cheers to all season's greetings!
after a 6-day leave from the office it finally gave me enough time to fully explore the xda2's capabilities. one thing that i'm still trying to figure out is the zoom function for the camera. according to the manual; as well as the xda's own camera help diagram; the paddle controls the zoom in and out of the camera. i can get it to take a picture (aside from the capture switch on the side) but i'm still trying to figure out how to use the zoom function.
any help would be most appreciated.
cheers mates
robson
Robson said:
cheers to all season's greetings!
after a 6-day leave from the office it finally gave me enough time to fully explore the xda2's capabilities. one thing that i'm still trying to figure out is the zoom function for the camera. according to the manual; as well as the xda's own camera help diagram; the paddle controls the zoom in and out of the camera. i can get it to take a picture (aside from the capture switch on the side) but i'm still trying to figure out how to use the zoom function.
any help would be most appreciated.
cheers mates
robson
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The zoom feature doesn't work when the "Capture Size" is set to "Large (480x640)". You need to set the "Capture Size" to either "Small (120x160)" or "Medium (240x320)" for the zoom feature to work.
hey jargon;
in the capture size you mentioned; it DOES work! thanks a lot for the quick response mate!
cheers
robson
You're welcome, Robson. Happy new year!
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Alright everybody,
I have had the mozart now for a few weeks and everything is outstanding on it, it's pretty far removed from WM6.5.
The only problem i'm having is the camera just seems to shoot a little blurry, I know some of the pics are me not quite keeping still, I was just wondering what settings it should be on for a good picture.
Thanks
Graham
Hi,
I've not changed any of settings and am getting pretty good results (when I remember to wait for the 2nd flash that is!).
Will have a play about with the settings over the weekend and post if I find anything interesting.
I'm currently thinking about getting a 7 Mozart myself and was wondering how the camera performs.
Could you please take some pictures and post them here?
Thank you very much in advance.
video Camera : 720p video camera on 7 Mozart
the0ne said:
video Camera : 720p video camera on 7 Mozart
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I'd say that's a superb quality for a mobile camera
Could you please post some pictures (preferably in bad lighting condition too) of the camera, too?
Thank you for your work
Here is the review with pics and everything:
h t t p://www.engadget.com/2010/10/21/htc-7-mozart-review/
Just remove the http spaces
How does the Mozart camera compare to the Omnia 7? I am considering either this for the camera or the Omnia for the S-Amoled.
I'm experience the blurred image as well and I did not change the setting either.
Just wonder how to take close ups with this camera e.g. when i take photos of a book the words are not readable, blurred???
EDIT: Wrong thread !
Anyway, I'm having the same issue with "blurry" pictures. Even my N900's 5Mpix camera is performing better... *Sigh*
ZeeShh said:
I'm experience the blurred image as well and I did not change the setting either.
Just wonder how to take close ups with this camera e.g. when i take photos of a book the words are not readable, blurred???
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This might sound a bit odd, but u know the button on the side to press to actually take the pic? .. Hold it in for about 5/6 secs and it seems to zoom in and crisp the focus ... then click to take a pic.
ZeeShh said:
Just wonder how to take close ups with this camera e.g. when i take photos of a book the words are not readable, blurred???
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Have you tried Macro mode? Works well for me.
I've not had any problems with blurry pictures.....unless I move after focus has locked. Unfortunately there's no Microsoft update coming for me being bad at keeping still!
Ok, we need to press the camera button for a while until it adjusts the focus, then close ups can be taken and once focus is locked then there is no blurr and images are just excellent. thank dov74.
any thing i'm missing in settings about macro mode? not sure where it is.
ZeeShh said:
thank dov74.
any thing i'm missing in settings about macro mode? not sure where it is.
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No Problem.
Macro mode is under camera/settings/scenes then it's the last option. I've not taken any proper photos with it but I've messed about with it and have gotten good results.
From memory, another member on here uploaded a picture taken in Macro mode - will have a look and see if I can find.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=816072
thanks dov74, I've found it, never scrolled the scenes option further down
Hey,
as the topic says, i want to know if there is any camera app with zoom. Because the standard semcCamera doesn't support zoom.
I think having no zoom is a bit out of time. My older nokia 6120c had it too so i miss it a bit.
Of course i know that the quality isnt that great when zooming but currently i edit it on the pc.
If anyone has the same problem or a solition -> let me know
thx for reply
bani1994 said:
Hey,
as the topic says, i want to know if there is any camera app with zoom. Because the standard semcCamera doesn't support zoom.
I think having no zoom is a bit out of time. My older nokia 6120c had it too so i miss it a bit.
Of course i know that the quality isnt that great when zooming but currently i edit it on the pc.
If anyone has the same problem or a solition -> let me know
thx for reply
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yes on market you have Vignette
If you edit in the PC why do you need zoom then? You got in the market, as said, Vignette and Camera Zoom too, both paid apps.
i tried vignette, but it just makes a frame. Not a real zoom on the display, but its okey. Ill try the second one you mentioned.
I edit it on the pc because of having no zoom
Hi !
As you know, it's impossible (I think well ^^) to zoom with the original camera of x10 mini.
But sometimes when I take a photo, I really want to zoom.
So I would like to have a possibility to zoom.
Maybe I could install a camera application from another phone with wich we can zoom (is that possible to do this without root and without uninstall the original camera ?)
Or maybe I could install a camera application from the market ?
So I hope you will help me
I hope also that's possible without root
Thanks
Bye
ps 1 : I hope this thread doesn't exist and also my post is in the good forum.
ps 2 : Please forgive me for my poor and uncorrect English, it's not my first language and I'm still learning English at school.
I have also to say that I don't use Google translate (fortunately ^^)
asasa137 said:
Hi !
As you know, it's impossible (I think well ^^) to zoom with the original camera of x10 mini.
But sometimes when I take a photo, I really want to zoom.
So I would like to have a possibility to zoom.
Maybe I could install a camera application from another phone with wich we can zoom (is that possible to do this without root and without uninstall the original camera ?)
Or maybe I could install a camera application from the market ?
So I hope you will help me
I hope also that's possible without root
Thanks
Bye
ps 1 : I hope this thread doesn't exist and also my post is in the good forum.
ps 2 : Please forgive me for my poor and uncorrect English, it's not my first language and I'm still learning English at school.
I have also to say that I don't use Google translate (fortunately ^^)
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Yep, everything is possible without the root, but not with the original app I think.
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I dont think its possible.
At first the minis dont have optical zoom which is like a lens.
So if you could even find an app that has digital zoom it would be worthless.
Digital zoom only enlarge the pixels which creates very bad pictures.
So you could better take a normal picture and zoom in at the pc using a professional photo editing program.
Sent from my Dwarf X10 Qwerty
You can try adapted telescope:
Check this link
http://cgi.ebay.es/6X-ZOOM-TELESCOP...372519?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item4cf82f6e67
If you buy that item , please post the results, they say up to 6x Optical zoom,seems to be the same used in iphone.
Anyone want to test this item? seems cool.
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You can try adapted telescope:
Check this link
http://cgi.ebay.es/6X-ZOOM-TELESCOP...372519?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item4cf82f6e67
If you buy that item , please post the results, they say up to 6x Optical zoom,seems to be the same used in iphone.
Anyone want to test this item? seems cool.
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fantastic
Thanks for your comments
For the optical zoom, I don't think I would buy because I haven't ebay account and I'm not interested by e-commerce...
Maybe in a couple of years/months when I would be 18
But, I'm think this kind of zoom is a very good idea and I will test my camera with telescope of other thing ^^
CAMERA ZOOM FX on the Android Market has built-in digital zoom which works on mine.
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CAMERA ZOOM FX on the Android Market has built-in digital zoom which works on mine.
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True... i use it, this is the one...
Can someone please post that app.
I cannot find that app in the android market.
Best Camera with zoom
Please use below.
There is a small problem of FC sometimes. But is the best camera app available with a slider zoom. I got it long back from a site
without a real hardware-zoom it makes no sense to zoom.....
u can do a software zoom later with ans app on your pc.. just resize your pic to 10000x10000 or so
Vignette has the digital zoom!
why bother all you are doing is pixilating without proper hardware zoom
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Please use below.
There is a small problem of FC sometimes. But is the best camera app available with a slider zoom. I got it long back from a site
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No warez plz...
its very hard man,we have paid this much money and no zoom,but am satisfied with my camera
hii guys ..
i keep wonder ,, we will have zoom on miui camera ??
i like miui rom .. the only bug that it dont have zoom and i need it
so any body know if they are working on it ?? at we gonna have zoom or they give up on that bug ?!
My opinion, you don't need zoom.
You need an app that can crop a picture because that's exactly what digital zoom does.
So shoot your pics and then edit them (I use Picsay and it's awesome) to isolate the details.
iridaki said:
My opinion, you don't need zoom.
You need an app that can crop a picture because that's exactly what digital zoom does.
So shoot your pics and then edit them (I use Picsay and it's awesome) to isolate the details.
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This^
All digital zoom does is makes bigger blobs of colour.
Ugh... Sad realization that the X10 zoom is digital.
This is still a convenience being able to zoom(crop) an image and without editing send it directly to facebook/twitter/wordpress/[ fill in the blank ].
deckerm said:
Ugh... Sad realization that the X10 zoom is digital.
This is still a convenience being able to zoom(crop) an image and without editing send it directly to facebook/twitter/wordpress/[ fill in the blank ].
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Have you ever seen a phone's camera lens pop out?
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Exactly!
All phones have digital zoom only.
Also, unless you are in a great hurry, it takes less than a minute to crop a picture and then share it in any social network so no biggie.
Try PicSay, I find it entertaining to give a "final touch" to my photos before posting them.
Been searching, looking... the specs I read stated the camera on the 5 had a digital zoom. Cannot seem to find it. ??? Thanks in Advance.
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Been searching, looking... the specs I read stated the camera on the 5 had a digital zoom. Cannot seem to find it. ??? Thanks in Advance.
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Hi,
We haven't been able to figure out how to zoom on our SGP5s either (got several of them)!
So, if anyone knows, please post?
Jim
I can't find it either. In the manual:
4. After taking a photo, touch Image Viewer to view the photo.
While viewing the photo, use these options:
• Pinch the screen or double-tap on the screen to zoom all the way in
or out. For more information, refer to “Pinch” on page 17.
But that's AFTER you take the picture, probably the zoom they were talking about. I gave up and bought Camera ZOOM FX when it was 10 cents the other day. MUCH better camera app!
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I can't find it either. In the manual:
4. After taking a photo, touch Image Viewer to view the photo.
While viewing the photo, use these options:
• Pinch the screen or double-tap on the screen to zoom all the way in
or out. For more information, refer to “Pinch” on page 17.
But that's AFTER you take the picture, probably the zoom they were talking about. I gave up and bought Camera ZOOM FX when it was 10 cents the other day. MUCH better camera app!
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That app is now $2.99 ... I checked out a couple of others, but none of the free ones I tried, including the one from "mnApps" would zoom .
Jim
tcat007 said:
I can't find it either. In the manual:
4. After taking a photo, touch Image Viewer to view the photo.
While viewing the photo, use these options:
• Pinch the screen or double-tap on the screen to zoom all the way in
or out. For more information, refer to “Pinch” on page 17.
But that's AFTER you take the picture, probably the zoom they were talking about. I gave up and bought Camera ZOOM FX when it was 10 cents the other day. MUCH better camera app!
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Hi,
Can you confirm that Camera ZOOM FX can do zoom in preview/taking pictures?
I've been trying a number of other (free) apps, all which say they can support zoom, but none of them work so far.
Also, I found this:
http://www.popcrowd.com/
and the 1/2/2011 posting seems to indicate problems with zoom and the Samsung Nexus S (I'm assuming similar to with the SGP5 and zoom).
Jim
Just got off a chat with Samsung support, and they said that the YP-G70 doesn't support zoom while taking pictures.
I'd still be interested in tcat007's response re. Camera ZOOM FX, and whether or not it can do the zoom.
From what I've found, apparently the Samsung players may have a non-standard API or interface for zoom, rather than supporting the Google API. I'm wondering if the Camera ZOOM FX guys were able to get around that.
Jimj
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FYI, I just got Camera ZOOM FX, and it IS able to zoom with my SGP5 (US/Gingerbread/2.3.5). It auto-detected "Type 2", but wouldn't zoom, so I tried the other types, and "Type 4" works !
So, apparently the SGP5 hardware is similar to (has same problem) as the Nexus S:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272065
Jim
I can confirm Zoom in CameraZoomFX does work. You have to set the Zoom setting on "Type4". It does "act" a little strange. The zoom slider does zoom on preview, but when you take the picture it "appears" to go back to 1:1 (a temporary 1:1 preview). But when you open the image, it is at the zoom ratio you clicked it at.
It also has an "activate shutter sound" check box, when unchecked there is NO sound!
Update: The zoom is pretty much worthless. I just took a shot 1:1, and a shot 6:1. The 1:1 is 2048x1536=3.1mp, 1mb file size. The 6:1 is 178x238=42kp 11.5k file size... not sure how/why it changes the aspect ratio. You're better off taking a 1:1 shot and cropping to what you want to get the zoom (pretty much what digital zoom is anyway).
Thanks to all who have answered up, replied with results from the Market and calls to Samsung support. I suspect that based on Zoom FX's is not actually changing the lens dimensioning but merely doing a zoom on the 1:1 image before it saves the file.
I am not an expert on the cameras, but know there are other Samsung cameras (like the one in my Samsung Epic 4G phone) that have firmware updates to change features like this. Guess we'll have to dig more...
Not meaning to hi-jack my own thread but just trying to register this thing on Samsung's website is a pain! This is a U.S. model ( I hope since I bought it in VA at a Best Buy!) but the Samsung registration wants a model number and model code?? Mine says its a YP-G70 in the Settings > About Device > Model number, but there is no 'model code' listed on it/in it that I can find.
Samsung's registration is asking me if its a Model Code YP-G70CW/PEO, /TTT, /WON, /XAA or /XAX.
????
gerrym said:
Thanks to all who have answered up, replied with results from the Market and calls to Samsung support. I suspect that based on Zoom FX's is not actually changing the lens dimensioning but merely doing a zoom on the 1:1 image before it saves the file.
I am not an expert on the cameras, but know there are other Samsung cameras (like the one in my Samsung Epic 4G phone) that have firmware updates to change features like this. Guess we'll have to dig more...
Not meaning to hi-jack my own thread but just trying to register this thing on Samsung's website is a pain! This is a U.S. model ( I hope since I bought it in VA at a Best Buy!) but the Samsung registration wants a model number and model code?? Mine says its a YP-G70 in the Settings > About Device > Model number, but there is no 'model code' listed on it/in it that I can find.
Samsung's registration is asking me if its a Model Code YP-G70CW/PEO, /TTT, /WON, /XAA or /XAX.
????
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Hi,
I just registered mine (US model). It's the /XAA (should be on the box also) one.
Jim