Verizon M9 Missing Manual Controls in RAW?

[rsdroid]

I'm on Verizon and after receiving the update through the Play Store that enabled RAW, I'm missing the little bar with the manual controls while in RAW. Even the new update this morning did not have it.

There's a thread on XDA in the Verizon M9 section, so as far as I can tell, it seems only Verizon M9s are affected, but I'm trying to confirm this. I called HTC yesterday and reported it finally. Of course, their only solution is to try a factory reset, but I don't think that will fix it. I've tried everything else I can think of tho.

Anyone else have this issue and what carrier?

 

[wildclip]

I don't think I have this on my T-mobile version either

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[ratsttam]

No manual settings in RAW mode on my t-mobile.

The main point of shooting in raw, is that the image contains a 1:1 of what the sensor sees. There is ZERO work done by the camera software, aside from taking that data and saving it to the phone. Using RAW will let you do much more with the pictures in a program like Adobe Lightroom, Corel Aftershot Pro, or other photography editing tool.

The reason you'll have "manual" controls in normal mode, is that you're telling the camera software what to do with the raw sensor data BEFORE it saves it to the phone. RAW lets you work with the raw sensor data AFTER it's captured.

Think of RAW as photography negatives (actually the DNF format created stands for Digital Negative Format), and normal settings as the developed pictures you'd get after.

 

[Habiib]

No manual settings in RAW mode on my t-mobile.

The main point of shooting in raw, is that the image contains a 1:1 of what the sensor sees. There is ZERO work done by the camera software, aside from taking that data and saving it to the phone. Using RAW will let you do much more with the pictures in a program like Adobe Lightroom, Corel Aftershot Pro, or other photography editing tool.

The reason you'll have "manual" controls in normal mode, is that you're telling the camera software what to do with the raw sensor data BEFORE it saves it to the phone. RAW lets you work with the raw sensor data AFTER it's captured.

Think of RAW as photography negatives (actually the DNF format created stands for Digital Negative Format), and normal settings as the developed pictures you'd get after.

There is one caveat to that feature on the M9. Since there isn't a lens profile available, you'll have to do quite a bit of guessing to correct the distortion and vignetting that the lens produces (which is quite bad in my opinion) when working with the RAW files in a photo editor application.

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[ollieg]

No manual settings in RAW mode on my t-mobile.

The main point of shooting in raw, is that the image contains a 1:1 of what the sensor sees. There is ZERO work done by the camera software, aside from taking that data and saving it to the phone. Using RAW will let you do much more with the pictures in a program like Adobe Lightroom, Corel Aftershot Pro, or other photography editing tool.

The reason you'll have "manual" controls in normal mode, is that you're telling the camera software what to do with the raw sensor data BEFORE it saves it to the phone. RAW lets you work with the raw sensor data AFTER it's captured.

Think of RAW as photography negatives (actually the DNF format created stands for Digital Negative Format), and normal settings as the developed pictures you'd get after.

I understand where you're coming from, but don't think the blanket statement is true. As you say, it's about what's hitting the sensor. If the current settings save a completely blown out image or the exposure length at night is too short to record any light, RAW won't be able to provide anything.