Moto X Pure Edition Camera

[radgatt]

Re: moto camera is really growing on me

I like the Moto Camera app as well. The focus isn't the best but it gets the job done. When taking selfies I like the fact that I can press volume down to take a picture as well. It makes holding the phone easier.

 

[TqSu]

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I like the Moto Camera app as well. The focus isn't the best but it gets the job done. When taking selfies I like the fact that I can press volume down to take a picture as well. It makes holding the phone easier.

Didn't know the volume down trick before. Thanks!

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[ffejjj]

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I have a love hate relationship with this camera.

In the daytime I can take some awesome shots that you can zoom and zoom in on. They're just impressive

On the other hand the low light shots come out blurry just to often.

Not sure, just have to get used to this camera. I always have my daughter's G4 for low lights too lol

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[the tall guy]

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at first I wasn't too keen on the twist gesture to open the camera app, coming from an S6 I just preferred the double tap, but I must say its grown on me. I really like the camera app, would be good if they gave us an option to touch to focus, you never know, it might be something that comes with 6.0

 

[Ryaan Johnson]

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I have a love hate relationship with this camera.

In the daytime I can take some awesome shots that you can zoom and zoom in on. They're just impressive

On the other hand the low light shots come out blurry just to often.

Not sure, just have to get used to this camera. I always have my daughter's G4 for low lights too lol

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Have you tried the night setting

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[DarrenCarnall]

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I'm surprised how much I love the twist-to-open thing now! Although I do miss my Samsung's voice activated "shoot" feature. Made taking one handed pics SO much easier. I miss that more than anything.

 

[ffejjj]

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Have you tried the night setting

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Haven't but I will next time the scene is right.

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[MTeator]

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I like the twist gesture but I usually follow it up with two or three accidental shots before I finally get it aimed to shoot what I wanted. Probably 2/3's of my pictures are accidental blurry messes from mis-touching the screen. If they'd just not sense a touch at the extreme edge of the display to trigger the shutter it would be ok.

 

[Stanley Kubrick]

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at first I wasn't too keen on the twist gesture to open the camera app, coming from an S6 I just preferred the double tap, but I must say its grown on me. I really like the camera app, would be good if they gave us an option to touch to focus, you never know, it might be something that comes with 6.0

Open camera, swipe right from left bezel, scroll around until you see the finger icon and select it so it turns blue. Now you can focus with the round pointer as well as adjust brightness.

 

[aldo82]

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Open camera, swipe right from left bezel, scroll around until you see the finger icon and select it so it turns blue. Now you can focus with the round pointer as well as adjust brightness.

This helps but it isn't quite the same as touch to focus. You have to drag it to what you want to focus on rather than touch it which is less intuitive. You get used to it but then if you hand your phone to someone else to take a photo then they won't have a clue and focus can end up poor as a result

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[the tall guy]

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This helps but it isn't quite the same as touch to focus. You have to drag it to what you want to focus on rather than touch it which is less intuitive. You get used to it but then if you hand your phone to someone else to take a photo then they won't have a clue and focus can end up poor as a result

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Yeah that was my point too - I use the circle focus tool, but it's just not the same as touch to focus. I discovered recently that only I can take decent pics with my phone, if I give it to my wife to take a pic they're mostly out of focus or blurry.

 

[Ryaan Johnson]

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Yeah that was my point too - I use the circle focus tool, but it's just not the same as touch to focus. I discovered recently that only I can take decent pics with my phone, if I give it to my wife to take a pic they're mostly out of focus or blurry.

Download Google camera for your wife

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[the tall guy]

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Yeah did that last night

 

[Channan]

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at first I wasn't too keen on the twist gesture to open the camera app, coming from an S6 I just preferred the double tap, but I must say its grown on me. I really like the camera app, would be good if they gave us an option to touch to focus, you never know, it might be something that comes with 6.0

Touch to focus would be nice, but what they offer is the next best thing. I don't know what it's called, but it's that circle that you can drag around the screen and it focuses on whatever the circle is over. I like how easy it is to change the exposure with that.

 

[popartist]

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The camera has also grown on me - being able to adjust the exposure easily with the round slider addresses what frustrated me a lot with my old M8, the photos I'm taking at concerts are coming out much better and not blown out with the stage lighting. Also am pleased with the low light performance, it really is not bad at all, as well as doing slight zooming.in.

 

[Rirruto]

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Download Google camera for your wife

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Google Camera will have the touch to focus feature even though the default camera does not?

 

[brentj]

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This helps but it isn't quite the same as touch to focus. You have to drag it to what you want to focus on rather than touch it which is less intuitive. You get used to it but then if you hand your phone to someone else to take a photo then they won't have a clue and focus can end up poor as a result.

In some ways it's better having to drag the focus circle. You set it once where you want it and keep your framing so that your subject is in that spot, and then you can take multiple shots by touching anywhere on the screen, which won't move the focus point. Here are a couple of screen shots illustrating this feature for those who may not have found it yet. As you can see, it also adjusts the exposure for what is in the focus circle.

And whether I'm shooting with my phone or a camera, I pretty much expect that whenever I hand it to someone else, I'll get a poor result no matter what. Sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised, though! ;-)

 

[Ryaan Johnson]

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Google Camera will have the touch to focus feature even though the default camera does not?

Yes. Different camera apps work differently then each other. Welcome to the beauty of Android. Don't like something just find a app more to your liking

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[Rirruto]

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Yes. Different camera apps work differently then each other. Welcome to the beauty of Android. Don't like something just find a app more to your liking

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Can you set the Google camera be used when using the camera gesture shortcut? I believe I read it was turning your wrist a couple of times to open the camera.

 

[AustinTech]

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Can you set the Google camera be used when using the camera gesture shortcut? I believe I read it was turning your wrist a couple of times to open the camera.

Unfortunately not

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