I decided to get into smartphone photography with my Android phone and there are some pretty good camera apps that help take good quality photos, but the apps lack quality features such as, shutter speed, aperture, focal length, and other essential manual features. I did do some research on manual camera apps and I did find apps that offer manual camera controls, but they were for Android 5.0+ and rooted devices. I do not own a device with Android lollipop nor have a rooted phone and/or plan on rooting it due to the difficulties of rooting my device. So, I wanted to know if there is a manual camera app like Manual Camera, but for Android 4.4.4. I already tried Camera FV-5 and that did not offer shutter speed and aperture controls. Btw if such a Play Store app does not exist is there at least like a link to an app or private app? (Idk what apps that are not on the Play Store are called)
Device Specs: ZTE Zmax Android 4.4.4 Not rooted
FV-5 does not require root for shutter speed control. Source: my own usage
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schhy said:
FV-5 does not require root for shutter speed control. Source: my own usage
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Where is it located? Can you take a screenshot of its location? I don't think I have that option and I have the pro version.
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Select "P" on the left and tap "S". This gives you shutter speed control
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Has anyone used this app? I see many people using it with the incredible but I don't feel like spending the money if it doesn't enhance the pictures on our phones that much.
There is a free demo version you can try out.
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I really like Vignette. The effects and settings are very cool and I think they are much less cheesy than some of the effects on other camera apps.
I second that. I have the full version, and its a very reliable camera app with some powerful features!
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The camera app on aokp roms sucks really hard sometimes but, is there anyway we can change the camera app on aokp roms?
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you can check the functionality of any third party Camera App from Market, like "Camera ICS"
I had found this one very nice and an alternative for my native MIUI camera which gives treble while shooting the videos sometime
i like 360 camera, 1 it's a good looking app, and has a bunch of extra FX
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vStudio.Android.Camera360&feature=search_result
I've been looking on the market for the best camera/photo edit app out but havent been able to find one. Coming from an iPhone I used the Camera+ app and lover the HDR features along with full control over photo editing and filters. Any suggestions?
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This came with my note 10.1 tab. Tons of features.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.adobe.pstouch
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I've been looking on the market for the best camera/photo edit app out but havent been able to find one. Coming from an iPhone I used the Camera+ app and lover the HDR features along with full control over photo editing and filters. Any suggestions?
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Camera FV-5 has become my replacement camera for the stock cam on my Note 2. FV-5 gives you features you would find on a DSLR camera. Pro HDR Camera is great for the times you want HDR and last but not least Vignette camera.
for editing, I like Picsay Pro, Perfectly Clear and definitely Adobe Photosho Touch(A tad pricey but worth it).
Hello to everyone from a new forum member
I recently bought the Z Ultra as a replacement for my Galaxy Note II, and was expecting to have to still keep my iPhone 4S in the other pocket as a decent camera.
I noticed that the Z Ultra does take quite nice photos, and indoors they are often better than the iPhone! But I was shocked on zooming in to find that they have no detail at all, and that was explained by the fact all the photos are around 1MB in size (on the highest resolution setting)!! iPhone photos average 4MB, and Note II photos average 7MB.
I asked Sony support how to reduce the ridiculous level of JPEG compression on the photos, but they said it cannot be done. Is this really true? It's shocking if so! What's the point in even having a high resolution sensor if you compress the images so much it might as well be 2megapixel!?
Is there any replacement camera app that can take photographs with sensible compression levels, or would it require hacking the OS? I'd prefer not to root if possible. Can anyone help please? I love this Sony and it would be great for it to be my only phone.
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I noticed this myself yesterday. I took some test photos and thought they looked nice, but then I zoomed in, and holy artifacts batman, that was quite bad. Try using a third party camera app from the play store.
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I also encounter the same problem. If anyone has any solution, please let me know.
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I also encounter the same problem. If anyone has any solution, please let me know.
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The Z1 camera app is available for the Ultra in the Themes and apps section. Try that out, or install a third party photo app from the Play Store and see if that helps. I haven't installed anything yet since i'm not that interested in taking photos, so i can't tell if it helps or not.
Thx, I will try
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The Z1 camera app is available for the Ultra in the Themes and apps section. Try that out, or install a third party photo app from the Play Store and see if that helps. I haven't installed anything yet since i'm not that interested in taking photos, so i can't tell if it helps or not.
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Didn't try Z1 cam app yet, but I tried third party apps and the results are the same, even worse in low luminosity conditions (as third apps do not use the hdr backlight correction). I took a look on the media_profile.xml and changed value of ImageEncoding quality to 100/90/80/70/60/50 instead of 90/80/70/60/50/40 but didn't see any improvement. I guess it is ruled by one of the camera files, and I don't know how to find which and even less how to modify it.
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any method indeed?
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any method indeed?
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The camera is a little better in 4.3. Still not great, but better.
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The Z1 camera app is available for the Ultra in the Themes and apps section. Try that out, or install a third party photo app from the Play Store and see if that helps. I haven't installed anything yet since i'm not that interested in taking photos, so i can't tell if it helps or not.
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The z1 camera that i know is from krab...i like to port it to mine as well but i see their is a problem when trying to flash it......flash has some error that havent got fix.....since krab is not here anymore, can someone continue the work that krab left.....or simply just fix the error....
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The z1 camera that i know is from krab...i like to port it to mine as well but i see their is a problem when trying to flash it......flash has some error that havent got fix.....since krab is not here anymore, can someone continue the work that krab left.....or simply just fix the error....
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Or just update to 4.3. We have the Z1 camera app now.
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Or just update to 4.3. We have the Z1 camera app now.
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App, but how bout camera processing itself.....does it better compare to krab z1....of it does, i think just like you said.....update....
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App, but how bout camera processing itself.....does it better compare to krab z1....of it does, i think just like you said.....update....
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I'm not sure, but I think it's a direct port of the Z1 257 camera app, and the Z1 also got updated to 4.3 with an improved camera, so my guess would be that the 4.3 for the Ultra is also "better" than the 257 port. I can't see how Krab could've modified it to be better.
I have no proof to back up my claims that the 4.3 camera is in fact better, but my first reaction when I took some low light pics the other day was that it didn't look as bad as expected. It may be a little better or I'm simply delusional
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OP, Im using Camera 360, it comes with a "Keep Original Photo" setting. Maybe you like to try that. But I have to warn you, I switched it off because it's a pain to keep managing 2 photos for EVERY shot....
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it looks the same...... are there other ways or apps to reduce the compression?
360 creates two files and for sure they dont look the same when i tested.
Also, try ProCapture and A Better Camera. Both had better low light result details than the stock one. ProCapture for example, has a reduced noise setting which works decently too.
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So here it is
Taken using Mi 3 Stock Camera with Panorama Mode....[emoji196] [emoji12]
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My Mi3 click...
Used stock camera with stock settings for this one
Beautiful day in Australia
Camera Sucks
The camera of this phone is below average quality.Produces grainy pictures.Even my atrix 2 produces better images than this hyped phone.I have tried 5-6 apps and tried but pics are blurry and grainy.
Does any one els having same issues?Can anyone please recommend any camera app for better pictures?
I have tried camera zoom,dslr camera,lg camera,google camera.Moto camera too.
Please help.
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The camera of this phone is below average quality.Produces grainy pictures.Even my atrix 2 produces better images than this hyped phone.I have tried 5-6 apps and tried but pics are blurry and grainy.
Does any one els having same issues?Can anyone please recommend any camera app for better pictures?
I have tried camera zoom,dslr camera,lg camera,google camera.Moto camera too.
Please help.
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By your comment I'm confused if you are talking about the same phone???
Anyways, assuming you are talking about Xiaomi Mi3, the stock camera app itself is good enough... If you are using digital zoom then i suggest not to do that because no matter which phone camera you use digital zoom makes it look grainy...
Also check if the resolution has been changed in the settings...
Restore to default setting if something has been changed and try again...
Cheers...
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Taken using Google camera with Lens blur feature...
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Shot using stock camera in macro mode
with Filters
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Taken using Google camera with Lens blur feature...
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Google camera force close right after the shot on my mi3 4.4.8
What is your ROM version ?
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cesko69 said:
Google camera force close right after the shot on my mi3 4.4.8
What is your ROM version ?
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I'm using stable version MIUI-KXDMIBE 18.0.1 i.e., with root...
I've heard the dev ROM has some problems with Google camera, maybe 4.8.15 might solve your problem...
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