Need a better camera app

[brentj]

I wasn't talking about moving people . . . .

My bad. I could have sworn the first sentence in your opening post said:

I like the stock camera app for every situation EXCEPT low light where subjects move.

I just took this handheld shot of a stationary subject while sitting at my computer, 1/6 second exposure, and I don't see a blur problem. Stock app, straight out of camera image with no edits.

 

[Fred98TJ]

My bad. I could have sworn the first sentence in your opening post said:



I just took this handheld shot of a stationary subject while sitting at my computer, 1/6 second exposure, and I don't see a blur problem. Stock app, straight out of camera image with no edits.

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I don’t think that snap qualifies as “low light” either.

 

[brentj]

I don’t think that snap qualifies as “low light” either.

The OP's complaint was about blur. Blur can result from two things: (1) camera movement while the shutter is open. OP referred to shooting at 1/15. My snap was at 1/6. A steady hand and the camera's image stabilization are clearly sufficient to avoid blur at this slow shutter speed, as I demonstrated; OR (2) subject movement. If a person is moving, there is NO camera in the world that can prevent that subject from being blurred at 1/15 second exposure, which was my point in my first post.

Blur does not result from whether the light is low or high. You can put your camera on a tripod and take a 20 second exposure of a stationary subject in the lowest light and there will be no blur. There might be noise from a high ISO or from the long exposure.

So if you are getting blur at 1/15 second, it is either because of hand movement of the camera while the shutter is open (and you need to stabilize the camera, work on your skills of holding steady, or pick a higher ISO or wider aperture if possible to give you a faster shutter speed) OR it is because your subject is moving (and you either have to ask your subject to hold still or pick a higher ISO or wider aperture if possible to give you a faster shutter speed). Increasing the amount of light by using a flash or other means would be another way to get to a higher shutter speed.

Thinking that there might be some other camera app that will magically take a sharp image of a moving subject at 1/15 is fallacious. Now, if the blur is caused by hand shake (as opposed to subject movement), better image stabilization could potentially help with that, but I doubt that any camera app would be able to improve the camera's image stabilization. That is either a hardware issue or a camera firmware issue.

A lag between the time that you activate the shutter and the time that the shutter opens and closes could potentially cause blur IF you are using a slow shutter speed and have hand movement during the time that the shutter is open. My snap demonstrates that the Note 9 with the stock camera app is fully capable of taking a non-blurred image handheld at 1/6 second. Whether that first shot I posted is low light or not is irrelevant to this point.

Secondarily there could be a different type of "blur" if the shot is out of focus, but I don't think the OP was complaining about that.

But, here you go, another handheld shot, this one at 1/15, and I think it qualifies as a low light shot. I see no blur problem.

 

[berfles]

My bad. I could have sworn the first sentence in your opening post said:



I just took this handheld shot of a stationary subject while sitting at my computer, 1/6 second exposure, and I don't see a blur problem. Stock app, straight out of camera image with no edits.

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Uh, I'm not the OP and I never said that. You've been talking to them and quoting me the entire time.

 

[brentj]

You're right. My mistake, and my apologies to you for confusing you with the OP.

But I stand by my comments about what does and what does not cause blur in photos.

 

[Sporttster]

I'm really interested in finding out if there are ANY camera apps, ports whatever that work well that have a faster shutter speed. Using the Note 9's camera many times results in blur from subjects barely moving. Took quite a few pics at Christmas and the majority have blur, some ridiculously so. Tried using the Pro settings to no avail and for whatever foolish reason, Sammy decided to not include a shutter speed setting. So that results in blurred photos. My S8+ was nothing like this! Very very disappointed in Samsung. You don't spend a thousand dollars on a friggin phone expecting blurred photos!

 

[mustang7757]

I'm really interested in finding out if there are ANY camera apps, ports whatever that work well that have a faster shutter speed. Using the Note 9's camera many times results in blur from subjects barely moving. Took quite a few pics at Christmas and the majority have blur, some ridiculously so. Tried using the Pro settings to no avail and for whatever foolish reason, Sammy decided to not include a shutter speed setting. So that results in blurred photos. My S8+ was nothing like this! Very very disappointed in Samsung. You don't spend a thousand dollars on a friggin phone expecting blurred photos!

I can recommend the Google pixel camera port , just search in XDA forums

 

[edubb256]

I'm really interested in finding out if there are ANY camera apps, ports whatever that work well that have a faster shutter speed. Using the Note 9's camera many times results in blur from subjects barely moving. Took quite a few pics at Christmas and the majority have blur, some ridiculously so. Tried using the Pro settings to no avail and for whatever foolish reason, Sammy decided to not include a shutter speed setting. So that results in blurred photos. My S8+ was nothing like this! Very very disappointed in Samsung. You don't spend a thousand dollars on a friggin phone expecting blurred photos!

You can change the shutter speed in Pro mode with the Samsung app. That is how I take most of my pictures.

You might want to try the Pixel camera port as some have suggested. I have that installed also and while I usually use the Samsung camera app, the Pixel app is a little easier to use in low light situations.

 

[Sporttster]

You can change the shutter speed in Pro mode with the Samsung app. That is how I take most of my pictures.

You might want to try the Pixel camera port as some have suggested. I have that installed also and while I usually use the Samsung camera app, the Pixel app is a little easier to use in low light situations.

Help me out here....I see nothing on my Note 9 that can adjust shutter speed, not in Pro mode not in ANY mode. Where is it? And I may just have to try that Pixel port!