Camera for close up shots?

[fivegear]

I am trying to figure out if the camera on my Photon is the issue or if it is me. I use my phone camera a lot to take reference shots of ID tags and text. I can't get my Photon to do this, it is always out of focus and blurry. My EVO 4G, my EVO3D, and my Epic 4G all did just fine with this. I also am not noticing the autofocus function happening like I did on the other phones, with them I could see the object come in and out of focus as it adjusted, this phone just seems to have one fixed focus for everything. Thanks for any info.

 

[scoobdude]

Use the button on screen. It will use auto focus. For the text and ids use the macro setting. I can only get about 10"s till autofocus stops focusing.

 

[fivegear]

Interesting, all of my phones in the past have focused while the image was on the screen before taking the shot. Strange. I miss the two stage camera button. On my past phones I could force an autofocus before taking the picture so I knew more of what the shot was going to look like. Maybe there will be an update for the camera app.

 

[Cubfan]

If you hold down on the button, it does a better job of focusing up close. That was my experience, anyway. Particularly needed to do this to take pictures of checks using the Chase app.

 

[MacBook]

Use the button on screen. It will use auto focus. For the text and ids use the macro setting. I can only get about 10"s till autofocus stops focusing.

Yeah thats what I do for better focusing.