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[One (M8) General] z06mike:
Damn that's crazy! People don't realize the impact that has on a phone's camera!
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
It was really bad though ?
[One (M8) General] gazzacbr:
Hi, in first picture of the building the sky looks like an extremely bad photoshop color change and very unnatural :(

what setting did you use for this?

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Hi, interesting but not really a fair comparison. the framing was different for most pictures, esp the selfie at the end.

the night street shots included a bright yellow light in the m8 shot which will make a big difference in exposure.

not really SURE why there was purple/bluE cast on the jungle pictures. i have not noticed that with mine.
[One (M8) General] Billchen0014:
Ah, that is Google+ Auto Awesome feature touching up, since I upload these photos to Google+, they are automatically "enhanced" and since the image here is hosted on Google+ server, that's what happened to it. Though the original doesn't look too different, the sky is more of a lighter shade of blue.
[One (M8) General] Thisismyringtone:
Took this on a morning walk the other day
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
Really not a great picture but what other phone cam could do this ...

800 ISO , 4 seconds , manual focus at infinity

Messier 45 Pleiades open cluster
[One (M8) General] Jbb3393:
I hope this it's ok and I don't get flamed for this, but incase anyone here isn't aware or remembers Jishnu, he updated his camera mod on his Google+ page. I had to edit my default.xml to enable the crop me in mode
[One (M8) General] itzsnookums:
What's his Google+????
[One (M8) General] The-Last-Hylian:
I'm really into my Deep Sky, this is amazing for a phone. I bet the lack of OIS is a hindrance though.

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I'm starting to read up now on how to take the best quality photos with my M8 for when I get it. autofocus is a given though, it was the same on the M7.
[One (M8) General] Jbb3393:
https://plus.google.com/+JishnuSur16061993/posts
[One (M8) General] PcFish:
Here's mine from the other morning. (Instagram cropped)
[One (M8) General] clusterchuck:
[emoji52]
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
You know winters on its way when Orion pops up ...

Great pic
[One (M8) General] defcomg:
Has any tried going over 4seconds on the m8.

Not taken from an m8 but another phone

First image 32seconds iso 3200 jpeg

Second raw only chroma nr

3rd image same as second cleaned up

4th is stars starting to trail

5th more contrast same image as no 3

6th different part of the sky trailing .

/offtopic

By the way did you shoot these images handheld or tripod
[One (M8) General] defcomg:
Nice tried shooting Orion but its at an angle and I do not have a tripod yet what type of tripod do you use?
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
No tripod, handheld while butted up against patio door ?

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How did you get past 4 seconds ?
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Guys there is an easy way for extra long exposure time and no tripod

Simply enable voice capture, place your m8 on something stable and then say "capture" to take a motion free manual mode long exposure shot :)
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
I'll try that later ?
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
Can't see how this gets past 4 seconds though ?
[One (M8) General] elopez2808:
PP in snapseed then VSCO then did some noise reduction in lightroom 5
[One (M8) General] matase:
I have htc one m7. I am pretty disappointed in the front and back camera. Front camera elongates faces and pictures come out very noisy in low light. The back camera takes about 2 seconds to focus on objects in low light and pictures still come out blurry/washed out. Does m8 address these issues?
[One (M8) General] emilvaan:
A few pictures of mine.

I was lucky enough to get a M8 by sending in my M7 for repairs.

I had the typical purple tint issue, but the problem must have been somewhere else since they decided to send me a refurbished M8 instead of changing the sensor.. :D :victory:

Below you'll find some photos I've shot with the M8.

All of them in auto mode, first and second is manual focus, third is burst shot and fourth is automatic focus.

I like the phone and camera so far, still can't believe how lucky I am to get it for free :highfive: :laugh:
[One (M8) General] hudsoncouto:
Halloween party this weekend :)

Night and manual modes desperately need a tripod. But even if the pics are a little blurry, I think the colors are very nice
[One (M8) General] Manav Asopa:
here is one that i took... not pro stuff. just random click
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
Anyone noticed that since update , no matter how dark it is or whatever ISO you use , it won't go below 1/11 second in auto mode
[One (M8) General] ext109:
The m8 definitely isn't the all-around best camera I've used. Nevertheless, it still managed to give me some shots that impressed me!
[One (M8) General] Manav Asopa:
Here is one more pic. Low light is simply outstanding in this fone
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
Bit of gig togging

1/12 sec ISO 500

2:54 at Ramsgate music hall
[One (M8) General] Eiad Ajam:
Sunset

View attachment 3005956
[One (M8) General] gitin:
just wow !!!! u took this from m8 right ?
[One (M8) General] Eiad Ajam:
ya sure

just added a filter from the gallery

you can see details here from flickr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/111653526@N08/15123195073/
[One (M8) General] comstar:
Loving the camera. Need to clean my lens a little better though.
[One (M8) General] B.K.Q:
It's really beautiful
[One (M8) General] B.K.Q:
1st pic (auto mode , focus was on the sky )

2nd pic , (with HDR )
[One (M8) General] petrovics:
Mode auto, focus manually
[One (M8) General] gazzacbr:
underwater

Hi,

this was taken about 2m down at the bottom of the local swimming pool. i resized the picture 60% to upload here.

i put my M8 in a Loksak, http://www.loksak.com/

the "aLOKSAK 4X7" size is a perfect fit.

amazingly i could still operate the screen through the bag, even underwater.

well, until i ran out of breath anyway :D
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
HTC camera app is now on the playstore

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.htc.camera

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man i knew its Amman the moment i looked at this photo, i miss that place (but not every aspect of it) HDR?
[One (M8) General] Eiad Ajam:
yes HDR :)

hope you visit it soon
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
I am done with all the upscaling non sense and back to photo shooting

all on auto, sharpness either -2 or -1.5, anything higher ruins IQ in my opinion, but -1.5 seems equivalent to one photoshop sharpness, you can see it in the second and third shot

most importantly all these shots are AUTO FOCUS point and shoot, hence despite the tremendous sun i only have one or two that had over exposed the sky (mainly the back-lit ones under the trees)
[One (M8) General] riginal:
the kid and the ambulance
[One (M8) General] eHmu:
GPE with Google camera automatic.
[One (M8) General] mwatson:
These all look great. I notice you don't have blurring on the left side like mine. I've had four of these devices and they all produce blur to the left? I've tried to focus on various parts of the scene, but no luck.

Do you ever have side blur?
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
yes i do if i manually pick my focus point, say i focus on the right side, i will have a blur on the opposite but since these photos are all on auto focus hence in the center i don't get the blur

i always concluded the blur is part of this camera optics and not a defect
[One (M8) General] alias3800:
Hey hamdir, your most recent pictures look great - question though:

Did you post edit these? Snapseed or off the phone? And the -1 or -2 sharpness, what is that effect for overall? Does this camera or software oversharpen things by default like the latest samsung galaxy devices?
[One (M8) General] subcola:
Taken on my m8 [emoji1]
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
160 ISO , manual focus, no flashy effects , straight from phone using the lovely f2.0 lens to create bokeh naturally
[One (M8) General] defcomg:
This would have been so much better in raw nevertheless pretty good PIC
[One (M8) General] duniecool:
good photos so far

I find the sense camera does the best job than any other 3rd party apps, here are some photos
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Since the days of the HTC Desire you can disable digital sharpness with -2, and yes HTC always over sharpen things, I found that just 0.5 i.e. -1.5 more than enough

And no I explained that non of these were touched in post except one, the tree image, every image and its settings explained in Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/gp/56930129@N03/M6Y97i
[One (M8) General] PcFish:
That shot in the field is awesome!
[One (M8) General] gtg465x:
What you are talking about is not a defect, but what mwatson is talking about is different and is a defect (blur always in same spot, even when on auto focus, and even when tapping to focus on that part of the image, the blur stays), but all One M8s in certain parts of the world have this defect to some extent I think. I have it. I think it depends on where your M8 was manufactured. Hamdir must live in a part of the world that has One M8s with non-defective lens. Lucky. I take all of my pictures with the phone upside down so that the blurry part of the lens is towards the sky and you can't tell. That trick doesn't work for all pictures of course.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
how about camera coating? because i have mine removed
[One (M8) General] svntsvn:
Do you think we'll have to wait until next year for htc to tweak the api to improve the sense camera for android 5.0?
[One (M8) General] gtg465x:
I thought that at first too, but it doesn't make a difference. I even had my first One M8 replaced due to a broken screen and the replacement is even worse lol. For reference, my units are AT&T branded from US.

I seriously think one of the manufacturing facilities has a machine that is slightly miscalibrated and aligns the lens ever so slightly off, but other manufacturing facilities align the lens correctly. If I had money to spare, I would try to import a European One M8 in hopes of a better lens.
[One (M8) General] th3:
When I've tried removing the coating following what everyone else does... It never removed, just became a dull blurred smudge and it has ruined my camera from before :/

I've left it at that for 3 weeks now.

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[One (M8) General] sallam5010:
Night clouds
[One (M8) General] Eiad Ajam:
and here is my photos was mentioned by htc mea :fingers-crossed:

https://twitter.com/HTCMEA/status/533639098909470720
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
Dont give up mate, have another go at it... you really have nothing to lose now
[One (M8) General] caiejay:
Just random shots using auto

Sent from my HTC One_M8
[One (M8) General] RSK01:
Have not posted for quite a while. As always, all un-touched.

HDR

Auto

Not Taken with a M8, but just like to share:
[One (M8) General] vipercoyote:
why did he get banned?
[One (M8) General] ext109:
Just have to share this one I took last Wednesday. Only edit I did was a tiny bit more saturation through HTC gallery, but the original was almost as stunning

Sent from my One M8
[One (M8) General] caretaker01:
how did you get that shot? did you twaked the camera settings a bit? because normaly the sky cannot be seen as pink purple from the human eye
[One (M8) General] fabidesca:
The winter is coming but...
[One (M8) General] th3:
Frack me some crazy stunning shots here eek!

Haha cheers! I've done a lot of scrubbing on it with the Q-tip.

Honestly looks like my 001 has a very different resilient coating to what most have.

It shouldn't be taking this much effort :/

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[One (M8) General] jpcdeux:
Mine looks brand new thanks to headlight lens restore and a soft towel
[One (M8) General] jpcdeux:
Mein contrib
[One (M8) General] RedDevils88:
photos taken at Jay Chou's Concert :)
[One (M8) General] gazzacbr:
...so is the colour cast.

you be able to change that in any reasonable editor to take out some blue and bring the petals back to white.
[One (M8) General] sallam5010:
Details?
[One (M8) General] PcFish:
Anyone's camera randomly recording video? I would be sitting there trying to focus on something, then it would randomly start recording. My finger wouldn't be anywhere near the ui button. EDIT: Stock everything T-MO US latest update, unrooted, S-On, etc.
[One (M8) General] hudsoncouto:
check if you have "auto recording" or "smile" or "voice" options active in camera settings.
[One (M8) General] PcFish:
Bah I have voice capture on. Guess it's sensitive. I need it though to take some pictures without shaking.
[One (M8) General] riginal:
Yes, that's it, I disabled voice capture for the very same reason, random video recording was annoying the hell out of me
[One (M8) General] hudsoncouto:
I find it strange that sometimes my photos turn out sharper and HDR than on auto. I mean one would assume that taking multiple exposures would result in longer shutter lag and consequently blurry pics, but in my case it's actually the other way around :confused:

[IMG="HDR"]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-OlAz2Qbq7sE/VHIwJTEcoCI/AAAAAAAANNQ/MKGCPqeWvP4/w1547-h875-no/IMAG2321.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG="Auto"]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-i1Cs-W6kj6o/VHIwJShZFlI/AAAAAAAANNQ/LJTWjWXztLQ/w1547-h875-no/IMAG2320.jpg[/IMG]
[One (M8) General] pshdo:
Are you all actually satisfied with those pictures? I have seen the last few pages here, and found NONE to be crystal clear... All pictures are somewhat blurry it sems... ?
[One (M8) General] ExCiZeR:
Any1 can explain me the camera coat part? My lens got a blur circle inside
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
Don't forget that posting methods affect quality too ...

This looks great on my phone and PC ... But not so good on here ?
[One (M8) General] :
Self-made pizza, for the first time.

https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net...=033b018f444ed194b37477e02c1861d3&oe=551903CF
[One (M8) General] fabidesca:
which do you prefer?
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
Both nice , but prefer the natural look
[One (M8) General] rwleigh:
Beer...
[One (M8) General] th3:
What do you think about this random shot?

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[One (M8) General] pshdo:
No focus at all... it is not sharp in any place.... if my eyes worked poor like that i would go get som glases...
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
Are you having a laugh ? the steering wheel is in focus ... You can even see the dust in the gaps and the stitching ... The speedo etc. Is out if focus due to the f2.0 lens giving a small depth of field
[One (M8) General] caiejay:
Was bored

Sent from my HTC One_M8
[One (M8) General] rwleigh:
Raining.

A shot of my watch in the rain.

[IMG="ROLEX"]http://www.rwleigh.com/sub.jpg[/IMG]

f/2 1/100" ISO 125
[One (M8) General] blestsol:
To work
[One (M8) General] sallam5010:
Hamad international airport mosque, Qatar :)

Lowlight beast :D
[One (M8) General] andreilica:
A photo taken in Greece before removing the coating. I realized when I got home that some of the photos I've taken in my vacation are blurry.

Both taken with HDR.

And a manual one with just a little bit too much exposure on the sides.
[One (M8) General] wydra91:
Taken of SF Bay Sunset

Original

Modified using the android 5.0 image editor in skydragon
[One (M8) General] boytoy:
1st one edited with snapseed.
[One (M8) General] fabidesca:
very nice first photo ;)
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
I've posted some HDR tips here

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=51503820&postcount=241

and general here

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=51504975&postcount=245

yea a dedicated tips thread is a good idea

the indoor red store shot is at typical examples of bad metering, when you manually target a dark area the bright area light ares will over expose, relying on auto or picking a medium point carefully should do a lot better, its also always better to under expose it than over exposing, since it can easily be adjusted later on from the gallery

the UP camera collects a lot of values in the dark areas but at the risk of killing bright areas, you should be careful when you manually choose your focus
[One (M8) General] sbiricuda:
:good: thank you

The huge gap between some pixeled pics and the amazing shots on Flickr (or the ones above in panorama mode) is still impressive, though. :eek:
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
pixelated what? where?
[One (M8) General] sbiricuda:
For instance:

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/29/thumbnail/2y7a8are.jpg

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2652623&d=1395895347 (look at the knife, or at the up right border of the plate)

and, of course, the red phone store we spoke about.

What i mean is that I see GORGEOUS pics as well as those above.. I'm just a bit confused. :eek:
[One (M8) General] verminatorno5:
Has anybody tried changing the sharpness to -1? Doing this on the m7 improved pictures.
[One (M8) General] mushages:
HTC One (M8) vs. iPhone 5s - Ultimate Camera Comparison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPOXwXe-g7A

i think the HTC camera is better.. more colors vs iphone washed out colors. still the video gives me headache.
[One (M8) General] Basil3:
The first picture you link was shot in average indoor light and the subject is in focus. There's a bit of noise due to lighting, but not unhappy with it.
[One (M8) General] sbiricuda:
Moreover, take the girl pic at the half of raintitan's article. That picture is a no-go for me.. and the blurring of the background is even worse.

but I would be totally impressed by those landscapes posted above, for instance.

Am I missing something?
[One (M8) General] rotchcrocket04:
Just a random pic I took this weekend. Everything was left on auto, just pulled the phone out, snapped a pic, put it away.

Addition: This is with -1 Sharpness. I've been running that consistently.
[One (M8) General] spikeydoo2006:
A few samples of point and shoot pics on default settings.

Not too shabby ?
[One (M8) General] spikeydoo2006:
A few samples of point and shoot pics on default settings. With the "sketch" background filter.

Not too shabby ?
[One (M8) General] spikeydoo2006:
Another example: all default settings.
[One (M8) General] spikeydoo2006:
Again with the sketch background filter.
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
the default digital sharpness is on the agressive side and can produce some artifacts when viewed 1:1, I used to strongly recommend sharpness -2 (which is actually sharpness 0 ie: off) for HTC but now that they've improved it a lot a sharpness -1 should clean things nicely
[One (M8) General] gavinfabl:
Here's a photo from today. It's 3.3mb in size. No lack of pixels whatsoever.
[One (M8) General] mushages:
use flickr, Dropbox or Gdrive as tapatalk reduce quality. your uploaded picture is 200kb in size.
[One (M8) General] dondavis007:
For me and what I'm using a camera for the m8 for sure. I think most of the pics was more pleasing to My eyes also.

My wify got the 5s and I have the 5, and I prefer the One normally.

Sent from a mobile Gadget...
[One (M8) General] hamdir:
Shockingly similar color range to the iPhones 5s (M8 on the right)

iMore: iPhone 5s vs. HTC One M8: Camera shootout

and really 4MP vs 8MP digital zoom is not that big of a deal

and here is my usual example of better per pixel detail from the UP camera, the distant tree branches on 4MP 2.0um sensor collects much better detail than the 8MP 1.5um sensor on the iPhones 5s, the tinier the pixel the more these branches blend
[One (M8) General] gavinfabl:
Here you go.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gavinfabl100/13542010805/sizes/o/in/photostream/
[One (M8) General] clax6:
What do you think to this that I captured at the weekend. I think it looks great
[One (M8) General] Liskrig:
Taken at my Uncle's home yesterday. Edited in Snapseed. I usually don't like the photos that come off of the M8, but I have been sticking with it for quite a while now, and taking A LOT of the same shots, and I'm starting to really appreciate the camera on this phone.
[One (M8) General] cirehawk:
I started reading this thread a couple weeks ago in anticipation of getting an M8 on T-Mobile. I have read every post up to page 180 and there are some good example pictures and tips. Well I actually got my M8 a few days ago. Too bad I didn't write down a lot of those tips. Now I'm gonna have to scan through all those pages again. However, I do have a question. I was checking the phone out (cleaning the lens and phone constantly as we tend to do with new things) and noticed that the "secondary camera/depth sensor" appears to be misaligned. When looking at the back of the camera the sensor seems to be too far to the right, leaving a bit of a gap on the left side. My question is, has anyone else noticed this? Is it normal, or is it something I should be concerned about (i.e. exchange the phone). I plan to root the phone, but want to hold off if this is a defect and I need to exchange it.
[One (M8) General] caretaker01:
regarding camera alignment

Well that depends entirely on your O.C.D., personaly i have a similar problem, meaning that bouth of the cameras are slightly offset to the top, very slightly that most people wont notice, it does not effect the use of it, or the performance of it, i quess its not a big issue that your camera sensor isn`t allingned unless it somehow affects its quality
[One (M8) General] PcFish:
Noticed macros have been easier to pull off on all auto since the last update. Before my phone would never be able to focus on the first try. :good:
[One (M8) General] cirehawk:
Thanks. It's hard to say if my quality is being affected. I really just started using the camera. I went to a car show a couple days ago and took quite a few pictures. They look good as far as I can tell, but don't know if they'd look any differently if the sensor was aligned better.
[One (M8) General] sokrisba:
Edinburgh - Scotland

Hi Guys, I'm new here! Just wanted to share a couple of pictures from my student city :)

The quality is fairly decent though HDR is unusable, but you all know that :D

p.s. I use the latest Google camera and have converted to stock GPE.
[One (M8) General] caretaker01:
you sir or maddam have a nice city to study in and the lens coating issue (check the camera lens it will appear scratched)
[One (M8) General] sokrisba:
Thanks just noticed this morning that the camera lense is indeed scratched, I'll try to remove the costaing today and see if it makes any difference to the quality of pictures.

P. S.

Im sir, it's just my profile pic is way too creepy.

Thanks for the advice again!
[One (M8) General] cirehawk:
I'm not sure how you can tell there is a lens coating issue just by looking at those pics, but I'm surprised HTC hasn't addressed this issue. I just got my M8 about a week and a half ago, so I would have hoped that all the newer phones would not have this issue (since it appears to have been reported months ago). I guess I'll have to keep an eye on mine.
[One (M8) General] toeterbaas:
Its made with lollypop 5.0 auto settings.

I think it looks better with sense rom.

Gonna try tomorrow with sense
[One (M8) General] caiejay:
Sent from my HTC One_M8
[One (M8) General] knobbyhtccruise:
Quick sunrise ... No editing