Time to take picture (camera launch speed) - LG V10 Real Life Review

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Camera Speed
I have been using double tap of volume down button to launch camera app and so far it hasnt failed me to launch within one second. One thing i love this camera other than the quality of the photo is the OIS.

Good as any other ... but there are ways to get it open faster than going through home screen. That's a nice touch.

double tap volume down does it too , its the superfastest way

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[Q] Camera slow to take picture.

Hi,
My camera takes a while before it captures a picture and by the time it takes the picture, I miss the shot.
It takes like 5-10 sec after it stops focusing to snap the picture.
Is there a way to speed up the time between when I press the capture button and when the actual image is taken?
HeroC CM7 Nightily.
Thanks.
Try miui camera in the themes and apps section or try camera 360. Check out the apps that will help thread in that section, i just told someone how they can speed up their phone, check your settings with what i told that guy to do, it will probably help.
I like the MIUI camera. Raise your min CPU setting to 352MHz I think that's what he was saying.

[Q] Dark photos Indoors

Whenever I take photos inside on the smart mode options such as on action freeze or macro, the picture comes out really really dark or completely black with no quality at all. Also when I take videos, particularly on slow motion, the picture again comes out really dark. One reason I bought this camera was to take action freezes of my new puppy who runs about indoors a lot, and as I live in Scotland the weather isn't always ideal to take photos outside! I was wondering if there is anyway to make these better or if its the indoor lighting thats the problem or if its a faulty unit.
Thank you!
holliecumming said:
Whenever I take photos inside on the smart mode options such as on action freeze or macro, the picture comes out really really dark or completely black with no quality at all. Also when I take videos, particularly on slow motion, the picture again comes out really dark. One reason I bought this camera was to take action freezes of my new puppy who runs about indoors a lot, and as I live in Scotland the weather isn't always ideal to take photos outside! I was wondering if there is anyway to make these better or if its the indoor lighting thats the problem or if its a faulty unit.
Thank you!
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The reason action freeze photos are dark is because what action freeze does is opens and closes the lens much faster than a normal photo, so less light comes in the lens and your picture is dark. Action Freeze photos are for outdoors in daylight.

[Q] How to take drama shot?

I tried. I selected 'Shot & more' mode. Then took picture of a moving objects (I tried kids, vehicle etc).
The object was moving from one end of the frame to other. While taking the picture, I hold down the camera button.
Once the button is released, its starts 'processing'. When processing is completed, it displays the photo.
How much ever I try, I get only 'Best photo' and sometimes 'Eraser' options enabled.
Never Drama shot or Panning shot enabled.
Any idea how to get this working?
yoonus said:
I tried. I selected 'Shot & more' mode. Then took picture of a moving objects (I tried kids, vehicle etc).
The object was moving from one end of the frame to other. While taking the picture, I hold down the camera button.
Once the button is released, its starts 'processing'. When processing is completed, it displays the photo.
How much ever I try, I get only 'Best photo' and sometimes 'Eraser' options enabled.
Never Drama shot or Panning shot enabled.
Any idea how to get this working?
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some interesting suggestions here - http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s5/381821-taking-drama-shot.html
As someone who posted in the forum linked above, I can tell you the advice you need is there. There are also lots of official guides for the S4 that will help with the S5 as well.
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Had a chance to play with it again yesterday.
I was finally able to crack it.
What I was doing wrong: When the subject entered the frame, press the camera icon. Keep holding until subject exited the frame.
What need to be done: When subject enters the frame, tap on the camera icon. Like you do when taking normal picture. Don't hold it.
Camera will display 'Processing....'. I think its taking additional pictures at this time. Hence hold your camera study and don't change the frame.
Once camera completes processing, it will display the image with all options like Drama shot, Panning shot etc enabled.
Attached is my successful attempt from it.
yoonus said:
Had a chance to play with it again yesterday.
I was finally able to crack it.
What I was doing wrong: When the subject entered the frame, press the camera icon. Keep holding until subject exited the frame.
What need to be done: When subject enters the frame, tap on the camera icon. Like you do when taking normal picture. Don't hold it.
Camera will display 'Processing....'. I think its taking additional pictures at this time. Hence hold your camera study and don't change the frame.
Once camera completes processing, it will display the image with all options like Drama shot, Panning shot etc enabled.
Attached is my successful attempt from it.
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Thanks so freaking much. Moving Subject MUST be in frame FIRST before you TAP ONCE. Do not HOLD or it will take burst shots and only offer "BEST SHOT" feature. Thanks so much i was getting so frustrated
http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s5/381821-taking-drama-shot.html
Go to the link. i think it will help you.

Camera Touch and Hold Multi Photo Option

Has anyone tried the Touch and Hold option on the camera to take multiple photos?
I just tried it and was pretty impressed.
There was a slight shutter lag on the first shot but then the remaining shots took off one after another. In less than 6 seconds, I took 25 photos. I've attached four of the images I took of my grand puppy.
Camera HDR was set to ON.
Resolution was Standard 21MP (4:3)
Control Focus/Exposure was set to ON.
I have tried it and liked the results, I took today about 200 pictures and 25 minutes of video about 5 minute of slo motion at my grandson's birthday party, cloudy day pictures both in and out of a shelter that created exposure problems (dark in shelter, bright outside) less than 10 pictures had exposure problems, 2 were out of focus.... and nobody was standing still, they were candid pictures not poses. Flawless video and the camera auto creates Highlight reels with background music that are priceless. I have heard a tremendous amount of whining about the camera in this phone, can't do this, can't do that... my humble opinion is this: a great phone with a good camera.
Droid turbo camera slow.?
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There have been some who say the shutter speed is extremely slow. I turned off HDR and only have a slight delay in shutter speed.

Camera tips and tricks

It seems some camera options are not very well documented. Thought I would start a thread to share tricks to help improve photos. There is another thread for tips and tricks but that one focuses on other things. Since camera is one of the highlights of this phone I figured a dedicated thread was worth it.
Here are a few I found. Feel free to share yours!
1. When tapping to focus on a point, if you do a long touch instead, it will set a focus point but add a second movable frame for exposure so you can have an exposure point that is not your focus point (IE focus on someone but expose for highlights)
2. If short tapping to focus, you can then tap/drag the focus point up or down to adjust exposure level (exposure compensation).
3. From my early tests, it looks like the camera hdr is better at recovering shadows instead of highlights. When having high contrast scene, change exposure so the highlights are better exposed when looking at picture frame. Shadow details will come out better (don't over exaggerate this or shadows will remain too dark). Adjusting exposure for shadows never seem to recover highlights properly.
4. I've seen some reviews where pixel 3 has a better exposure using their night scene function. If the mate night function yeilds results too dark, you can force the time and Iso to use (tap the icons in bottom left and right). So far I found that if I look at the picture info and see the auto mode exposed say 4 sec with Iso 400, usually keeping 4 sec but doubling Iso (800 in that case), will produce a better exposure similar to the pixel. I don't want to get into color/detail comparison between the 2 devices.. This is just to get a better exposure. Guessing they'll sort this out in a future update.
For now that's what I found that didn't feel intuitive.
Please share your findings!
Let me share my suggestions:
1. In case of pro mode ,shutter speed is restricted to 30s of exposure whereas night mode can give up to 52s (max I have seen) exposure.
2. You can try different light painting modes to achieve low-light shots as well. I tried with star trails and got good results ( but exposure gets throttled and(or) locked at some point.
3. in Pro mode, If you are taking low-light snaps in an enclosed area such that your flashlight can reach, then you will get very good photos for reasonably smaller exposure times.
4. Use tripods for all night shots (bluetooth trigger will make it even better), don't rely on stabilization unless there is ample light and that exposure time will be around 1/125 , because even night mode can be affected despite the claim that OIS stabilization will be sufficient.
5. lowering the exposure while taking close-up flash photography will help in partially retaining data that would have been lost due to flash overexposure.
Thanks,
Rakesh

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