Videos coming out very soft and detail-less...

[artofdance]

Is anyone else having problems with the video quality being severely degraded? It's seems very soft in color, lacking in detail, and MUCH worse than the iPhone 5 I came from. When I watch sample videos online, however, the quality tends to be very good. I'm not able to replicate that quality. I use the camera and videos often, so I'm hoping I can fix this soon. :\ Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Ken7]

Are you talking about videos in good bright light, low light or both?

 

[artofdance]

Are you talking about videos in good bright light, low light or both?

Even in decent light...the details were so diminished....I was in a shaded tree area at a park...
Coming from an iPhone 5...I have to admit, I was very disappointed. Is this just something I'm gonna have to deal with? I may switch to the 5s if this is the case....:\ That 120fps is lookin mighty tempting....

 

[Ken7]

In good light your videos should be very detailed. Not sure what's up with yours. Take a look at the videos on line that were shot with the G2 and you'll see what I mean. They're more detailed than my wife's IPhone 5.

 

[lutin]

Here are 3 videos (taken of the same scenes) by some spanish dude which give a good indication of the video quality. For me, where the lg falls down is in the low light (video is quite blurry).

G2:
Lg G2 demo video 1080p da Telefonino.net - YouTube
IPhone 5s
iPhone 5S demo video da Telefonino.net - YouTube
Xperia:
Sony Xperia Z1 demo video completo da Telefonino.net - YouTube

 

[Goingcarcrazy]

Honestly, as a photographer, I don't really see anything wrong with that video from the G2 and I consider myself a pixel peeper. Sure the iPhone has better dynamic range and the 120fps may be marginally better (though I'd bet its a true 60fps with a generated middle frame to make it 120fps, kinda like the early 120hz and 240hz TVs), but the quality while zoomed wasn't even a comparison since he didn't even zoom half as far with the iPhone as he did with the G2. Other than that, I could read license plates at the same distance and both focused well on what they were aimed at. I'm not going to say that the G2 has the best camera hands down, but I'd say its the best one Android has right now. I'll admit that the iPhone has an amazing camera. It has for a long time and if a camera is the #1 reason you choose one phone over the next, then the Android options may not be for you. A good camera is in my top 5 things I want in a phone, but only for emergency situations or when its not convenient to haul my real camera gear somewhere, so this may be why I'm not seeing the big deal.

 

[Jodiuh]

Don't worry. Ken will be back shortly to disagree with you. His phone has no flaws.

Oh hi Ken!

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[darkestred]

No reason why software couldn't fix some of the issues. G2 has the breathing issue with the video camera. But i think you may be able to turn that off. I thought the s3 took beautiful video and the g2 has the same noise in low-light area's. As long as its as good as the s3 i'm happy and it is. I have yet to test it in sun.

 

[Kris Nelson]

Don't worry. Ken will be back shortly to disagree with you. His phone has no flaws.

Oh hi Ken!

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Jodiuh,
Can you please stop? I'm not sure if it's an age thing, maturity thing, boredom thing, anger thing, or an attention thing but it's an extremely obnoxious thing to read your post, seeing you follow Ken around and bad mouthing everything about a phone you don't even have anymore... So ..please do us all a favor and move on.

 

[Jodiuh]

He jumped on my case first and last I checked, this was not your internet buddy.

Also, your post is accusatory and you're just flat out being a ****.

Fanboys can be so defensive! I love my phone! I love my phone! There's nothing wrong with my phone! If you don't agree with me, then get off my forum!

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[jayochs]

yeah, the video camera on the g2 is awful. much worse than my gs4 which sucks bc the pics seem better than the gs4. makes no sense. we need to be able to lock focus so that garbage auto focus stops, and there needs to be a bump up in kbps recording quality because they do come out soft. on top of that, the microphone is utter garbage and sounds like you're underwater. on my youtube page i have many videos of the gs4 and comparing to the g2 and the gs4 kills it in both audio and video quality. it's really unfortunate.

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[artofdance]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this. Coming from the iPhone that had an amazing camera... The video quality on this has been a little disappointing.

Photos = great.
Videos = disappointing.

Really hoping a software update can fix it. Or something.... :/ unless it's just my phone...

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[darkestred]

yeah, the video camera on the g2 is awful. much worse than my gs4 which sucks bc the pics seem better than the gs4. makes no sense. we need to be able to lock focus so that garbage auto focus stops, and there needs to be a bump up in kbps recording quality because they do come out soft. on top of that, the microphone is utter garbage and sounds like you're underwater. on my youtube page i have many videos of the gs4 and comparing to the g2 and the gs4 kills it in both audio and video quality. it's really unfortunate.

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I've had no issues with the mic just the hissing. I'm hoping that is a software fix. Or maybe another app fix. And just tried another app, no hissing.

 

[jayochs]

you ha e to be recording loud sounds. I do a lot of guitar videos on my youtube and the g2 can't handle it. it sounds identical to my rezound, which seemed to be because the noise cancelling mic was making it sound wishy washy. the gs4, gs3 and dna all recorded audio fine, and my videos came out good. but the g2 ruins them.

and the quality of the picture is as if my lens is smudgy.. it's just like blurry and not sharp at all again compared to the dna or gs4. I don't understand why the videos are so bad.

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[lutin]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this. Coming from the iPhone that had an amazing camera... The video quality on this has been a little disappointing.

Photos = great.
Videos = disappointing.

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100% agree.

 

[lutin]

Joyochs, have you tried turning off the audio zoom to see if that helps get rid of the underwatery-ness? Is there anything in the settings that helps?

 

[lutin]

Check out this video from laptopmag's review. What the HECK is going on with the watery audio?

LG G2 (Verizon) Sample Video - YouTube

 

[artofdance]

Check out this video from laptopmag's review. What the HECK is going on with the watery audio?

LG G2 (Verizon) Sample Video - YouTube

Watching this video...all I see is "auto focus" "auto focus" "auto focus" "auto focus". LoL. LG!!! Fix the video!! How can photos be SO dang good and videos be SO poor?!

 

[jayochs]

Joyochs, have you tried turning off the audio zoom to see if that helps get rid of the underwatery-ness? Is there anything in the settings that helps?

yup! and I've tried it with it on. default is off. watch this video to hear how awful it sounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU6Sp5V5Hv0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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[lutin]

yup! and I've tried it with it on. default is off. watch this video to hear how awful it sounds

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Yikes!

On the plus side, your axemanship is awesome.