How to get better photos from your front facing camera

[taymur]

I have used the front facing camera a huge amount of times, and i have always noticed that the results are always have grainy textures, specially for faces.

So, while i was playing around with the Lumia camera app, i realized that i can change the shutter speed for the front facing camera, just like for the rear facing. I set my front facing camera to 1/8, which is that slowest it can be, and left the ISO on auto.

And the results where very different, the pictures are more sharp, and colors are way better.

Another way also to achieve this is setting ISO on 100, and keeping the Shutter speed on Auto.

hope this helps.

 

[Lelouche Lamperouge]

Which phone do you use?

 

[RumoredNow]

Pics or it didn't happen. :winktongue:

 

[Sedp23]

Any pics?

 

[taymur]

I am using a 930, and the only pics that i could add when I made the post where photos of me, but I am not that photogenic so I passed, I will try to add some pics today.

 

[Primoz Kavcic]

Try different apps. Lumia camera produces the worst selfies-colours incorrect and wow are the pics oversharpened. Camere360 on the other hand produces way better selfies. Also the lumia selfie app is not bad. Stock microsoft camra is also good but there are no effects to apply if you need that.

 

[Lelouche Lamperouge]

Is 1.3 megapixel enough to create a decent selfie

 

[Primoz Kavcic]

I would say no. The image has no detail and is blurry. There is also a lot of noise even in decent lighting. For comparison: a friend of mine has HTC 8x and with 2MP camera her selfies are waaaay better than mine.
I mean you can still see who is on the picture but if you enlarge the picture (say on facbook) it's total crap.

 

[taymur]

Ok, so i took two photos, under warm light, in door.

and here are the two results,

1) all Auto:



and you can see how the app decided to light up the object using more ISO than shutter speed.

2) then i set the shutter speed to 1/8:



and it is very clear how much noise is gone.

of course this is a very low lighted situation that's why object is dimmed, but in a brighter place, the app will also try to do the same thing, giving ISO priority and resulting grainy pictures like the first one.

so this is what i noticed, hope it helps

 

[Primoz Kavcic]

I also tried this and the results are really a looot better with manually adjusting shutter speed. Thanks! Altough camera360 still produces better pics. : )

 

[RumoredNow]

Who's this bloke, then?

 

[taymur]

Who's this bloke, then?

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Hahahahaha, i have put on some pounds

 

[Sedp23]

I also tried this and the results are really a looot better with manually adjusting shutter speed. Thanks! Altough camera360 still produces better pics. : )

I only see camera360 sight in the store can u link to camera360?

 

[RumoredNow]

I only see camera360 sight in the store can u link to camera360?

I'm pretty sure that is what he meant. Camera360 Sight gets to be a lot to type out. Reason: use it and you love it. So then you recommend it all the time. In post after post you go <3 Camera360 Sight, until one day you just put Camera360 as a shortcut.

:winktongue:

 

[Lelouche Lamperouge]

Well smthng is definitely wrong with camera 360. When I snap a pic with my 1.3 mp frnt cam, it shows as a 5mp pic with a large mb size though with the same bad quality as microsoft camera. Why is that?

 

[Primoz Kavcic]

I was wondering the same!!! Even when you download picture on the computer it shows as a 5MP. There's probably a bug in metadata i guess. Yea MS camera does decent job...

 

[RumoredNow]

I almost never use my FFC. I just tried 360 Sight and it leaves huge swaths of lime green and purple along the left and right edges when used in FFC mode on my BLU win HD LTE.

Yet with the rear camera it is my go to and produces some decent images.

 

[danchristerg]

I also noticed and improvement on the ffc on my Lumia 930 if I manually choose the white balance, it actually removes the grainy-ness and artificial sharpening done by the software. ☺

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[Victor TM Fernandes TM]

Wow, this is really great even tho I have a Lumia 640 with 1MP but still you can notice the results, I'll post some pics soon.

EDIT: Pics. Note that I've resized them to better show the grainy effect on the transparent "thing".

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