[Q] Touch-to-Focus while taking video?

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Has anyone heard or seen any demos/reviews/preview videos of someone taking a video and re-focusing by touching the screen? Relying on only autofocus on the S2 made many unfocused videos unwatchable.

The One S has it (I played with it), as well as iPhone and the Razr.

YAY! Update:
According to the manual, touch to focus while recording video is confirmed!

5 Select [REC button] to start recording.
●● To change the focus, tap where you want to focus. To
focus on the centre of the screen, select [AF button].
●● To capture an image from the video while recording,
select [STILL SHOT button].
6 Select [REC button] to stop recording.
The video is saved automatically.

Update 2:
On another note, it looks like anti-shake is available for video, too, unless it was a copy/paste mistake from the Photo/Still Camera section of the manual.

Anti-Shake
Activate the anti-shake feature to reduce
blur caused by the device’s vibration or
movement.

Originally Posted by naddie

Has anyone heard or seen any demos/reviews/preview videos of someone taking a video and re-focusing by touching the screen? Relying on only autofocus on the S2 made many unfocused videos unwatchable.

The One S has it (I played with it), as well as iPhone and the Razr.

Dude you can do this on the S2 I use it ALL the time..

Originally Posted by fOmey

Dude you can do this on the S2 I use it ALL the time..

On TW ROMs while taking a video? Are we talking ICS? I haven't tried taking a video on a TW ICS ROM yet.

Regarding the S2, I'm not the only one who sees this limitation:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1541019
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1471112

Anyways, I'm concerned because I know stock ICS doesn't do it, so I hope the S3's camera app finally has TOF while videoing.

I flashed to the stock ICS TW ROM and verified that touching the screen while videoing does not allow for Touch-to-Focus, either. There's nothing in the settings to allow it either. When I touch while videoing, it says "Zooming is not supported while recording Full HD Video". When not filming at 1080p, it just zooms instead of focus.

Are you using a custom ROM, 3rd party app, or modified camera.apk?

Yeah I've seen many videos where this was done, Samsung even added automatic face recognition when you take a photo and instantly sends them to all your friends in that photo.

That's all fine and dandy, but sometimes, you want to control where you want to focus. Short of an unfriendly manual focus slider, touch-to-focus is a quick way to kick the focus algorithm in gear.

Relying on the auto focus to adjust itself doesn't work well on the S2. Sometimes it tries to refocus when it's already in focus and everything becomes blurry for the next 2-3 minutes, ruining the video. Happens a lot in low-light conditions (indoor).

Originally Posted by naddie

I flashed to the stock ICS TW ROM and verified that touching the screen while videoing does not allow for Touch-to-Focus, either. There's nothing in the settings to allow it either. When I touch while videoing, it says "Zooming is not supported while recording Full HD Video". When not filming at 1080p, it just zooms instead of focus.

Are you using a custom ROM, 3rd party app, or modified camera.apk?

lgcamera works flawlessly for this. Bitrate customization, touch to focus etc

Originally Posted by DramatikBeats

lgcamera works flawlessly for this. Bitrate customization, touch to focus etc

I'm talking about the stock camera app. I hope someone can verify if touch focus on the S3 will finally have it.

According to the manual, touch to focus while recording video is confirmed!

5 Select [REC button] to start recording.
●● To change the focus, tap where you want to focus. To
focus on the centre of the screen, select [AF button].
●● To capture an image from the video while recording,
select [STILL SHOT button].
6 Select [REC button] to stop recording.
The video is saved automatically.