Please share your Omnia camera settings

[Guest GSeeker2]

Many of you may not like the color of photos taken by Omnia camera with default settings.

So why not share your *best* settings?

Mine(on rom DXHI1):

Shooting mode: Single

SCN: None

Size: 2560x1920

Extend View: On

Timer: off

Quality: High

White balance: Auto

Effect: No Effect

Focus: On

ISO: 50

Metering: Center

Contrast: +1

Saturation: +1

Sharpness: +1

GPS: off

WDR: On

Anti-Shake: On

Thank you! ;)

Edited September 23, 2008 by GSeeker2

[Guest Geronymous]

Well done GSeeker2! Same idea was suggested by 1Mack in another thread, but you took action :wacko:

I think it is important to mention on what ROM you are... as mentioned in the Secany thread, image quality has improved from DXHH3 to DXHI1 (with camera upgrade trick).

I will try your settings later today and experiment in the next days to see if I like them more than the default ones of DXHI1, which for me are already pretty acceptable!

If only geotagging would be fixed... ;)

[Guest GSeeker2]

Well done GSeeker2! Same idea was suggested by 1Mack in another thread, but you took action :wacko:

I think it is important to mention on what ROM you are... as mentioned in the Secany thread, image quality has improved from DXHH3 to DXHI1 (with camera upgrade trick).

I will try your settings later today and experiment in the next days to see if I like them more than the default ones of DXHI1, which for me are already pretty acceptable!

If only geotagging would be fixed... ;)

Oh sorry i did forget to say i am on DXHI1, updated the 1st post, thanks! :(

[Guest 1Mack]

Oh sorry i did forget to say i am on DXHI1, updated the 1st post, thanks! :(

I will be trying yoru setting tomorrow ;) using DXHI1. Sorry I did not have the cajones to start this thread :wacko:

Edited September 22, 2008 by 1Mack

[Guest nadz5]

Well done GSeeker2! Same idea was suggested by 1Mack in another thread, but you took action :wacko:

I think it is important to mention on what ROM you are... as mentioned in the Secany thread, image quality has improved from DXHH3 to DXHI1 (with camera upgrade trick).

I will try your settings later today and experiment in the next days to see if I like them more than the default ones of DXHI1, which for me are already pretty acceptable!

If only geotagging would be fixed... ;)

Hi there, can u tell me how does Geotagging actually works? I ave set my GPS on but cant figure out the Geotagging features.. What does it actually do? Track friends?

[Guest Massive Attack]

Many of you may not like the color of photos taken by Omnia camera with default settings.

So why not share your *best* settings?

Mine(on rom DXHI1):

Shooting mode: Single

SCN: None

Size: 2560x1920

Extend View: On

Timer: off

Quality: High

White balance: Auto

Effect: No Effect

Focus: On

ISO: 50

Metering: Center

Contrast: +1

Saturation: +1

Sharpness: +1

GPS: off

WDR: On

Anti-Shark: On

Thank you! ;)

this anti-shark settings must be for the beach huh? to keep those shark away while taking pics? kidding :wacko:

[Guest WearTheFoxHat]

Hi there, can u tell me how does Geotagging actually works? I ave set my GPS on but cant figure out the Geotagging features.. What does it actually do? Track friends?

Geotagging puts the co-ordinates of where the image was taken into the EXIF tags of the file. Then when you upload to FLICKR for example it can read the location and show it on a map such as google maps.

[Guest respider]

geotagging works well in HI1?

Im using HH3 and I get 0 both in long and lat

Whats WDR?

Edited September 22, 2008 by respider

[Guest WearTheFoxHat]

WDR = Wide Dynamic Range

[Guest GSeeker2]

this anti-shark settings must be for the beach huh? to keep those shark away while taking pics? kidding :wacko:

;) :( updated the 1st post, thanks!

[Guest warnold007]

This is great!

Anyone know how to save the settings so we don't have to load them each time we start the camera? ;)

[Guest GSeeker2]

This is great!

Anyone know how to save the settings so we don't have to load them each time we start the camera? ;)

No, we can't. :wacko:

I believe this is also a common bug of Omnia, it happens in many roms, DXHH1/DXHH3/DXHI1 and etc.

[Guest draligus]

there was a program or patch to do this. but i do not remember its name.

[Guest daz306td]

*bumP*

Anyone found a way to store these settings? Reg hack?

[Guest pidsw]

I did a brief search in the registry but I couldn't find anything obvious.

What does ISO 50 do? Is that not dependant on how much light you have?

What does Wide Dynamic Range do to your images? Scale the output based on the max brightness?

[Guest ronaldb3]

Could someone explain what "Extend View" does?

Thanks... Ron...

[Guest Maver]

To answer the questions above,

WDR = Wide Dynamic Rage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_dynamic_range

the problem is that if your indoors, outdoor light will be washed out, and if your outside shooting inside the room will be really dark. there are many situations like this. What WDR typically means it has 2 cameras, one that takes a bright picture and one that takes a dark picture, then puts the 2 together to make it so you can see whats outside as well as whats inside in both situations. I don't believe the Omnia has 2 CCDs or cameras in it, so it probably takes 1 bright picture and 1 dark picture and then adds them. Though that probably means because it's taking 2 pics its going to be more prone to shakyness.

What it's kind of doing is making less contrast in the image, for me if I'm hanging with the pals I'd turn this one just so that pics would come out better. But if I'm trying to take a nice picture of a car, I'd turn it off to make a more rich image.

Extended View

This just means that the little white menu bars on the side screen turn transparent. You won't take a picture of this area you'll only be able to see that area. This is possible becasue it's extra pixels the a camera only uses for the antishake, it's not used to take images.

ISO

This is how "Sensitive" the camera is to light. Though it won't make the image that much brighter (thats what the other exposure settings are for) The lower the number is, the less "noise" the image will have. If you turn up the ISO to 800 you'll be able to take pictures in pretty low light, if you set it to 50 you'll see in low light you can't see anything. Why would you want to ever set it lower then? well if you try to take a picture in bright sunlight at 800 if you zoom in on the image you'll notice it will be really "nosie" some might say fuzzy, or unclear, set it to 50 and you'll see the image looking much cleaner.

As for the flash being harsh, stand a good distence away from the image, you could try taping a bit of wax paper to it to act as a diffuser, but who really wants to do something like that to their brand new omnia :rolleyes: but I find if you stand about 8 feet back it's a good distence, anything less then that and the image is gonna be really washed out. you could try playing with manual ISO settings with the flash and maybe come up with a better result. But thats just unforently the problem with a camera phones flash.

In order to properly defuse it you need a good distence between the light from the defuser (in my studio setup we have about 2 feet) the phone does have a defuser on the light, but it's less then half a millimeter away so it has little effect.

What you should keep in mind too this camera doesn't have an iris (a kind of shutter that controls the amount of light that comes in at one point in time) because that be another moving part to try to squeez in there, and another moving part that could break. So what they do insted is capture for a longer time. You'll notice that if your in bright light, the preview of the camera moves very very quickly, if you put it in low light you'll notice it kinda studders because it has to capture for a longer period of time till it delievers you the preview. So for dark shots it really is going to be shaky even if your just moving a tiny bit, the anti shake helps but it doesn't work as well as it does in bright light. So really your best option is to use the harsh flash, because that way it will make the image bright enough that it can capture it in a shorter period of time therefor be less shaky.

[Guest Maver]

just to clarify,

The top 2 are with WDR On and Off

the bottom 2 are ISO at 50 and 800

[Guest travelbug]

the most important setting for me when taking indoor shots is white balance. leaving it on auto when doin indoor or low light shots will produce poor results. cycle through the different setting ( you will see threir effects instantly) and check what works out best for you. tungsten and flourescent are quite good for poor indoor lighting

cheers

[Guest bawdiest]

Enabling Anti-shake feature, dissables the ISO setting.

Anti-shake means augmenting the ISO value set by camera.

Ex. Auto ISO is 400. With Anti-shake enabled it is set to 800.

It doesent make sense to set the ISO to 50, when anti-shake is enabled. Your photos will be at ca. ISO 400 at daylight and ISO 800 at night.

[Guest Toki84]

Well done GSeeker2! Same idea was suggested by 1Mack in another thread, but you took action :rolleyes:

I think it is important to mention on what ROM you are... as mentioned in the Secany thread, image quality has improved from DXHH3 to DXHI1 (with camera upgrade trick).

[...]

Hi,

What do you mean with "camera upgrade trick"? Can you explain the trick?

Thanks.

Best regards.

[Guest bobobird]

Forget any settings - the defaults work just fine on HL2 roms (actually work fine on most roms I have tried. HK3 was a bit iffy).

Take a look at the photos posted in the photo "exhibition" thread, most were taken in good to even light conditions and almost all have come out just fine. http://www.modaco.com/content/i9x0-omnia-h...6/omnia-photos/

One thing I have set to off permanently is the flash. Camera works fine even in moderate to poor lighting. If a flash must be used then set youself a distance from the target object.

Oh, btw - anti-shake has to be to On.

Edited January 5, 2009 by bobobird

[Guest tylerstud25]

Does anyone know what registry needs to be changed to enable the Extended view. because when i go to the camera settings the button is just greyed out.

thanks

Shooting mode: Single

SCN: None

Size: 2560x1920

Extend View: On

Timer: off

Quality: High

White balance: Auto

Effect: No Effect

Focus: On

ISO: 50

Metering: Center

Contrast: +1

Saturation: +1

Sharpness: +1

GPS: off

WDR: On

Anti-Shake: On

Thank you! B)

[Guest justpratik]

Many of you may not like the color of photos taken by Omnia camera with default settings.

So why not share your *best* settings?

Mine(on rom DXHI1):

Shooting mode: Single

SCN: None

Size: 2560x1920

Extend View: On

Timer: off

Quality: High

White balance: Auto

Effect: No Effect

Focus: On

ISO: 50

Metering: Center

Contrast: +1

Saturation: +1

Sharpness: +1

GPS: off

WDR: On

Anti-Shake: On

Thank you! B)

if it would have saved the setting i would have definately mentioned.

[Guest q-lex]

Hi all,

I have problems with photos.. Photos seem overbright and blury. I guess problem is in exposure it's to long.

I write about it here http://www.samsung-omnia.org/shoot-and-sen...s-best!/60/

any ideas

PDA: DXID1