[Q] note 3 camera tap to focus?

darkfangex5 said:

I cannot focus on half of the objects i tap to focus on. There is usually a red box around the tap to focus. Particularly for macro testing especially with my hand. And no there is no plastic over the lens. Anyone else having this issue?

EDIT: Confirmed that the note 3 (All variants, as tested from 3 Bestbuy stores and about 10 note threes) camera sucks terribly at focusing on dark objects or objects with little difference in color. I'm surprised nobody noticed this. It can't focus on certain spots on the hand at 8 inches away depending on lighting but there will always be a spot on the hand it fails to focus on, nor can it focus on various dark objects in good light. No kernel changes, roms, or AOSP kernel/rom will fix it. The note 3 camera just sucks at focusing. Tested this against a LG G2, and Htc m7 and they could focus properly to those spots on my hand in good light that couldn't focus on.

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carnagecjb said:

Damn.
Somehow I never noticed this.
And now I can never not notice this.

Hopefully it is a firmware / software bug, and not a hardware one...

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micmars said:

All software, but much of it is tied to values it's reading off of the CMOS. The camera uses software to do all of the tasks needed to set focus, aperture, shutter, noise compensation, compression, filters, exposure compensation, film speed (or its digital equivalent), everything.

But...you could always use a 3rd party to confirm.

Samsung knows a thing or two about digital cameras, so I'm certain that this could be fixed.

I haven't had any issues akin to that which you're describing, yet I don't expect much from a tiny chip crammed with so many sensors in anything but outdoor lighting, so I likely haven't a baseline.

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