Stock camera and third party apps

Andrew87

I've been trying the stock camera app and I have to admit I'm unimpressed about the picture quality. Thus, I decided to download a third-party app and see if it'd fare better. After some research I decided to download Open Camera. I took a couple of pictures with it, same setup with the stock, and noticed Open Camera's previews were a lot darker than with the stock app. So I decided to download another third-party camera, Google Camera. Same thing happened with it, the view when you select the camera is too dark when compared to stock. Oddly enough, Open Camera doesn't have this issue if you switch to the front camera but Google Camera takes issue with it as well. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Have you found a way to solve it?

Jay_Ponce

UMI-Super replied at 2016-10-22 05:50
I noticed this problem too, pictures are very dark with other apps.

And I have another problem with ...

Camera

Picture quality and video quality is good on bright daylight. You can capture decent photos and record decent videos on a bright sunny day

Picture quality and video quality on dark environment/low light is just bad. Almost unusable. Especially on video. It is laggy as the cheapest android cameras out there and you will fail to recognize anything when moving the phone while recording.

My samsung galaxy w from the year 2011 can outperform my umi on low light video recording

dionisisg

I have downloaded open camera myself and do not have this problem, i only have this issue when using in app camera features like fb messenger or viber, i think its a drivers issue, my phone is on v3.03_20160804 firmware, a version i cant seem to find info anywhere and its newer than umi's latest release for the super which prevents me to update my phone via ota, my phone always reports that is on the latest firmware. What version is your phone on?

Andrew87

dionisisg replied at 2016-10-7 14:50
I have downloaded open camera myself and do not have this problem, i only have this issue when using ...

I'm on V3.02_20160923 firmware.

mulle

I'm on V3.02_20160923 Firmware, too

I use stock camera and Camera MX, both are medium, while stock had a semi decent Performance boost for me after Clearing Cache and dalvik via twrp

Andrew87

mulle replied at 2016-10-7 20:17
I'm on V3.02_20160923 Firmware, too

I use stock camera and Camera MX, both are medium, while stock  ...

So you haven't noticed a much darker preview when using a third-party camera app in low/artificial light?

Andrew87

Just so you know what I'm talking about I took three identical pictures with different apps inside a room that only had artifical lighting.

Here's the stock app:




Here's the Google camera:




And here's Open Camera:




I don't know much about cameras so my first thought was that for some obscure reason maybe third-party apps weren't registering light levels correctly. However, looking at the images, it occurs to me that perhaps the stock app is messing with saturation levels to offer a clearer/brighter image? Like I said, I know little about cameras so I'd appreciate any help. For reference, the light level in the room more closely resembles the first (stock camera) picture.

mulle

for me stock cam is the better choice, with third party apps it won't get sharp enough but no issues with darker pictures taken

Zuber

I am having the same issue. Stock camera, everything is bright. 3rd apps everything is very dark.
This is very important for me, as we have to use specific app for capturing receipts.

Must  be driver ?

Beatertech

Stock works best but it's still not optimised correctly... as like most software for this phone. Maybe on the next release  of Android N we will see changes,  just don't put your life on it.

Umi super contains good hardware but the software is not tailored.  

Andrew87

Beatertech replied at 2016-10-21 20:33
Stock works best but it's still not optimised correctly... as like most software for this phone. May ...

Software is fixable, hardware less so.