Official Idol 4S Picture & Video thread

[editguy]

Fun photo story: I have my Camera App set so that the camera button wakes the phone and also holding it takes a burst. Somehow my Incipio case was not quite on all the way so any little bump pushed on the button... I took 568 pictures of the inside of my pocket today. :winktongue: I was wondering why my phone was getting hot in my pocket.

I guess there's a downside to having all of that storage space!

 

[mark233]

Took this today at work ... Auto mode ... no post shot editing ... mostly LED overhead lighting:
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[Guytronic]

Took this today at work ... Auto mode ... no post shot editing ... mostly LED overhead lighting:

Looks like a government shop

Me used to work in a place like this.
Cool pic Mark!

 

[Michael Amaleona]

All the picture is so great I think I will buy alcatel idol 4s

 

[badelhas]

Yeah, the pictures I see here are actually quite good. I'm impressed!

Cheers

 

[Racioli]

The second one looks better to me, more natural.

 

[RumoredNow]

The second one looks better to me, more natural.

The second one of which set? We are into page 7 and the last pic posted was a single...

Click on the post number in the upper right of the post to get a link, or hit the Quote button to copy the entire post. Please and thanks.

 

[RumoredNow]

Another test. Fairly close (about 2') from something with a bit of natural gloss in a dark place. Wanted to see how the flash treats such a subject.

Microsoft Camera, forced flash.




Some people can't rake care of nice things when they have them. :winktongue:

 

[badelhas]

Another test. Fairly close (about 2') from something with a bit of natural gloss in a dark place. Wanted to see how the flash treats such a subject.

Microsoft Camera, forced flash.

View attachment 133748


Some people can't rake care of nice things when they have them. :winktongue:

Looks great, actually. I'm impressed!

Cheers

 

[mark233]

Machined work from raw casting. Auto mode ... no flash ... no post editing.
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[anon(50597)]

All you photographers, keep it coming. Learning a lot.

Sent from my Alcatel Idol 4S

 

[RumoredNow]

Camera App, forced HDR.

 

[RumoredNow]

ProShot App using RAW (sensor) to TIFF (image file). Converted to JPG with Fotor. Cropped 16:9 in Polarr Pro and I added some Vibrance and Saturation.

 

[mark233]

ProShot App using RAW (sensor) to TIFF (image file). Converted to JPG with Fotor. Cropped 16:9 in Polarr Pro and I added some Vibrance and Saturation.

View attachment 133834

Good job Rumored! That looks fantastic.

 

[darrell reimer]

Anyone know how to fix this video problem? The contrast keeps switching back and forth during video capture. It's driving me nuts! Please help; I love everything about this phone, except the camera. What manual setting should I adjust to fix this so it stabilizes and doesn't keep switching?

 

[editguy]

Anyone know how to fix this video problem? The contrast keeps switching back and forth during video capture. It's driving me nuts! Please help; I love everything about this phone, except the camera. What manual setting should I adjust to fix this so it stabilizes and doesn't keep switching?

I replied in the other thread. :smile:

 

[RumoredNow]

Try manually setting White Balance... Maybe "Sunny" would be best since the issue is compensating for all the reflected light off the snow.

 

[RumoredNow]

An impromptu "shoot" with the Idol 4S... I was driving to an appointment and saw a steeple I'd not noticed before peeking up on a side street I'd not been down before...

Picture perfect came to mind when I went to look after my appointment. Out of 20 shots, these seem best to my eye.

Camera360 Sight, HDR (I'm just leaving Sight in HDR mode lately).





ProShot capture RAW > TIFF (likewise leaving in that setting). Opened in Fotor, slight straightening needed and then crop 5:7 out of the portrait 9:16 original.



Microsoft Camera.



Microsoft Camera, forced HDR.

 

[RumoredNow]

A plague upon urban living. The most glorious sunset and I missed the best of the light looking for an uncluttered view. The Walmart parking lot and adjacent plaza were not the foreground one would hope for. When I came out of Wally World and saw the sunset I knew time was limited. I finally found an acceptable spot.

So...

This is ProShot RAW > TIFF, converted by Fotor to JPG.


Not quite right, none of the "pop" my eye saw. So while I was in Fotor I browsed some filters and finally settled on "Darken."


There's the color, but the overall is much too dark. So I took the TIFF > JPG and went into Polar. I ended up changing things by 20.

Exposure -20. Brightness/Vibrance/Saturation/Shadows/Highlights/Clarity all +20. Then on each of the colors of the subject (Red/Orange/Yellow/Blue) I increased Saturation +20 and decreased Luminance -20. I believe this makes it more in line with my memory of what my eye saw.

 

[RumoredNow]

By the way... Open any of the above images full size and look in the extreme background. Here is a screencap from a 100% view of the TIFF file.




Seems to me that there is a wealth of clearly defined detail back there... And this in fairly low light/difficult light. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the sensor on this camera. Remember the original capture was ProShot RAW (sensor) to TIFF (image file). It is basically a dump of the sensor data and largely untouched by algorithms. The closest look we get on this camera of what the lens saw before processing.

We are looking at a sub 0.5MP image.