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[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Gabre:
Anybody maybe moved from note5 to htc10, opinions? Camera wise.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
this phone's camera is MUCH better than any phone before the s7. so yea, it is really worth it and for quick launch from locked phone you can swipe down two times
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] DummyPLUG:
I got HTC 10, Note 5 and Note 7

for camera it should be Note 7 > HTC 10 >>> Note 5

you will find the note 5 camera have much more fancy function/scene, and the HTC 10 is very basic one, but enough if you know how to take good photo

p.s. just don't use the HDR mode and try to use RAW, HTC always have problem to save a good quality jpg
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
actually HDR on htc 10 (with auto HDR) it's so nice. it now works as we expect when you compare to one m9 or so. yea RAW are good, but for short snaps auto hdr is the best :P
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] buckmarble:
I see a lot of talk about the camera but not very many photos. So here are a few random ones along with a few from my trip to San Diego a couple weeks ago.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Tigerstown:
Can't get much better then those pics imo!
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] RSK01:
Pro mode - 8 seconds ISO100 - Unedited

Should have cleaned the lens more thoroughly.

City View from Neptune Court - HTC 10 Pro - Unedited by Yik Lim, on Flickr
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] DummyPLUG:
in some case HDR is not better, at least for the 10, that's why I don't use auto HDR, I will use it manually and take with both HDR on and off, better safe than sorry.

Today I check the photo, found out its exif data is useless, it can't even tell if that photo have hdr on or off, and the easy mode had sharpness force to "hard" and pro mode for "normal", May be that's the reason I hate the easy mode.

and I hope the pro mode if I lower the ISO then the auto shutter speed shall slower down beyond 1/15, not limited at that.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] eitama:
I'm going to switch to HTC 10 form Note 5 next week :)
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Gabre:
Cool, let me know how it goes, and impressions. And what I heard today that htc10 proce is going down for 150$.

Probably as new nexuses are coming ojt that are gonna have htc10 price point before sale.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] allhill:
HTC 10 Pro Mode. I love the result. Editing the raw using Lightroom Mobile is easy.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] lightninbug:
[MENTION=377973]defcomg[/MENTION] this maybe a "shot in the dark" (pun intended ;) ) but is it possible to port the HTC cam to the CM bases that we have now? Or are there any of these mods that can be used with a different operating system than Sense.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] defcomg:
As far as I can there are no framework Dependencies so it should work on cm As long as camera 2 is reachable and framework contains openLegacy in android /hardware/Camera.java
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] fmedrano1977:
There's a little speck, a glare in the picture, could this be from a scratch on the lense. Wiping it down doesn't get rid of it and I can see it in the screen before I take the picture.

Sent from my HTC 10
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] rizevnarastek:
Is your lens scratched? It's sapphire so it should be very resistant to scratches. Haven't any on mine.

... But flares happen occasionally. It depends on light fracture on the lenses and glass. The sapphire is quite thick.

Sent from my HTC 10
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] lightninbug:
So just install the sense camera APK like normal? Or do I need to push it to system? And do I need any other files?
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] TeLnEtEr:
Just wanted to mention that Double press Power Switch to open Cam is a feature that the Viper 10 Rom offers.

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[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] DeadPotato:
Guys some off topic question: do you guys know anyone making some analysis like this but for the HTC 10 lens? This video got me thinking about how much of real sapphire the camera lens has

[YOUTUBE]watch?v=Zx4hRmuW6TM[/YOUTUBE]

and what mobile app do you prefer: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop Express for editing raw files on your phone, and why? I used Photoshop Express in the past and it was nice but I just recently found lightroom and the controls look more precise so idk, what's your personal experience?
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] defcomg:
Try push to system you will need the libs folder
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] lightninbug:
The WHOLE lib folder of sense -> CM13 /system/vendor/lib???

Or

Just the libmmcamera_imx377_htc.so???

And is the system/etc/res_contrl.conf needed as well?

Would be F'n EPIC if we could port the htc10 sense camera to the cm13 Roms for the htc10.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] lightninbug:
[MENTION=377973]defcomg[/MENTION] got it working! Only thing is, camera FC on pro mode with raw turned on. Also no pro mode features are at the bottom of the screen to change, iso/shutter/wb/ etc.. see pics.. other than that everything works! Thanks for your help!

Pics are "black" because phone was face down on my desk.. nevermind the darkness..lol
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] defcomg:
Lol post the crashlog from pro mode
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] lightninbug:
Logcat: https://www.dropbox.com/s/htm3plb523p9mb4/Log_2016-10-02_16-58-26.txt?dl=0
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] defcomg:
From terminal emulator app type dumpsys media.camera > /sdcard/10cm.txt and attach the txt file
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] lightninbug:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sbceeb3cyc95kwm/cm10.txt?dl=0
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] allhill:
I use Lightroom in mobile and also in computer for DNG editing.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Haz04:
What's the difference between Lightroom and Photoshop express?

Sent from my HTC 10
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] starbase64:
[MENTION=7080276]Haz04[/MENTION]

my subjective opinion > photoshop express gives me the better result

no import to a collection needed, open a pic > modify > and share

---------- Post added at 15:00 ---------- Previous post was at 14:56 ----------

PSX_20161003_135425 by Maik Reifschneider, auf Flickr
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] lightninbug:
[MENTION=377973]defcomg[/MENTION] I tried looking at the log, but I am uneducated in that field.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] defcomg:
I was checking if its was a camera 2 issue but its not it seems to be timing out can you try a 3rd party app see if raw capture works
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] lightninbug:
Any app in particular I should test it with? And also would you know why there's no Pro settings in the camera? Can't change iso, shutter, white balance etc.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] defcomg:
Not sure but it could be the app does not recognise the HTC 10 I will check it in the decompiled apk I have and let you know .

As for what camera app camera fv or manual camera
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] lightninbug:
OK, I tried manual camera.. the camera takes the picture if I have RAW selected, but saves as a jpeg, with no RAW image to be found... I'm thinking since CM13 is still new(ish) for our HTC 10, maybe the files needed haven't been pushed/merged yet.

But, shouldn't the pro mode settings like ISO speed and whatnot still show up within the app? (Inside the sense camera)
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] allhill:
Photoshop give more editing tools.

But coz i familiar with Lr in computer version, so i used it on my phones, sync them together.

btw, better u try all of them :fingers-crossed:

anyone have suggestion apps to capture image from video? like 4k video we capture image still, which output should be 8mp resolution.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] rizevnarastek:
Edit: just FYI, this photo is very zoomed in. First I zoomed while taking the photo, max zoom then I cropped radically.

Original.

All auto, then edited in PSX.

Sent from my HTC 10
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] lightninbug:
Just snagged a shot of the Sagittarius constellation!!! Thanks again [MENTION=377973]defcomg[/MENTION] for your work! I have moved back to sense from CM lol... Question for you though, what do you think about the LG v20 camera or the new Google Pixel Camera?

Picture is a screenshot to protect from thieves

Iso 68, shutter 40 or 70 sec? (I was under the influence).
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] ph0b0z:
So, since the Pixels are too expensive, I'm more or less deciding between the HTC10 and the S7. While i clearly lean towards the 10 (UI, build..), the lack of 240fps slomo is a bit of a downer to me. Do you guys think it's possible to mod the camera to support this (at least on the Nexus 5X this was easily possible..)? :)
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] defcomg:
Hmmm that looks like the Orion Constellation i would guess 40sec because no trailing.

I dunno about the v20 camera haven't read up on it.

I would guess the imx378 is the same as imx377 i found a libmmcamera_imx378.so on the xiaomi mi5 vendor folder but that lib seem pretty crippled it only contained configuration for snapshot.

My guess is since the imx377 was originally meant to be used in Point to shoot devices / Drones the driver registers where way different the imx378 was adapted for smartphone use by using standard registers and adding functions such as HDR Video found in imx230 214 etc but thats just guess.

If it can record 120fps @ 1080p it can def record 240fps @ 720p

If anyone should happen to get their hands on one just pull libmmcamera_imx378.so
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] ph0b0z:
Are you talking about the Pixel? Sorry if i wasn't clear enough, i was asking if the HTC 10 could maybe record 720@240fps with modding. :)
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] defcomg:
It should will post a quick test lib by halfing the frame length lines if it don't work will just copy config from nexus 6p
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] duowing:
It would be cool if we could get HDR+ working on this phone. Hopefully having the pixel files might give a better opportunity to do it. So do you think there are any physical differences between the 377 and 378, or it really is just repurposed?
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] ph0b0z:
That would completely turn me to the 10, but i never read about any HDR+ ports to other phones, right?
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] lightninbug:
Willing to test.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] RenzokukenXDA:
How do you guys prevent the lights from being kind of like washed out? Like in this pic here:

http://i66.tinypic.com/14n1kir.jpg
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Haz04:
2 things. Make sure you keep your lens clean. Also, reduce the exposure with the sliding bar. I reduce the exposure with nearly every shot and it with Photoshop Express app

Sent from my HTC 10
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] RenzokukenXDA:
This is the bar near the green circle when you click on the camera screen right?

When I do that, the image brightness goes down, and though the "washing out" is reduced, it still sort of has a white line/bar like a sword
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] afuller42:
It's the lens with finger oils causing that, it takes more than a quick wipe. Really get in there with a soft cloth/ shirt
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] rizevnarastek:
Yeah. Really scrub the lens clean with a cloth.

Sent from my HTC 10
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] buckmarble:
Did anyone ever come up with a solution to the stuttery/frame loss issue on the video camera?

EDIT: I just happened to try disabling PNPMGR in EKM app and it significantly reduced the frame loss on my limited testing.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] defcomg:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=68719477
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] buckmarble:
I tried those but they didn't help
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] presets:
This phone is clearly capable for shooting great photos - but I have the problem with the white dots in darker areas, too. You can see them in one of the samples. But I also have to note that it was impossible (?) with the Xperia X Compact to shoot the structure of the cranes and the cross that clear in that conditions. I´ve tried a lot of settings. Hands up for the 10! But I´ve returned it because of the dots and in daylight photos it wasn´t very sharp (landscape scenes and areas with grass and trees). Any suggestions for that?

btw. strange, on the phone and my MBP you can see those white dots in the dark cloud. In the uploaded pics I can´t see them anymore.

https://i.imgsafe.org/81107d70a3.jpg

https://i.imgsafe.org/813af6a166.jpg
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Haldi4803:
Didn't really dedect any Frameskipping on 1.92 Firmware anymore

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=68045238&postcount=41

Or at least i don't know how to force it / which screnes cause it.

The Image Stabilizer on the other hand... 1080p Video of Pine Forest, focus the peaks/crowns.... phew... THAT stuff is gonna shake. But that seems like an algorythm error. No way to fix this.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ivanovic:
So happy with this Camera

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[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Karish1989:
Guys what do you think about the zooming in capabilities? Talking about rear camera... Picture quality is not so good when fully zoomed in ..

And do you guys have some general camera tips for me, like only use auto focus ...
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] richii0207:
Zooming on ALL phone cameras is bad due to digital zooming which is essentially the same as zooming in on a picture you had already taken. It's best to just snap the entire picture and zoom on and crop what you want.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Karish1989:
Aha, got it. Do you have other tips for taking pictures
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] duowing:
[MENTION=377973]defcomg[/MENTION] with pixel system leaks being out are there any files we can go looking for that might be of use to the 10? I don't have any way to extract the images on my phone, but once I can get to my computer I could pull stuff
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] defcomg:
Perhaps start by pulling the the libmmcamera_ stuff

We did a test yesterday by overclocking 4k video Config to 55fps and it works so HTC10 is capable of 60fps at DCI 4K

But there is two issues plaguing both api's

Camera 1 api drops the frames to about 32fps via normal video recording.

By normal I mean switch to video and record .

Camera 1 HFR Mode seems unreachable outside HTC Camera app which is bad as it only contains code for Slow Motion 120fps this would be an alternative way to reach 4k60.

Camera 2 where the test was done using the High-speed Capture api for the test Resolution was limited to 1080p but the driver was pulling video at 4323*2368 @ 55fps.

It was limited because the stupid camera 2 api highspeed only recognizes 120fps+ so internally 1080p is max anything higher @ 120fps crashes the hal so it shows 120 but really pixel clock is at 55fps same trick used in nexus 6p running N.

Now the problem with Cam2 the video flickers green after each second rendering the video unusable I don't if its a bug in the ROM or if HTC broke this on purpose.

But it's not in the ISP as 120fps 720p does the same but works fine via Camera 1.

So if libs are similar enough can oc 1080p to 120 if it throttles the fps there should still be enough fps to reach or pass 60fps.

A solution would be to compile a new HAL for cm ROMs and maybe use libmmcamera2_sensor_modules.so from pixel device

TL;DR

Maybe
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Braedz:
Really happy with the camera. Took this shot the other night

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[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] afuller42:
Few auto shots, no edits
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Haldi4803:
Not on the Asus Zenfone Zoom!

But sadly the Sensor is so bad, or the too many lenses make it so bad, that it's not a real competition :(
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] presets:
Can´t understand why they don´t refresh this device with bigger, better sensor... They would lead market like Nokia did with the 1020/N8. Nearly all android phones of today have some disappointing disadvantages in terms of the camera and some other ones are cumbersome and lack OIS, too (CM1) :rolleyes:
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] duowing:
Looking around the system image files, either they're not complete or I they've moved a lot of stuff around. I don't understand it all well enough. There's nothing in the /system/vendor. Under /system/lib/ I can find libmmcamera_interface.so, libmmjpeg_interface.so, libmm-omxcore.so, libmm-qcamera.so

Then some xml and jar files relating to google.hardware.camera, com.google.android.camera

imx378_chromatix.xml

camera.msm8996.so

So unfortunately we may have to wait longer?
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] defcomg:
Vendor.IMG is missing seems on the nexus/pixel vendor is not part if the system.IMG but a separate partition
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] touch125:
camera bug

My camera have a problem, the storage option sometime missing. I'm using sandisk xtreme 64gb.

anyone know how to fix this?
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jonathan-H:
Any way of getting the camera to allow you to select Auto Flash and Auto HDR at the same time? Really silly having to choose between the two in AUTO /PHOTO mode.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] richii0207:
HDR processing would go berserk if you had flash on. I don't see how it's possible for HDR to capture exposure values from flash and integrate it properly.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
try formatting your sd card... also be sure that the camera apps has every permission, like storage ...
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Haldi4803:
Guys, i need some professional input about Light and stuff.

I was at a Concert last night and took some pictures. Few beers and good sound so i didn't really care about pro mode and trying around ^^

First picture came out pretty well, 1/20 iso 500. Sure can't compare that to a real camera ^^ but still for a smartphone, and it was pretty dark, i think thats OK.

On the 2nd Picture you already see the problems... 1/14 iso 1000. It's blurry.

the 3rd and 4th have the same issue. 1/6 iso 3200 and 1/25 iso 400.

So let take a look at the other pictures:

1/14 Iso 500

1/50 iso 125

Moar pics

1/100 iso 200

1/100 iso 160

1/100 iso 200

1/50 iso 100

So let's take a look at picture nr 1, 5 and 6... compared to 2, 3 and 4 they look way better... or is that just my imagination?

Do the pictures with white light really look better than the ones with Red / Yellow light?

Here is one more i took on the way home :)

Don't zoom in! Just don't! it looks exteremly blury/pixelated? And yet if you take a look at the full picture it has some kind of artistic style imho.

Bonus Content: Through the Times!

2016 HTC 10 (exactly 100Db according to display^^)

[YOUTUBE]AYB2NRB6S2s[/YOUTUBE]

2015 Xperia Z2

[YOUTUBE]0AWelpTphUQ[/YOUTUBE]

2014 Xperia Z

[YOUTUBE]R08ysJgPGs0[/YOUTUBE]

2013 Xperia Z

[YOUTUBE]UVPt89qZ70k[/YOUTUBE]

2012 Xperai X10i (sadly not Z7 Anymore, but still somewhere dark ^^ )

[YOUTUBE]-3whbqcUxMI[/YOUTUBE]

2011 Xperia X10i (this time somewhere Bright)

[YOUTUBE]nIio9_LIKuc[/YOUTUBE]

2010 Sony C905 (or at least i think it was... bought the X10i way after its release with 2.1 on it. Always wanted a Sony P900 xD

[YOUTUBE]RGBvKh7SO8g[/YOUTUBE]

I don't think i have any earlier videos...
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] [D4v3|R4v3]:
As far as I understand (no pro here) it has to do with the contrast. It's easier for the camera to focus with bright/white light than it does with red/yellow colours. Can't tell you the exact technical background though.

Nice videos by the way! Good to see how the mics in the phones have changed to the better through the years :)
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Lastwurdz:
is there anyone familiar with and issue that wont let you apply the raw photo effect. i can take a picture but when trying to apply it i get a message that says "unable to apply the selected effect"
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ivanovic:
Didn't know I could manual focus while shooting a video!

https://youtu.be/RzxyG3Y11hY

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[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Gabre:
Video looks great, and happy to hear that audio recording sounds natural without distortion caused by noise cancelling as on some other phones, LGs especially
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] rizevnarastek:
My first thought was an RC toy boat. :D

Sent from my HTC 10
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Supreme_One:
After contacting Snapchat more than 5-6 times they finally solved the focussing problem and you can now zoom in with the front camera.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] RedNak71:
Does anyone else's camera distort (slight vertical stretch or Fisheye) the image. I'm not seeing it pictures posted here but mine are a little off. Quality is good but the distortion is bugging me. Sprint HTC 10
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] ImagioX1:
Recorded the demolition of this huge chimney with my HTC 10. YouTube compressed the audio some but I think the Hi-Res mics did a great job capturing the massive amounts of bass the explosion and the following impact produced. https://youtu.be/up_PV5K5gkg
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] morpheus620:
Auto Settings

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[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] SteveO2013:
I dont get how the video camera is so bad with stabilisation. You can see all those small movements on your video, iPhone 6 makes all videos buttery smooth, I just cannot understand how bad programers at HTC are to make flagship in 2016 with stabilisation that terrible, it is almost worse than iPhone 5 from 4 years ago ! My videos are also like that and iPhone 6S wipes the floor with it, with iPhone 6S you can literally run and make buttery smooth videos. WTF ?

First that popped in YouTube :

https://youtu.be/d4bc2q4AdT0

Video stabilisation on HTC 10 is 5 years behind this, thats a disgrace.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] buckmarble:
That looks like it's dropping frames. Ever since I updated to 1.96, the frame drops are gone. From what I've read, it was fixed in 1.92. What version are you on?
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] SteveO2013:
Looks terrible ! I am on 6.0.1 and 1.95.401.3, that is the latest that it offers, it says that it is on the newest version when I check.
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] rizevnarastek:
Anyone else having issue with Google Photos with RAW files? Doesn't show a "raw" banner anymore and tapping the edit button doesn't prompt you to use either auto enhance or built in editor. What happened? Also tapping the photos icon inside the camera app takes me to Google photos and doesn't even show the last photo taken?

Sent from my HTC 10
[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] ImagioX1:
I noticed that shaking too and I'm not sure where it's coming from. When I play the original video on my phone there is no shaking and when I play the video with my media player on my PC there is no shaking. The shake is only noticeable after it has been uploaded to YouTube. I have no idea why. I'm trying to upload the original video to a file hosting site so people can watch it without YouTube's interference.