Blurry pictures

Dyelon

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I've been using camera ZOOM as my main camera app and I'm finding that almost all my pictures are blurry, even if the objects are stationary!

Has anyone else experienced this? For those people, have you found an app that fixes this problem?

This phone is godlike but the camera is sofa king horrible

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PantherVT

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I don't use Zoom but I noticed the same thing. I have only owned the phone for a a few days so it may be more user error than hardware issue.
 

Germanese

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ICS Auto Focus was jack up on mines.
It never really focused all the way, if it did, right before shutter press and taking picture it would refocus and take the blurry pic.

But after I installed JB on there that problem is gone. Though to take good images you still have to play with Apature and Exposure.
Also make sure u know what the lens can and cannot do. You are playing with only a cheapo Cam.
 

Dyelon

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ICS Auto Focus was jack up on mines.
It never really focused all the way, if it did, right before shutter press and taking picture it would refocus and take the blurry pic.

But after I installed JB on there that problem is gone. Though to take good images you still have to play with Apature and Exposure.
Also make sure u know what the lens can and cannot do. You are playing with only a cheapo Cam.
Got any tips on jb? I'm not sure what you mean by apature and exposure

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Germanese

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-I normally try not to use Flash. (It gives the image a wierd Bam There is light somewhere look)
To compensate for that, Try to use Exposure + to make it brighter. The exposure also helps if its too bright to darken it like wearing sunglasses.

-Make sure the back lens area is clean (Oil streaks or finger prints or face fat, will result in blurry pics or Twilight Vampire like Glow to everything)
Use a dry soft cloth to clean or Soft toilet paper works great. Dont use ur Girlfriends or any type of Tissue with some sort lotion build into it.
Because that will have the same effect as oily finger prints.

-Focal Length, Figure it out (The closest distance ur cam can go to the object or subject before it goes schizophrenic trying to focus)
I found out that my Razr M Likes it about at the 4 inch mark, getting to about 3 inches it cant focus on the EyeDrop bottle.
Distance shouldn't be an issue just the object gets super small hahaha and i may not be able to focus on the desired object no more.

-Auto Focus and Manual Focus tracking I think thats they are called (Sometimes the Cam tries to focus on the wrong item like background instead forground)
The object blend in the back ground too much or cam wants to focus on something else,
tab the area where u want it to focus.It may take a few times before the cam surrenders and takes ur tab as the focus point.

-Shutter speed (Our cams aren't DSLR or High end Point and shoot)
Don't shake too much and try to stay steady to take the pic, After u hear the Click wait a bit before you move. Depending what you have running in the background it may take longer to save or process and the click SOUND maybe coming before the actual shutter CAPTURE so when moving, it may cause blurriness bc u moved while it took a pic, the digitial sound maybe off sync.

---------- Post added at 11:13 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:55 AM ----------

Your results may vary, I still have to completely fix my rear glass piece. (I have to fight some Hair fracture cracks causing, Light Prism effect ...)

Letting the cam do its thing, Blurry as hell and Very Bright.


Tapping the Screen a few times where i want it to focus. Notice sharpness changed.


Tapping screen and Lowering the Exposure to -1 to make the Black Pop better.


Hope this helps. Yes i know it is a bit of work. They could have put a smarter Processing system into the phone.
But I still love this phone, it takes decent pics, I just wish there is a way to completely unlock it for GSM use =)
BC verizon sucks LOL !!!

Here are the Image Data. Only 2 things have changed from 1st pic and 3rd. Focusing on the correct spot and my Exposure.
 
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Dyelon

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-I normally try not to use Flash. (It gives the image a wierd Bam There is light somewhere look)
To compensate for that, Try to use Exposure + to make it brighter. The exposure also helps if its too bright to darken it like wearing sunglasses.

-Make sure the back lens area is clean (Oil streaks or finger prints or face fat, will result in blurry pics or Twilight Vampire like Glow to everything)
Use a dry soft cloth to clean or Soft toilet paper works great. Dont use ur Girlfriends or any type of Tissue with some sort lotion build into it.
Because that will have the same effect as oily finger prints.

-Focal Length, Figure it out (The closest distance ur cam can go to the object or subject before it goes schizophrenic trying to focus)
I found out that my Razr M Likes it about at the 4 inch mark, getting to about 3 inches it cant focus on the EyeDrop bottle.
Distance shouldn't be an issue just the object gets super small hahaha and i may not be able to focus on the desired object no more.

-Auto Focus and Manual Focus tracking I think thats they are called (Sometimes the Cam tries to focus on the wrong item like background instead forground)
The object blend in the back ground too much or cam wants to focus on something else,
tab the area where u want it to focus.It may take a few times before the cam surrenders and takes ur tab as the focus point.

-Shutter speed (Our cams aren't DSLR or High end Point and shoot)
Don't shake too much and try to stay steady to take the pic, After u hear the Click wait a bit before you move. Depending what you have running in the background it may take longer to save or process and the click SOUND maybe coming before the actual shutter CAPTURE so when moving, it may cause blurriness bc u moved while it took a pic, the digitial sound maybe off sync.

---------- Post added at 11:13 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:55 AM ----------

Your results may vary, I still have to completely fix my rear glass piece. (I have to fight some Hair fracture cracks causing, Light Prism effect ...)

Letting the cam do its thing, Blurry as hell and Very Bright.


Tapping the Screen a few times where i want it to focus. Notice sharpness changed.


Tapping screen and Lowering the Exposure to -1 to make the Black Pop better.


Hope this helps. Yes i know it is a bit of work. They could have put a smarter Processing system into the phone.
But I still love this phone, it takes decent pics, I just wish there is a way to completely unlock it for GSM use =)
BC verizon sucks LOL !!!

Here are the Image Data. Only 2 things have changed from 1st pic and 3rd. Focusing on the correct spot and my Exposure.
dude thanks so much....im not into photography so straight to the point tips like this really help me out!