[G2 General] manchina:
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I too, am experiencing blur when taking pictures of objects in motion.

TLDR LG needs to increase shutter speed and post processing to make this thing usable if the scene isn't already blanketed in light.

The shutter speed LG G2 is sometimes choosing is insufficient to freeze motion. It simply needs to choose a faster shutter speed so it snaps the raw picture 'darker' than you'd use, but take the raw picture and post process it to recover the exposure. This is what the iPhone does. It's what most Point and Shoot auto cameras do, too. You can't (at least not yet) remove motion blur from a picture once it's snapped, in post processing.

Lucky for me I posses enough knowledge of how digital photo exposure works and know why it's doing this. It's a classical problem with auto programming. The shutter speed is insufficient to "freeze motion". Increasing ISO (sensitivity) reduces image quality. The aperture of the lens (the hole that lets light in) is already as big as it can get at F/2.4

Either, the auto programming doesn't know(software), or doesn't have the available light(hardware) to increase the shutter speed to freeze motion.

If you expect to freeze motion of an object you should expect no less than 1/60 of a second. Personally I keep my DSLR at 1/160 manually when taking pictures of my 2 yearold daughter. I also use a bounce flash, but that's another topic.

The larger the surface area of the sensor the easier it is for it to "collect light" and therefore correctly expose a picture using the available light. The ability to collect light directly affects how fast you can leave the shutter open.

The less time you have the shutter open the less blur there will be in any motion. Think refresh rate, or FPS. 60hz or 1/60 shutter speed is 60FPS, 30hz or 1/30shutter is 30fps etc.

OIS will only affect stabilizing the actual CAMERA itself, it won't affect any kind of motion external to the camera, other than the camera shaking in your hand.

Down to the technical details - I took some pictures using my DSLR - a Canon 60D with a 17-55 F/2.8 OIS lens at wide open aperture. This uses an APS-C sized sensor.

The surface area of my APS-C sensor is ~ 328mm

The surface area of this camera is roughly 74mm.

My DSLR sensor is about 5x better at collecting light than the cell phone camera.

Here's an example from my LG G2 in fairly low light. It chose a shutter speed of 1/10 seconds at an ISO of 900. I'd also suggest installing an EXIF Viewer if you want to see the details of an exposure, such as Shutter Speed (I apologize but I don't have enough posts to post links )

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Obviously too blurry to enjoy this picture too much

Here's an example of my 60D at 1/15

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still too blurry, DSLR having a larger sensor, professional OIS and zero shutter lag does NOT affect the inability to freeze motion at this shutter speed

Here's an example of my 60D at 1/30 (iso 1600)

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better, but still blurry

Here's an example of the 60D at 1/60 (iso 400)

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At this quick shutter speed and lower iso it's too dark to be usable, but this isn't processed.

Phones typically employ all kinds of post processing to recover images. When I ramp up the post-exposure this it becomes:

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Obviously I'd do more post processing than just exposure, such as noise reduction, white balance, sharpening etc, but just exposure bumping in post recovers the image, and because it shot in a quicker 1/60 speed you can see that it's actually not super blurry, like a shutter speed of 1/10 is.

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TLDR LG needs to increase shutter speed and post processing to make this thing usable if the scene isn't already blanketed in light.