Finally today I got to play around a bit with the camera of my new 930. I'm generally a bit underwhelmed by it currently as I had higher hopes for it. The results are very mixed, from good in well-lit areas to extremely bad in backlighting scenarios which results in washed out/foggy colors.
However, one reason for my sometimes bad results were issues with focus. I used Nokia Camera (also shortly the native WP app, but it made no difference) and wanted to make some portrait-like photos of my girlfriend. As it's a good photographer practice, I didn't wanted to have her face in the center of the picture but rather on the more left or right side, giving some room for the background.
So I tapped on her face on the screen and the 930 did what I expected - focused the object I tapped on. Great. Even the face recognition of the 930 showed it recognized the face of my girlfriend. So what could go wrong? Everything, it seems. I pressed the hardware camera button on the phone and it immediately refocused to the center of the picture where only background was visible. So despite a semi-manual focus AND the face recognition recognizing my girlfriends face, it focused right to the background just because that was at the center of the screen.
Now, to avoid this re-focus, I could press the on-screen camera button. But that requires holding the phone with more or less just one hand and tapping on it, making it nearly impossible to hold the phone steady. Not a good solution.
I could also use the manual focus, but in daylight, it's often very hard to really see on the screen if the focus sits perfectly. Even more, for most shots, it's too much work and fiddling around. The semi-manual focus where I just select the area I want the auto-focus to focus on, is the best solution most of the times. But then I can't use the camera button.
Is there a solution or work-around? I didn't found a setting that could help me. Essentially, what I would want, is that, in case I focused an area on the screen manually, the hardware camera button does not an automatic re-focus afterwards.
Any help would be appreciated
However, one reason for my sometimes bad results were issues with focus. I used Nokia Camera (also shortly the native WP app, but it made no difference) and wanted to make some portrait-like photos of my girlfriend. As it's a good photographer practice, I didn't wanted to have her face in the center of the picture but rather on the more left or right side, giving some room for the background.
So I tapped on her face on the screen and the 930 did what I expected - focused the object I tapped on. Great. Even the face recognition of the 930 showed it recognized the face of my girlfriend. So what could go wrong? Everything, it seems. I pressed the hardware camera button on the phone and it immediately refocused to the center of the picture where only background was visible. So despite a semi-manual focus AND the face recognition recognizing my girlfriends face, it focused right to the background just because that was at the center of the screen.
Now, to avoid this re-focus, I could press the on-screen camera button. But that requires holding the phone with more or less just one hand and tapping on it, making it nearly impossible to hold the phone steady. Not a good solution.
I could also use the manual focus, but in daylight, it's often very hard to really see on the screen if the focus sits perfectly. Even more, for most shots, it's too much work and fiddling around. The semi-manual focus where I just select the area I want the auto-focus to focus on, is the best solution most of the times. But then I can't use the camera button.
Is there a solution or work-around? I didn't found a setting that could help me. Essentially, what I would want, is that, in case I focused an area on the screen manually, the hardware camera button does not an automatic re-focus afterwards.
Any help would be appreciated
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