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[Nexus 5 General] neriamarillo:
N5 hands down over the S5. Nice!
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
I pulled these images from the s5 group.. The person who posted the images said that the sky was natural on s5 and rest of the things were sharper and natural on nexus 5.. But the size of s5's image was twice as big as nexus 5's image.. Which makes it superior in terms of details
[Nexus 5 General] pkny:
The roof and sky in the background is much better on the S5. Those things looks kind of washed out on the nexus along with most of the image, but

Shadowing is portrayed better on the nexus.
[Nexus 5 General] Jonathanlc2005:
With flash

With HDR

Without flash or HDR

Motion pictures weren't good

Miami beach at 2am
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Overall I prefer nexus 5's image.. More sharpness.. Brown is more brown on nexus 5 while its yellowish on s5.. And the best thing is that it still stands tough against the 16mp camera.. But the camera software on s5 is way better.. Advantage of megapixels..
[Nexus 5 General] aeoveu:
No camera can get a decent picture whilst in motion - at night.
[Nexus 5 General] CitizenLee:
FYP ;)
[Nexus 5 General] AndroidKills:
HDR+ photos

Can say my nexus 5 meets/goes beyond my expectations and defeats all those naysayers.

Day shot of me and my dog.

Night shot by the West Side Highway

Sent from Nexus5��
[Nexus 5 General] :
Nexus 5 vs. Samsung's Galaxy S5

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/OMabDT33DvM/story01.htm

via Android News ( Android News )
[Nexus 5 General] Jonathanlc2005:
so let me ask a stupid question... since we have optical image stabilization, if we drop the phone... does the g force drop have enough to damage the OIS camera
[Nexus 5 General] akarol:
Lol. Doubtful. I think the OIS system is the last of our concerns on a drop.

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Saw that. I don't know if I buy it though. My GF's GS4 is lightyears better in picture quality with and without flash.
[Nexus 5 General] :
It could be just software... Look at Sonys Xperia line cameras as an example. Awesome tech, bad software. And this Isocell thing is new for Samsung. So they could improve with updates or make it better in future devices.
[Nexus 5 General] neriamarillo:
I has to have both. Good hardware and good software. A good camera with crappy software is gonna suck. Now a good software will make the most out of any crappy hardware.
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Thanks for the link.. I found nexus 5 better in all categories.. I don't know y ppl prefer brighter images over sharper images
[Nexus 5 General] neriamarillo:
I prefer accurate images over bright or saturated images.
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Then u would too prefer nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] neriamarillo:
Yes of course. There were some pictures that he said that the S5 performed better and I completely disagreed. The N5 can produce some amazing shots and overall the camera is very very good.
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Yea.. Ppl say that photos were dark on nexus 5.. They are seriously confused between darkness and sharpness.. Nexus 5 has OIS which helps a lot to produce accurate colors
[Nexus 5 General] CitizenLee:
OIS = Optical Image Stabilization, and that has no effect on colour reproduction.

Read about the specific OIS system they use in the N5 here:

http://www.invensense.com/mems/gyro/idg-ixz-202x.html
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Ois does help.. I've read on many sites.. It does help alot against sunlight
[Nexus 5 General] CitizenLee:
Haha, what? Please share the links to where you read OIS can help with colour reproduction or against sunlight as I'd love to see who is providing this misinformation :D

Photography is a hobby of mine and I've used many different types of camera with different types of OIS technology and turning it in or off has no bearing what so ever on how the colours look in a image. For example, when taking photos on a tripod it is encouraged to turn OIS off, yet the colours don't look different as a result. It is designed purely to reduce blur / camera shake.

A full explanation on how a colours are digitally reproduced and how OIS works is perhaps beyond the scope of this thread but I can link you to some in depth articles if you want to know more on the subject.
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
I mean natural color reproduction
[Nexus 5 General] CitizenLee:
Still has nothing to do with OIS mate.

Colours are determined by how the image processing chip handles the data it gets from the sensor. Completely separate from the OIS module, which is basically a little gyroscope.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Exactly. OIS in the Nexus 5 is good for its purpose - that is to help take sharp handheld pictures. It has no effect on colors.
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Umm Okk
[Nexus 5 General] neriamarillo:
You're actually right. This is only for image stabilization when using the phone handheld. It's like a counterweight for your hand vibration. It shouldn't affect the colors at all.
[Nexus 5 General] CitizenLee:
Yup, that's exactly how it works.

Another interesting fact about the module used in the N5 is that is only stabilizes on two axis, whereas the OIS module in the Nokia Lumia phones can stabilize on 3.

Can you tell I'm a photography geek :o
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
What matters is the result :)

M happy my Nexus 5 still is a great shooter
[Nexus 5 General] neriamarillo:
Yeah I can tell lol. Imagine I took my old camera out (Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28) my portable camera (don't judge, its small) and started playing around with it and even though its only 10mp it achieves amazing photos. Camera phones still have a long way to go but will be hard to compare to a profesional camera.

These cameras were intended to be as a camera on you all the time. Not as a profesional camera, although maybe one day we might get there who knows lol.

Here is a sample from that camera...
[Nexus 5 General] DigitalUnderground:
This ^^^

I thought the n5 pics looked better and Sammy is a saturation king.

I like the n5 camera... It doesn't hold a candle to the HTC Amaze in my opinion (best camera on a phone phone I've owned to date), but it's very nice in my opinion. Esp with HDR+
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Yea
[Nexus 5 General] rangoj:
Nexus 5 camera is simply great because of HDR+ algorithm (and IOS which is important for HDR+ shooting).

HDR+ shots look like they have much bigger resolution, (they don't have grain when zoomed in) and in low light noise is almost completely removed.

Google knows this, that is why HDR+ is not available for other devices in new Google camera app - he keep it exclusively for Nexus 5! (at least for now) :)
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Yea.. When they made new camera app available for everyone i was said that they provided hdr+ to everyone.. Afterwards i came to know that they haven't provided the hdr+ feature.. And i was so damm happy..
[Nexus 5 General] aeoveu:
HDR+ is always going to remain a N5 thing cause of the way the phone processes it - it's not available on the N4. Me thinks its more to do with hardware identification (you could probably get the software to mimic, but I don't think companies will do it).

Btw, when you take a picture on HDR+, the actual photo resolution is cropped a little bit (by - like - half a megapixel). Which doesn't make a huge difference - but it's there. You do get ridiculously low noise though).

Sadly, people would rather have pictures that they can zoom in (and have them pixellated) and where the ISO ramps up so high that it looks bright without them looking sharp as such. I had a little camera-off with a Note 3 user in the office, and boy, they were so dogged that the Note 3 beats (cause of higher ISO in low light --> more brightness in the picture, and the ability to zoom in more...)

There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard.
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Samsung produces only brighter images.. Not sharper.. Only place the nexus 5 looses is sharpness.. Rest all places i prefer nexus 5 :)
[Nexus 5 General] lukesan:
Time to kick out my Nexus 5 and go for the Note 3. After the GPS contact issue, yellow'ish screen it now screwed up the pictures I took at a birthday party.

I'd rather have oversaturated pics than no pics at all.

When coming home late night I quickly checked my gallery to see that I had a lot of black photos, like in 9 out of 10. I was like ... WTH but my batt had only like 2% left. After I connected the usb cable I thought that I was pulling them to my hard drive. Well, most of them corrupt.

Size seems to be normal, 2 to 3 MB but non readable. I tried different programs but it seems to be corrupt data everywhere.

I've spend enough time tweaking a phone which was supposed to work out of the box.
[Nexus 5 General] aeoveu:
Did you RMA it?
[Nexus 5 General] lukesan:
Nope I didn't. 2 reasons. The hissing audio during video. 1)Paul from Google asked us not to RMA ,,, this was in January,... issue still not fixed.

2) I called Google play Belgium last week for this. They did not help me since I bought my device in the UK (no Google store in Belgium available at the time). Now since this is EU I should have a right for warranty everywhere in the EU.
[Nexus 5 General] Void Power:
By taking pictures from time to time, I concluded that wihout HDR+ on, photos are always grainy as hell and suck big time. :( HDR+ is like a mandatory feature.
[Nexus 5 General] rangoj:
In low light, EVERY phone camera will produce grainy photos!! You can't escape from that, except if you use HDR+ on Nexus 5! :)
[Nexus 5 General] elinho:
I took this photos today with my N5. It does not suck :)
[Nexus 5 General] Basian Mile:
I like the most picture too. They are nice.

HDR+

BlurFocusEffect
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Definitely camera does not suck :)
[Nexus 5 General] md1008:
Compared to the m8 the n5 is supreme.
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Does anyone have a note 2? If yes can u do a camera comparison between note 2 and nexus 5 hdr+,I've convinced my friend for the nexus 5, camera is his concern
[Nexus 5 General] CitizenLee:
Well, you know I had a Note 2 as we've discussed it before :D

To compare anything you need a level playing field, so comparing a "stock" unprocessed photo from any device (GS3, GS4, GS5, GN2, GN3, HTC M8 etc etc) to a HDR+ photo from a Nexus 5 is not a fair comparison, since HDR+ is a software processed image (3 shots at different exposures (+1EV, 0EV & -1EV) blended together).

If you want a truly like for like comparison then you would need to compare non-HDR+ photos from the N5.

For example, when photography websites and magazines compare camera models they only ever use unprocessed images (usually RAW format since all jpgs are processed to a degree), so the same rules should apply to mobile phone cameras too.... for sake of a fair comparison at least.

Let you friend borrow your N5 for a few hours, then he can make his own mind up. If he uses the Note 2 for music and has an ear for quality, then he may also miss the Wolfson DAC and APT-X Bluetooth codec too. Might be worth pointing that out to him.
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Ok firstly he's not a professional and he just wants to decide between note 2 and nexus 5, i said him hdr+ is mandatory without that its difficult to get good photos and he's ready for it, If u have note 2, please post some shots with note 2 any mode and nexus 5 hdr+, it would be very nice of u..
[Nexus 5 General] CitizenLee:
I appreciate that he's not a pro (neither am I, just an "enthusiastic amateur"), I was just trying to highlight the need for a fair comparison...but I suppose I should remember not everyone cares about that stuff :D

I'd love to post some shots from the Note 2 for you, but since I don't have the phone any more the only photos I still have readily available are of my baby daughter, and I'm not prepared to post family photos on a public forum. Sorry mate.

I'm sure most of these will have been edited, but might help him decide:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/galaxynote2/

https://www.flickr.com/cameras/samsung/galaxy-note-ii/
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Its ok.. Thank you :)
[Nexus 5 General] CitizenLee:
Found some Note 2 pics in an old Dropbox folder...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14472310/20130327_162916_4_bestshot-1.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14472310/20130401_142835.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14472310/20130617_004416-1.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14472310/20130816_203646.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14472310/20130908_184906.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14472310/20131012_174000.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14472310/20131130_154415.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14472310/20140104_140528.jpg

All unedited/unprocessed, apart from the first one which was taken in "Best Shot "mode.
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Great.. Can u click two photos of any 2 scenes from nexus 5 and share? If possible
[Nexus 5 General] CitizenLee:
Sure, here's a couple...
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Thanks..
[Nexus 5 General] neriamarillo:
[MENTION=1975614]CitizenLee[/MENTION] Wow those pictures from the Note look very good. Not referring to the camera but as a picture composure goes they get an A.
[Nexus 5 General] CitizenLee:
Haha, thanks man! :)

Check out the Flickr link in my signature for my DSLR stuff, although I haven't updated it since becoming a Dad 18 months ago! (view in desktop mode)
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Nexus 5 kills the s5's camera :) <br />

First s5 second nexus 5.. After several attempts of focusing i still got a blurry photo from s5..<br />

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[Nexus 5 General] Shanks:
You all are right, n5 camera is the worst, every single picture i take is blurry, i like my nexus 5 but we must admit Samsung cameras are way better
[Nexus 5 General] eshopper:
Not able to enable hdr mode in New update.. Any one facing same issue?
[Nexus 5 General] j'vai:
man, the nexus 5 cam w/o the 4.4.3 update is da bomb, when the pics are taken *with patience..*

moving object? you'll miss them or /& blur them every time.. stills? .. great..
[Nexus 5 General] Bruce Lee:
I am not having issues. Are you talking about the 4.4.3 update our the camera update? What's your phone status right now? Rooted with or without boot loader?
[Nexus 5 General] vbaros:
Read his post again ;)
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Exactly.. S5's camera is not that good..
[Nexus 5 General] DVTeixeira:
This was taken with a Nexus 5.

/thread
[Nexus 5 General] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
As a Nexus lover who also owns an iPhone it does suck.
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
As a nexus owner and having a friend circle with all friends owning iPhone, camera is better in many ways, and comparable in few ways..
[Nexus 5 General] lesp4ul:
How to define "SUCK"? It does NOT SUCK. And yes for overall S5 and iPhone 5 camera are better, but you can't say N5 cam is suck. It's much better than various <$400 phone.
[Nexus 5 General] xxxmoscoxxx:
I'm pretty happy of my nexus 5 camera, we don't have tons of mpx, but the pictures are beautiful!

I came from a motorola Razr, with 8mpx camera. The difference is big, nexus 5 have a good camera.
[Nexus 5 General] rangoj:
Something isn't right with your nexus - I never get blurry shoots....

Here is how android central compare nexus 5 and Galaxy s5

http://m.androidcentral.com/comparing-cameras-galaxy-s5-versus-nexus-5

Samsung phones just have better marketing - nothing more! :)

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] jetbruceli:
Why do you all say the nexus suck?

I had a note 3 and yes the software for which the camera ran on a lot of perks but the camera quality isn't. With the note 3 I would have to take 3 or 4 shots to get a good one. And this nexus 5 the shots are great 8 out 10 times.

All we need is better software to run.
[Nexus 5 General] Ubelsteiner:
Do any of you have an issue with faint vertical lines when taking photos in HDR+ mode?

No HDR+:

With HDR+:

Another example with HDR+:

*edit* Ok so i'm thinking the issue is actually to do with the frequency of the fluorescent lighting in the office here. A picture taken outside with HDR+ enable doesnt seem to show these lines.
[Nexus 5 General] aeoveu:
spot on! its the fluorescent lighting that affects the frequency and "lines" :)
[Nexus 5 General] KayKashyap:
Only if Iphone was available for < $400
[Nexus 5 General] Ubelsteiner:
Some Nexus 5 pics (that don't suck)

In indirect sunlight:

In artificial light:

In practically no light at all:

In direct sunlight:

Gotta say, very impressed with the performance of this camera so far, especially how well it handles extreme lighting situations, like the last two pictures. My gf has an S4 and we did side-by-side shots of the last two scenes and in her pictures you can't even see the kitty in the dim lighting from the tiny bedside reading light, but my n5 captured it as it appeared in-person. Same with the direct sunlight picture, in hers you couldnt see much from the sunlight beaming straight at the camera, it was especially noticeable with the buildings along the horizon, in my picture you can make out the windows and details of the buildings, in hers it was just an outline of them.
[Nexus 5 General] 'busa:
Umm... Is that what I think it is?
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
As i posted few days back, the camera can shoot photos as good as today's flagship phones.. I posted comparison between s5 and nexus 5, in which nexus 5 was way better
[Nexus 5 General] mkwhater:
yeah it is a very 'interesting' picture
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
I did a comparison with s3 today.. Are u interested in the result?
[Nexus 5 General] pixelsquish:
yep i am happier with my N5 camera than the GS4. it's definitive.
[Nexus 5 General] Ubelsteiner:
Yup, some very tasty german food/bier! ;)
[Nexus 5 General] rockknee:
Have to say that nexus 5 does pretty well even when I compare it to my Canon IXUS 115HS camera. Canon has 12.1 megapixel's camera and we have only 8. I'd say n5 is not the best cameraphone out there (not really surprising) but it certainly is "camerawise" device.
[Nexus 5 General] Dawnut:
The camera is great, no doubt. The google camera that was recently launched in the play store has even bigger potential, if they put back the HDR+ and the other stuff they downgraded. Anyway, yup the camera DOES NOT suck. And good pics by the way ;p
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Hdr+ is still there my friend
[Nexus 5 General] Dawnut:
I am using nexus 5 with 4.4.3 Carbon custom rom. I installed the google camera from the play store, but here is all I see.... no HDR.
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
First delete the aosp camera which comes By default then install google camera.. Even I'm on 4.4.3 custom rom but i have hdr+
[Nexus 5 General] Dawnut:
The first thing I did was deleting the AOSP camera. Should I delete gallery too? I am clearly missing something here.
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
No no.. First flash gapps 4.4.3.. Then after boot download the google camera
[Nexus 5 General] Basian Mile:
Even macro is just nice:
[Nexus 5 General] yguns76:
Camera photo comparison are tricky.

Remember, it usually is not the camera but the photographer the makes high quality pictures.
[Nexus 5 General] jetbruceli:
You guys aren't kidding. I am so impressed with this camera. I mean really. It snaps instantly and clearly. I only need to take a photo and it done. Not like my Sammy devices which are always blurry. Usually had to take 5 shots with them

forget the thanks button, I want a high five!
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
Definitely.. Its better than Samsung cameras, even indoors with pretty good lightning conditions Samsung phones come up with blurry photos.. Nexus 5 is a great phone and a camera too
[Nexus 5 General] neriamarillo:
Damn I just saw that [emoji15] op might want to take down the pic lol
[Nexus 5 General] kalealex:
It took "okay" pictures in 4.4.2, but now it's pretty good in 4.4.3. My girlfriend's S4 takes better pictures though. Which makes sense given the higher pixel count. The focus time is what really kills the N5 camera. It's quite annoying. Though with the new update it is better.
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
With all due respect brother I don't agree with you, it takes better photos than s4, and in indoors it takes way better photos.. It actually takes better photos than the s5 too, i have tested myself.. First s5, second nexus 5..

Full size images:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ay5q7rz8w4ri5ex/AABt9I34yySJgxnsf29Ul2cia
[Nexus 5 General] mailthesauce:
No HDR+

HDR+
[Nexus 5 General] j'vai:
saturday, waking up from a mid-day nap .. the nexus 5 cam is ok! -
[Nexus 5 General] srathi:
Blur shot. Awesome!!

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] HEINRIKR:
I went from the Samsung Galaxy S4 to the LG Nexus 5, so I did have a radical camera change, but I actually dont mind the N5's camera. Sure its not as good as the Galaxy 4's camera, but it gets the job done.

And I do like the image stabilization. That is a nice feature.
[Nexus 5 General] maniyoshi:
Me too.

Nexus 5, to take photos of my kids, is to slow:(
[Nexus 5 General] Harry GT-S5830:
The camera itself is good, the software isn't great. Google's new API may help fix that:)
[Nexus 5 General] gmarcoux:
Come on guys, let's call it what it is. A terrible camera experience. The commercials for this phone had people taking picture of people dancing in low light and the pictures coming out great. IRL it would be nothing but blurs. Taking pictures of a stationary coke can and saying there's nothing wrong isn't helping the case. It's great if all you take are pictures of your food and still life but the rest of the world is trying to capture life's moments. I also have serious doubts that a software issue will truly correct this. Quite a few third party apps have adjusted their apps to compensate for the Nexus 5's camera lag and although it's a marked improvement, it's still not great. I can usually work with camera limitations (see links below) but this phone is unusable except for still photography. Disagree? Prove me wrong. Take some action shots in varying light conditions and see how much blur you come out with. I'm even willing to do a comparison between the N5, a Note 3 and an iPhone 5 (phones I currently have with me) and guarantee the N5 comes in last.

Moto X Samples:

https://plus.google.com/u/1/photos/105228444351411387833/albums/5935367618202177313

Galaxy S4 Samples:

https://plus.google.com/u/1/photos/105228444351411387833/albums/5893079111563286897

HTC One Samples:

https://plus.google.com/u/1/photos/105228444351411387833/albums/5893251328925054785

I won't even post my Lumia 1020 photos lol
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Mpix means nothing. Its sensor quality that matters.

Even if you view it on a HD TV, that's only 2.3 mpix so unless you're printing giant posters ( which you'd use a real camera for) the mpix point is moot

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[Nexus 5 General] dk206:
Read title. Read upto the OP's previous phone being an LGoptimus... ..stopped reading. Self explanatory from there
[Nexus 5 General] mgalarraga:
Could not agree more
[Nexus 5 General] Blackbox421:
Pretty senseless thread. If the camera is good or not-it's subjective.

You could only compare pictures, etc.

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[Nexus 5 General] hotleadsingerguy:
Yes...but comparisons show that this phone is notoriously weak in any but the best settings. Trying to capture movement when you're not on the surface of the sun, for instance, is a pain in the neck. Trying to focus on things that aren't standing still is also an impossibility.

There are two main issues:

1) Initialization. It takes *WAY* too long to initialize the camera, which means any of those "quick moments" you want to capture are gone by the time you're ready.

2) Slow focus/shutter. This could very-well be due to the software, but it's slow to focus, and it's slow to enact the shutter when you actually hit the photo button.

Those 2 things seem simple, but they're unacceptable for most uses. Like I said before, anyone that says this is great camera obviously doesn't have kids.