light by increasing the amount of time the sensor captures light for a given frame. Thus increasing the shutter speed.
Now, here's where frame-rate comes into the picture (see what I did there? ;D)...
For example (I'm not using real numbers here, as I don't know what numbers are used for the One, plus maths isn't my strong point. But...) in normal lighting the frame rate is 1/30th of a second, and it's shooting at 30fps. All's well.
However, if it's in 'low light mode', it'll need to lower the shutter speed to 1/20th of a second (again, just example numbers). It'd then need to lower the fps down to 20fps.
TL;DR: pictures and videos both have shutter speed.
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Gotcha. But the shutter speed isn't always controlled by the fps. On my T2i, I can record at 30fps while leaving my shutter speed at 1/30th or change it to 1/400th while changing the f stop or ISO, which results in crystal clear motion captured. I always believed shutter speed is always independent of framerates. For the HTC one, i would love it if the fps was locked regardless of shutter speed per frame or iso or aperture.
The choppiness really creates unusable footage.
NxNW said:
Um, I'm sorry OP, can you point to the phone that is currently shooting usable 60fps video in low light?
Maybe in a few years. Right now you just have to deal with the current state of the art instead of complaining that HTC is making crappy decision decisions.
You could probably have 30fps video in low light right now. It will just look very very dark.
I'm guessing if they went that route, you'd complain about that decision too.
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Actually, that's exactly what I am asking for. The option to choose a choppier footage with more light or have 30fps video in low-light at the compensation for darker exposure or more ISO.
Recording at 720p @ 60fps in low-light still results the framerates dropping below 24 which I consider is unusual footage.
I guess I'm the only one feeling like HTC made a poor decision by not locking the fps but when my footage goes from 30 fps to 20 fps in less than 1 second, the footage is really undesirable. They could've easily just raised the ISO or aperture like the s3, lumia 920, or iphone 5 do.
Actually, that's exactly what I am asking the choice for.
So noted.
Raising ISO is a fancy way of saying turning up the gain which will also amplify the noise in the sensors, creating some very grainy video.
That probably wouldn't be very desirable either.
It's all about tradeoffs.
Phones, more than other devices, tend to have a very fluid idea of frame rate. If you need it nailed up at 30 fps no matter what, you're right, this may not be the camera for you.
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So noted.
Raising ISO is a fancy way of saying turning up the gain which will also amplify the noise in the sensors, creating some very grainy video.
That probably wouldn't be very desirable either.
It's all about tradeoffs.
Phones, more than other devices, tend to have a very fluid idea of frame rate. If you need it nailed up at 30 fps no matter what, you're right, this may not be the camera for you.
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Grainy videos can be treated or processed with filters. There is no alternative to frames that are lost.
I didn't mean to go on debates about ISO or shutter speed.
Instead of returning the phone, I was asking the community if they happen to know if HTC updates the drivers for the camera at any point or if someone would develop a camera hack that addresses this loss of frames or the choice.
Zexell said:
Actually, that's exactly what I am asking for. The option to choose a choppier footage with more light or have 30fps video in low-light at the compensation for darker exposure or more ISO.
Recording at 720p @ 60fps in low-light still results the framerates dropping below 24 which I consider is unusual footage.
I guess I'm the only one feeling like HTC made a poor decision by not locking the fps but when my footage goes from 30 fps to 20 fps in less than 1 second, the footage is really undesirable. They could've easily just raised the ISO or aperture like the s3, lumia 920, or iphone 5 do.
Actually, that's exactly what I am asking the choice for.
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What are you recording in such low light anyways? Why not just go get your t2i to record with then...
AndrewAmazed said:
What are you recording in such low light anyways? Why not just go get your t2i to record with then...
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Because the T2i doesnt fit in my pocket, lol.
I had an HTC Evo, and in those days they would drop frames in *good* light. It was extremely frustrating. I bought faster SD card storage, overclocked, switched to performance governor, BFQ scheduler, the works.
I searched high and low for mods that would lock the frame rate. I wasn't the only one searching, gamers are always interested in fps as well.
If that mod was made, I missed it. Maybe it's possible. I'm as curious as you are to see if anyone has info on this. My expectation is no. HTC's camera drivers are closed source and seem to defy this kind of hacking.
Anyway, now you see why, coming from older technology, I'm so grateful for the excellent low light video the One *does* have. ; )
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OP, you aren't the only one who feels the fps in low light video recording drops too low. I'm also annoyed by it. Furthermore I know higher fps is possible because if you record in HDR mode the fps are higher in the same lighting situation. I believe this is because it cranks up the ISO/gain in order to get double the fps or more since it needs high and low exposure frames to combine together behind the scenes. Try HDR mode and see if you get better fps. Downside is it is definitely noisier in low light, can have higher filesizes, and also the sides of picture are significantly cropped to leave some room for electronic image combination/stabilization during the HDR processing.
One other trick you can try is setting the exposure lower, this seems to result in faster shutter speeds/higher fps.
So yes I also wish the ISO and/or fps would be more controllable in the varios video recording modes. I tried some of the other special modes and no luck. Also I wish there was an infinite focus lock, so far I can't find that either. Seems like such a basic feature missing?
You will get a laggy video in a low-light scenario even you managed to lock the fps. Because the device dose need more time for capturing more light in one frame.
So,smoother = darker.Vice-versa.
FPS drop is not acceptable. My 4S can shoot in low light without any drops...so I'm pretty sure it's a software problem that can be fixed by HTC.
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OP, you aren't the only one who feels the fps in low light video recording drops too low. I'm also annoyed by it. Furthermore I know higher fps is possible because if you record in HDR mode the fps are higher in the same lighting situation. I believe this is because it cranks up the ISO/gain in order to get double the fps or more since it needs high and low exposure frames to combine together behind the scenes. Try HDR mode and see if you get better fps. Downside is it is definitely noisier in low light, can have higher filesizes, and also the sides of picture are significantly cropped to leave some room for electronic image combination/stabilization during the HDR processing.
One other trick you can try is setting the exposure lower, this seems to result in faster shutter speeds/higher fps.
So yes I also wish the ISO and/or fps would be more controllable in the varios video recording modes. I tried some of the other special modes and no luck. Also I wish there was an infinite focus lock, so far I can't find that either. Seems like such a basic feature missing?
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I did some more testing. ISO and exposure settings only seem to effect pictures. When it comes to recording videos, we only get one set of options (slow mo, 720 @ 60fps, and HDR). I recorded a bunch of similar situation videos with various ISO and exposures and while it does change on screen, the moment you press the record video, it reverts back to all auto except for the 1 set of options reserved for video recording.
Various ISO/Exposure settings resulted in most videos looking similar and averaged from 20-22 fps. The one I recorded at 720 @ 60 was unwatchable at an average 15 fps. The HDR was well lit and had a tremendous amount of noise yet averaged 17 fps.
For comparison, I recorded the same situation with my iphone 5 on auto and my galaxy s3 on night setting. The iphone 5 had a little more noise than the HTC, exposure was slightly darker than the HTC, but was the video was fluid and yielded an average of 25 fps. GS3 @ Night setting had less noise than the iphone, visibility was darker but the video was smooth at 27 fps.
My conclusion is that both apple and samsung have coded in their recording software to NEVER dip below 24 fps while HTC allows the camera software go as low as 15 frames per second.
In a world where the iphone 5 and HTC one share the same camera technology and share the same lens, this would make sense. But in this world, the HTC has a far superior lens. A wide angle 28mm with OIS at f stop of 2.0 definitely has power to deliver better results against lesser lenses.
I truly hope that somebody or even HTC can unleash the lens to its full capabilities.
M_Woody said:
I've never facepalmed so hard before.
Shutter speed applies for both pictures and videos; with videos, it's the amount of time the sensor (or that particular slide of film, in the 'old days') captures light for a frame in said video.
If it's low light, the video needs to let in more light by increasing the amount of time the sensor captures light for a given frame. Thus increasing the shutter speed.
Now, here's where frame-rate comes into the picture (see what I did there? ;D)...
For example (I'm not using real numbers here, as I don't know what numbers are used for the One, plus maths isn't my strong point. But...) in normal lighting the frame rate is 1/30th of a second, and it's shooting at 30fps. All's well.
However, if it's in 'low light mode', it'll need to lower the shutter speed to 1/20th of a second (again, just example numbers). It'd then need to lower the fps down to 20fps.
TL;DR: pictures and videos both have shutter speed.
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spot on, thanks for explaining this to the OP. i didnt want to start a discussion about it so thanks.
Completely agree that they need to tweak the vid recording modes to increase fps. Regarding the exposure "working", I have found using a 3rd party recording app (in this case, the dashcam software VideoRegPro) it has exposure settings that do work, and not just in the preview. The upside of cranking down the exposure all the way is you get a much darker picture, but this can somewhat be fixed by also cranking down the contrast setting. You end up with a very flat looking image with not enough color, and also get some blueish noise in black areas. Still hoping a future HTC update improves the low light FPS, at least in one or two of the special video modes. And also hoping for a working infinite focus (useful for a dashcam).
I know the camera issue has been beat to death already but I've been testing it for many days and would like to relay my results. A lot of people are saying that the auto focus is bad causing blurry pictures. This is false, the focus works great but the camera always chooses a shutter speed that's to low for the lighting causing blur on subjects in motion. The only way I can get the shutter speed over 1/20 is by taking a picture in bright light. Even in above average lighting conditions the shutter will go to 1/20 or below. There is no option for metering so I wonder if LG coded something wrong in the camera drivers. I have tried every camera program out there and they all take the exact same picture using the same to low shutter speed which tells me it's not the stock camera app. I don't have the skill to dive into the programming but that is where the problem seems to be. It's the same brand (Sony) camera sensor as the SGS4 so I know that it's not the sensors fault.
Any thoughts?
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Anybody else have any ideas?
I'm also seeing these ridiculous shutter speeds (1/14, 1/20) when shooting in low light indoors, even if picking Sport mode, and was looking for a discussion on the topic here. Happy to find it
I had almost given up getting the camera to do what I wanted, when I discovered that the Intelligent Auto feature actually sometimes is ... intelligent. I took 4 photos of my toddler - obviously, not a subject willing to sit still. All photos on intelligent auto.
For two of the photos, the software shot with ISO 700 and 1/15th shutter, pretty much what Normal does every time. But - the other two were taken with ISO 1400-1/30 and ISO 1500-1/30. Naturally, the latter two were a lot sharper.
This is incredibly annoying since the Normal mode only lets you manually pick max ISO 800 and gives no shutter speed control. Until I found out about this intelligent auto thing, I forced -1, -1 1/3 stops underexposure to make the camera use a faster shutter (it typically used 1/59 for some reason). Now I guess I will take 5-6 pics every time and hope the camera is indeed intelligent part of the time.
- Is there no custom camera app capable of setting shutter speed manually, and use the ISO settings available to Intelligent Auto?
- Noone's had any word from LG on this?
I will be contacting LG support about this as well, but wanted to get the XDA word on the matter first...
Cheers, Are
Just replying to say I'm having the same issue. The fastest shutter speed I've seen is 1/15 in a well lit, easy to focus shot. The vast majority of my shots are blurry as a result.
I'm running Cyanogenmod at the moment.
I'm having pretty bad shutter speeds as well. It take 2 seconds to take a well-lit picture.
Guys , Try out the Moto X camera app. I may be wrong but i think its a bit faster .
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I'm having pretty bad shutter speeds as well. It take 2 seconds to take a well-lit picture.
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farazafs said:
Guys , Try out the Moto X camera app. I may be wrong but i think its a bit faster .
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I'm not talking about how long it takes to take the picture, that's delay. I'm talking shutter speed, how long the shutter stays open allowing light to hit the sensor.
I have not had any big problems with this, most of my shots are pretty tack sharp, and seem to have some decent shutterspeeds.. Only in very poor light I do get 1/15 shutterspeeds but at pretty average lights I get 1/30-1/120 sometimes faster, but mostly 1/40..
My shutterdelay is almist nothing too..
I found a modified version of the stock LG G2 camera by sefnap that works with CM 10.2 M1 and produces much better results: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2522889
Some of the features don't work but overall it's vastly better than the camera included with CM.
There is also another modified version of the stock camera put up by Heatshiver that probably works even better but it doesn't currently work with CM (only works with stock and some AOSP ROMs): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2525783
I just discovered something the other day when playing with my camera... Albeit in bright light. Check out these pics taken at 60mph from my car while I was driving (ie not the most steady hand).
What I did was set it on sports mode and then old down the camera button until I heard the beep, and then released to capture the image I wanted (ie the road signs). The one out of my car window was actually more focused than I could focus with my naked eye...
Ok, let me try to explain.
On all my previous phones with OIS, I would set the ISO at 200 and leave it at that permanently. That way the night shots wouldn't be full of noise and the camera would adjust its shutter speed to get the most light.
One of the benefits of OIS is a "floating lens" so it should have a longer shutter speed with not as much blur as a camera without it. My problem with this camera is it still bumps up the ISO to extremely high levels in normal and IA mode, thus giving tons of noise in low light shots. Usually this is solved by setting the ISO at 200 and "forcing" it to have a longer shutter, but the problem with this camera is it doesn't. At 200 ISO, the low light pics should come out close to what you actually see with your eyes (as it did on my previous phones, like the lumia line) but it doesn't. It's WAY TOO DARK. It seems like it keeps the same shutter speed it would use even if it had 1600 ISO.
Do any of the camera mods fix this issue instead of just adding features like 4k video? I might root my phone if they fix this.
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I found them really ugly for the quality. It is only me or they are actually ugly. Also video are recorded in 1080P and quality really suck hard and sound is ugly. Something i did wrong?
All was at default settings.
low light conserts are one of the hardest things to shoot (moving objekts,moving lights etc) think the S7 did well here actually.
Try an iphone instead...
When taking photos in low light you need to stay steady for a longer time. Also, do not use hdr and flash on auto - use it on or off. Auto will reduce the quality of photo
Thanks for the tips..damn my hdr was on and it was really brutal so taking a stable picture was hard.
For a low light situation they look great. Ok the focus is a bit off but the longer shutter times will always have that effect.
Turn off video stabilisation(EIS) in setting when recording video especially when recording low light video because it do a bad job and make video more shaky and blurry(at least for me). You still have OIS working since it's physical hardware stabilization.
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They're actually pretty good for a cell phone. Yeah HDR is going to be an issue because of the shutter speeds involved in low light. These have the typical over-sharpening of Samsung cameras but not bad at all given the circumstances. Also... the high SPL levels for a metal show are going to be seriously hard to capture on a phone, the mic preamp inside the phone is easily overloaded. Turn HDR off, turn the flash off, find a way to get a steady shot... a monopod is great for this if they'll allow it into the venue, if not bracing against a wall, post, or rail will certainly help. Also be prepared to toss out 19 of 20 shots when you're doing concert photography. Concert photography isn't easy even with a DSLR the super small sensors in phones make it all that much more difficult.
You can enable manual mode on the camera and force the shutter speed to 1/100-1/200 or faster this might lower the brightness of the photos but it will help to stop the motion that you'll usually find in the performers.
You can also set it to the largest aperture (F1.7) in manual mode but keep in mind that this will make the field of focus very small, this would be good for artsy shots of the guitarist's hands on the instrument or just the singers face, not so good for full stage shots.
Another thing to try is to enable the RAW capture of the phone then do some post processing on the most in-focus of your images it will almost always be better than the decisions the phone itself is making.
All in all though, not as bad as you think.
thanks for all that tips, going to another show soon and i will do all these trick! i'll try to be the the first row instead of the second one to make great capture!