Save quick settings for camera manual mode? - G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Has anyone tried to create or save any manual camera mode quick settings? For instance, something that would launch the camera in manual mode with the shutter and ISO locked in for motion photography, and another for low light photography? It seems like 90% of the time that I launch the manual camera, I'm going for one of these 2 things. It'd be convenient if most of the settings were already locked in where I want them to end up! :good:

This makes no sense to me, because the light conditions are not always the same. One setting may work in the scenario you created it, but not for another, even if they are similar. By the way, I have this function on my D7100, but I only find using it when shooting with artificial lights (speedlight).

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the camera on the phone sucks at night does anybody know if there is a registry edit to enable a night mode or can it even be done maybe even a low light mode thanks for any and all help in advance
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In the camera settings, there is a night option in the Whit Balance settings
I concur with nickf123654's suggestion of adjusting the white balance setting. But don't expect to be able to take photos outdoors at night all of a sudden.

how to disable camera auto focus..

camera quality and performance is far worse than my 2mp dummy phone from 2006, the camera tries to auto focus again every time you try taking a picture, and it snaps the shot when it's blurry... getting really frustrating, could probably get better quality images if I just take a screenshot of the camera app... I just want to prevent that camera from focusing on it's own, and only focus when I tell it to, or manually focus somehow.. there should be some way to do that right?
Also, I thought I would add that I frequently encounter an error opening up the camera and then it says "can't connect to the camera" and the only way to fix it is to restart the device. usually the error occurs when browsing the gallery and then trying to go back into the camera, wher eit fails to start the camera and then no camera app, including the default one can access the camera.
Touch to focus on your object on the display. Ring will turn green.
Can also press and hold the picture/shutter icon to force it to refocus re everything and just release it to take the shot
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Touch to focus on your object on the display. Ring will turn green.
Can also press and hold the picture/shutter icon to force it to refocus re everything and just release it to take the shot
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when you tap the screen to focus, it will focus, but then start auto focusing immediately after, thereby defeating the purpose entirely. and when you push the take picture button it will try focusing WHILE it takes a picture and you'll get an out of focus shot every time that takes a long time between shots. horrendous... I would swap it with the 3mp iphone 3gs camera or even my old 2mp nokia camera any day. With the forced auto-focus and bugs, the nexus camera is totally unusable. If you could just disable the camera auto focus somehow in the system settings so that it only re-focuses when the application tells it to (such as with clicks) it would be much better (ie. not broken).
When I try other camera apps, the camera also forces refocus when attempting to take a picture, despite pre-focusing by tapping.. I think it must be something with the camera or the system that is telling the camera to refocus when you take a picture because it happens in every application I've tried. I want to just tap somewhere on the screen to focus once and then it will NEVER try focusing again until I tap again.
UPDATE: Also, the one app that can expressly disable autofocus on camera shutter "camera fv-5"... does something weird on nexus 7, the first time you try to take a picture, even though it is set to disable auto focus and it is already focused, it will focus the first time you take a picture. then after that, even if you change the focus just like before manually or whatever, for as long as the app remains open it won't force refocus as you take a picture. There must be something in the android system that is overriding camera settings and causing the autofocus to go crazy in all the applications rendering the camera and video apps unwatchable.
Oh yeah, and the camera FV-5 trial limits the picture resolution to 0.3mp, and confirms my thoughts when I compared it to my old 2mp nokia, there is no additional detail in my 5mp images than the .3mp images taken by fv-5 without autofocus, and even those aren't sharp even when resized to .3mp. Wonderfully depressing and irritating that you can't even get .3mp of clarity out of a so called 5mp camera. >____<. The focus never focuses properly, it always scans through the correct focus and lands on blurry.

All moving objects looks blurred when taking a photo

I always take photos of my kids playing, but i noticed a big problem with the G4 camera that any moving object looks blurred in the photos even if the movment is slow (eg. Turning heads etc.).
I did not have this problem with my previous Galaxy S5.
Anybody noticed this problem?
Someone mentioned that the camera seems to want to use slow shutter speeds and low ISO values, when left in Auto mode.
As Auto does not provide any adjustments at all, you'd either have to use Manual mode, or try another camera app that allows a little more control. Something to force the camera to use a higher ISO setting, and a faster shutter speed, which would help reduce blurring of moving objects.
Of course, this assumes you are in a well-lit area. If you're indoors, in a moderately-lit area, then you are going to have more trouble regardless.
Manually turn on the flash, that might help. You can toggle the flash mode even if the camera is in auto.
I have kids too and sometimes my pics of them come out blurry too...this is outdoors with a ton of light. These out of focus shots are not a shutter speed thing but more of an auto focus problem.
The camera always wants to re-grab focus whenever you take a picture when the subject is moving. My kids will be in the frame, in focus (green squares on screen to confirm) I push the camera button, then the damn software tries and refocus because my kids are running around, the auto focus pics the wrong focal point and then the shutter snaps...out of focus pic.
I too came from the S5 which had better software. On that phone, if I turned off burst shot, pushing and holding down the camera button would cause the camera to focus on the subject and lock it in, then when I released my finger, it would take an almost instantaneous picture and keep focus... end result always sharp pics of my kids even when running (as long as there was lots of light).
If G4 could have that feature, all would be perfect!
Ah, in that case, maybe try touching the screen to cause the camera to focus on the spot you touched. But, instead of touching the spot where your moving kids are, try touching a non-moving spot on the ground near them, but at the same focal distance. That way, your kids will also be in focus. If that still doesn't work, then maybe switch to manual mode to hold the focus manually.

LG G4 save as RAW on automatic

Hi everyone
Does anyone know if the lg g4 supports shooting in RAW in automatic mode? Or is in manual mode only? If so kinda a bummer. I spent about 10 min looking around but doesn't seem so.
Thanks.
Manual mode only, but you have to activate this
That's what I've seen so far as well and some reviews confirm it - RAW is only available in manual mode..
Can a custom camera app fix this?
If you just go into Manual mode, and don't make exposure adjustments, I think it will basically behave like Auto. It just shows more info and options on the screen.
But you could use Manual mode to also get RAW output, without really requiring more attention/fiddling by the user.
Manual mode are same as auto mode but you can access extra setting within it..
LG auto mode seems laggy when comes to environment changing from light to dark..
That's what manual mode come into used
Manual mode also save 2 different file, standard jpeg and raw(if its enable) and the jpeg processing quality is same in auto..
The downside of manual setting is it's locked exposure setting if ae-l is enabled that's is when we're playing with iso and shutter speed.
See attachment..that's auto in manual mode
You could make some changes to camera_config or media_profiles.xml to force RAW in auto. You might break something, but you can probably do it that way.
Agreed, just set the camera to manual mode and use it as though it's in automatic - it will adjust itself automatically as though it were still in auto mode, so long as you don't start fiddling with the settings.
About the only thing you'll not get in manual mode is automatic HDR photos - I think that's the only thing that won't automatically happen in manual mode, the only difference from auto mode.

Example of banding

I get banding in the camera when in manual mode. Haven't experienced it in auto mode yet, but TBD. I thought it was on screen only, but now I'm getting it in output. So weird. Heads cut out for privacy.
It's to do with the frequency your lights work with. If its 60hz, then you want to use 1/60 or 1/30 or 1/120
Any other shutter will produce those bands.
If your lights work at 50hz, then you have to use 1/50, 1/25 or 1/100
The shutter speed needs to be a multiple of the frequency your lights work with
Applies with video too
There's no way it's only at 60hz lights. I've had it happen in different rooms at my place, and both at my parents and at my in-laws.
If those lights run on utility power they are all flickering at 60Hz.
LED's can be different.
Did you try setting shutter for those speeds. It will make a bigger difference with video if auto isn't able to correct for it

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