yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[One (M8) General] mwatson:
Check this for low lighting
[One (M8) General] JTC303:
[JTC ONE m8]
[One (M8) General] Extremer2903:
Cool enough, if in need of best camera, there are others to choose, but not :D.
[One (M8) General] :
Doesn't compare to iphone 5s's picture quality...
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
HDRs:

As always in my M8 Album:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/56930129@N03/sets/72157643769963843/

I also organized HDRs in their own album:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/56930129@N03/sets/72157644595864280/

so much for a "Failed" HDR mode ;) my only grip with it: pixels are slightly fuzzy in HDR pics and you can not control the sharpness, this is why i often find myself split between a sharp photo from auto mode and an fuzzier but better looking HDR alternative...

Point and Shoot, Auto Focus exposure:

I can't repeat this enough, always rely on auto focus for non HDR shots as the M8 calculates exposure almost perfectly, if first attempt fails, lower then phone then back up to allow it to refocus, you can see how bad it can look when manually picking your target in the left image
[One (M8) General] edyboy:
Taken while in a meeting where lighting is not evenly distributed.
[One (M8) General] AmberBoy:
The most annoying "issue" of the M8 camera. Purple, just purple. Photo made on auto without flash. Any advice? Settings?

Okay, I tried to set max ISO 800 and purple light is gone.
[One (M8) General] bdjam2:
Took these while running errands in Manhattan.
[One (M8) General] Jooosty:
[MENTION=1144067]hamdir[/MENTION]

You make our camera look flawless. Great job man.:cyclops::good:
[One (M8) General] dsmpampis:
Are you hungry?

Tapatalked with my "refrigerator look" HTC one M8
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
[MENTION=2390514]vegetaleb[/MENTION] one more of my upscales :) 13MP

Full size:

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2905/14164290920_84c9d7df34_o.jpg
[One (M8) General] vegetaleb:
Nice! I hope you could do a comparison with the Desire 816 though
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
dude i never had this phone, i only had the chance to try it one night thanks to my cousin before it was sold to it's client

[MENTION=2390514]vegetaleb[/MENTION] it's really sad that it's hard to take a photo in the dear country of ours without seeing a concrete or unfinished wall somewhere or flying cables :(
[One (M8) General] vegetaleb:
Yep!

Beirut municipality should have made very strict laws since the 50s to make clear urban roads and a minimum of the same architecture for all buildings, but alas our successive municipality directors don't believe in urbanisme at all, the problem in our country is that they go by the principle that if it's private property then the owner can do whatever he likes, let it be a road or a building, that's why it's a real jungle in all Lebanese cities.

Some villages though kept a sense of urbanize like in some Metn villages where all houses and building should have red roof.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Bchamoun as well, in the latest law you are forced to have a 60% red roof by law and only three flours (the three buildings in my photo are older than the law but all have red roofs but they distribute them differently, my building follows the new law 3 floors + 60% tiles, you can see Aramoun in the background and that area is a serious mess) and as an incentive you get a tax release if you build it that way, sadly despite the area having a lot of brick roofs, it didn't stop many buildings to leak out in previous eras, even worse we have some of those roofs where you know the owner kept the pillars "just in case"

even funnier certain builders, did make a brick roof just to abide by the law but they dont make it correctly just tile them in there for the looks but it doesn't really deal with rain at all! there is one building in my road down which was on hold for a while (as usual they start a building and collect the money to finish it later on) and lately it was finished, the builder did the most crazy roof tiles i have ever seen, he basically layed them out on top of a very uneven roof, its so crazy i laugh every day i see it wondering just how the municipality inspector signed him the clearance ($) i will try to take a photo next time

i do love the Lebanese pine group behind that building though, lets see how before the land is sold and it's gone...

no wonder we call it the "republic of concrete"

sorry for the OT guys...
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Max ISO400 lock:

I love this one, it shows the much better low light photo you will get when you lock max ISO and like many of my M8 photos the MP is low, there is noise yes but photos always look dimensional rather than flat thanks to the detail caught in the shadows

Natural Depth of field:
[One (M8) General] rheza02:
Woa UgXvibe. That was some good photos. Any editing ?
[One (M8) General] UgXvibe:
Auto with the exception of the third photo I adjusted Exposure to -0.5 and on the front porch one I think was HDR. No edits.
[One (M8) General] rheza02:
Thanks. That was really good photos.
[One (M8) General] UgXvibe:
Thank you.. although looking at the exif data they actually all were on Auto with no adjustments.. I thought I adjusted a few but I guess not.. :)
[One (M8) General] Stephen:
Moderator information,

I have cleaned the thread, Please keep all posts regarding the m8 only thank you.

Many thanks,

Ghost
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
This is one of three HDRs all landed perfectly by locking into the middle of the sky
[One (M8) General] xsardax:
I know I'm not good photographer, but I looove HDR on this phone. This is with direct sunlight towards lenses.

https://flic.kr/p/nR6TNy

PS - why is flickr link not working if put as ???
[One (M8) General] vegetaleb:
What is really weird with M8 photos is that as long as they are in ''facebook'' or forum sizes they look very crisp and detailed but once you put them at 100% crop it's a different story.

The only screen where they keep crisp even at 100% is the M8's screen!
[One (M8) General] rizevnarastek:
Who the hell views photos in full screen on desktop or in 100% crop? That's useless unless you want to look at pixels. And that goes for all cameras.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Here is the funny bit, M8 actually has the best 1:1 100% pixel of any phone for a simple reason any phone with smaller pixel has to rely on heavy smudging, even the iPhone 5s 1:1 crops, so why do they those phones look better? Not because of 100% crops but because they rely on downsampling for the IQ to look better, the fact we can even look at them at 1:1 with such acceptable quality is a testament to what HTC are achieving with only 4MPs and that's exactly why the M8 photos looks best when downsampled or even upscaled, HTC made a big mistake not offering smart sampling options on the M8 it would have silenced the critics
[One (M8) General] rizevnarastek:
I completely agree hamdir.
[One (M8) General] mrchloo:
.........................................
[One (M8) General] RoXx1337:
Here are some I took:

So many flies!

uFocus
[One (M8) General] gzmiwza:
Can the over/under exposure be fixed with a software update?

I remember nexus 5 getting a software update for it's camera once, if so cant the M8 get one too? (Given tht HTC is pushing one out or not go bankrupt before then,lol)
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
It's fixed in your current software, just use auto focus

Also nagging less or listening to phonearena can land you better pictures :p
[One (M8) General] Andrewtst:
The HTC ONE (M8) camera is real awesome actually once you know how the lens react. :)
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
No your pictures are lying, HTC will close its doors, exposure is broken, you can't crop, low light is bad, iPhone is better, yada yada :)
[One (M8) General] BookOfRick:
They say that there is no room for cropping on the Ones but I do and its perfectly fine (I usually do at most maximum portrait 3:4 from from landscape 16:9 resulting in 1.7 megapixels) for phone viewing and desktop viewing is okay (I use originals for large screen).

The thing is, do people really views crops 1:1 on most phones in the first place? Where the M8 crops 1:1 another sensor can get the same crop frame and at better ratio and that's the benefit or higher resolution even with tiny pixels. The M8 is great value for its resolution but its resolution is its bottleneck. By the way, your 16mp upscale is definitely a noticeable drop in quality compared to the stock 16mp photos, but I get your point: what you get in comparison to what you have in resolution.
[One (M8) General] anjuice:
Played with the camera yesterday. The first two images were point and shoot in auto mode with ISO max set at 200. Last two were in manual mode, and I tapped to focus. When I took the image from the front of the theater, I had nothing to stabilize the camera onto. I thought my hands would make the picture extremely blurry. It's still a bit blurry but I'm happy with the result.

IMAG0614 by ticklemypikachu, on Flickr

IMAG0617 by ticklemypikachu, on Flickr

Edward's Cinema by ticklemypikachu, on Flickr

Edward's Cinema by ticklemypikachu, on Flickr
[One (M8) General] K0v4L:
Manual settings test. Completely dark room, only light coming thru the window from lights on the street. Iso 400, 4sec shutter.
[One (M8) General] progosu:
did you hold your phone in your hands?
[One (M8) General] ashouhdy:
The first two photos ... I admit they look amazing
[One (M8) General] MGSBigBoss:
Test picture with settings, taken in the afternoon. What do you think?
[One (M8) General] 2slowzoom:
Original - Auto

U-Focus
[One (M8) General] Andrewtst:
lol! Haha!

That two is HDR mode. :)
[One (M8) General] K0v4L:
Yeah, I did. Also, I think that camera doesn't like this manual settings in very low light. After 15 minutes of playing with the camera in those light conditions I manage to get camera freeze and force close.
[One (M8) General] il buono:
Taking their dust bath
[One (M8) General] optiknerv:
Om nom
[One (M8) General] Chance Ill:
My son's graduation
[One (M8) General] armsar1978:
Auto mode
[One (M8) General] shorty1483:
Garden in the morning...
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
i think you need to train on cleaning your lens ;)

[MENTION=3846741]dannejanne[/MENTION] nice but sadly you can see how much noise has pilled up by using the gallery filters
[One (M8) General] dannejanne:
Those are untouched photos straight from the camera. The noise is visible in the last picture mostly but the other ones are pretty clean.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Finally an update!

HTC Gallery lets One M8 photographers adjust their UFocus blur intensity
[One (M8) General] BWA80:
HDR
[One (M8) General] starbase64:
morning half past seven...
[One (M8) General] dsmpampis:
Tapatalked with my "refrigerator look" HTC one M8
[One (M8) General] memekmek:
Ive come to realized this phone doesnt take great pics.
[One (M8) General] bigfdaddy2:
Here's one with me trying out the u focus they added .... My 14yr old cat named bear decided I was done mowing and time for her lovings instead lol...
[One (M8) General] Jbb3393:
Just a quick photo taken this weekend.
[One (M8) General] HtcOneJon:
No, no it doesn't. It takes amazing pics. Much better in fact that the majority of the other phones on the market, and is more useable that all the other phones on the market.

The galaxy zoom's are camera's not phones, so I do not include them although I imagine they are only phone cameras with zoom anywaty
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
RAW upscale tests thanks [MENTION=456666]starbase64[/MENTION]

16MP photo:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/56930129@N03/14388884064/

4MP photo:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/56930129@N03/14388885204/

RAW guide:

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

Upscale filter:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=51881275&postcount=742
[One (M8) General] itzsnookums:
Now we just need the upscaler built into the camera
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
and RAW option, you won't believe the amount of control you get on that, there is no such thing as over exposure
[One (M8) General] UgXvibe:
Been MIA for awhile.. here are a few more recent pics. All Auto, no adjustments.

No U-focus bokeh here folks.. the real thing.

My carpool buddy..

Two pals sharing dinner.

2000 Caddy Eldorado Convertible Conversion.. Saweet!
[One (M8) General] NoFanboy:
Ev is +1. Saturation and sharpness are up 1 notch.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
HTC Blog: Duo Camera Tips & Tricks for the HTC One (M8)

[YouTube]hFF60nXNaCo[/YouTube]

[YouTube]Xda4zb7HiiM[/YouTube]

[YouTube]BPBPJ7ya9Bw[/YouTube]
[One (M8) General] crapmachine:
A few pictures I've taken since I bought the m8. Didn't realise they were slightly blurry until I viewed them on the computer screen.

I think it has to do with the scratches on my lenses. I've put a lens protector over that but it got scratched too :eek:
[One (M8) General] Jared_coop:
Were you going for an over exposed look on the second? I think it would look a bit better with a darker picture (you could use an editor) or a HDR photo, just a thought :D
[One (M8) General] ninecats1:
my pictures turn out great with no zoom. better than my old N4.
[One (M8) General] Darknites:
Didn't see any tips or tricks there :(.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
true haha, silly htc

have a look at my post here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53342604&postcount=11616

another HDR added to the collection: (upscaled - 8MP)
[One (M8) General] Darknites:
Still think you should make a thread with tips and tricks and others can post there tips too.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
contemplating witting an article instead of a thread (for more exposure) ill keep you guys posted
[One (M8) General] dannejanne:
The last photo got my phone severely wet. It managed it just fine though.

Sent from my HTC One M8
[One (M8) General] leongwengheng:
I'm using the Skydragon GPE rom. I haven't tried using Sense yet. Do people find any difference in the cameras between the two roms? The pics in this thread are much better than what I was expecting the phone could achieve!
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
incredible please tweet it so i can retweet the hell out of it :)

5 levels of UFocus

Duo Camera collection on Flicker
[One (M8) General] dannejanne:
https://twitter.com/thisiscrapnick/status/477095322297331713 :)

Sent from my HTC One M8
[One (M8) General] girlygirl00:
Our beautiful seaweed buildup in Galveston -_-
[One (M8) General] vegetaleb:
Taken behind a window!

Cats love the M8
[One (M8) General] DigitalMadness:
Landscape mode and HDR
[One (M8) General] md88:
All auto settings.
[One (M8) General] RSK01:
My wife and I decided to ditch our cameras for our most recent trip. Used only my M8 and her Note3. Here are some of my M8 shots.

Other examples can be found here https://www.flickr.com/photos/31191230@N07/

Mostly shot with HDR
[One (M8) General] sallam5010:
Just a random low light shot all automatic just max iso 800 :)
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
that's how its done :) you can raise EV to compensate
[One (M8) General] dannejanne:
Got my new keyboard yesterday. Topre Realforce. I'm in love. Pure sex for the fingertips.

Sent from my HTC One M8
[One (M8) General] RSK01:
Low light slow motion video

https://www.flickr.com/photos/31191230@N07/14220918730/

Low light manual 4s exposure

Low light night mode

Manual mode iso100. 1.6sec exposure. Unfortunately, I could not hold the phone still enough
[One (M8) General] sallam5010:
Yup I totally know that but I prefer a lot of darkness to make those buildings shine :) thnx mate
[One (M8) General] aM-:
MOD - Jishnu's Camera™

Auto
[One (M8) General] UgXvibe:
Here is a neat feature.. I took a video of a lightning strike which is HERE. You can pause the video and then hit the shutter button to take a snapshot (hence the lower res. than the rest).

VERY low light, Auto

Same picture in HDR mode
[One (M8) General] special011:
Auto settings
[One (M8) General] hudsoncouto:
Awesome! did you use a tripod?
[One (M8) General] RSK01:
No, we did not bring a tripod. Should have brought along a small one though.

I did prop the M8 against the hotel room window and took time lapse photos over three hours. Results were quite Ok, if you discount the dirty window, and a slight shift of the phone when I had to plug in the charger.

Sunset and "moon set" from Izmir, Turkey (128mb full HD video)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m8x5pp5skvlyz3s/ismir%20sunset.mp4
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
i found this:

The Ultimate Guide to Using the Duo Camera on Your HTC One M8

not so great on the tips, but it can prove helpful for some
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Stack upscale testing versus my smudge filter using just two shots:

This was done using Photoacute and RAW samples, with JPEGs it fails horrible

incredible no? :)
[One (M8) General] xsardax:
Incredible! Great!
[One (M8) General] UgXvibe:
Sunset
[One (M8) General] zibias:
HTC ONE M8 & Tapatalk
[One (M8) General] meleelord:
Taken while I was at a festival over the weekend [emoji3]
[One (M8) General] zat0x:
Some are edited with a filter, last one is cropped. All edits done with phone.
[One (M8) General] xxquicksh0txx:
Rain on top of my car
[One (M8) General] PcFish:
Went camping over the weekend.

Regarding the pic with the full moon overlooking the valley, it was pitch black, aside from the full moon. Plus I was 50 feet way from them. Happy how it turned out.

Figured out my Swiss Army Knife's magnifying glass makes a perfect on the go macro lens. (The pic with the rocks, blurry ring is because it's not centered properly) I took one of my finger, you could see my fingerprint perfectly. (Not shown for obv reasons lol)

Also, I was playing with shutter speeds at the camp fire.

EDIT: Mind you these aren't source files. They were uploaded to facebook and downloaded from there due to my laziness. I'm sure there's some kind of compression loss from fb.
[One (M8) General] unrealjello:
Here's a pic from our walk yesterday. Using auto settings, and u focus.

Sent from my HTC6525LVW
[One (M8) General] xxquicksh0txx:
A bird sitting outside my office window
[One (M8) General] iggdawg:
That's pretty impressive for a night shot with lights shining like that. I can appreciate it even if you're a filthy smurf <3.
[One (M8) General] goffmj:
Here are a couple of shots I've recently taken. I've had decent luck with most photos, but definitely not all gems.

Twins game from a few weeks ago:

Just some weeds growing in part of our garden space:

A shot from inside our firepit:

And last, but not least, Nala:
[One (M8) General] jhonsok:
Dinner
[One (M8) General] fernando sor:
Anandtech has a lot to say about the camera

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7893/the-htc-one-m8-review
[One (M8) General] treIII:
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[One (M8) General] slayer69:
Who let you in the house?
[One (M8) General] fernando sor:
your mom
[One (M8) General] hung2900:
Noop. The different is only the bar running, but the time for a HDR photo is still long. The new M8 is supposed to be faster than M7, but according to Anandtech

It's very far from GS5 instant HDR photo.

And about the quality

I also had One X for few months before changed to S3. The HDR is "great" if you want the dark area becomes brighter, and bright area becomes darker only. One X's HDR photos are very good at this, however, to the point of being exaggerated, it also blows out the photo and makes it fake. Some people like, some don't. On SS HDR, we can choose 2 different HDR levels, and not as blown-out like this. Here is one sample from GSMArena
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Indeed, some positive quotes:

And most important one:
[One (M8) General] vegetaleb:
Can we please only post M8 photos instead of M7,Z1,OneX,Nikon,Canon,skype TV and God knows what?
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
personally i think the Engadget samples tells the whole story:

Same camera as the M7, pruple tint bug killed, color balance greatly improved, color range slightly improved, Ufocus impressive but needs to improve precision the other effects work better, pseudo 3d = meh

so if M8 owners can give us outdoor samples with automatic focus versus manual focus that would be great, i also suggest a slight decrease in sharpness

dont try HDR in daylight its hopeless, unless you fix your exposure target and lock it before switching to HDR

HDR in low light will amaze you though
[One (M8) General] EVOme:
Nice pic quality....nice motard
[One (M8) General] Basil3:
Ok. So here we have 3 different pics. All have the same problem of sky blowing out. It's only an overcast day here.

Manual focus:

full image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a8dx6jc330dymck/2014-03-28 13.39.46.jpg

Point and shoot:

full image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b6d42fxsxspczuk/2014-03-28 13.39.54.jpg

HDR:

full image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/aju0gg36k39yo80/2014-03-28 13.40.18.jpg
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
the sky will blow out if you focus on the dark areas (this is what you do naturally you focus on the dark areas in your shot but you should find the middle spot)

best solution for this problem: pick the sky in the auto mode and keep holding to lock the Focus and then switch to HDR and take the shot

and you can also try "Backlight" as well
[One (M8) General] dondavis007:
I don't agree. The size is poor and you can't zoom but the m7 I have is my choise of getting some camerawork done. Speedy, high shutterspeed and accurate when you learn the trick. This written from a pisspoor G2 and check my sig for the phones I use.

Sent from a mobile Gadget...

---------- Post added at 03:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:53 PM ----------

Bring forward the pics now and trolls... Go away.

Sent from a mobile Gadget...
[One (M8) General] jspradling7:
May I ask what settings you are using to do that?

Thanks
[One (M8) General] Shan89:
You've chosen the wrong spot for focus, please do this also 4 samples.

Take the same shots as above ( they're perfect for this test )

1st: auto shot

2nd: press on the sky for focus and take the shot

3rd: Press on the sky and hold till you see *AE/AF* locked > switch to HDR and take the shot ( make sure not to touch on the screen anything else so you don't lose locked focus )

4th chose backlight scene and take the shot without manual focus. So all auto just backlight scene

My prediction : 3rd sample will kill them all.

Ty in advance ! And sorry for bugging you.
[One (M8) General] fernando sor:
that was on auto settings. Im really not a camera guy but i love this camera. Its just a lot of fun to mess with.
[One (M8) General] Rippley05:
Thanks for the comparison pictures. Don't mine the people crying about critiquing the camera..it happens a lot here.

Some nice pictures being shown here, but, just like everyone with eyes knew, a lot of the pictures highlight the major flaws with this camera..which is unfortunate in a "premium" phone.
[One (M8) General] Basil3:
I

ok, i'm doing these exactly as you say, and tried repeated times, but the AE/AF trick seriously blows the whole image out. tried multiple times.

links to each each image:

point and shoot:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3q1rzt2q5fh7cyw/2014-03-28 15.59.36.jpg

focus on sky:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pgtbwmdwt5fz5yv/2014-03-28 14.02.03.jpg

ae/af lock:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xuvoit9xl42223d/2014-03-28 16.00.00.jpg

backlight:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/756v42l5e9ovxx2/2014-03-28 16.00.31.jpg

will try to attach images also
[One (M8) General] brar.arsh:
My 50 cents..
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
moved
[One (M8) General] sjmple:
Call me crazy, but I think those look perfectly fine?
[One (M8) General] Jooosty:
Philly Cheese steak.

HTC M8
[One (M8) General] bigfdaddy2:
Un modified but lens scratched to heck
[One (M8) General] italysfinest327:
Zac Brown Concert Forest Hills
[One (M8) General] itzsnookums:
Taken about an hour ago

https://flic.kr/p/o4ZVCA
[One (M8) General] MGSBigBoss:
Face on a tree?
[One (M8) General] joniboy:
taken this weekend withe the m8
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
HDRs
[One (M8) General] Olaeli:
[IMG="Helsingborg"]http://www.ladda-upp.se/files/2014/b107272.jpg[/IMG]

No modifications to this picture, just pure Auto-mode.

Anyone have a good tip on how to clean the cameralens?

I tried some stuff that came with my glasses, but to no use.
[One (M8) General] renehd2:
[/IMG]

Enviado desde mi 831C mediante Tapatalk
[One (M8) General] dressanderc:
Shot of a Corona I took last night.