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[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] watsinaname:
Hardware or Software perspective, it should not be the case due to newer optics, better processing, and newer software. were there specific use cases where the phone failed to satisfy you?

Here is a comparative image from Note 8 and Poco, and apart from the slight yellow tone, the poco shot is at par with the note 8.

While the performance during low light and night is expected to be not so good due to lack of ois, the daytime shots are quite good.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] aganandroid:
cannot post permission denied so here, Rear Secondary Camera access!

This is a link to a rear secondary camera sample. It does not use the rear primary sensor in any way.

Note:Cannot add links, so use this thread to learn the way to access the rear secondary camera individually.

The secondary camera can be accessed by tapping on the Kernel version multiple times and then finding the secondary camera check option.

After clicking a pic, it is stored at Pictures folder. The photo should be copied away (using a file manager)because it might be deleted later.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] ronald_loulan:
Its definitely taking good picture if you hold it steadily.

One small movement or vibration ruin the photo.

I do struggle a bit to get good pic on this phone but overall still acceptable to me...
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] meltbanana:
first thing I did after rooting the pocophone was to add two lines via kernel adiutor build.prop editor:

persist.camera.HAL3.enabled=1 persist.camera.eis.enabled=1

and using a gcam like

OP6v0.3_MGC_5.1.018_FINAL_3.4A.apk

I'm getting snappy shots. stock cam isn't really good, at zoom-in pics look slightly painted.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] alson041:
Does EIS work in Open Camera after using those settings?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] meltbanana:
I'd be surprised if it doesn't
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] neeko92:
How would you compare nexus 6p photo quality with poco's ?

6p user here thinking of switching to poco
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] senthilrameshjv:
Poco default camera app isn't great. It has options but. It softens and can't even take small shakes. But gcam on poco is good. As comparable to 6p. I'm still not sure if the full hardware potential is used by gcam mods. The mods will be better once the pixel 3 cam apk is out. I would still say 6p photos looked great on device. It could be due to the higher resolution of screen.

Saying all that my 6p had battery and heating issues. When you compare that with poco, it's super fast and great battery and no throttling at all.. So it's a must upgrade and even the camera with Gcam will be equal and sometimes better than 6p
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] Euclid100:
alternative

I was wondering what product in the same price range you can recommend which comes with a better camera (hardware)?

Thank you.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] bad1080:
Is there a thread to follow the development? (EDIT: would this be it? https://xdaforums.com/poco-f1/themes/b-s-g-google-camera-port-developed-mi-8-t3843130)

EDIT:

is that a gcam mod for the oneplus?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] viva100:
Maybe Honor 10
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] viva100:
How is possible :confused:

I just ask because Poco don t have EIS .
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] sayHello21:
Magic. ?

POCO has EIS upto 1080p. Just not in 4K.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] guyrich:
Here's a pic I took during daytime with AI
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] ef1x:
For best quality just use gcam port for mi8 from developer BSG , the newest ver 6 cam port works with poco. https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/dev-bsg/
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] andvel:
Poco f1 is my third Xiaomi phone. Although the best I had so far (used to have redmis) all miui stock cam apps suffer from the same problem: too fast. The shutter takes the pic exactly at the same time you hit the button. Aosp or gcam have like a 0.5s delay, enough to wait for the pic to stabilize from the shake caused by the button pressing. If I select the 3s timer, pics come much better. If only we could have a 1s timer option...

Can't understand how a company can have the same issue for years.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] espaciosalter20:
The camera have mixed results: Excellent under bright light, a little short at low light conditions. Very good job on video!
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] nileshbore:
I captured many pics with xiaomi and google camera. at some extent google cam works better than xiaomi but it doesnt capture good or natural colors. so inspite of clarity colors combination ruins efforts. whereas poco maintains proper colors.

for protrait / blur mode poco has better features. you can change even after capturing photos.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] rodrigoxm49:
I think theyre doing things that people want, not what is really the best. People love crazy fast shots, so they delivered it.

Same for oversaturated shots on every phone right now. Its what people want.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] obaidr:
low light performance.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] usmankhan87:
Stock camera or Gcam?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] obaidr:
GCam 6.1 BSG Mi8 version. Stock has laughable quality compared to Gcam.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] gianm.93:
how are the pics compared to a xiaomi mi a2?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] EdiiOliver:
Poco is best.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] wizard8400:
I've also noticed that pictures taken with the front facing camera are shaken, this is because the lower limit of the shutter speed is around 1/30s (which is very slow), on gcam min shutter speed is around 1/70, and gcam has a delay after pressing the shutter button that also help to take a more stable picture. Does anyone know how to mod the stock camera to limit the shutter speed to around 1/70 ?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] KODEC.4:
For anyone, who hasn't seen this, the results might be pretty interesting ;)

YOUTUBE: The Blind Smartphone Camera Test 2018!
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] pingufanpoy:
stock cam is a real joke in night mode

gcam is best in night mode

should have bought a phone with ois, now i really feel the difference coming from an s7 its the sole purpose why all camera shots get extremely blurry from pressing the phone screen to take a picture

those devs at google are insane, change a blurry photo into a completely nonblurry one
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] Sport Driver:
I expected worse photos to be honest. You do need a steady hand at night though. Photos are better than ones on Moto Z but lack of OIS is visible at night.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] andvel:
I find MIUI cam behavior on exposure so weird I had to file a bug report: you have three options for auto exposure: Frame Average, Centered, Spot Metering. So if I chose Frame Average in settings, it means I want the camera to balance the light exposure by taking into account the whole photo frame. Yet if I point an object to focus it, the camera app focus the object AND rebalance the exposure to the spot I just focused, and that many times kills the quality of the pic. If I wanted the app to do that, I would have chosen Spot Metering in the first place, right?!

Frame Average works for most pics, except you can't focus a specific area otherwise the app blows it...
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] hifidiy:
I use Camera FV-5 to take 500 photos automatically then stack with StarStaX app
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] hifidiy:
manual mode

fireworks
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] kenny23692:
where can I get gcam from?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] willro14:
Here:

https://xdaforums.com/poco-f1/themes/b-s-g-google-camera-port-developed-mi-8-t3843130
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
I bought Poco F1 some days ago. I didn't expect that camera to be so good. I mean, for the price range. Anyway, phone camera sensors did huge progress in last years.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] Pablo_pocof1:
Aplicativo padrão.

Eu acho uma vergonha esse app padrão da câmera, por isso já fui logo instalando a Gcam e vou indi muito feliz até agora. ?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] Ali Naqi:
Some pictures from a trip.

Edited using snapseed.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
Using an off-handed lens, I made some tests. :)
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
... or maybe you prefer a tulip? :D

PS: all my photos have Exif. ;)
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
Sic transit gloria mundi!
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
Two from today. RAWs edited in LR desktop. ;)

Unfortunatelly, forum destroy images: redim and recompresion. :(
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
:o
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
Finally a (lady)bug!

The same ladybug on my window.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] lolmensch:
What lense do you use for your macro shots?

Looks pretty good and sharp
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
Did you look one page back? See here: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=79316432&postcount=59
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] lolmensch:
Yes I did. I was more interested in what focal length it has, what material and where you got it
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
Ah, OK, sorry, I'll tell you now. It's a lens from a telescope eyepiece. I dismantled it and take it for macro purposes. In the mean time, I put it into a home made mount. Now it can much easily attached to the phone, but in essence it is the same lens. :) I estimate it has ~7x magnification. Focusing distance is about 5-6 cm. Not too much, but enough to take good pictures.

More pictures here: https://postimg.cc/gallery/3f6co9l5w/
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
I made experiments with Open Camera and focus bracketing then with focus stacking, but, obviously, I need to improve the results. :o
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
Guys, can you tell me a good free panorama app?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] lolmensch:
I normally use gcam photosphere. You don't have to do a 360° photo. Just do the part you want. I mostly use it for wide angle shots
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
It doesn't have same exposure issues as Panorama mode? I ask because I never tried it.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
A little bee on a dandelion flower.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] djokoan:
This is mind-blowing, can't believe it was made with the phone :)

---------- Post added at 10:04 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:01 AM ----------

Mate, this is AMAZING! I like the rubber band usage, reminds me of some post-apocalyptic device :)
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Your friends are never going to believe what you did. The only way to prove it to them is with that video you took. Rate this thread to express how videos shot on the Xiaomi Poco F1 come out. A higher rating indicates that videos are smooth (and not choppy) and that auto-focus works very well, and that the camera adjusts quickly to different lighting conditions while recording.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] 4duros:
Unboxing, first impressions and camera use & EIS results

Hi people!

Here my five cents about tittle. Really impressed about EIS results, considering how the mobile was moving while walking.

[YOUTUBE]DX6yb77j3ZA[/YOUTUBE]

Hope you like it!

thanks!
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] cheeze.keyk:
Too bad it doesn't have 1080p/60fps.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] johnblue2000:
but i think it will soon, it's just a matter of software i think :o
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] babaroga73:
Here , I tested 1080p 240fps , slow motion video ...

Pretty decent , slight autofocus problems, but if I held it still , and not with one hand, standing over my bike, i think it would be ok.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goN5q7ERBS8
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] Mandeep.XDA:
can be imroveod

it can be improved
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] youngAvJ:
Good quality camera. But not happy about quality when zooming in.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] Sefrautic:
Stereo recording

Hi, guys, anyone have inverted stereo on video? I tested it in recording when I tapped on the left mic first and then on the right mic. When I watched my video the first tap was from the right channel.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] pingufanpoy:
lmao come on guys theres no need for 5 stars this camera is mediocre maybe a 70% score, ois is necessary / non blurry eis to get any higher

+ even the poverty phones from xiaomi 200 usd$ have 1080p 60 fps, but its missing here idk why
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] Sefrautic:
4k 60 fps will be added soon. Stock camera is ****, agreed. Better use Gcam, which makes great results, and raw, particularly, looks perfect. Only downside for me is the lack of optical stabilization and second tele lens camera, but you get what you pay for.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] pradipsoman:
Pixellated video on FB App

I moved on to POCO recently and found that while playing videos on FB app they look badly pixellated, especially the text parts. Youtube videos are fine. Replaced the phone, but still has the same issue. Any other person having this issue?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] miligra5:
Loved It

Thank you
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] Robot_01:
4K 60 fps + Bitrate 100Mbps for third-party video camera applications

Will 4K 60 fps support appear in third-party video camera applications?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
Guys, on MIUI 10.2.3.0 stable is 1080p@60fps enabled? Or it will come with next update who will bring also 4k@60fps?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] Sztarkel:
I don't have it, so I guess the next update will bring it on.

Anyway the video quality is good enough for me. The only annoying thing is that videos dont have the photos great, wide angle of sight. I guess it's normal?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
In the mean time, I updated it to 10.3.4.0 and there are 60 fps.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
You're beautiful and everyone knows it. That's why you take selfies. Rate this thread to express how the front-facing camera of the Xiaomi Poco F1 performs. A higher rating indicates that the front camera produces fantastic results consistently.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] PD2091:
I've rated selfie cam average coz it's a mixed bag

In artificial lighting conditions it produces somewhat blurry images. In fact selfies in complete darkness with the screen flash look better than selfies in artificial lights such as tubelights, bulbs etc. Bokeh selfies are better with more details as compared to normal selfies.

I'm talking about selfies with 0 beautification.

I must admit that I'm coming from nexus 5 which has 1.2 mp front camera so maybe I was expecting a bit too much from the 20 mp cam of Poco f1!

Come to think of it, various hardware checking apps show front camera as 5 mp!

May be they are detecting secondary camera at the back as front camera...anyone knows any app that detects all 3 cameras (megapixel and sensor used) correctly??!
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] ConradB:
It is correct with 5mp. The Cam combines four Pixels top one Superpixel.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] PD2091:
I thought it's detecting 5 mp is secondary back camera and mistaking it for front cam

So you mean the front camera is actually a 5 mp cam and it should be denoted as such in hardware info apps such as CPU X? This explains why the selfie quality wasn't much much better as I had expected. I'm not that impressed with this 4 pixel combining to form a Superpixel technology....at least in poor lighting conditions.

It would also mean that the secondary 5 mp camera at the back isn't mentioned in the information generated by such apps!

Shouldn't it be mentioned?

I hope I'm clear on this point.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] aariss:
Noticed nowadays new camera unable to capture sharp pic for grp selfie

Grp selfie is where u at front n few members at the back to ensure everyone fit it in the picture

But what happen is only ur pic is sharp while the rest quite blur

This not happened during single lens with fix focus like s7 or 2016 model

How to fix this ?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] senthilrameshjv:
I must admit that the selfies come out blurry when taken indoors especially when taken with volume rocker. It shakes up due to the press of the button. Do you guys face that?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] watsinaname:
I assume you might already be aware, they do have the option to use the fingerprint scanner as shutter.

Camera - Settings , scroll down and find it under Additional settings
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] senthilrameshjv:
Yes indeed. But just verifying if it's only my phone gets blurry due to such small shakes.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] Pranay nagavolu:
It's the same with me also, even on the rear camera most of the pictures taken on artificial lighting conditions are blurry because of that shaking.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] zaro143:
The correct name for this thread is "Blurry camera" Quality :D

Even with the tripod its taking blurry shot - Cool is it ?

Need a Fix for this soon :)
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] nC3rtaintiy:
The youtube reviews were good regarding the front camera & even the photos were good. Were the review units different or the camera hardware in the 8gb+256gb?

am i just speculating? :crying:
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] zaro143:
Mine is 128gb 6Gb variant bought during 1st flash sale :D

Same camera blurry image issue
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] pingufanpoy:
its all units

all get blurry with even the slightest nudge
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] CygnusBlack:
I see the phone uses a 20MP sensor from Samsung.

This not a real 20MP camera...I mean, it can't be! Or it's very, VERY bad, even in natural light conditions.

The quality of selfies is way inferior to the 12MP sensor of the back camera.

The amount of details captured by it makes it look more like a 5-8MP sensor...
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] sayan1st:
Cause that Samsung lens contain 4 5mp lens
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] CygnusBlack:
Nice travesty :(
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] pingufanpoy:
It's pretty good considering Huawei and Samsung selfie are overfiltered and poor quality.

This one can see your pores and pixel bins to prevent noise.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] samlis:
Hi look at this :confused:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssw9H08ddlw
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] rodrigoxm49:
You guys are completely crazy or have fault devices. The frontal camera is absolutely amazing. My girlfriend have a XS and its there's no comparison, F1 is much better in every way. You just need to turn off Beautiful Mode and increase sharpness on Options to make things more clear. It's one of the best selfie cameras that I ever see in my life. Get out of here you guys.

But there's a issue that Xiaomi need to fix. The camera dont focus acurately subjects at 1 meter from device. If you use Selfie Group Mode, the problem is gone.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] thecool_guy2:
The issue is with focus which is fixed at a distance of around 50cm. Beyond that, objects get blurred.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] liuliu448:
Have you tried the gcam port? it's very worth looking into. Also, i dont think shots are blurry, i think its the agrgressive noise reduction, which is giving pics that blurry look.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] Valerie Green:
Over all good, but not best.

If you check other Xiaomi Phones, mainly Mi Mix 2/3 or Redmi Note 5 or 6(pro version), you would clearly feel that these phones have better photo quality specially selfies. Maybe Poco can come up with a better version of the phone with good selfies features.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] wGRV:
For those who complaining, this is what you get when you buy high end performance device at a cheap price. I would recommend using rear camera for selfies, it is near better to what I expected.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] asaph1:
hey, i baught yesterday the 64gb red version, and i had also a issue with taking pictures in dark scenarios (flashlight using) ... after a bit of searching for the problem i found out that the cheap case the smartphone is shipped with are kind of dirsurbing the light comming from the flash.

i just baught a new cover. until it arrives i will take the case off when the flash is needed.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] roursamajor:
Using Gcam app at 5 MP front camera is the reality of this sensor. Images are outstanding. I think those 20 MP of stock camera app are "interpolated" as in 48 MP camera of Note 7 (Pro).
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
There! Something just happened! Did you take a picture of it? Rate this thread to express how fast the Xiaomi Poco F1 can go from "zero to picture". A higher rating indicates that launching the camera app and taking a photo is extremely fast such that you never miss an important moment, like when your cat attacks the couch again.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] Pranay nagavolu:
Well, it captures really fast but most of them are blurred due to the shake, even a little shake while taking a photo really spoils the whole thing.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] zaro143:
camera is very worst , Even the Redmi note 5 pro will take beautiful snaps :(

Camera is throwing blurry images all the times , really frustrating to take snaps with Poco F1.

Need a fix for this from MI as soon as possible for sure else their sub-brand POCO will be closed soon :D
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] themarine.sujit:
Dont see any issues with the camera..
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] PRANEETH RAO:
Camera performance in daylight is good and same time their is much scope to improve alot in shutter speed, blur and sharpness. When we zoom in pictures don't have clear details.

When it comes to low light camer performance totally failure. Even either with out hand shake or with little hand shake we are ending up with bulr imazes all the time.

Poco have incredible hardware inside but only problem is with it's software. Poco should fix this as soon as possible.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
When you hand your phone to granny to take a photo of you, can she get the job done? Rate this thread to express how you deem the Xiaomi Poco F1's camera software. A higher rating indicates that the software is easy to use, fast, uncluttered, and inclusive of advanced features for when you need them.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] srikirang:
Double Tap Gestures Control

Overall POCO F1 is a great and easy to use for so many people with revamped POCO launcher.

Double tap to wake and Raise to wake features are working fine.

It is difficult to lock the screen always by pressing the power button.

If Double tap to lock and long Press Fingerprint sensor to lock the screen is present then it will be more user-friendly.

Please add those features in next update.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] joaonctm:
There is a shortcut that if you press a navigation button, it will lock the screen. I have it on now. I press "backwards" for a second and the screen goes off.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] srikirang:
But I am using Full-screen Gestures, So there are no nav buttons present.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] sanjay0501:
Put a screen off widget on the home screen . It is a system widget so doesnt create issues or battery drain.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Real Life Review] Akills:
Display feature

Found this feature in MIUI. When you expose the sensors to bright light(sunlight or torch), the screen tints to light color. For example a black UI turns to grey UI on exposure to light. It's not auto brightness because i never use auto brightness. I have tested it on a Redmi Note 5 pro and the same thing happens on it too. I am not sure how useful it is for people using this phone.