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[One (M8) General] gtg465x:
Holy crap. Just got my One M8 not long ago. First attempt at some serious pictures today and I had some pretty distracting blurring in the bottom left corner of my pics. Same stupid problem as my M7, but worse. Also, very poor dynamic range. Hate to say it, but the camera in my Nexus 5 destroys this thing.
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
https://flic.kr/p/oXCU4N

Wondering if Flickr might be better ...

Different shot but nice blue sky
[One (M8) General] letmein713:
What mode do you recommend for taking a picture in a dark place?
[One (M8) General] jamiee6610:
Stock editing and cropped
[One (M8) General] serv380:
Columbus zoo
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
Bit of a vague question ... What are you after achieving ?
[One (M8) General] letmein713:
The best quality pictures as possible without noise.
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
Then I guess try setting max ISO to about 400 and hold the phone as steady as possible. The lower the ISO , the lower the noise will be but its going to make the shutter speed lower to get the light in ? its a bit of a balancing act
[One (M8) General] caretaker01:
a non alcoholic man`s hand ( or something to keep youre phone steady ) for starters

second, manual mode is the best in that condition

third, after the last update camera wont show you a preview of the final image so focusing will be hit or miss

fourth, iso 100-200 (in very rare conditions of absolutly 0 light go higher then 800)

fifth, shuter speed lower the 1\4 up until 4 ( here comes into play youre non alcoholic hand)

And probably the best and most important one of all into settings (camera settings) at image adjustments, lower the sharpness to -1 or -2. This one should be a standard on every type of shoutig with the m7 or m8, because HTC has added a sharpening filter that wil sharpen up noise in some sitations, make-ing them more visible. Post production sharpening of a picture, even with htc galery app is way better then the camera one, but htc made it default to sharpen because of peoples unstoppable urge to zoom into a picture and se the buggs on a distant tree, and sharpening the picture makes contrasting objects/textures much more clear.
[One (M8) General] mwatson:
Not so great at low light imho!
[One (M8) General] HtcOneJon:
Something very wrong with your phone, although that doesn't look low light, that looks almost nolight lol.

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Hate to say it but as soon as you mention a Nexus camera, the only thing I know that it destroys are my eyes. (

Nexus / Google cameras are absolutely pants)

Try again.
[One (M8) General] gtg465x:
Hate to say it, but you're a blind fanboy if you think the One M8 has a better camera than any other 2013 / 2014 flagship. Ok, it might be better than the Moto X camera, but that's it. Nexus 5, GS5, G3, Note 3, all better cameras than the One M8. I have owned a lot of phones in the past couple years, including the One M7 and One M8, which is my current daily driver, and it's pretty easy for me to see that my pictures are better with the other phones I've owned.
[One (M8) General] gtg465x:
Here are a few pictures I took vs. the Nexus 5. If you open up the full res images side by side, you'll see that the Nexus 5 shots just capture a lot more detail.

Also, the M7 and M8 tend to wash out shots, exhibit terrible dynamic range, or take awful looking HDR shots far more often...
[One (M8) General] JonesWTF:
I took this whilst working at Silverstone, yesterday. Everything set to auto.
[One (M8) General] RSK01:
Tried this last night. The window was too short for me to take more photos as it was the first time I am using the scope outdoors. Enjoying a 8" scope over my previous 4". Got good views on Saturn , but Mars not ideal. Jupiter this morning was good, will try to take photos of the great red spot.

32mm eyepiece with a C8N on improvised dob mount

Manual mode - manual white balance and ISO.

6mm EP : No time to center the phone bracket properly:

The rest is all Auto/HDR except for the fountain shots which I was using Manual:

This is taken from inside the white column structure you see in the previous photo. HDR fixed focus and exposure on the sky, put on self-timer, and placed the phone on the ground.

A lot more samples at https://www.flickr.com/photos/31191230@N07/
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
The moon pics are looking good !
[One (M8) General] cachookaman:
I took these at the Made In America Festival in Los Angeles the other day. Very sunny day so some pictures have a slight haze to them.

Video:

[YOUTUBE]S2-CwrNHKkc[/YOUTUBE]
[One (M8) General] Reckless187:
Taken with sharpness set to -1. I think...
[One (M8) General] iggdawg:
Took a bunch of this subject over the weekend while drinking my face off at a friend's place. I liked how this one came out.

Both taken in macro mode, everything default with no edits afterwards.
[One (M8) General] habylab:
You're doing drinking wrong, unless you're a bee that gets drunk on nectar!

Sent from my Nexus 8 (2015). Running a custom ROM and kernel. My phone is currently a Galaxy S3, end of August an HTC One M8! Tapatalk'd
[One (M8) General] gparmar76:
To those not getting good pics with their M8s, please take a close look at both cameras...HTC has put a coating on the outer lens glass which starts to come off after a few months...if the camera glass looks like it's scratched up, that's the coating coming off...the pictures go from awesome to terrible once this begins...someone here suggested to use a Mr clean's magic eraser to completely remove the coating to get it looking clean again...I did this and my pictures are vivid and sharp again...I was completely baffled as to how the picture quality degraded so badly after just a few months...I'm assuming the coating is to protect the outer glass but once that coating starts coming off, your pictures will start to look like craps...especially low light pics.
[One (M8) General] jamiee6610:
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[One (M8) General] gustav30:
Can you post some after shots? Some have said there are exposure and focusing issues after removing the coating. The coating could possibly be an anti-reflective coating.
[One (M8) General] gparmar76:
I wanted to do this but when I started noticing the bad quality, I deleted the pics...I shouldn't have now in hindsight...but after removing the coating, which was already coming off, my pictures are very crisp and clear...I would have rather kept the coating on but the outer glass on both cameras looked severely scratched up...I thought they were bad scratches and got baffled at how that could have happened until I realized it was a coating...regardless of whether you want the coating or not, if it starts to come off, your pictures will look terrible overall and you will need to remove it.
[One (M8) General] gustav30:
Thanks, I'm asking if you can post some photos that you are taking now with the coating gone.

Some people said they weren't happy with the quality after taking the coating off. The pics cleared up but there were side effects that had to do with washed out exposure, etc.
[One (M8) General] RSK01:
All my photos posted in this thread (except for the first set taken in Greece/Turkey) are taken with the coating removed. I removed mine using toothpaste.

I did not face any of the problems as mentioned by others, may have extra lens flare which I think is minimal...
[One (M8) General] gustav30:
Thanks! You have some of the best photos in this thread. Kind of helps clears up alot of the debate a bit about exposure/focus issues after the coating is removed. (Even with the coating on there is lens flare on M8 I find).

Makes me wonder if they put a coating on the M7 as that phone I've also had for a year and half and there is not 1 scratch on the lens cover.
[One (M8) General] Young Cardiac:
He just released it recently. Check his google+ page.
[One (M8) General] billybobjones:
[MENTION=535051]RSK01[/MENTION] thanks for the mention. I went ahead and added your gallery.:good:
[One (M8) General] 01xFi:
Bit late, but you can change this. in system/etc there'll be 2 files, res_ctrl.conf and res_ctrl2.conf. What I can work out is that these files dictate things like ISO speed, shutter speed, resolutions and the like.What you want to be focusing on is M_SHUTTER_SPEED. It can have a seemingly infinite number of values and this is what I have mine set to.

M_SHUTTER_SPEED=1/8000,1/6400,1/5000,1/4000,1/3200,1/2500,1/2000,1/1600,1/1250,1/1000,1/800,1/640,1/500,1/400,1/320,1/250,1/200,1/125,1/100,1/80,1/60,1/50,1/40,1/30,1/25,1/20,1/15,1/13,1/10,1/8,1/6,1/5,1/4,0.3,0.4,0.5,0.6,0.8,1,1.3,1.6,2,2.5,3.2,4

M_SHUTTER_SPEED_MARKER I don't know how many values this can have, I think changing it can cause a crash. The values you can change though to suit.

As for version 3, it's out there. Just gotta look for it.
[One (M8) General] getinnocuous:
You've posted some really great photos, which makes me feel a little more confident about my decision to remove the coating.

Do you have any exposure issues with the coating on? I do have a couple pictures of a lamp in my room that comes out way too bright no matter where I focus (though I don't have any focusing issues after removing the coating), and often times sunny days will end up looking extremely bright. Though, in reviewing some of my old photos, it kinda seems like this was always the case with this camera.
[One (M8) General] gustav30:
I was just at a small park and messing around with photos,(not beauty shots). I'd say the exposure on this is a bit bright, where the background looks washed out. This is with coating on. I know M7/M8 are very sensitive to exposure in general, with the M8 being a bit better.
[One (M8) General] getinnocuous:
The first pic was taken while the coating was on, the second was taken after removing it. To my eyes there doesn't seem to be much difference, even though they're not the same exact shot, in how the lens handles bright outdoor conditions whether or not you decide to mess with the coating. Overall, like I've concluded before, I can deal with a little lens flare after removing the lens coating. My pictures are sharp again and I'll just keep messing with EV settings to compensate for washed out colors like I have been since day one with this phone.
[One (M8) General] gustav30:
Honestly the first photo looks more over exposed but maybe that's because it's directly at the sum more. I'd say the 2nd photo is fine. What method did you go with on remove the coating?

Honestly my camera lens is like watching something in super slow motion but at the start and end of every day there is a little bit more of visible scratches coming through. I kind of wish it would just happen all at once to get it over with. Then my dilemma begins....send to HTC but probably lose my $25 sunshine s-off(with the possibility it can happen again ) or go with one of these methods.
[One (M8) General] getinnocuous:
I used the credit card/water method. Turned off the phone, tore off a tiny piece of toilet paper, ran it under water then let one of the drops of water land on the lens, after that I used a credit card to technically scrape it off, I guess. Didn't take much pressure at all to reveal the reflective lens underneath the coating. When finished, I applied another drop of water to the lens and then wiped it using the soft cloth that came with my Slickwraps screen protector, though I think they come with most screen protectors. No marks or scratches.
[One (M8) General] Karish1989:
Auto

HDR

Oke I locked focus into the sun but still auto > HDR ... What did I do wrong :confused:
[One (M8) General] bill3508:
HTC One M8/CM11/Excalibur 0.5
[One (M8) General] jamiee6610:
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[One (M8) General] UgXvibe:
No edits or filters, Auto setting. :)
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Some of my tourist point & shoots

Sadly my camera coating collected scratchesd during my trip and I am afraid it has affected the quality, I will wipe it off this weekend and provide some comparison shots

Album: Istanbul vs HTC One (M8)
[One (M8) General] Jooosty:
Holy **** !

The picture with the horses on the stone. Awesome !
[One (M8) General] flayzeraynx:
Just shot that with Viperone Rom in macro mode (added saturation and little bit contrast on google plus photo edit)
[One (M8) General] flayzeraynx:
haha hamdir, check this out!

your photo:

my photo:

(shot by m7 though)
[One (M8) General] fps_pete:
Mango snow cone.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
how did you conclude that auto > HDR? from the colors and contrast? but that beats the purpose of HDR

your HDR images are actually perfect in dynamic range there is no dark shadow areas (like the building with plants) and there is no blown up sun

sadly sometimes the M8 messes up the color balance when taking HDR this is why you need to amend it later using the HTC galllery custom filter or photoshop, I usually simply drag the mid levels a little toward the dark without touching the peak white or black point, i also applied auto color to fix the color slightly

another thing to keep in mind, the HDR photo is a mix of two images, the per pixel definition is compromised, this is why you will never match the sharpness of Auto at 1:1 but you can sharpen it a bit with the filters as well

in a nutshell you need to achieve perfect dynamic range like you did in your photos and slightly amend it later

personally i always rely on Photoshop as the HTC gallery filters has a bug where it introduces excessive vertical noise after amendments

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is it the same village?
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
i agree i think the coating has nothing to do with glare, if anything HTC started adding coating after their One X lens was getting scratched, they added it on the X+

can you provide these two shots in full size, i want to see if per pixel quality improves

tip: dont manually chose your focus in outdoor bright scene, instead really on auto focus it will provide a much better exposure balance
[One (M8) General] :
August

Chmielno, Poland.
[One (M8) General] flayzeraynx:
yes it is, exactly same location though :)
[One (M8) General] Fat Tone:
Can you guys recommend a good Manual setting for taking Pictures at Night. Mainly use my phone camera to take pictures of Catfish about 4 to 6 feet away with me holding the fish. Background is usually pitch black since I am fishing from a boat. Night Mode is useless because I cant use the Flash. In auto mode the pics are real grainy and not that Sharp.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
I think you might be asking a bit much really... With no flash you'll need high ISO which will cause noise / grain
[One (M8) General] Fat Tone:
Is there a way to get better shots with the flash on with Manual Mode? I also have a LED Headlamp. Should I use that instead of the flash on the camera? If so. What Manual settings?

Thanks for the quick reply.
[One (M8) General] mushages:
In Koh Samui Island (Thailand)
[One (M8) General] thanito:
You can use the led headlamp and then even use auto mode while it meters the light from your headlamp, if it is powerful enough it should use a relatively high shutter speed. Also try to set your iso to max 800. You can also combine your head led with the flash if your phone for better lighting.

Night mode uses slow shutter speeds so any movement will cause blurry images.

Since you have a headlamp as well you can place it in different angles than those you are shooting from in order to fill some light as well and combine it with the M8s flash too.

Just some ideas, since I don't think that someone could specify other manual mode shutter speed cause all depends on the ambient light existing at that specific time.

BR,

Thanos
[One (M8) General] uberalbo:
These came out ok....
[One (M8) General] HtcOneJon:
No I just test them all for work, and I love tech. The fact the shots taken on it compete or best camera phones with much higher MP ratings just shows how good it is. Your opinion is just that but watching all the threads for all these phones as well as owning, using and looking at shots for all of them as well, have to say I disagree strongly with you. For it's strengths, HD TV, facebook, quick shots in below good lighting and decent outdoor shots, it bests the majority of the phones you've listed.

This is my opinion but i'm no fanboy, so maybe you should refrain from personal slurs however veiled. Sony Z2 camera might best the M8, but that depends on whether low light shots of moving targets are blurred.

P.s why would you own a phone which is no quicker than any of the higher end phones listed and run it down? Why not use one of those?
[One (M8) General] gsmyth:
An event that might be of interest next month. :cool:

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/htc-one-m8-duo-camera-potential-star-at-october-event-1265037
[One (M8) General] linezero:
so im assuming that involves improvements for the existing hardware eh?
[One (M8) General] gsmyth:
No too much info at the moment, but thats what its looking like. Perhaps some extra feature or enhancement, would be pretty cool for HTC to update with something new for the camera.
[One (M8) General] linezero:
yup. if they could improve the current camera more then its awesome (not like as if its that bad now :P) :D
[One (M8) General] habylab:
I'd assume it may be API and opening up the Duo Camera for developers. Rumours of a selfie phone too of 8mp. Hope it is improvements!

May be necessary for Nexus 9 which may have one on?

Sent from my Nexus 9 (2015). My phone is currently a Galaxy S3, September an HTC One M8 or LG G3! Tapatalk'd
[One (M8) General] JonesWTF:
Took this at the Burj Khalifa about an hour ago. Set on manual. Manual focus, ISO at 100 and lowered shutter speed.

I removed the coating, as I had a few scratches. I have no idea how, though? I'm so careful with it and I've only had the phone for 2 weeks!

Love the photos it takes. I almost always have it switched to manual.
[One (M8) General] linezero:
damn steady hands is required to take a picture at low shutter. damn thts a good one :D
[One (M8) General] :
This photo is funny by coincidence - on the photo is my wife Hanna, and the real estate office ad (also called Hanna), just behind her. Yellow letters are: For sale.
[One (M8) General] elsupermang:
My Ocicat. First time she went outside :-0)
[One (M8) General] sallam5010:
Turkey one month ago :)
[One (M8) General] ronniemayo:
Delete
[One (M8) General] RSK01:
Under bright sunlight I have been encountering some white balance issues. Especially when the scene is filled with bright red/orange subjects.

Photos will turn out orangey

This is the correct color, achieved by shifting the composition.

Another example

But overall I love this phone. No edits.

More samples at https://www.flickr.com/photos/31191230@N07/
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Lets enjoy it while it lasts bro as HTC seems to have submitted to mass cry babies and will drop the UP concept on the upcoming / rumoured M8 Eye

Come to think about it this makes the current M8 a little more special
[One (M8) General] iggdawg:
I was actually thinking something very similar just today after hearing about the M8 Eye. If that's the shape of things to come, I own a little chunk of history. I still have my M7 too, makes me want to keep it despite the purple issue.
[One (M8) General] gustav30:
I agree. Nothing beats UltraPixel in low indoor lighting with super fast shutter speed. I rarely miss a pic of my kid indoors thanks to UltraPixel, always in focus and no grain. For me that is the beauty of UltraPixel.

A piece of history that the mass public failed to grasp.
[One (M8) General] jamiee6610:
As great as it is. i think HTC could have made a much and i mean a MUCH bigger effort in giving us a larger camera on this in ultrapixel, we should have seen at least a 6 or an 8UP camera.

That is where HTC dropped the ball, as nice as this technology is i have to admit that i frequently use the camera and when i blow up any image will find its quite unsatisfactory and lacks details that my NEX5 gets, how many times are you missing a sky when you photograph buildings?
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
Thought this was quite nice
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Fully agree it was surreal when HTC announced again the same controversial of the M7, although much improved, when many of the press already expressed grave critic of the 4MP policy a year earlier and this backtracking now is only making things worse (in terms of PR)

Still I took some of the best photos in my life thanks to these sensors

But I rarely miss a sky when I photograph buildings, since I rely on auto focus which never blows out an image, unless backlit then I rely on HDR plus light lock
[One (M8) General] fabidesca:
Envoyé depuis mon HTC One M8
[One (M8) General] caretaker01:
Regarding HDR

I mainly use my phone camera for work (never for fun/hobby) and the use of it in low light is "boss", but reading about the high dynamic range photos paken with the m8 i admit the exposure is way off in bright sunny days.

Dont judge my poor decision of takeing a picture while the sun is in my face, but i noticed that you can get better results in hdr mode while locking the AF and AE on the sky and then moveing the viewfinder to the subject you desire check out the following picks

picture share

picture upload sites
[One (M8) General] daniel.fanucchi:
Spiderman!
[One (M8) General] th3:
I get over and underexposure quite a bit. I must manually move the viewfinder to an area, tap-hold it there, then move the viewfinder back to the angle I'm after, to get a capture similar to the colours I'm seeing. All of those times, I have rarely any time to play, I must snap immediately.

The images aren't turning out sharp either. I'll post an example soon.

Is there something I'm missing?

Sent using Tapatalk
[One (M8) General] Tourist06:
Does anyone know how to upload photospheres to Google Maps? It used to work on my Nexus 4, you'd open the Gallery, select "Share" and select Google Maps. Seems like you need Google's gallery app. Does anyone know where to find the latest apk? (PS there's a M8 Google Play edition :p )
[One (M8) General] mushages:
Testing my friends M8.
[One (M8) General] RotaryXperiment7:
Auto?
[One (M8) General] mushages:
Yeah both on auto
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
Saw this on way out this morning ...

Manual focus.

The spider is about 25mm across and the image is cropped to about 1/2 original
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
More M8 photo samples by Engadget's Phonewisdom

https://www.flickr.com/photos/phonewisdom/sets/72157647584909152/

sadly after all this time he still didn't learn how to take good pictures in low light and still not using auto focus
[One (M8) General] Stoiyan:
Lemme share a photo from a recent Holi Colour Festival in my country. Edited only using One M8 Gallery Foregrounder (after today's update) and VSCO filter. This really is the best 4 MP camera ever!
[One (M8) General] Karish1989:
Picture is broken my friend!
[One (M8) General] caretaker01:
FIRST MACRO, THE REST HDR

image sharing

img host

free photo hosting

image free hosting

capture
[One (M8) General] ronniemayo:
Manual mode vs night mode
[One (M8) General] -juanito-:
Does the quality of the GPE camera like Sense camera in low light ? I always using Auto, So i don't care about manuel settings
[One (M8) General] rcozzi:
Cool!! Night mode gives you a tv remote too.
[One (M8) General] :
Autum sun behind the leafs

Taken today afternoon, while returning from work. No sophisticated settings, auto mode.

http://i.imgur.com/RLsO9V1.jpg
[One (M8) General] Jbb3393:
Taken last night as a quick auto mode snap.
[One (M8) General] PcFish:
All auto, ufocus used.
[One (M8) General] MAX6500:
khalifa tower

Dubai United Arab Emirates

HTC ONE M8

iso 200 the rest are auto

edit using photoshop express
[One (M8) General] NICEGYPT:
lol. that's nice pic. I was going to ask why all these kids looks the same :D what app is this?