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[LG G6 Questions and Answers] maruichan:
Try Google Camera, supposedly it does great panoramas

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Did you try turning adjusting the gamma? It should compensate. It's kinda hard to "find"... you have to touch the ride side and it appears where the zoom slider normally does... kinda awkward tapping the picture trying to get it to trigger since it's more or less a "hidden" feature. Unless somebody knows an easier way to trigger it...
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] echto:
Here are some low light photos I just took. I feel my pictures are turning out better since I turned off the tracking focus.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Colonel Travis:
Gamma comes up when it's on auto, but when you're on manual it does not. When I was with the cat I never tried any auto pictures, though. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try more in the daylight tomorrow and see what happens.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] echto:
Capturing motion is still not that great though.

But the camera did manage to catch very slow movement.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Colonel Travis:
OK one more test strictly for grain only - here's a bowl of fat spaghetti I've got in front of me in a not-so-bright room and I'm happier with that than the cat outside. I turned off the tracking focus after reading your suggestion earlier, echto, thanks.

Indoor - no problem.

Outdoor - problems!

Must have been doing something really weird outside earlier. I took a few boring outside shots that came out fine.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] echto:
That pic turned out great!
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] maruichan:
Yeah this reminds me of when my Samsung used to have "night detection" or whatever it was called. I had the same issue when that was on. It took forever to snap a photo. When I turned that off, suddenly picture taking was fast and no issues catching motion (as much). Burst mode helps too... noticed you can activate it by holding camera button. Will have to try it next time I take the dogs out in the sun.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Colonel Travis:
For motion, you can change the shutter speed to as fast as 1/3200, which seems way too fast for anything but who knows. Experiment with shutter speed and see what happens. Slow-ish shutter speeds work well in low light if you can keep the camera still and nothing is moving.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] maruichan:
Best selfie I've taken with this phone so far. Weirdly enough the darkest part of my fence in the back you can see the details better on my 4K, but it is calibrated with a hardware calibrator so... the LCD itself may not show the value range of what is actually taken. This is good, because if you do decide to edit the files and add a more refined touch, you have more information to modify--therefore a lot easier to adjust. It does catch those 90-95% blacks... it's just for whatever reason, LG seems to like pushing midtones through the roof. It can be readjusted with Levels/Curves.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] railfan-eric:
Anyone notice the awful camera flash glare on night photos? Unacceptable.

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Here's another night shot that came out fine. Auto with point to focus
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] echto:
That's a good picture. Very impressed it's with the G6. Sunlight is a privilege, not a right, here in the Northwest. I can't wait for summer. [emoji41]

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I haven't tried the flash at night. That doesn't look good. I've seen that kind of effect when there is moisture or smoke on the air. Was any of that present when you took the pics?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] railfan-eric:
No there wasn't. Just some dust blowing around.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] echto:
That could be it.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] maruichan:
I had the glare thing happen once when I was pointing towards a 3pm sun. Our sun here is consistently set to retena burner year-round. Anyway, it was bizarre because of the angle it happened. I even considered if it was the recessed lens and additional light coming from the case. In fact, this was the day I took that shot with the selfie cam. So you can see it was pretty bright out.

My S5 did it to good effect. The Pixel has the lens flare issue too (though it's "prettier" as it's more of a halo than a flare).

Lens flare is going to occur with any lens. Thankfully it is generally preventable. You can search solutions for this (though easiest might be just to block the light source hitting the lens)... Another thing to be aware with this camera is there seems to be some kind of coating on the glass that loves skin oils. So if you notice this in your shots, be sure to apply a dab of cleaner to the glass as you may be due for a cleaning. It may even make the effect prettier ;) It may even be desirable depending on the area shot
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] maruichan:
How to Prevent Lens Flare

https://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-prevent-lens-flare/

Can see that with my attached shot in the above post.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] echto:
Quick point and shoot using auto.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] maruichan:
More night shots for comparison...

Would've been a great shot if my finger didn't get in it :P
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] echto:
Wow. There is considerable lens flare in some of those.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] maruichan:
Indoors

Indoor Selfie

Fun with wide angle lens
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] echto:
Costco logic. Hard drives next to speakers. Lol
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] echto:
No complaints about the camera today.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] maruichan:
Yes night photography isn't this phone's strong suit, but it is certainly feasible. The software had trouble trying to figure out how to adjust the shot due to the amount of light sources. My point and shoot would have the same issue though.

It does sometimes overexpose photos, like this one I took at spur of the moment. Adjusting exposure and gamma, and it looks a bit more realistic. Using high ISO on my point and shoot produces a similar hue

Turning down the gamma a tad does seem to help with this. There was a bright flood light behind me though somewhat distant
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] maruichan:
Lens flare is ideal in this one

Inside car photo

Galveston Bay/Gulf of Mexico
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] echto:
Yep. Camera work! Great pics! I can't believe the weather is that warm down there already.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] skyfox99:
After using the camera I've come to notice the camera takes extremely good photos for a camera phone. What it lacks severely is fine focus. The came does not focus very well at all. That causes blurry, grainy shots. Is also causes issue with focusing on what you want... Spent an hour playing with settings and no matter what I do, it will not do a narrow focal point, only wide. The laser focus on the G5 was a much better feature and why they removed that I don't know. Other than slow shutter speed (which isn't this a digital aperture, so possibly a fix by software?) I am very happy with camera now.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] donharden2002:
The natural flirt in me says that you make the pic look much better!

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Your cat is beautiful!
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] railfan-eric:
I got my my phone exchanged and the still photos look better but the panoramic photos still have double images. I Retook the panoramic photos like 10 times and it still keeps doing it. I can't have one perfect photo. I tried 3rd party apps but they do a shoddy job or low resolution. anyone suggest a 3rd party apps that works good?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] jakeyo:
I'm happy with mine. No filter
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] railfan-eric:
Those are beautiful. pictures and scene.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] railfan-eric:
sample pictures

Here's some good pictures from today. I used manual for all but the Hosta Lily plant. got the white balance too warm on some as it was hard to tell on the screen outdoors if it was right plus the sun kept coming in and out of the clouds. not fun with manual settings. The 100% crop of my cat photo i noticed the picture is blurry towards the edge of the photo. Is it a limitation of the lens? my 60x point n shoot has the same problem where the focusing is inconsistent across the photos when zoomed up.

question, why did the vertical photo come out rotated wrong on here? It is fine on my computer. I uploaded from my computer.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] BuLLeT_PrOOf_wAlleTz:
Low light photos suck.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] vikramdhani:
Do you already have jump on demand or room for this phone and moved to s8
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] echto:
Day light with camera on auto and the shutter still isn't fast enough to completely capture motion.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] echto:
Close ups are good.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] vikramdhani:
Yes it's. bummer that $650 phone can't take proper pictures in auto mode. I am returning mine for something else that works
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Uri.S:
Can Someone tell me how is the selfie Camera For Snapchat and skype?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] toxotis70:
has anyone tried to capture raw (DNG) photos with any app, like lightroom mobile, manual camera etc ?

All the raw photos has a purple hue, that i cant correct afterwards.... can you try it please ?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Fred98TJ:
http://www.greenbot.com/article/319...mera-shootout-lg-g6-vs-samsung-galaxy-s8.html

Interesting
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] mhill1986:
This is true with mine. There is something wrong with the way the RAW files are storing the white balance data and/or how the programs are reading it. I maybe didn't have the problem in Snapseed, but I don't remember.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Kirffes:
Snapseed is working correctly.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] toxotis70:
snapseed cant shoot raw, only edit them.

Shoot a photo with Lightroom mobile (its free) , or any other app that shoot raw (or DNG) and see.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Kirffes:
I was talking about editing. I personally shoot stock camera app and edit raw:s with Snapseed. The Lightroom messes up hue no matter what camera app used.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] toxotis70:
How can you shoot raw with stock camera app?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Colonel Travis:
It's available in the manual option. Go into settings, you'll see a toggle for "Save as RAW"
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] toxotis70:
Thanks!
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] chiadrum:
White Haze

Has anyone had this issue? I have had it on our G6 in low light and intermittently outdoors. Wondering if something is wrong with the device or if it just happens sometimes. In low light, it seems to be constant.Pics are worthless. During the day most pics are brilliant with occasional results like below. Just wondering if I am alone on this. Attaching an example. [IMG="LG_White_Haze"]https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3V11R_tL2B-UWhzTVJrOEtLYTA[/IMG]

Thanks
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] wingzfan:
Never had a pic turn out like that no matter what lighting I have. It almost looks like there's a film over your camera lens. I'd be taking it back and exchanging it if that were mine.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] rfarrah:
FWIW, it LOOKS like you have somehow hit the "Vintage" filter mode. Are you doing something special or different when you take low light pictures?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] chiadrum:
Yeah definitely no filters but that is an interesting point. Like maybe the app is applying a filter accidentally. I bought it at Best Buy so they should back it up if this continues.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] evo4g63t:
Weird it looks over exposed is it in auto mode? Try setting to manual and changing the iso down to 100 or 50 see if that improves it in light conditions (you can't see crap in the dark on this setting)
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] TheShadowZero:
I'm new to shooting RAW on phones, so I'm a little confused. I've enabled the option as I've been super annoyed with the G6's watercolor effect. Figured I'd shoot in RAW for a while and try it out.

Few things:

1) RAW/DNG, as expected, removes all the post-processing. This does remove the watercolor effect but also the color and brightness get thrown way off. I understand this is probably an expected side-effect as well, I just didn't realize how much post was done by the camera. Interesting. I do wish there was a way to remove the oversharpening watercolor effect without ruining the rest of what the camera does, though.

2) All my DNG files are huge, like 18+ MB. This is also expected, but what I didn't expect was very low resolution pictures. They're like 1100x800 pixels and are so much smaller than the JPGs the phone saves that it's hard to do a proper comparison. I didn't find a setting anywhere for RAW specific resolution, and my phone is set to the maximum 4:3 18MP setting. I'd like to keep shooting in RAW and edit the photos later if I need to to get rid of that awful effect, but if the photos keep coming out this small I don't think it's a solution for me. Can anyone help me with this?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] rubiicon59:
Buy a good quality camera :good:
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Fred98TJ:
You have a complete misunderstanding of the RAW output.

RAW is not meant to be used "as is". It has to be "developed" first using a app like PS or LR or Polarr or Snapseed. Think of using film (if you're old enough to remember and used it before). After taking a roll of photos you had to develope the film then process the negatives to make prints.

The RAW output from the camera is a large file because it basically contains all the data from the sensor, mostly unprocessed. The camera also imbeds a small (thumbnail) jpg in the RAW file, but that is not meant to be used as a final jpg, it's simply a little jpg.

So the main reason to shoot with RAW output is if you plan on using (developing)the RAW files.

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BTW, the RAW does not remove the post processing, it simply is, basically, unprocessed data directly from the sensor.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] jkm1795:
I hate the camera!

I switched to the LG g6 from a Galaxy s6 and am beyond disappointed in the camera quality. When zooming in, the photos are pixelated and worthless. What am I doing wrong? This is such a far cry from the picture quality from Samsung.

Any assistance for this very unsavvy phone owner is appreciated.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] skyfox99:
The camera does a piss poor jobs of focusing. I think that my only complaint with this is the auto focus is terrible. The laser focus featured on previous models was superb, wish they didn't remove it.

The aperture is poorly managed as well. Either not allowing in enough light, or far too much and it is over exposed.

That being said, it's a VERY good camera in a phone. But this is what happens when you try to let software do a job it's just not yet advanced enough to do. Digital zoom is, and probably will be for a long time to come, is a quality killer. Optical zoom is far superior, but takes up physically space.

Try playing around with the settings and you'll find them camera in this phone is quite phenomenal, but the softwares is sub par. Good news is that software can be updated.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Jostian:
RAW is unprocessed, so there is no post processing in the RAW, using snapseed or PS Express to convert the RAW to jpeg brings much better results IQ wise than LG's own conversion. see pic below, the left one is a jpeg converted from the dng in PS Express and the right side is the std LG jpeg, big difference, the left side one looks way more natural. This is at 100% but you can see the LG jpeg is quite over-processed.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] lateralex:
I suck with photography but honestly don't know how to take a picture of a human in Auto mode without getting a hot mess. My Nexus 6P was on another dimension compared to the G6, hopefully that software can save us else this phone it's going to have a very short lifespan in my home. :eek:
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] railfan-eric:
I know. it sucks. it overexposes the highlights on auto, sunny pics of trees and such too red, cloudy or shade pics are too blue. Now its getting really laggy at loading and taking a picture and letting me preview it. then laggy going back to camera mode after previewing. I'm so frustrated. In most circumstances i use my phone for pictures, manual mode is too tedious to use. I should have kept my S7. The next new thing isn't always better.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Adthr33:
Anyone noticed the 2nd camera lense isnt even in the middle?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] rubiicon59:
What's that even mean?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] lg3FTW:
100% know what you mean. Bugs me to but it works fine.

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Turn your phone over. Look at the lenses the actual eye of the lense is not center to the outer ring of camera
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Adthr33:
Yeh it works fine but its not centered , how maby people have this issue?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] rubiicon59:
Ahh gotcha.

That's perfectly normal and acceptable. Unless you have a defective unit it will be within manufacturing tolerances.

You'll see the same on many individual devices.

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So now it's suddenly become an issue...? :laugh:
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Adthr33:
Only got the phone yesterday so just seeing who else out there has the issue, im ocd when it comes to phones :cyclops:
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] rubiicon59:
Most of us are particular about every detail of our devices being spot-on. Too many take it to extremes.

BTW I swapped my G6 for the V20 I'm on now. Both my rear camera lenses look perfectly centred. But if they weren't and still took pics as intended then I'd not give it a thought.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Adthr33:
Mine takes perfect pictures, thats not the issue....

We pay premium pricing for handsets and expect the quality
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] rubiicon59:
Sooo.... what is the "issue"?

Why you not on to LG?

Or your phone provider?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] luciahozhoyo:
Horrible!

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Hi, I bought my LG G6 3 days ago, the camera quality is horrible, compare to LG G4 , selfie camera is worst, i cant understand why a new model has a worst camera. Somebody tell me about use another camera app to take photos improve the quality. Anybody can help me with this? I am thinking to refund the mobile, i bought that from amazon.

Thank you everybody
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] railfan-eric:
I noticed that awhile back. Rather bothersome for a brand new phone. It's not like it's a Chinese knockoff.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] CosminPop:
Should I get the G6?

Hi. After reading and documenting myself about the, I can only say, relatively-bad camera on the G6, I am now wondering if it's worth buying. I like big screens on a phone, but after looking at this thread and some others, all I've seen is good stuff/bad stuff/positive feedback/negative feedback, I could not come to a final conclusion and I am really torn between this one and the Mate9. I want my phone to have a good camera and I simply cannot decide wich way to go. Any insight?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] rfarrah:
Go to a store and take a picture of something that would be representational of what you mostly take pictures of with both phones. Everyone's tastes and priorities are a little different. See for yourself!

....my $.02
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] anilhk:
I can give you better insight, because I have Mate 8, Mate 9, G6 and just bought S8+.

I bought Mate 9 because I really enjoyed using Mate 8, but Mate 9 battery life isn't as good as Mate 8 and the Leica camera disappointed. It has 2.2 aperture, night time shots can be dark.

I liked G6, but the screen size felt very small and the phone is quite slow. Everywhere in the reviews I can see people don't find difference in the speed of G6 and S8, but I found big difference.

I love S8+, for speed and good camera, low vision camera is good in both rear side and front side. For G6, camera is very good at the front, even in low light, but the wide angle can take bad pictures in low light, but very good in the day time. For the front camera, G6 is just like a average phone.

My S8+ is with 6gb ram, so this could be one reason why I don't have any stutters anymore. Also, I found the battery life to be much better with S8+. I will be missing wide angle camera for G6, I will still take it with me when I go for trips for wide angle photos only.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] dannejanne:
PIctures looks absolutely fine unless you start to zoom in. The compression/detail is awful with lots of noise even in lighter conditions. It really does look bad and the bokeh is not smooth at all because of this. Images can't handle much editing after you've taken them as they are already extremely processed. Does not leave much room for editing yourself if you want to. On top of that the camera lags a lot. It can take up to 4 seconds to start at times and have a shutterlag of 1 second at times. Really frustrating experience. But overall the colors and exposure looks fantastic. Just really bad image quality. Way oversharpened and noisy. It's the same Sony sensor that is used in a lot of budget phones. And it shows when you start to zoom in.

With that said, overall it's probably a little better camera than the Mate's anyway. Better night time images etc.

I sold my G6 yesterday because the overall performance is bad. A lot of stuttering in the UI. Not very smooth in operation.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Mapantz:
I have just noticed how bad the wide angled shots are on my G6. I hadn't taken any yet, so I never saw the issue until today. To be blunt, the wide angle shots are diabolical - too embarrassed to upload them. You only need to zoom in (after shot taken) very slightly, to see how blurry the image is. I compared my G5 side-by-side, and despite the drop in megapixels, the G5's wide shot was far superior to the G6.

I'm getting a different problem with this phone every week now. Battery life started off good, and now it has fallen off of a cliff - barely making 2hrs OST. I have the same amount of apps on it as I did on day one. The fingerprint scanner keeps failing, and i'm having to delete/add fingerprints on a daily basis.

I've always stuck up for LG G series devices, but this G6 is pretty poor. I remember how badly the G5 was slated after the initial release, and I could never understand why?! My G5 is performing better than my G6 in almost all areas, even the camera department.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] jdock:
Well, the wide angle lens is fixed-focus, f/2.4, and lacks OIS - so yeah it's going to be significantly inferior for some applications... or put better, it is really only "good" in limited circumstances (well-lit landscape-type shots). I don't know how exactly the G5 wide angle camera compares but the lower pixel count would make it more light-sensitive if the sensor size is the same.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Jostian:
Remember that is capturing more than double the scene with same amount of megapixels so detail will be less. My G6 has been rock solid, a month old now and all is great! 6 hrs OST on average.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Fred98TJ:
Post up a couple to compare.