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[One (M8) General] tobesedated:
A Few Of Mine

I have to say I laugh when people get overly critical about the camera. Of course it's wonderful and handy to have a camera (that in my opinion take pretty damn fine pictures), but it is on a PHONE. Umm so I'm thinking..."Wow, a phone...that I can swipe, text, email, video chat, take videos, take pictures, compress and send them, play games, surf the net, oh yeah..and actually call someone. So If the camera doesn't take photos that compare to say a Nikon or Canon or even Kodak and that becomes an issue for me, well then I might actually consider buying myself a ummmm, Camera?

Having said that here are a couple of pics I've taken....
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Landscape mode is quiet different to auto, it has a lot more green push and sadly a noisier sky but it looks really good downscaled

Full size at my Flickr Album
[One (M8) General] vegetaleb:
Like Hamdir said very low light shots need manual mode for better results, this one I slowed the shutter to 1/8s and ISO 800,manual focus, needless to say the scene was in reality much darker so yes the M8 can take very bright photos by using slower shutter speed (but be aware of shaky hands)
[One (M8) General] darkintragedy:
The point that people are making is that the camera relative to what else is on the market, deserves the criticism it gets. Ultrapixel clearly isn't the way to go if the S5 and Z2 are also just "phones" and able to take much better and pretty damn good pictures.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
We will not re-discuss it, the UltraPixel has its many advantages

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Actually save yourself the bother, night mode switches to magic mode in the dark
[One (M8) General] No_Nickname90:
Here's some shots I took. I was playing with the effects. You should see the standard picture, focus on the stapler and focus on the stapler with foregrounder.
[One (M8) General] waz675:
Pic of my daughter, auto everything besides +saturation to add some effect from her colourful pants that she is wearing today lol
[One (M8) General] starbase64:
Iso400 1/500
[One (M8) General] itzsnookums:
Starbase...I hate you, i took a dandelion pic and thought it looked good....that was until i seen yours lol.....

i was playing a little with a friends S5 , i'll take my camera any day of the week......

these were taken in auto on both devices, i cleaned the lenses due to the m8 wanting to glare like crazy at first...

first set is the s5....i have no idea why they were rotated when uploaded.....
[One (M8) General] itzsnookums:
HTC M8......
[One (M8) General] itzsnookums:
can you guess which phone took which picture????
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Finally found a moment for this, should make M8 owners feel better ;)

HTC Desire 816 vs HTC One M8 camera: indoor, low light & dark scenarios
[One (M8) General] vegetaleb:
Please Hamdir post a face to face Desire 816 and M8 but in daylight
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
i already told you i didn't have access to the phone in daylight

i wanted to do a comparison with photos collected online but it's stupid to do so with different photos taken in different scenarios

you guys can collect/buy me one though :p

anyway what does it even mean "but in daylight" we very much know the 816 can win over the M8 in daylight (despite a slower shutter) but you can counter it with quality upscaling (if you are flickr fanatic than a visit to Photoshop is second to non) so i wanted to show where the M8 totally wins ie: control and low light power, by the way the M8 is hiding a lot of detail in any low light photo it takes, just take to photoshop and levels:auto, you will see what i mean, the brightness almost doubles

i didnt even do in my comparison above but check this:

this is the manual half second photo upscaled + auto levels, full 13MP here

besides: i really like the 816 camera IF it wasn't for the horrible orange tint in low light, same story with the One X, which finally made me realize the biggest advantage of big pixels: color precision
[One (M8) General] snowwhite007:
Few from today
[One (M8) General] itzsnookums:
Btw, I love not having the purple tint on the m8 during low light
[One (M8) General] vegetaleb:
Yeah it was a real problem on M7, hey wait is that an S5?
[One (M8) General] jonnycarter:
cm stock camera

Stock camera on cm

Realy wish for the sense camera to be ported though.

I know its doable just difficult.

Hosting a modified separate framework just for the camera.
[One (M8) General] itzsnookums:
Yep, it is.....lol
[One (M8) General] jayr04:
New car. Almost matches the M8. :D
[One (M8) General] chobits:
Congrats on the new car

But how come it's different from yur avatar pic below?

don't tell me you have 2 cars,same brand, different color?
[One (M8) General] jayr04:
LOL. Yea I don't have the white one anymore. Gotta change it when I get a good pic.
[One (M8) General] starbase64:
:p
[One (M8) General] itzsnookums:
off subject, but your PVS isnt actually 1 is it????
[One (M8) General] starbase64:
Hi,

here is the result from adb in recovery mode:

regards

starbase64
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
not true, while yes i am pleasantly surprised with the 816 camera like yourself i don't agree it's only software

like I have explained before it's a physical problem, tiny pixels lack precision when you lose light and so there is no way around smudging your results to hide all the pixel bleeding, equally precision issues also affect color extraction as we have seen im my photos, i took a lot more photos and they are all orange tinted, the M7 had a white balance bias issue but the colors were in there if you attempted to fix it in Photoshop, not the 816 you can't match the M8 with Photoshop easily

finally no software magic in the world will fix the poor light examples like my Dark photos

the funny bit? the M8 image on the right can become 2x brighter if you take it to photoshop auto levels or the M8 gallery filters, the M8 captures a lot of detail in low light even if it doesnt appear so, seems that HTC under exposes it's low light results due to the daylight optimization but the good news is that the detail remain in the image and can be quickly extracted in various means, meanwhile nothing i tried with the 816 saved the photo on the left, even worse is the fact that the left image had the car headlights coming out of the parking to assist it, yet the M8 slaughtered it with half the light believe me when i see my eyes were seeing something between the two images but no where near what the M8 captured in night mode

bottom line if you are proper photographer you need an image that you can work with later, levels in the dark, accurate 1:1 pixels and good out of box color/white balance, in this logic the M8 camera is seriously the king of the mobile hill

you can smudge a good 1:1 per pixel image but you can never fix a smudged out of box photo ;)

if HTC traded the M8 camera with the 816 i would consider it a serious devolution...and i am worried the 816/Mini 2 and M8 ace are coming with this 13MP sensor, i feel HTC is giving up convincing everyone, the loser will be all avid mobile photographers and flickr lovers...and you will be left with no camera in poor light
[One (M8) General] waz675:
Haha, just found some photos that my daughter took while sitting in the back child seat the other day. She did quite well for a 4 year old with the car going 60km/h
[One (M8) General] chobits:
and she has a nice composition for 4yrs old

i can see that your daughter has talent

imagine if you have a photo studio for baby photos taken by your perhaps 6yrs old (later on) :good:
[One (M8) General] mushages:
exposure 0

edit with gallery editor

exposure +0.5 everything auto

exposure 0

give me more tips to take better photos!:(
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Very good pics but you shouldn't have people on the first, it looks amazing otherwise
[One (M8) General] boofhead:
took these the other day from the car through a dirty windscreen. darker one is full auto the lighter one is hdr full auto.
[One (M8) General] Quadrider10:
I'm more of a macro guy. Everything is manual.
[One (M8) General] crazyjimbo:
A fun shot. Stock Sense camera, Ufocus applied and the image straightened
[One (M8) General] waz675:
Cheers. She's taken to using and loving photos on both my wife's and my phone. It seems she is forever grabbing either of our phones and taking photos then showing us the pics. She's progressed from usually having a finger covering the lens to blurry/shaky photos and finally having photos that have the right kind of composition.

Pretty bloody good for someone who I've assumed progressed to this "by feel" as neither of us have given her direct instructions on what to do besides that photos were blacked out due to fingers were blocking the lens. Funnily enough it makes us even more proud parents seeing her quick progression. Next step is getting a guitar, her request of today.
[One (M8) General] dondavis007:
Living next door to Bilbo.

Full auto, fog and low light.

Sent from a mobile Gadget...
[One (M8) General] dondavis007:
Good lightening, just click away on auto.

Sent from a mobile Gadget...
[One (M8) General] starbase64:
[MENTION=1144067]hamdir[/MENTION]

raw photos now possible: http://starbase64.blogspot.com/2014/05/htc-one-m8-raw-photo-now-possible.html
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
I will never understand why HTC doesn't give us this as well
[One (M8) General] BookOfRick:
You frame for exposure and touch for focus. They are decoupled in HDR. It is best to move the camera to frame a bright area and it will adjust exposure and then you press and hold a point where you want to focus while still being in the frame (probably moved to an edge because you moved camera to frame for exposure)

For example, if an object is desired to be focus, but background to bright, I would move camera toward bright background but keep the object within frame to lock focus on.

Only weird thing is that HDR often throws off my white balance. [MENTION=1144067]hamdir[/MENTION] how did you get the white balance, for me I usually get slightly warmer from trying to compensate for blue sky automatically.
[One (M8) General] dondavis007:
Extrem movement in low light

Sent from a mobile Gadget...

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Sent from a mobile Gadget...
[One (M8) General] urra:
Close up test
[One (M8) General] MindfulSheep:
Figured I'd show off the awesome low light capabilities :)

The first picture is a still of a video recording I did with the M8. Sadly, video recording doesn't seem to benefit from the ultrapixel cam in low light conditions.

The second picture is shot in normal mode with no flash. I think it's pretty amazing just how well the camera performs in such low light.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
sadly yesterday was the first time HDR completely failed me, as i couldnt find a brighter point to lock into, but now thanks to your explanation i think i finally get how it works

so you need to fill the entire view finder with bright and then lock it to your target?

as for white balance, i fixed it with levels in the gallery, the HDR photos are coming almost too perfect, i mean there is almost no shade at all, so usually i take it to the gallery or photoshop and moved back the mid levels to slight darkness this is how it ends up looking like a normal photo again

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exactly: just rely on auto focus and you will be impressed, HTC added a very good exposure balance algorithm for daylight, but if you go manual focus naturally it stops working
[One (M8) General] dukat0s:
Woops when fanboys cant vote with tag name M8 rocks :)

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sams...n-runner-ups-are-One-M8-and-Xperia-Z2_id56254
[One (M8) General] dschmiddi:
Auto Mode
[One (M8) General] arses:
Impressive photos deschmiddi

★☆■HTC ULTIM8■☆★
[One (M8) General] meleelord:
On the airplane just leaving the UK for Hungary
[One (M8) General] zimilaci:
Are you also from Hungary?:)
[One (M8) General] dannejanne:
Sent from my HTC One
[One (M8) General] mwatson:
Anyone getting blur or distortion in the top left when landscape, (bottom left portrait)?

This shows in the dark blue sky attached, and look at the leaves in the other picture. The leaves on the trees in the background seem to be in focus but not the left top. Is my camera defective?

View attachment 2752737
[One (M8) General] vimto25:
Few pics over the weekend from the safari park
[One (M8) General] Qwest905:
my pictures in jamaica
[One (M8) General] whmcal:
A rare sunny British day.
[One (M8) General] jonny68:
What's the best setting for photos in a club, tried night mode and photos came out dark normal mode not much better, selfie incredibly seemed to be better
[One (M8) General] Sentor:
I would imagine whatever has the fastest capture speed, as lighting in a club would change frequently. The front camera would probably be your best bet.
[One (M8) General] 360nitrous:
Couple of random Shots!

Couple of pics of my dog, one pic of one of my guitars, some fallout Bottles and one pic of a papercraft Chewbacca!

Can anyone recommend settings for better lowlight pics as my fallout bottles came out a bit grainy around the edges.

All pics taken with stock settings and ufocus and other effects added afterwards.
[One (M8) General] sallam5010:
My camera lens got a really bad and weird scratches ! All my pix are low quality now and washed out colors like haze

What can I do :s heeeelp :(
[One (M8) General] BookOfRick:
Is it me, or is my screen the fault of inaccurate color reproduction?

Some of my low light shots are green tinted and my greens of plants are warm and extremely vibrant on my phone.

When viewed on my laptop, there is only tiny bits of green tint and the greens of plants are mild and accurate, although my reds become less vibrant.

As a result, any landscapes with plants are very vibrant, flowers are vibrant, but my low light is somewhat tinted and pictures warm when viewed on my phone.

However, my desktop computer has the same greenness as my phone.

I can't tell which are inaccurate.

Just wondering how green are these photos:

On my laptop, only left edge is significantly green.

On my phone and desktop, whole picture is green.
[One (M8) General] zounduser:
From my Verizon M8
[One (M8) General] doaneramma:
Victoria day parade today.
[One (M8) General] videogiochi:
blurry on left or right side.

if you look at the left of this photo post on this discussion

http://dl-1.va.us.xda-developers.co....jpg?key=Rc2HeqWl_FRwaJPBGpbjbg&ts=1400569384

you can see that it is blurry on the left side... same question

to correct it just tap to focus on the left and you can have a perfect photo.... i think that is a software defect because if you tap on the blurry side, the phone can focus in that part...
[One (M8) General] mwatson:
Thanks for this, the link doesn't work though?
[One (M8) General] videogiochi:
[MENTION=650183]mwatson[/MENTION] all the photo of this post is blurry. post number 1497.

if you can't focus left side touching on, i think that it was an hardware defect, but if you can touch on and focus , is a software problem.

i have an HTC ONE M8X 2.5ghz taiwan
[One (M8) General] UgXvibe:
Send it in for warranty repair. I sent mine and they covered the replacement of the rear case with lens assembly.
[One (M8) General] sallam5010:
Am in Qatar and oredered my phone from UK but I managed to repair the scratches with a combo of toothpaste, pencil eraser, screen and metal wiper and tough stain remover :P it worked wonder lol now my lens is super new :D happy again thank u :D
[One (M8) General] woraz:
My first hands-on experience on manual mode.

ISO 100

SS 1/125

f/2
[One (M8) General] Fr!fti:
My Naga Morich Chili
[One (M8) General] Crusher16:
Some so far
[One (M8) General] Jooosty:
MAN THOSE ARE GOOD!:good:
[One (M8) General] progosu:
Guys how's the stabilization in the M8? for example, if hold your phone in your hands, set ISO to 100 and take a picture indoors or in low light. How does it affect the image? Is it blurry? Could someone please take some pictures the way I described?
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Haha really mate?? Pretty damn stable except in video you miss OIS
[One (M8) General] BookOfRick:
I assume you're asking about long exposures. The M8 is well stabilized for auto-exposure as even when you push iso to 100, exposure is never slower than 1/10 seconds unless you switched to auto from night mode.

Night and Manual mode on the other hand with longer exposures could use better stabilization, but nothing too bad.

I'm not sure if this is related, but does anyone else's HDR catch less detail (exclude the lighting and dynamic range) than auto mode? I think it's the stitching software + small motion from lack of OIS. Auto mode seems much more crisp and clear than 9/10 of my HDRs for things not close by.
[One (M8) General] morfini:
Hamdir, I just got my m8 and I haven't tried it yet, but as I see at almost every review, it often takes overexposed pictures with soft colours in bright light conditions and specially when there are cloudy skies. They also claim that hdr makes things worse. Is there a tip or a setting to help with these problems?
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Always use auto focus in daylight as the M8 will measure it well and resist over exposure, daylight results are nothing short of tasty so I don't know what your talking about but dont pick a darker target manually which might lead it to over expose

As for HDR you need to hold and lock into a bright target and then pan back your shot
[One (M8) General] ronniemayo:
Edited shots
[One (M8) General] vegetaleb:
Finally got a successful HDR facing the sun, I had to move the lens toward the sun ,focus on it and take the pic!

Without edit:

With Nikon CaptureNX quick edit: looks like sky on flame!!
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
it's not hard to imagine that HTC will fix HDR auto in a later software iteration

otherwise you will hurt your eyes with all the sun locking :)
[One (M8) General] UgXvibe:
It's nice to have a clear lens once again.. :)
[One (M8) General] hudsoncouto:
very nice pics! what are your values for the "sharpness" setting?
[One (M8) General] UgXvibe:
Believe it or not, all stock settings on auto. The key is to tap on the 'middle of the road' lighting to even it out around the whole picture so it doesn't get too dark or blown out.
[One (M8) General] dannejanne:
On my way home just now.
[One (M8) General] urra:
Some more tests. Some with filters from phone.
[One (M8) General] mwatson:
Do you mean your sharpness is set at 0? In the middle?
[One (M8) General] starbase64:
Hi,

defcomg has found a way to disable zsl compression and get now a real raw:

http://starbase64.blogspot.de/2014/05/htc-one-m8-raw-photo-now-possible.html

regards

starbase64
[One (M8) General] UgXvibe:
Yep, everything is at 0.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
[MENTION=4394995]urra[/MENTION] great samples, sadly HTC gallery filters greatly reduce picture quality (notice the noise around edges)
[One (M8) General] hdorius:
Testing camera in flower shop all auto
[One (M8) General] urra:
Thank you, and yes, seems like a lot of the quality get lost using the filters.

Some more samples:
[One (M8) General] videogiochi:
left side blurry photo

i am the ONLY one who notices the left side of the photo out of focus or blurry in this thread?

the 90% of the photo in this thread looking same.
[One (M8) General] urra:
Hm, I hadn't noticed but yes you are correct..

The shoe photo is slightly cropped, so the blurriness is not in that one because of that.

Weird, have to do some tests on this!
[One (M8) General] videogiochi:
i have a HTC one M8x the taiwan versione with 32gb and 2.5ghz clock... and also my photo looking blurry on the left side.

the same thing in the 90% of the photoshot posted in this thread.

my question is : the camera is defect or ...... ???
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
We have explained this repeatedly

This has to do with the wide angle lens and your focus center, the further your focus is away from the center the opposing side will have a slight blur

If you focus nearer to the left side it will be in perfect focus
[One (M8) General] videogiochi:
so... it is 100% normal? sure?? :crying::crying:
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
YES
[One (M8) General] Shebee:
Just took a few test shots, seems so.

Weird though.
[One (M8) General] mwatson:
Why only the left side? The right side of mine doesn't suffer with this.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Shift your focus to left and you see it at the bottom right
[One (M8) General] BookOfRick:
Took these pictures with no touch to expose.

Auto/HDR(no locking)/Edited HDR
[One (M8) General] urra:
Night time test photos. Manual mode, iso locked in 200, exposure time around 1/2. Unedited, missed that white balance was fixed on first three, so the colors are probably a bit off.
[One (M8) General] Quis89:
Recent visit to the Chicago aquarium.
[One (M8) General] pantmunu:
Just flowers flowering around .. nothing much.
[One (M8) General] predator21:
All indoor shots
[One (M8) General] dannejanne:
After the rain today.

Sent from my HTC One M8
[One (M8) General] dsmpampis:
Some indoor photos
[One (M8) General] waz675:
Just a couple point and shoot photos I took when I woke up not too long ago, no effects, just nature itself hehe
[One (M8) General] comstar:
Not that great of pictures but interesting. I was 25 feet off the ground on a lift up above a auditorium ceiling. Putting in a new sound system.
[One (M8) General] LaneyEFC:
Thought I'd have a share
[One (M8) General] morfini:
Has anyone tested the camera with 1.54.401.10 fw? Is anything improved?;
[One (M8) General] zimilaci:
Has anyone noticed that the m7 takes pictures faster than the m8? (or its because on the m7 theres arhd? :D
[One (M8) General] waz675:
Mike1986 would maybe bet it is on M8 as well :)
[One (M8) General] UgXvibe:
Diesel power!

45 minute traffic delay,wonder why? This was taken at about 20MPH, burst mode, best shot.
[One (M8) General] Eiad Ajam:
guys as you can control the shutter speed can we get light trail photo using m8

i don't own the device but gonna have it next month so just wanna asking :)
[One (M8) General] jhun80:
Capital Wheel (hdr on):
[One (M8) General] anjuice:
Did you tap to focus in the HDR photos? I'm wondering how you didn't get the image so blown out.

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Wow, what were the settings for these photos?
[One (M8) General] jhun80:
Just got lucky with the shots ?:laugh:

It was just of full auto HDR. Must be the sun hidden under the clouds when i took the pictures
[One (M8) General] UgXvibe:
Full auto, no adjustments.
[One (M8) General] sbiricuda:
I think this is good:

Still I can't get many good pictures from far, like buildings and landscapes:

[Auto HDR]
[One (M8) General] UgXvibe:
I don't know if anyone saw this over the weekend on ALL the HTC accounts.. but my Twitter notifications have been insane. My 5 seconds of fame.. lol