Too much flash on pictures.

[EvoUserXXX]

How do I lower the brightness of the flash on the Evo. I know there are 2 settings for it. the lightning sign and the lightning sign with a plus. But at night both are way too bright.... can someone help me

 

[Jerzyiroc]

How do I lower the brightness of the flash on the Evo. I know there are 2 settings for it. the lightning sign and the lightning sign with a plus. But at night both are way too bright.... can someone help me

Lightening sign with a plus? Maybe it's because of the ROM I'm using but I don't see a flash with a plus. What I usually do is lower the ISO settings. It USUALLY helps. But not always

 

[EvoUserXXX]

Lightning with a "A" lol, sorry about that lol, but iso settings...I will try that thanks!

 

[wrapkgb]

There is no setting for the brightness of the flash that I am aware of. And the lightning with an "a" means the auto flash is on.

 

[elshagon]

The different icons for the flash are just for flash on always, Auto, and off always. No control over strength. Lower the iso and it may help. I really wish there was a control for shutter speed. When the flash is providing the light I don't need a low shutter speed. In dark situations the shutter is way too low with flash which leads to motion blur. Anyone know of a camera app which allows for setting of shutter speed?

 

[dguidry12]

I agree with you totally.. Some times I wish I could just poke one of the falshes off of the dang thing. Its almost embarrasing to take pictures at night with this thing because its so horrendous. Camara quality and video I must say absolutely sucks on this phone.

 

[Jerzyiroc]

With flash ISO on auto

With flash ISO on 100

 

[dguidry12]

With flash ISO on auto

With flash ISO on 100

Wow!!!! this is a very big diffenence in low light. How does it work in with the flash on though. The flash is horrible

 

[2CupsWithString]

Wow!!!! this is a very big diffenence in low light. How does it work in with the flash on though. The flash is horrible

He does have the flash on there but with a lower ISO setting.

ISO is film speed, the lower the number the lower the amount of time light needs to be exposed to the film to imprint the image, this is obviously taken from the film days.

What's happening is when the ISO is set to Auto the Evo is acting like it doesn't have a flash, then the picture gets lit up and it looks over-exposed. When you force ISO 100 it's pretty much just exposing the film for the shortest amount of time possible, meaning it doesn't get over-exposed because the light has a shorter amount of time to be captured.

 

[Jerzyiroc]

Wow!!!! this is a very big diffenence in low light. How does it work in with the flash on though. The flash is horrible

That was with the flash on. Both pics have the flash on. The first one the ISO was set to auto and the second one was set to 100. It was an example to show how you can reduce the effects of the UFO bright flash that's on the Evo lol

 

[Darth Mo]

He does have the flash on there but with a lower ISO setting.

ISO is film speed, the lower the number the lower the amount of time light needs to be exposed to the film to imprint the image, this is obviously taken from the film days.

What's happening is when the ISO is set to Auto the Evo is acting like it doesn't have a flash, then the picture gets lit up and it looks over-exposed. When you force ISO 100 it's pretty much just exposing the film for the shortest amount of time possible, meaning it doesn't get over-exposed because the light has a shorter amount of time to be captured.

You have the right idea, but the concept backwards.

The higher the ISO number or film speed, the more sensitive either the film or in in a digital camera the sensor is to light. So, the higher the ISO number, the less amount of time the film or sensor needs to be exposed to light to produce the image.

With the Evo and ISO set to auto, it doesn't have a good metering system so it tends to over-expose any photo, flash or not because it's setting too high a sensitivity for the exposure it's selecting. Setting the ISO manually results in a better exposed image since it can't jack up the ISO.

 

[dguidry12]

You have the right idea, but the concept backwards.

The higher the ISO number or film speed, the more sensitive either the film or in in a digital camera the sensor is to light. So, the higher the ISO number, the less amount of time the film or sensor needs to be exposed to light to produce the image.

With the Evo and ISO set to auto, it doesn't have a good metering system so it tends to over-expose any photo, flash or not because it's setting too high a sensitivity for the exposure it's selecting. Setting the ISO manually results in a better exposed image since it can't jack up the ISO.

Wow..Hey thanks guys this really helps..Doesn't seem like I need to buy an app to help do what I want the camera to do..Thanks

 

[EvoUserXXX]

turns out my phone was already on iso 100....oh well, the phone is still worth it so ill troop it