We often judge a smartphone camera by its ability to take photos in dark environments. This is notoriously the most difficult type of photo for a smartphone to take, with massive improvements being made in recent years. With the OPPO Find X5 Pro, night shots are looking better than ever as it's arguably the best phone for low-light photography. In this thread, I'm going to show you how to get the best night shots possible, on your Find X5 Pro.
Night ModeNight mode is a great way to easily get night shots without having to mess with a lot of settings. The default configuration for night mode results in some really great-looking photos. However, the key the using night mode effectively is by keeping your camera as still as possible while your phone processes the image. Look for the tripod icon in the corner of the screen to activate tripod mode. This will make your phone open your camera shutter for longer, letting more light into the sensor. Stability is key here, as any little vibrations can add blurriness to your shot. So make sure you have a rock-solid tripod to use with your phone.
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To maximize these shots, I always use the 10-bit color mode which can be activated in settings. 10-bit color does work with night mode, so I tend to keep it on at all times.
Pro ModeIf you have a little more knowledge about photography and camera settings, you might feel more confident in PRO mode. This mode gives you manual control over all of your camera settings. Fine-tune your ISO and shutter speed for more complicated shots like night sky and city skylines.
Pro Mode also lets you shoot in RAW, giving you a better file to work with during the editing process. This mode should be used every time you take a night shot that you intend to edit before you post.
Long Exposure ModeAnother type of night photo that you can capture with the OPPO Find X5 Pro, is long exposure shots. The long exposure mode has simple presets designed for three different scenarios.
Moving vehicles- Capture the bright, moving lights of vehicles at night.
Light painting- Track glowing objects as they move in low light.
Water & clouds- Make waterfalls and other flowing water scenes look like beautiful oil paintings.
For night shots, experiment with the Moving vehicles and Light painting modes. Once you have selected the scene, you can adjust the exposure time to your preference. Set a timer and leave your phone in place, or set the time to unlimited and manually stop the shot when you're ready. Once again, this type of shot is best done with a tripod.
Use these tips to improve your night shots and feel free to leave some of your favorite night shot tips in this thread.
Thanks to OPPO for supporting this thread.
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As you see from the attached image, those orange lines on the image is annoying!
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in both Image/Video mode!
tried to reset the setting and the system but no go!
Don't know what is this? I'm afraid if there's something wrong with my phone!
also i realized my phone got hot during the charging!. even touching the screen i can feel the temp!.
after research and thinking,
i think the solution in changing the "Flicker rate" ot Flicker adjustment from 50hz to 60h for example, but i don't find it in th menu!.
any help will be appreciated.
something like this as HTC Desire
looks like some interferences from the wireless components.
long time ago in cheap tv it was possible to see something like this when using hair drier
doesn't matter where i'm, the effect is here!,
i think i need to change the flicker rate!, but i can't find it in the camera menu!
I think it's flickering from lighting, if you were taking the photo inside with artificial lighting. Then what you might see is the flickering from the lights. 50Hz in Europe and 60 Hz in US.
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I think it's flickering from lighting, if you were taking the photo inside with artificial lighting. Then what you might see is the flickering from the lights. 50Hz in Europe and 60 Hz in US.
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that sounds very good. I was talking ****, sry
But without possibility to modify flicker freq its unusable
Don't take pics indoor then
FrezoreR said:
I think it's flickering from lighting, if you were taking the photo inside with artificial lighting. Then what you might see is the flickering from the lights. 50Hz in Europe and 60 Hz in US.
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Here in the middle east i don't know the rate of Hz.
but in case of what you stated now, there should be setting in the camera to control the flicker rate! something like the webcam setting to get ride of it.
the quality is good for the cam but this flickering killing me.
oxylos said:
that sounds very good. I was talking ****, sry
But without possibility to modify flicker freq its unusable
Don't take pics indoor then
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It does look like either something to do with interference, or internal lighting. Try setting it to 'Dawn' as this will slow the shutter speed and should eliminate any artificial lighting flicker, or try taking some photos outside. I've not seen anything like it on mine:
Although I've not tested it much indoors, the pics I did have seemed clean.
Er, one other thought I just had, was the phone on charge when you took your photos?
In all setting the same effect ( camera setting- AC or Battery), although the outdoor shoot is clean by the way,looks like the built-in rate 50Hz in the phone which is ofcourse I bought it from UK is not compatible with my country standard as we seems to me is 60Hz.
I hoped this phone has Flicker adjustment like HTC desire!.
Is there an app can adjust this setting!
Edited..
I added outdoor photo as a test (low quality)
Honor 5x Camera Tips and Tricks
On the surface, the camera app on the Honor 5x might seem like a basic setup, but there are tons of settings, modes and filters to play around with to get the perfect shot. Check out these tips to get you started.
Video Resolution
While the 5x is capable of shooting at 1080p, by default it's set to 720p. To change this, swipe over to filming mode then press the menu button and go to settings. From there, you'll be able to bump the resolution up to 1080p.
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Photo Settings
There's a lot of really important photo settings that you might have missed. They aren't accessible from your main screen, so you have to go through the settings. In the settings you'll find resolution, timer, object tracking, volume button function, image adjustment and a bunch of other features.
Ultra Snapshot
Enable Ultra Snapshot to let you launch your camera app by double pressing the volume down key. You can set this to launch your camera and also immediately take a snapshot.
Touch & Hold Shutter Button
The burst mode isn't really something I use very much. Luckily you are able to change the action that is tied to pressing and holding the shutter button. I have it set to focus instead.
If you have any other tips for using the camera, let me know in the comments. There are so many features that it can be easy to overlook some.
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Honor 5x Camera Tips and Tricks
On the surface, the camera app on the Honor 5x might seem like a basic setup, but there are tons of settings, modes and filters to play around with to get the perfect shot. Check out these tips to get you started.
Video Resolution
While the 5x is capable of shooting at 1080p, by default it's set to 720p. To change this, swipe over to filming mode then press the menu button and go to settings. From there, you'll be able to bump the resolution up to 1080p.
Photo Settings
There's a lot of really important photo settings that you might have missed. They aren't accessible from your main screen, so you have to go through the settings. In the settings you'll find resolution, timer, object tracking, volume button function, image adjustment and a bunch of other features.
Ultra Snapshot
Enable Ultra Snapshot to let you launch your camera app by double pressing the volume down key. You can set this to launch your camera and also immediately take a snapshot.
Touch & Hold Shutter Button
The burst mode isn't really something I use very much. Luckily you are able to change the action that is tied to pressing and holding the shutter button. I have it set to focus instead.
If you have any other tips for using the camera, let me know in the comments. There are so many features that it can be easy to overlook some.
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It's better to provide screenshots rather than photos of the phone, thanks the post
Honor 5X has an 13MP primary camera and 5MP front facing camera .
Aperture Size (Rear Camera) - F/2.0
Aperture Size (Front Camera) - F/2.4
It has Sony Exmor RS sensor with smart image processing 3.0 for taking good shots even in dark nights.
Feature Modes:
1. Time lapse mode
2. Good food mode
3. Beauty mode - You need to register your face first. After Registering your face, it will beautify your face if it finds your pics.
4. All focus mode - you can change focus after taking shots)
5. Best Photo mode - Useful in parties, because we can't judge people to stand like a statue with holding cakes and we can't judge their eyes to don't blink. It takes fast and gives best photo
6. Audio control mode - It takes photos when you whistle or saying any word, very much useful in group photos, no need to skip the people to take the photos.the more you whistle or sound the more you take photos
7. Object tracking - you can take shots of moving objects or people without loosing focus
8. Panorama
9. HDR Mode
10. Slow Motion
11. Perfect selfie mode
12. Smile capture mode
Do you know any other modes other than the above mentioned modes ?
Just comment it.
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Rest of your >45 Threads have been closed in this forum. Any more tips you have to share, please share them in this Thread alone.
Time Lapse Mode
Time-lapse is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that used to view the sequence. When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. For example, an image of a scene may be captured once every second, then played back at 30 frames per second; the result is an apparent 30 times speed increase. Time-lapse photography can be considered the opposite of high speed photography or slow motion.
Time-lapse photography is the process of capturing lots of photos over a period of time, and then assembling them together to create seamless video footage that appears sped up. It’s the opposite of slow motion videos where time appears to be moving more slowly.
If that sounds like a lot of work – that’s because it is! But luckily for us, our Honor 5x can do this for us quickly and effortlessly. All you have to do is tap the start button and begin filming.
Depending on your subject and your approach to time-lapse, this can result in video footage which is very compelling, often funny and always interesting.
What Makes A Good Time-Lapse Subject?
Time-lapse is like a microscope on time. Due to the way it speeds up your subject’s movement, it can reveal movement that we barely notice with the naked eye.
So anything that moves or changes slowly makes a good time-lapse subject. For example, clouds, snails, caterpillars, tides, flowers opening in the sun, candles burning down, cake or bread rising in the oven.
How to ?
1. Open Camera App
2. Slide the mode to Time Lapse Mode
3. Capture it like a video
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Sample Time Lapse Video:
Good Food Mode
Food is actually the second most popular subject for amateur photography fanatics on Instagram, second only to ourselves of course, with pizza topping the charts as the number one food subject.
Without worrying much I can edit the pictures, add my watermark and use appealing food filters which makes my photo even more exciting.
Good Food mode made my life so much easier with much details.
How to ?
1. Open Camera App
2. Slide to Good Food Mode
3. Capture the Pic
A Picture took in Good food mode
Beauty Mode
The selfie camera on the Honor 5X comes with beauty mode, which you can adjust as you see fit.
Beauty mode has a slider from 1 to 10 to allow you to refine how processed you want your face to look.
It removes the spots, blemishes, scars from your photo.
Note: Turning all the settings up to max (i.e 10) will makes us extraterrestrial
How to ?
1. Open Camera App
2. Slide to the beauty mode
3. Capture image
Note: I don't wanna put my photo and make you fear.
The OPPO Find X5 Pro comes with some very impressive cameras. While you will be able to capture amazing photos right out of the box, there are a few extra things that you can do to take full advantage of the photography and video features on this phone. In this thread I am going to share some of the best camera tips and tricks that I've learned from my time using this phone.
Camera specs:
Rear:
50MP Main Camera: f/1.7; FOV 80°; 1G6P lens
50MP Ultra-wide Angle Camera: f/2.2; FOV 112°; 7P lens
13MP Telephoto Camera: f/2.4; FOV 45°; 5P lens
Front:
32MP Front Camera: f/2.4; FOV 90°; lens: 5P
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Shoot in MOVIE ModeWhen searching through the different camera modes, you might come across MOVIE. This mode offers much more than just a different aspect ratio. This mode is designed with professional filming tools and camera controls. If you intend on editing your footage before posting it, this is a great camera mode for you.
On the right side of the preview window, you'll see the manual controls for iso, f-stop, zoom, focus, and white balance. These controls are super easy to navigate and do not interfere with getting your shot.
The left side has important features that will come into play in your post editing session. LOG will give your footage greater dynamic range, for better color grading in post. HDR gives your footage better contrast and enhanced colors. Try shooting with these toggled on so you can have more freedom in your editing environment.
Change Lenses in PRO ModeWith many phones, the PRO mode is limited to one lens, and at first glance you might think that this is also the case on the OPPO Find X5 Pro. However, you can toggle through all three of the rear camera lenses in PRO mode by selecting the tree icon in the top menu.
Choose between wide-angle/macro, standard, and telephoto. With each lens, you still retain the full set of pro controls, so you can get your shot looking exactly how you want it to. It's also worth noting that all of these lenses are compatible with RAW and RAW PLUS photography.
Enable 10-bit color Mode10-bit photos can be captured in both PHOTO and NIGHT mode. You can enable this feature in the settings menu. Your 10-bit photos will retain more color data that can be viewed on compatible devices and apps that support it. These image files are saved in the .HEIF format, which is compatible with the default ColorOS photo editor. So if you are mostly editing and viewing your photos on your OPPO Find X5 Pro, then I highly recommend turning this feature on.
If you want to share your .HEIF photo in an app that is not supported (like Discord, Snapshot, Twitter etc.) Then you can easily convert the file in the photos app. Go to Photos > settings, then enable "Convert HEIF photos for sharing".
Manually Adjust f-stop in VIDEO ModeDo you want to create that shallow depth of field look from big DSLR cameras? You can adjust the f-stop in VIDEO mode using the shutter icon. This will create dramatic looking videos with blurred backgrounds, similar to how portrait mode looks with photos. Just keep in mind that this limits your video resolution to 1080, disabling 4k shooting.
There are many other photography tips and tricks to explore on the OPPO Find X5 Pro. Leave a comment with your own suggestions on how users can get the most out of this amazing photography phone.
[Thanks to OPPO for supporting this thread]
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AI scene enhancement
With the improvement of AI scene enhancement technology, it is able to have a better understanding of capture content and scene.
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For example, if you take a photo of food, phone AI can detect a food automatically, and the Image Signal Processor (ISP) ensures all the elements in the image are perfectly captured, intelligently applies AI scene enhancement automatically to enhance the image detail, color, contrast and so on.
Pro Mode
Pro Mode can manually adjust settings such as ISO, shutter speed, exposure compensation, auto/manual focus and white balance to achieve the quality and depth.
OPPO Find X5 Pro added two useful functions in Pro Mode which are Histogram and Focus peaking functions, I frequently use these two functions during some situations.
Histogram
Focus PeakingThe image format has JPG, RAW & RAW PLUS, the raw & raw plus file can record more details, which enable to do post-processing through photo editing apps like photoshop easily, but the file size of raw & raw plus is much bigger than jpg, compare with 3MB .jpg, it saves as in .dng and costs more than 25MB per image.
JPG
RAW/RAW PLUS
Hasselblad Xpan Mode
Hasselblad Xpan Mode allows you to capture cinematic panoramas photos in either retro color or black & white.
Night Mode
Night Mode is used for the night photography, if you bring a tripod, please use ‘Night Mode’ to capture, in order to have a less noise image.
Long Exposure Mode
Use Long Exposure Mode can capture moving vehicles, water&clouds and light painting. For example, I took this photo in Merlion Park, Singapore, it was a sunny day, if you use a DSLR camera without any ND filter it is difficult to have a long exposure photo, but this Long Exposure Mode in the phone can solve this issue, with 4 second shutter speed will smooth the water and gives it a silky and soft look.
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