I've been trying to use the Panorama function on my Neo recently and I'm constantly coming up with issues with it. Basic issue is that its I'm not finding it easy to use at all.
I'm not a klutz with holding and moving the phone while pressing the button - I can do it at a constant speed and at a level altitude but I'm constantly coming across problems - either a message says "there is a grey area" in the photo or "pan the camera in the correct direction" - which I AM actually doing and then I've tried different speeds and changes in altitude as I pan but still I get an error message 95% of the time.
I've found some basic information on the following forums but not found any answers. A friend of mine has a Neo and he doesnt appear to have any problem so I'm going to look at his phone sometime and see if it works better than mine.
I've also been wondering if AutomateIT has been interfering with the camera while using pan but I've switched it off and still the main errors are either pan in the correct direction or grey area.
Any ideas?
http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/124763
http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/124763#26303
I've done some further experimentation and I've noticed the following
a) Wrong direction error occurs most often when altitude of camera is altered during pan
b) Holding the camera at arms length with elbows almost fully straightened and turning the body at the waist reduces the "pan in correct direction" error
c) Altering the radius (moving the camera towards or away from the body) during the turn does not create errors.
But still not sure what creates grey areas in photo.
i also found the panorama function very inappropriate.. though i still able to take picture from it with error of grey area. i edit the image with grey area.. usually on the right side of the pictures and keeps on clicking thing.
one thing i found out today was i took about 6 photos of panorama(all with grey area error) but only first image showed the thumbnails in the right.. then i thought it has stop taking the photos though the images were present in the gallery.
I haven't use the sweep panorama on my Neo, but this is what I've found using that function on my Sony DSC-H55 regarding grey areas.
It's a bit hard to explain but make sure that the camera plane is perfectly parallel with the curve of the sweep. Check to be sure that the left and right sides of the phone/camera are the same distance from the center of the pivot (you). In other words, make sure the camera lens is always pointing straight out from the pivot. If you suddenly twist the camera, then you end up cutting off the picture and getting a grey area where the photo-stiching software can't process data from the accelerometer.
It's not a great explaination, but I hope it helps.
Hit the Nail on head with that one!! But yet not as easy as it sounds!!!
Lol
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It does take a little practice, yeah. The easiest way is to hold with both hands and turn your entire body if you're doing a horizontal sweep.
here a cropped grey area removed image which i took yesterday
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Two things I've found with the camera now with a few weeks of casual use - one, it produces blurred images unless i hold my breath and hold the thing as still as possible while it records the image. Even then it might have half the image clear and the other blurred, like its taking too long to poll all the pixels. It also seems to produce dark images even with the brighness setting on +2.0.
I have it set to take 3 mp images, on superfine quality, recording to the microdrive. Does anyone think any of these settings might be contributing to the problem? Maybe recording to memory and/or taking lower quality pics will fix the blurring (or half blurring) issues? I would hate to lower the quality.
Just curious what others have found as the best settings.
Ive tried so many different conbinations of settings and I almost always end up with a blurry picture, unless the lighting conditions are perfect and I mean perfect. If it's even slightly dark, or any form of artificial light, I get blurry images
i find the flash is useless n the device has to be resting on something and subject has too be still else it just dosent work!!!!!
If you get it right (and using the centre of the joystick as a camera shutter release button helps) then you can get some pretty decent lowlight shots.
Exposure is still horrible, but I've seen worse (universal was much worse than this).
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I've already switched to using the joystick's OK button as the shutter release, after holding the camera button half-way to prefocus. I wish the regular OK button below the joystick would work since it has a shorter throw (therefore less chance of motion), but it appears the camera doesn't read that button. < rant > On a related note, I wish the browser button would be disabled while the camera is active, I've lost track of how many times I've pressed it while gripping the right side in order to press the camera button half-way. Then I have to close the browser, interrupting the photo session. < /rant >
I just switched to recording to memory and a few test shots under my desk where its dark appear to be clear, even when I wiggled the unit while taking the shot. I guess a few weeks more of use will determine if its a solution or not. If not, then I'll try moving the quality or size settings downward.
Still interested if anyone has found any "good" settings.
I've had a problem over the past month or two of where the camera on my G1 simply doesn't focus when close up to an object, most notably bar codes.
I used to be able to use ShopSavvy and Barcode Scanner effortlessly, as well as take pictures of things relatively close up, and have it be in focus.
However, that's not the case anymore. The camera takes pictures of things just fine when they're more than a few feet away, but as soon as you try to get as close as you'd need to scan a barcode, it just gets blurry, and won't focus. I've tried taking off the back cover, and wiping the lens and lens cover, to no avail.
Anyone else have this problem, or know of any suggestions to fix it? FWIW, I had been on a rooted JF 1.51 build, but just over the weekend I switched to CyanogenMOD, and I still have the same issue. Also, I've seen both this thread and this other thread on a similar issue, but, the half-pressing of the shutter button does not work, and I have the same issue with ShopSavvy, SnapTell, Barcode Scanner, Snap Photo, and the native camera.
Here are some photos for evidence.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrhaydel/3856395446/
Suggestions? Someone else mentioned that I should unroot it and take it in to TMobile for them to swap it out. Has anyone done this?
agreed!...i cant seem to use any barcode scanners cause of the fact that the camera will not focus in properly...I hope there is a solution to this.
I'm actually having the opposite problem, mine won't focus on anything that is more than one to two feet away which is pretty inconvenient since that's the range where the majority of things in the universe can be found
The only thing I can think of as a solution is (because I've got some experience in optics from university) find the precise range of focus of the camera and find a small lens that can adjust the focus to what it should be and put it over the aperture.
*****On the plus side, my camera can focus on very close objects, ~1inch, which is better than my CAMERA camera.
I have found that in order to focus properly, you must hold your finger on the "capture" button on the touch screen. When I let go, it takes the picture. I can focus on items up to about two inches from the lens. If I do not hold my finger on it, I would get the same type results as the OP has described/posted.
My Streak used to take very good photos which came out natively at 2592x1944 pixels, around 300kb in size. But suddenly that has changed and now photos are only 640 x 480 pxls and about 80kb. I've made no changes nor can I find any means of returning to the higher quality. Can anyone shed any light, please?
When using the camera there are settings for this. I am on my IPAD so i cannot provide instructions. Maybe later when I am on the phone.
Hi,
There is a strip of very small settings buttons down the left hand side of the viewfinder area, touch the top one and a scrollable box comes up, somewhere in there are the resolotion settings. Make sure you check the superfine option, then pick 5MP option.
The buttons are really fiddly, it takes me a couple of tries to get the settings menu up.
Hope this fixes your problem.
The pics I take with my streak are usually around 800MB
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Guest69 said:
Hi,
There is a strip of very small settings buttons down the left hand side of the viewfinder area
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Not on mine I'm afraid! There are five buttons on the right side (brightness/contrast, store location, white balance, flash mode and zoom), but none whatsoever on the left side???
I remeber that being the case before the Froyo update. Are you on 2.2?
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I remeber that being the case before the Froyo update. Are you on 2.2?
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Yes, I am. And I had high quality photos both before and after updating to 2.2. It's only recently that this has happened and I can't think what I must have done to have caused it, nor can I find any resolve. The last thing I want to do is a cold reset, so if anyone can suggest how I might be able to reinstall just the camera app, perhaps?
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Yes, I am. And I had high quality photos both before and after updating to 2.2. It's only recently that this has happened and I can't think what I must have done to have caused it, nor can I find any resolve. The last thing I want to do is a cold reset, so if anyone can suggest how I might be able to reinstall just the camera app, perhaps?
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HI AidanBell,
the option to set the quality of the camera is just below the brightness and contrast option.
Once you click on it just scroll it and you will find it.
Thank you so much. At first I still couldn't find it, but eventually I realised that the brightness/contrast menu is scrollable - which is not in any way obvious nor have I ever known before! So of course scrolling down I've now finally found all the quality controls. So simple and yet so beautifully hidden! Thanks again to everyone who helped with this. Job done.
I noticed this the first day I had my phone, but thought it was just a fluke or some new touchwiz feature akin to the "linens" that iOS 5,6 had. But my note 3, white now on full stock MJ4, never rooted or tampered with yet seems to have some banding and aberrations with displaying medium grays. I have attached a screenshot that you can download and try for yourself. I am positive this is a bug, and with my limited knowledge I feel it is a software issue more than a hardware one that will hopefully get fixed.
Steps to really see the problem:
Download my screen shot on to your Note 3 (or open chrome browser, remove all windows so it is the gray background with the product logo as attached, then screen shot it yourself)
Do the following in a dark environment to see it best. (please)
Open the screenshot in gallery.
Zoom into it and pan around.
Play with different brightness settings and see if the banding with grays is more evident.
Turn on screen rotation, rotate screen.
Zoom and pan on the same screenshot in landscape view to see that the banding is apparent still only on the Y-axis, proving it was not part of the image.
I attempted to capture this on video and even scan it in my scanner, but it wasn't obvious like it is to my eyes. I want to know, does this affect other people's note 3s? If so I won't care as it really isn't a problem. But if it's just my handset, then I want to get it swapped out instead of risking a bad screen or any other on board hardware. I am most worried because the problem is different day to day and the banding seems to be greater towards the bottom of the screen
If you did all this, thank you!
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Same issue here as well as my girlfriends N3. If you mess around with the different display settings (dynamic, professional photo, etc) it increases it or decreases it. I've only noticed this with Chrome however. I will boot up my Evo 3D to see if it does it on there as well as my 2k12 N7.
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Hello overyone,
I Googled and found nothing, so I'm here. Let's see what experts think...
What's happening:
When the "automatic brightness" function is turned on and the smartphone itself is exposed to the sun, it tends to "overdo" the level of brightness (and in a VERY strange way). Whole screen starts to look "washed out" and COMPLETELY strange. It is perfectly visible for example in a black version on Messenger. Display is not just "washed out", the letters is "outlined" aswell (kinda looks like is was "overbrightnessed" and "washed out" or "oversharpened" in some raster editor). At first I thought that it has to be a HW problem (really looks like display is broken or poorly connected to the bus). It is difficult take a picture of the phenomenon, so I tried to decribe it AND tried to replicate it:
Here is original screen of header banner of XDA forum - in darker enviroment the screen looks like this:
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Here is the modified one, looks very simmilar to the phenomenon what's occuring on the phone (brightness is pumped up and "sharpen" effect is pumped up (highly overused)) - in brighter enviroment (outdoor) the screen looks like this:
When the problem occured:
Yesterday. From all of the sudden. I have the phone for month or something, mabye less. No any problems until now.
What I tried:
Identifying the problem. Looks like SW problem. Occuring only in sunlight with "high" brightness. When the fron camera is covered, display darkens and the problem completely disappears. I tried restarting the phone, checking for updates, messing with the brightness settings. Nothing helped. When you make a screenshot, the picture is obviously fine.
Any ideas what it could be? Last thing to try is to factory reset the phone, but I do not want to do it right away obviously.
The phone has a valid warranty, so returning it is always an option (and I'll do it if I don't figure out what it might be).
Thanks for trying, have a wonderful day!
John
'Increased contrast' color profile fixed this problem for me.
Ha! Thats it! Thank you a lot!
I'm excited that the phone is completely ok. That means I'm happy with it so far.
It keeps me wondering, how is it possible that such a bad (non-functioning) feature is included and not patched? Instead of improving readability it turns the screen into complete mess.
Again,
thank you.