Got a new used phone, seems to take better pics

[TorontoBuilder]

Moto G stylus says 48mp somehow but always looked like crap to me especially in low light.

New to me samsung is better phone, lets see how the pics are...

It has a food shot setting too

 

[trevj]

Frankly, I miss that the nieces and nephews are all pretty much become independent adults (if still juniors at it, LOL!) , as they supplied me with a steady stream of overpriced broken Apple phones and pads, that I was able to repair using cheap parts off eBay.

Rather flavors my view of the amount of sympathy (found between s**t and syphilis inna dictionary!) I have for Apple and the likes of John Deere, attempting to thwart Right To Repair!

 

[TorontoBuilder]

Frankly, I miss that the nieces and nephews are all pretty much become independent adults (if still juniors at it, LOL!) , as they supplied me with a steady stream of overpriced broken Apple phones and pads, that I was able to repair using cheap parts off eBay.

Rather flavors my view of the amount of sympathy (found between s**t and syphilis inna dictionary!) I have for Apple and the likes of John Deere, attempting to thwart Right To Repair!

amen, you buy it you should have the right to do whatever the effing hell you want with it.

If you are capable. I still have to replace the screen in wife's laptop... tried to hint to my friend in IT who gave me this phone that wife needed new laptop. He must have missed my hints

 

[DPittman]

Moto G stylus says 48mp somehow but always looked like crap to me especially in low light.

New to me samsung is better phone, lets see how the pics are...

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It has a food shot setting too

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I think generally the Samsungs have had really good cameras. My last one (S10+) had a nice camera and had a food photo setting that I thought was cool but seldom used. My new Samsung supposedly has a better camera yet although I don't honestly know if it has the food photo setting. It does however take considerably better low light photos.

 

[trevj]

amen, you buy it you should have the right to do whatever the effing hell you want with it.

If you are capable. I still have to replace the screen in wife's laptop... tried to hint to my friend in IT who gave me this phone that wife needed new laptop. He must have missed my hints

Between arthritis and a general lack of motivation, as well as reduced eye-sight at close ranges, I have almost stopped entirely in the repair side of things.

I will, however, recommend IFixit, as a source of information, and eBay, as a source of cheap (though sometimes with reason) parts. With reason, as in, many of them are culls from the actual production runs or replacement runs. I can live with a few bright spots, for example, on my screen, because it was $12, shipped, rather than $200+ at the Apple Store... But it was better than the shattered mess it started as...

You got not a lot to lose, with punching Replace Screen laptop (make and model#) into a search engine, and see if it looks like something you can do.

 

[trevj]

I'll add that as far as the camera tech in phones goes, it really starts to remind me of the advertising for various stereos, especially Car Stereos, of so long ago.

My dog may be able to hear the difference, but I sure can't, esp when I have been cruising around the back roads with my arm out the window...

Way I see it, is if you are taking pictures to be used to print out billboard size copies, you are probably still using the wrong tool, no matter if the phone says it can do this...

But hey, whaddo I know, I still see it all on a 1080 pitch screen! LOL!

 

[Susquatch]

I think all this stuff pretty much depends on how much knowledge and experience you have as well as what tools you have.

My late model Samsung has a food setting which I just used to take this photo of some gourmet food my wife painted.



Even if your phone doesn't have a food setting, you can download and install camera apps for your phone that do.

@TorontoBuilder strikes me as a guy who can and does do most things himself but prefers to do what he likes to do best while farming out the rest to friends he trusts. Just to piss him off, I could start a survey to see what everyone else thinks......

 

[DPittman]

I think all this stuff pretty much depends on how much knowledge and experience you have as well as what tools you have.

My late model Samsung has a food setting which I just used to take this photo of some gourmet food my wife painted.

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Even if your phone doesn't have a food setting, you can download and install camera apps for your phone that do.

@TorontoBuilder strikes me as a guy who can and does do most things himself but prefers to do what he likes to do best while farming out the rest to friends he trusts. Just to piss him off, I could start a survey to see what everyone else thinks......

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Great painting!

 

[TorontoBuilder]

I'll add that as far as the camera tech in phones goes, it really starts to remind me of the advertising for various stereos, especially Car Stereos, of so long ago.

My dog may be able to hear the difference, but I sure can't, esp when I have been cruising around the back roads with my arm out the window...

Way I see it, is if you are taking pictures to be used to print out billboard size copies, you are probably still using the wrong tool, no matter if the phone says it can do this...

But hey, whaddo I know, I still see it all on a 1080 pitch screen! LOL!

Phone cameras come in tiers, just like regular digital cameras. Entry level phones all have similar cameras, but some sensors are a bit better than others, usually in the low light department. I only go with entry level phones because I dont want to get phone calls, I dont surf a phone or go out much where I need more in a phone.

But I do want to post a small online image that doesn't look like dog crap.

And I do love me nice panoramic prints of the Nick Carver variety, it's why I used to own a view camera and why I sold off all my digital gear to buy another view camera set up with roll film capabilities. Great for large prints, not so great for instant online posts

 

[TorontoBuilder]

I think all this stuff pretty much depends on how much knowledge and experience you have as well as what tools you have.

My late model Samsung has a food setting which I just used to take this photo of some gourmet food my wife painted.

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Even if your phone doesn't have a food setting, you can download and install camera apps for your phone that do.

@TorontoBuilder strikes me as a guy who can and does do most things himself but prefers to do what he likes to do best while farming out the rest to friends he trusts. Just to piss him off, I could start a survey to see what everyone else thinks......

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Dude, you think I trust people?

 

[Ironman]

All greek to me, I hardly ever pack a cellphone unless going to the big shitty. I have been forced to give up my faithful Doro flip phone because the Rogers subsidiary I use has decided to fold rather than go 5G. Now I have to go to Rogers Redwire, which is cheaper at $15/mo and my little flip phone modem won't talk 5G.
I got a Samsung flip5 now, and a 5G chip. Sometimes technology bites, it will take me 120 months of the new savings to pay off this fone.

 

[Ironman]

Frankly, I miss that the nieces and nephews are all pretty much become independent adults (if still juniors at it, LOL!) , as they supplied me with a steady stream of overpriced broken Apple phones and pads, that I was able to repair using cheap parts off eBay.

Rather flavors my view of the amount of sympathy (found between s**t and syphilis inna dictionary!) I have for Apple and the likes of John Deere, attempting to thwart Right To Repair!

This hangs on the wall of my shop.

 

[gerritv]

I use this app for camera on my Samsung phones and tablets. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera . Superior in every way to the bundled camera app.

 

[Susquatch]

I use this app for camera on my Samsung phones and tablets. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera . Superior in every way to the bundled camera app.

I used to use it several years ago when it was the cat's ass. But I stopped when the app started having problems after I got a newer phone with all the features I wanted.

I don't remember all of the issues I had, maybe they are fixed now. A few of the more annoying issues I remember were:

- Saved videos sometimes got lost. I couldn't even find them with a memory search tool.
- Saving hi res takes forever
- Won't allow you to change orientation on the fly.
- piss poor volume control for videos.
- no timed shutter
- no voice shutter
- wouldn't work with my Bluetooth remote
- didn't support all my phone lenses
- didn't support burst photos
- messed up night photos

The two phones I have had since then do everything I need and much much more. So Open Camera Died for me .... RIP.

FWIW, I just killed Textra too. It was a vastly superior txt messaging application. But it's falling behind the built in Txt MSG App so badly that I stopped using it a few days ago. Lots of things I still love about it, but lots I don't. The built in txt app is better now.

It upsets me when I invest a lot of effort into learning how to power use a superior add-on app and then they start milking the cash cow and stop competing.

 

[trevj]

I used to use it several years ago when it was the cat's ass. But I stopped when the app started having problems after I got a newer phone with all the features I wanted.

I don't remember all of the issues I had, maybe they are fixed now. A few of the more annoying issues I remember were:

- Saved videos sometimes got lost. I couldn't even find them with a memory search tool.
- Saving hi res takes forever
- Won't allow you to change orientation on the fly.
- piss poor volume control for videos.
- no timed shutter
- no voice shutter
- wouldn't work with my Bluetooth remote
- didn't support all my phone lenses
- didn't support burst photos
- messed up night photos

The two phones I have had since then do everything I need and much much more. So Open Camera Died for me .... RIP.

FWIW, I just killed Textra too. It was a vastly superior txt messaging application. But it's falling behind the built in Txt MSG App so badly that I stopped using it a few days ago. Lots of things I still love about it, but lots I don't. The built in txt app is better now.

It upsets me when I invest a lot of effort into learning how to power use a superior add-on app and then they start milking the cash cow and stop competing.

In truth, I have yet to find myself in a situation where I thought I needed any more control than 'take a picture of this crap'. If some Arts Student sneers at my efforts, they obviously were not there in the moment I wished to remember, composition or otherwise! And, I get to sneer at their possibilities of ever paying off their Student Loans, so there is that! LOL!

I use mine to record the way stuff is put together, before I take it apart, or what the serial or part number is, that is engraved on that part. I'll leave the "Food" settings to the clowns I don't want to know or meet, though I WILL tend to appreciate the pictures from those that are able to discern the finer points of lighting and composition!

Just another tool. Not trying to make Art!