After snapping a photo, it very quickly returns to the camera view instead of allowing me to view the picture that I just took. It doesn't matter what setting I use on the review duration option. I tried clearing the data in the camera, but still no change.
Is this a known issue?
I tried to read every camera related post in the bugs sticky, but I didn't find anything.
Hit menu while cameras is open, there is an option to change time or disable it completely
Review duration, under resolution
Anyone notice that one the T-Mobile Edge, that when you set "Video Stabilization" to "On" it actually doesnt stabilize the video?
Only when you set it to "off," it'll stabilized the video recording?
It's kind of the opposite, not sure why no one else noticed.
Could be wrong here, but I believe that while recording you not going to notice any stabilization. It's happening but you won't see it until replaying the processed video after the recording is done.
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Could be wrong here, but I believe that while recording you not going to notice any stabilization. It's happening but you won't see it until replaying the processed video after the recording is done.
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To check video and photo stabilization, try zooming in to 3x, point it at something and try to do a recording with it On and off, the video will do the opposite.
It work none the less, but it's counter intuitive to have it day off when it's actually on.
OP seems to be spot on. Same problem with my regular S6. Video stabilization = off turns stabilization on. With it = on, videos are jittery as hell where even my pulse through my fingertips causes the camera to shake.
So guess there's a bug in the camera app.
I just noticed the same thing with my unbranded regular Galaxy S6. If you have video stabilization turned on in camera app settings it is in fact turned off. I was surprised how poorly it stabilizes the video, so I had to use 'Stabilize' option in YouTube. Then I thought maybe my optical image stabilization component is damaged so I started playing with it and once I turned it off my video stabilization started to work very well. So it seems to be a bug in camera software. Anyway - if you want to have video stabilization you need to have it turned off Samsung logic
The reasoning is because the video stabilization setting in the camera app turns on DIGITAL Image Stabilizing by Samsung via software which is really just counterproductive to the Optical Image Stabilization already built into the camera.
So yeah, trust the OIS hardware because typically hardware > software in this field.
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The reasoning is because the video stabilization setting in the camera app turns on DIGITAL Image Stabilizing by Samsung via software which is really just counterproductive to the Optical Image Stabilization already built into the camera.
So yeah, trust the OIS hardware because typically hardware > software in this field.
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Just a question so OIS is default by default and always on am I right? Even on UHD recording?
More evidence that the switch in the camera options refers to DIGITAL image stabilization:
Set video resolution to FHD (not the 60fps option). Otherwise, the Video Stabilization setting is not available (grayed out).
Set the Video Stabilization setting to "ON".
Go back to the camera, zoom in fully (8x). While pointing at something easily identifiable, without shooting video, note that the image is stabilized quite well -- you can simulate "shaky hands" and the image is very stable, not jittery. However, you are not shooting video yet, so settings specific to video are not activated. What's happening here is the OIS is working, and doing a very good job.
Now, click the video recording button. You will notice two changes in the image: It will zoom in a little bit more without any zooming input from you, and the image will get rather UNSTABLE.
It turns out, what you had selected in the settings is actually, truly, being invoked. No, this is not a bug. The switch is not acting the opposite of how its labeled, even though the RESULT is exactly that in practice.
Here's what's happening: As someone else noted, that switch controls digital image stabilization. This is a software process, that basically crops off a small margin all the way around the picture and reserves these pixels for calculating a smaller moving "window" in the larger captured image space. The software tries to move this window around so that it follows the random small movements from jiggling, unsteady hands, etc. In this way, the image appears stable rather than moving around in the capture space.
This is why, when DIS is turned on, the displayed image zooms a little bit -- that's the "reserve image edges" being cropped off and the remaining image being expanded into the display area.
So, here's what I think is happening: When you have Video Stabilization on, the phone turns off OIS and enables the DIS algorithm. The OIS camera hardware is something like a Googolplex times better as IS than Samsung's crappy algorithm, so the end result is the appearance of IS being turned OFF and a little loss of resolution of the video image as well.
Once the video is stopped, after a few seconds you'll see the DIS turned off, OIS turned back on, and the image will zoom out a tiny bit and become very stable again.
Bottom line: The Video Stabilization setting in the S6 camera app is worse than useless. It's adverse. It should be left off at all times under all conditions.
How did this happen? My guess is, the engineering team responsible for the hardware was organizationally distant enough from the camera software team (keep in mind the latter are trying to develop an app that can run across many phones). The hardware guys put this incredible camera in the phone with awesome OIS. The software guys, not focused only on the S6, passed through the DIS that's been in the camera app forever, and no one engineer was responsible for integrating all this stuff for the camera feature itself, testing it, making sense of it, blah blah blah.
And here we are.
Bottom line: Because of the OIS in the S6, the DIS feature in the camera app is unnecessary and should be left OFF. In fact, the way it works misleads the user into thinking IS can't be had with the video resolutions higher than non-60fps FHD. In fact, exceptional IS is available at all times in all resolutions for stills and video -- the hardware OIS is always on the job, unless you turn it off by turning on the [digital] Video Stabilization option in the settings.
The only bug here, if any, is that this setting seems to turn off OIS, when it doesn't need to. Perhaps with OIS on, and the DIS processing applied to that stabilized image, we might get something even better than OIS alone. Alas...
I have noticed that if I set the video resolution on the back camera in the stock camera app to 4k 60fps, the image isn't zoomed in, just cropped from 4:3 to 16:9. However, selecting 4k 30 fps a small zoom in can be noticed. The lower you go in the video resolution settings, the more zoomed in the image is compared to taking a photo.
Steps to check:
1. Set video resolution.
2. Line up side of viewfinder in photo mode with a measurable object, observe the amount you can see. Now long press the video capture button to switch to the video mode preview while keeping the phone in the same place. Observe how much less of the object can be seen.
3. Change resolutions and repeat step two.
I've found 4k 60fps to not be zoomed in at all, every other resolution I tested was zoomed in to some degree. I guess all my video with be buttery smooth and super clear, but they take up so much space!
Can anyone else try this and report, or has anyone else encountered this yet? It is really bothering me that I can't use the whole sensor at 1080 60fps (with it being down scaled to 1080 before writing to storage).
I have been playing around with options to burst photos whilst taking a video. Using the default camera app on my honor view phone, when taking a video the photo button appears to be doing nothing more than taking a screenshot of the current video frame.
Taking a still photo with photo mode selected produces a nice and crisp image.
Taking a photo during video recording generates a fuzzy image which is no better than screenshotting the video during playback.
Can anyone else confirm or deny this behaviour on another devices?
Hi,
I have a Samsung S10 lite with android 11.
When I take steady pictures all is fine. The problem is when I take pictures that the object is in motion.
After the picture is taken and I want to see how it turned out I see one picture for a glimpse of an eye and then it "refreshes" to another frame and this is the final picture for now on. Sometimes it is better and sometimes it is worse.
Is that a known issue? Are these "frames" exist on the phone, can I choose between them?
Thanks!
If you have an HDR setting on your camera then turn it off. Each photo will have only one frame of the image.
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If you have an HDR setting on your camera then turn it off. Each photo will have only one frame of the image.
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And the image that I saw for a moment is deleted?
Disabling HDR means taking one frame of the image. Turning on HDR takes several frames of the image, but in the end .JPG contains one image frame composed of several.
Taking a photo in motion creates one .JPG file containing several image frames.
Therefore, such a file is many times larger than .JPG made without the photo in motion function turned on.
In the gallery, you can turn off the automatic playback of moving photos.
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Disabling HDR means taking one frame of the image. Turning on HDR takes several frames of the image, but in the end .JPG contains one image frame composed of several.
Taking a photo in motion creates one .JPG file containing several image frames.
Therefore, such a file is many times larger than .JPG made without the photo in motion function turned on.
In the gallery, you can turn off the automatic playback of moving photos.
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Thanks for the detailed answer.
Just to be sure - is it not possible to extract one frame from the finished HDR?
The raw data is not accessible?
MrQuestion101 said:
Thanks for the detailed answer.
Just to be sure - is it not possible to extract one frame from the finished HDR?
The raw data is not accessible?
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As I mentioned, the resulting .JPG taken with the Samsung camera contains only one image frame.
RAW recording mode is available in PRO mode.
You can use Open Camera, for example, which allows you to leave saved frames of images taken in HDR mode.
Open Camera - Browse Files at SourceForge.net
Camera app for Android.
sourceforge.net
Open Camera - Apps on Google Play
Open Source Camera app.
play.google.com