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[One (M8) General] starbase64:
last night 2:00am - HTC One M8 - HDR
[One (M8) General] HtcOneJon:
They come out absolutely brilliant on a 40 inch hd tv, can't imagine they'd come out worse on a 42"
[One (M8) General] jhun80:
I used Auto but it looks over saturated outdoors, is this normal?

Galaxy S4:

htc one m8:

Macro auto:
[One (M8) General] mwatson:
Looks like you need to go into the camera settings and reduce the saturation.
[One (M8) General] Jooosty:
I'm going to have to agree with photomaster hamdir.

He's the camera dude!

HTC UltimEight ?
[One (M8) General] DigitalMadness:
Try Sharpness-1 and EV - 0.5/1
[One (M8) General] SightSeeker:
The camera on this phone is the one thing holding me back. I read reviews where it likes to blow out the whites and I see it in quite a few photos on there. Is there a way in manual mode to keep this from happening or is this a hardware limitation?
[One (M8) General] schoolsux:
Only me having problems with small areas in some photos getting over-saturated in pink? I'm using stock settings but it still doesn't help. If I try the Google Camera this is gone, so it seems to be something with the image processing? :S

EDIT: Just look at the closest tree in the photo I took:
[One (M8) General] lvoky:
M8 camera manual control

Here are some of my pictures taken with the M8 camera in manual mode while using the panning method - so no uFocus used there.

The manual settings is a perfect thing, but I have a problem with it recently - seems the shutter speed manual setting is not working at all. I tried to reset the camera to default, removed the app data from the Apps settings menu, but none of this helped. Whenever I change the shutter speed in the manual mode, it has no real influence, whatever I choose, the picture comes out the same. Has anyone experienced this? Is there a solution other than a factory reset of the phone?
[One (M8) General] Jooosty:
Awesome shots !!!

HTC UltimEight ?
[One (M8) General] xsardax:
How do you take these pictures with only car in focus? Sorry for dumb question, I'm not camera expert, but love those :)
[One (M8) General] lvoky:
The key is in correct shutter speed setting and following the moving subject in your viewfinder. In my case, these pictures were taken with shutter speeds at around 1/30 s, sometimes less, sometimes more, I did a bit of experimenting. Then it requires a smooth movement along with the car passing by, while clicking the shutter a few times. And then you have to hope that at least one of the pictures is usable ;)

You may need to experiment with the shutter speed, in general, one can say that the slower the subject is moving, the slower shutter speed is needed to create the blur and vice versa. With a race car driving along at top-speed, you surely won't need shutter speed at such slow rates I had to use, but on the other hand, with higher speed, the smooth following of the moving subject gets trickier.
[One (M8) General] Frutek:
My manual setting weren't working properly until I changed phone language back to english. Now it's working perfectly
[One (M8) General] xsardax:
Thank you for this. Will definatelly try. Next week M8 should be in my hands in Croatia :)
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
what? read the entire thread it teach how to use it

you have tons of ways to deal with the over exposure

- manually pick a medium lit target

- or reduce exposure from the EV to -0.5 or -1

- or use manual mode
[One (M8) General] lvoky:
Wow, thanks a lot... It really works. The strange thing is that the manual setting used to work for me in Czech language originally and then it somehow stopped. Using English now, everything is OK, changing back to Czech makes the manual settings unusable again. Once again, many thanks.

L.
[One (M8) General] jhun80:
Thanks, it was in 2 thats why
[One (M8) General] mahdibassam:
Persian Kebabs + UFocus = Perfection ?
[One (M8) General] UgXvibe:
Great, now I'm hungry. [emoji57]
[One (M8) General] Jooosty:
HTC UltimEight ?
[One (M8) General] nxsone:
https://flic.kr/p/nhW4nw check this one , I'm enjoying this camera in manual

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[One (M8) General] twoeleven99:
Some of the ufocus shots look like bad Photoshop composites. I don't see the need for it with an aperture of 2.0 on the camera
[One (M8) General] nxsone:
I also don't like the u focus much , but at some pictures it makes a decent job , and also I'm just playing with manual
[One (M8) General] twoeleven99:
I think this is the first phone I've had with full manual mode on it.

Viper One M8
[One (M8) General] nxsone:
And this manual mode it's kind of easy to use , before I came across this thread I thought it was macro mode

https://plus.google.com/110234003878301626406/posts/RDLUdWjC93u
[One (M8) General] flying dutchman:
Good to see some great shots from home!! Used to live 500m away from Kijzer Karel Plein in Nijmegen.
[One (M8) General] john291:
Lol ......yes its a Nice place!
[One (M8) General] mwatson:
The sky looks a bit blown out because it was totally white yesterday! Some really clear pics here with great colour..

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[One (M8) General] hamdir:
purple fringing is the only bad thing about this camera in my opinion
[One (M8) General] starbase64:
HTC One M8 - HDR
[One (M8) General] renehd2:
Whats purple fringing?

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[One (M8) General] hudsoncouto:
[MENTION=1144067]hamdir[/MENTION]

a little OT, but any thoughts on the samples from OnePlus One compared to M8?

They look fine zoomed out, but at 1:1 there's some smudging oing one, and also possibly some sharpening issues? Look long the center of the leaf in the second picture...

Also, that low-light shot fails to impress me. Semms the longer shutter speed on the M* could to better

Anyway, thoughts from the board?
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
[MENTION=5300649]hudsoncouto[/MENTION]

alas my friend i will no longer try at this point no one is listening anymore

reminder: HTC is including the 13MP sensor in their cheaper Desire 816 and results don't even look any different

but no ones care bro

so alas lets just focus on the M8 who ever wants to skip it, let him be, its tiring

there is barely anything left in the low light shot...
[One (M8) General] twoeleven99:
I agree there is ZERO detail in the blacks of the night shot on that one plus

Viper One M8
[One (M8) General] DigitalMadness:
The only thing thats screwed with the camera IMO is the language bug lol. Im on Swedish and Manual Mode dont work, i switch over to English and it works flawless :(.

Pic 1 Star Trek mode :D (My whiskey collection)

Pic 2 Macro Mode (Laptop keyboard)
[One (M8) General] boofhead:
those photos of the lizards are amazing.
[One (M8) General] killerapl:
Pepper!

HTC One M8
[One (M8) General] Try4Ce:
Awwww, those eyes!

Awesome shot!

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Took my car through the car wash and took some images (low light | cockpit )

Was curious how the camera handles this situation compared to my M7 where I did similar shots not too long ago (for the official german KIA facebook page).

This camera handles low light extremely well. Even the noise is acceptable. The only light source came from above which was very dim at best. Was surprised that even uFocus worked pretty well in that situation. :good::good:
[One (M8) General] chobits:
Wow .... Htc can produce such a beauty

Did you do any editing to it?

Or filter?

Maybe manual setting?
[One (M8) General] Try4Ce:
Only slight editing with Snapseed, but nothing major. No filters or layers, just a little contrast.

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[One (M8) General] hamdir:
you can do that from the builtin galery anyway

i so wish they can perfect the Ufocus edge accuracy but i am afraid the reason for the current situation is that the second depth image is only 2MB and maybe different focal point hence the edges are not so perfect
[One (M8) General] Try4Ce:
Yep I know. But I got used to Snapseed - It's just so intuitive! ;)
[One (M8) General] Extropy:
A bit of HDR
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
gorgeous
[One (M8) General] sallam5010:
Stellar performance no matter what or how or where u take the photo ! Great camera :D am happy with it :D zero effort and zero edit
[One (M8) General] daniel.fanucchi:
would be nice to see the comparison with those taken with m7
[One (M8) General] ILS_SuperNova:
Tried a eye shot like yours but couldn't get it that great? What settings are you using . . Even in macro it starts to blur :(
[One (M8) General] starbase64:
Hi,

here is my HTC One M8 flickr album > https://www.flickr.com/photos/maik_reifschneider/sets/72157644250211695/

regards

starbase64
[One (M8) General] iggdawg:
Took this randomly yesterday while I was out playing Ingress. All settings full auto, no editing. The wind was howling but you wouldn't know it since the camera is so fast. It kept me from getting the focus on the flowers themselves, but I liked how the shot came out otherwise.
[One (M8) General] ILS_SuperNova:
Getting very very impressed every day with how fast this beast takes photos! As I've mentioned before along with others, HTC should have marketed

the camera with the speed as a buying point rather then duo but again its not a problem just might have silenced some of the haters . .

Anyway I'm looking forward to taking this to a few concerts we have lined up next month.. . Low light and fast moving members on stage should be handled with ease :P

I stood by a road the other day and just took pictures of passing cars to see if the shutter would catch them . . Very easy it did too :P

Even some coming past with speed didnt make things hard.

My next hope is future updates for the camera software dont mess things up and I'm very excited for third parties and HTC themselves to come up with more duo features.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Fastest Smartphone camera

http://www.phonearena.com/reviews/Oppo-Find-7a-Review_id3669/page/3
[One (M8) General] ILS_SuperNova:
S5 camera speed is a good 100 slower :o

When they were making a big thing about camera speed . .well focus speed i mean but whats focus speed when your camera cant take the photo fast? Oppo Find is looking good .. whats camspeed and take pic difference??

cheers for them stats
[One (M8) General] goodtimes50:
Has anyone noticed an extreme red push in lower light photos? This was taken the other night and it looks like me and my gf have the worlds worst sunburns. The second photo was color corrected to show accurate colors.
[One (M8) General] iggdawg:
"taking a pic" is a raw speed measurement. CamSpeed is a benchmarking application that performs a number of functions, then gives the device an overall score based on what it did.
[One (M8) General] msavic6:
I struggle to understand how it takes the S5 a whole 3 seconds to take an HDR image? It seemed instantaneous when I tried it in store so I'm wondering how PhoneArena did its measurements? Also how does the Note 3 score 500 in the benchmark while other devices score less?

Doesn't the M8 also have a live preview of the HDR image before you take it?
[One (M8) General] iggdawg:
Here's an image to speak to the speed of the camera. A friend of mine lives on the route of the Boston Marathon, and we were over there this year during the running. A coast guard helicopter flew overhead and I tried to snap a quick picture of it. The quality of the picture isn't that great, I was being a bit hasty since it was moving past me, but I kept it because I was surprised how stationary the rotor blades looked. I'd expected to see a lot more blurring.

Leaving the pic un-cropped for scale.
[One (M8) General] Rotten Ross:
A picture of salem drinking from the tap.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Reduce the stupid "make up" setting to zero

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Anyone noticed the two included sample UltraPixel photos in the phone, one with a guy holding a tea pot (a tiny bit over exposed but beautifully) and another of a seafood meal, super impressive you can also try camera duo effects on them, I will upload them tomorrow
[One (M8) General] goodtimes50:
I just checked and it is at zero.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
By the way dimensions plus is a little scary with pictures of food :) sometimes it's eerily effective and real
[One (M8) General] sallam5010:
Actually I used another macro lens to take pic of my eye that close ! :)
[One (M8) General] sallam5010:
Am in love with this camera :D
[One (M8) General] XdrummerXboy:
MKBHD is a verrrry good reviewer in my opinion. Non-biased, gives facts as they are, and explains in depth the strength and weaknesses, as well as SHOWING them! +1 for this video, along with all his others!
[One (M8) General] JD914:
Heres my contribution. ;)
[One (M8) General] Slash8915:
I currently have a GS4, and I'm looking to upgrade to a new phone. I really like the M8, but I just keep hearing bad things about the camera. I've been looking through the pictures in this thread, and they look good, but they all seem to be close ups. Can someone please take a few pictures of objects that aren't so close, so I can see if they will be even somewhat comparable to my GS4? For example, here are some pictures I took on my last vacation with my S4. These were all taken in auto mode with no filters, post-processing, effects, ect. Just point and shoots.
[One (M8) General] renehd2:
There are a lot of pics that are not close, just watch the thread again

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[One (M8) General] Slash8915:
There are 115 pages... :eek:
[One (M8) General] GSeeker:
M8 takes no good non-closeup photos, that's why.
[One (M8) General] hudsoncouto:
Gotta say, those are some nice pics. As much as I like my m7, I don't think I would be able to get nice balanced shots like that in terms of dynamic range without going with hdr.

Compared to what I know of my m7 and what I've seen from the m8, your photos seem to have a little less pixel detail (a problem called pixel bleed) because of the smaller pixels, and you would actually get sharper photos with the m7/m8. If you would need a higher resolution photo for printing, you could upscale it with hamdir's Photoshop action in this thread to get 16mp photos without losing much sharpness.

The shutter on the m8 is also ridiculously fast. It's probably the fastest phone camera around.

What is not so great with the m7/m8 is dynamic range. That is a problem with bigger pixels/aperture, and you'll need to constantly watch for overexposure. Like I said above, to be able to get that "rock" together with the sky you would most likely have to use hdr to keep the sky from blowing out. Night shots usually turn out great. Even better with the m8 because of longer shutter speed available in manual mode.

Manual mode, Btw, would be my favorite feature for the m8 against your gs4. You can really overcome all difficulties, including the overexposure, by manually setting iso, focus and shutter speed. It's really powerful if you know how to use it.

Anyway, in short:

GS4: better for daylight point-and-shoot, better dynamic range in auto mode, higher native resolution

M8: sharper photos despite lower resolution, better in low light, better macros/close ups/depth of field, faster shutter, and very powerful manual mode. Higher resolution obtainable with Photoshop.

IMHO, YMMV, AFAIK, tl:dr
[One (M8) General] Slash8915:
Hmm, lots of good info! Do you think the overexposure, ect could be something HTC could fix with an OTA update? I really don't know much about settings on cameras and whatnot, so I much prefer to just use basic, auto, point and shoot, lol.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Trolling is being reported on this thread, so look through this thread again before spreading misinformation, checking the last few pages is not what I call a proper research be careful

besides the main OP Includes a lot of Flickr album collections for the M8

These albums and this thread are full of gorgeous landscape shots, the M8 has a very effective landscape mode plus a manual mode that is worth gold, you can decouple focus exposure target from focus distant using manual mode

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Two ways you can lower the exposure EV setting permanently like -0.5 or manual pick a medium lit target, the M8 is much improved over the M7 in terms of over exposure so I personally prefer to keep it at default 0 and not lower it but when I see it over exposing in the viewfinder I try to find a better spot to target and yes it is the fastest phone camera around
[One (M8) General] GSeeker:
I've been reading this thread since day 1, i've checked most of the camera samples in this thread and i still think M8 is not very good at non-closeup shots and this is "Trolling"? WTF!
[One (M8) General] ILS_SuperNova:
Doesn't take good close up photos? Don't see what your seeing :)
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
No he said it doesn't take good non closeups
[One (M8) General] ILS_SuperNova:
Oh my now I look the fool haha!
[One (M8) General] ILS_SuperNova:
Right ok just taken this quickly out of my window . . I think thats a fine non close up ?
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
HDR trick: Sometimes your highlight is already max in your surrounding and you can not lock and pan like it was suggested, so in auto you can lock on max highlight and switch to HDR quickly then shoot, the trick is not to let the camera refocus automatically

A good example is an indoor shoot with a strong corner light, lock on it in auto switch to HDR and shoot, results are excellent
[One (M8) General] ILS_SuperNova:
:) shall try this. . .how do you rate or think of non close up shots with this Cam? Really I don't think they r bad . . Lose details in backgrounds but not bad at all
[One (M8) General] sallam5010:
i totally agree u as it works flawlessly on M7 but for some reason its not working on M8 !! tried it alot alot of times on M8 but not no luck !! everytime i lock AE & AF then switch to HDR mode the camera just overexpose the whole scene... this trick works only on M7 !! i think some guys here agree with me ?? dont u ? if not so it must be something wrong with my software AE & AF lock and switch to HDR :(
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
You should be faster than the auto focus so when you switch to HDR click quickly, tricky yes otherwise the usual trick of locking into a brighter target and moving the view finder

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All in here ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=51415071&postcount=8428
[One (M8) General] john291:
ooops sorry these where from my old Htc M7:o
[One (M8) General] ronniemayo:
Funny people say you can't print any images from these phones.
[One (M8) General] alibecks:
normal mode
[One (M8) General] AndroidInsanity:
Yorkshire, England.

HDR
[One (M8) General] dondavis007:
No edit, just pure sugar

Sent from a mobile Gadget...
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
You want the proof of validity for the UltraPixel camera? Just compare the front 5MP results to the back, it's laughable how the rear camera feels like 40MP with all the detail it collects in comparison to the front
[One (M8) General] Flow-Wolf:
Hello,

Just wanted to share with you a video comparison with S5 to show how M8 is good! :D

[YOUTUBE]YeSDaIK3qEc[/YOUTUBE]

Enjoy!
[One (M8) General] jamiee6610:
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[One (M8) General] UgXvibe:
Had a horse show today..

Original

U-focus

Winning!
[One (M8) General] samuelong87:
Red panda at the Zoo
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Why did HTC ruin the auto low light results from the M7? On auto they look underexposed but if you brighten them using the gallery custom filter you can double the brightness/contrast and reveal ton of detail

I think a possible explanation is that it's tuned for the dual flash now
[One (M8) General] duckstardeluxe:
I agree. The issue could be work arounded if we could have the possibility to set exposure +1-2 in auto mode.

I've setup a filter to do it retro in the gallery app.

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[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Yes I'm doing the same, saved filter, I think because they lowered exposure for daylight that the low light suffer, the M8 over expose daylight almost never in auto if you rely on auto focus, all the over exposure complaints are coming from those who are manually picking a darker focus target
[One (M8) General] sbiricuda:
ps.

What's "make-up level" in stock camera settings?

I can't really get what it stands for :confused:
[One (M8) General] AndroidInsanity:
Its like beauty mode. It softens your skin in the image.
[One (M8) General] kungfubo-xda:
Love M8 camera, I took many amazing photos with it, but over exposure problem is troubling me a lot!

As you can see, the light (upper part in 1st image) and the ground (right part in 2nd image) are horribly over exposed.

Trust me: the lighting condition in real world was not challenging at all. The light in the 1st photo is just at normal light. Second photo was taken today. It was just a normal spring sunny day. The sun was not strong at all!!

Please don;t tell me to playing with focusing point, because I do need enough light for the major part of the photo, and it turns out just about right!

I just don't understand why M8 camera let in so much light in those two minor parts.

I can't imagine what I can get when traveling to the beach!

EV=-0.5, sharpness=-1, auto mode, but manually selected focus point on face of my parents.
[One (M8) General] rumdada:
just some water after a late night at eat n Park auto everything
[One (M8) General] ILS_SuperNova:
How can I fix this from happening? I tap to focus on subject which sends background out of control with light then tap the back ground which makes subject to dark to see any features or detail?

Tried changing iso and exposure etc :(
[One (M8) General] rizevnarastek:
Try "backlight" or HDR mode.

Sent from my Pocket Computer.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Typical HDR scenario
[One (M8) General] AndroidInsanity:
For the best photography with this camera. In decent light conditions go to settings then image adjustments then change saturation to 0.5 and sharpness up to 0.5 the image improvesa little and colours seem more realistic. Turns this camera into a boss!
[One (M8) General] ILS_SuperNova:
Thanks guys :)
[One (M8) General] bigballa:
Played some good old jenga last night with my cousin. Everything Auto. First regular. Second with uFocus. It not perfect because software thinks the red dining room behind her if in the forefront.

This camera gives me a mix of good and bad photos. But I hardly use the camera for anything important.

Sent from my AT&T HTC One M8
[One (M8) General] SuperMarioGalaxy:
Impressive photoshop skilz! :D And very nice idea. Are you in marketing or graph design?
[One (M8) General] billybobjones:
stunning photos. thanks hamdir
[One (M8) General] SuperMarioGalaxy:
With all due respect, that blur looks like absolute sh*t. Its so unrealistic its unusable, even for my own personal use. I have seen some pics from the camera that the idea originated from and they're not bad. HTC did a bad mockup of that. Even their own official site uses pics that are absolutely horrible with the after-shot-focus. Total gimmick.
[One (M8) General] billybobjones:
dont have the phone yet, but if you save a custom mode, does it still revert back?

i mean if you create a new profile and save it in the camera?