Camera-Phone Photos

[T42]

All very impressive, even if a bit of noise is visible.

I like the idea of taking stealthy street shots disguised as selfies.

[sg37409]

Just got a new (Mk2) Motorola Moto G.  It's a £149 phone so nothing special but it has an 8Mp camera on the back and a 2Mp "selfie" camera on the front.
The main camera resolves detail, colours and contrast better but I'm still impressed by the bottom image (after a bit of tweaking to get come contrast and sharpness back).

Out of interest, can you post the pin-hole capture before your bit of tweaking ?

[LEE]

Just got a new (Mk2) Motorola Moto G.  It's a £149 phone so nothing special but it has an 8Mp camera on the back and a 2Mp "selfie" camera on the front.
The main camera resolves detail, colours and contrast better but I'm still impressed by the bottom image (after a bit of tweaking to get come contrast and sharpness back).

Out of interest, can you post the pin-hole capture before your bit of tweaking ?

I don't have the originals so here are 2 new ones, straight out of the phone, stood in the same spot (not zoomed, that's just the focal lengths of the 2 lenses)





To put it in perspective, I paid about £300, in 2001, for a 2Mp Fuji.  I then had to pay about £50 for a 256Mb card (I think that's what I paid).
I put 32Gb of storage in the phone for £12.  It would take me quite a while to list all the functions of a modern Android phone (Video player, Music system, diary......etc, etc for a hundred other functions).

It's all pretty extraordinary to think about the tech available in a mobile phone. 
I know that the Guildford Space Centre use mobile phones for the internals of some of their satellite experiments because they have all the tech they need (GPS, powerful processors, accelerometers, powerful "radio" transmitters..).

The latest batch of phones have 4K video capability (which says as much about their processing power as their video capability).

Here's some 720p footage from mine at the weekend.  Obviously I wouldn't have said no to 1080p but hey-ho, it's not too bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX4sGkENdsM

[Riggers]

I notice the grey car wasn't in the first batch of photos, and the green recycling bags have mysteriously disappeared beside the wooden fence.

You can't get much past me.

Can I have a book token for my prize please?

[LEE]

I don't have the originals so here are 2 new ones, straight out of the phone, stood in the same spot (not zoomed, that's just the focal lengths of the 2 lenses)

I'm not trying to trick anyone

[Riggers]

Pah! I haven't got time to read! Just send the damn Postal Order you swine!

[sg37409]

Thanks lee.  I guess the top one is the pin-hole.  I was asking as I've tried "correcting" / tweaking some of my photos before with pretty crap results, so I wanted to see what could be done. Ive only ever used old canon software for this, I dont have photoshop or anything.

Agreed, the tech in mobiles is amazing. Pity it cant improve the weather.

[LEE]

Just got a new (Mk2) Motorola Moto G.  It's a £149 phone so nothing special but it has an 8Mp camera on the back and a 2Mp "selfie" camera on the front.
The main camera resolves detail, colours and contrast better but I'm still impressed by the bottom image (after a bit of tweaking to get come contrast and sharpness back).

Out of interest, can you post the pin-hole capture before your bit of tweaking ?

I don't have the originals so here are 2 new ones, straight out of the phone, stood in the same spot (not zoomed, that's just the focal lengths of the 2 lenses)





To put it in perspective, I paid about £300, in 2001, for a 2Mp Fuji.  I then had to pay about £50 for a 256Mb card (I think that's what I paid).
I put 32Gb of storage in the phone for £12.  It would take me quite a while to list all the functions of a modern Android phone (Video player, Music system, diary......etc, etc for a hundred other functions).

It's all pretty extraordinary to think about the tech available in a mobile phone. 
I know that the Guildford Space Centre use mobile phones for the internals of some of their satellite experiments because they have all the tech they need (GPS, powerful processors, accelerometers, powerful "radio" transmitters..).

The latest batch of phones have 4K video capability (which says as much about their processing power as their video capability).

Here's some 720p footage from mine at the weekend.  Obviously I wouldn't have said no to 1080p but hey-ho, it's not too bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX4sGkENdsM

Here are 640x480 pixel crops from the two untouched images

[Ian H]

Nothing technical, just a small piece of a larger picture.

[RJ]

Preparation by rjevans6, on Flickr


Loch na Keal, Mull by rjevans6, on Flickr

HTC Desire S - as taken

[adenough]

Blackberry 8900

[Jakob]

Dude Chilling Park on a autumn morning

[LEE]

don't forget to add details of the camera, Mega pixel count, filters applied.....etc,

[T42]

One from July last year


Tora! Tora! Tora!

Motorola MB525 1/929s f/2.8 at 4.0mm iso57


One from February this year



1/15s f/2.8 at 4.0mm iso199

Think it's 5 Mp, can't remember. It's more of an instrument of record than a camera.

[Ian H]

don't forget to add details of the camera, Mega pixel count, filters applied.....etc,

Eh?

[LEE]

don't forget to add details of the camera, Mega pixel count, filters applied.....etc,

Eh?

I mean phone, not camera.  Just so people, interested in using a phone as a camera, can decide if a particular model is good enough for what they want.

[LEE]

Dude Chilling Park on a autumn morning

There is detail in the shadows and everything.  That's impressive.

[Ian H]

don't forget to add details of the camera, Mega pixel count, filters applied.....etc,

Eh?

I mean phone, not camera.  Just so people, interested in using a phone as a camera, can decide if a particular model is good enough for what they want.

I was being a little facetious. My phone is just point'n'press (as I use it). 5mg pixels and auto setting.

[Jakob]

don't forget to add details of the camera, Mega pixel count, filters applied.....etc,

Oops, iPhone5, straight to facebook jpg, then here.

[T42]

don't forget to add details of the camera, Mega pixel count, filters applied.....etc,

Eh?

I mean phone, not camera.  Just so people, interested in using a phone as a camera, can decide if a particular model is good enough for what they want.

I was being a little facetious. My phone is just point'n'press (as I use it). 5mg pixels and auto setting.

It's all in the EXIF.

[urban_biker]

16mp Samsung Galaxy S5 Zoomed and cropped and "enhanced"



This is it before cropping.




Note, this was taken yesterday 24th November 2014!!

[LEE]

Loch na Keal, Mull by rjevans6, on Flickr

I love the razor-thin sliver of land connecting the 3 main "lumps".

[LEE]

While we're at it, why not post videos shot on a Phone-camera?

Motorola Moto G (MkII) - 720p only.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX4sGkENdsM

[LEE]

More from the MOTO G

(Note.  I found that the App "Camera Awesome" allowed me to override the exposure setting better than some photo Apps. You can select where to focus and, separately, take an exposure reading from another area.  This means, for example, that you can expose for a dark subject even when the supplied camera really wants to expose for a bright sky as in the Cathedral shot, which would be a silhouette otherwise ).











It's going to take some time to familiarise myself with its shortcomings but, like today, it was better than having no camera when forced to kill time for an hour in Salisbury.

[Peter]

That's excellent stuff, Lee, thanks.  But really, a camera and a cathedral and you are "forced to kill time"?!  You'll be telling me next that being from Stockport forced you to support Manchester Utd.

peter