Questions tagged [cameraphones]
A cameraphone is a cell phone that has a camera built-in.
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What is the difference between "dual aperture camera" and "dual camera" on a phone?
What is the difference between a "dual aperture camera" and a "dual camera"? As far as I know, a dual aperture camera has two 2 apertures (IR sensor) and 2 cameras.
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Is the relationship between object distance and magnification highly dependent on the camera used?
I'm using a cell phone to capture an image of two objects (O1 and O2) on a flat plane and my camera is level with respect to this plane (the phone and the plane are both parallel). One of these ...
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Can I calculate my phone's sensor size from f-stop, focal length, max aperture, or other metadata? [duplicate]
Could I work out sensor size of my phone from these info: F-stop= f/2.6 , focal length = 3mm, max aperture = 2.8 and others info like: resolution unit, exposure time?
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Why do camera phones have lenses of inferior quality?
I've heard that mobile phone cameras have lenses of inferior quality to those in DSLRs and point and shoot compact cameras. Is this true, and if so, why?
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How to choose a camera for taking passport photos?
For taking passport photos in the United States, what specifications should I look for when choosing a camera?
For example, some say phone cameras can't be used for taking
passport photos, while some ...
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Why do different smartphones with the same megapixel camera resolutions have different quality of image?
There are different brands of smart phones available. Frequently two different big brand smart phones (Nokia, Samsung , Apple, Sony etc.) with the same Megapixel count have a different quality of ...
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Can add-on lenses for mobile phone cameras improve the image quality?
I have an iPhone 5s. I wonder if using an additional lens increases the image quality or not. Or does it just help in zooming?
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Is there an app to verify my phone's camera sensor specs?
As we all know, the sensor is the heart of a digital camera and especially so in a mobile phone since most other variables (F-Stop, zoom, ISO, aperture) are for the most part static.
There are a log ...
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Do mobile cameras ever vary f stops?
I've been trying to get my head around the camera in my newly-bought Chinese mobile phone.
I wonder how focusing actually works in these kind of phones. I imagine that in the standard context of ...
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Why the faces in the corner tends to skew a bit in almost all smartphone cameras
I have noticed in almost all the smart phones I have used, the faces of people in the corners (either side) tends to skew a bit in all smartphone cameras.
Is it something the lens is not as good as ...
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Will a Fuji Finepix S4800 take much better pictures than my Galaxy S4 phone?
Which Camera will take better pictures? The one in my Samsung Galaxy S4 phone or a Fuji S4800 camera? I know the Fuji has better MP (16 vs 13) and much greater zoom but I am still wondering if I ...
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Why is there a vertical bar of brighter exposure when photographing lightning?
I recently took pictures of a lightning storm using my camera phone (Samsung Galaxy S3). In several of the shots where I managed to capture lightning, a lighter (brighter?) vertical section sometimes ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of compact cameras vs phone cameras?
I'm an amateur photographer and am very curious about what the benefits of spending money for a compact camera as compared to my iPhone5s/Samsung phone cameras are.
I've did some preliminary research ...
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Does this Camera Lens to Mobile phone camera interface exist?
I've seen this ad come up on a web site.
(I've cropped the image)
It looks like a canon lens has an interface to a camera phone. I believe that this is a gimmick but I'm not sure.
Does anyone ...
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Do any phone cameras allow decent exposure of the night sky?
I've heard that phone cameras can't take good pictures of the night sky because the hardware doesn't allow the changing of exposure times. Are there any phones that do allow good exposure for decent ...
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How to set shutter time on an Android phone?
I am trying to make a LED Pen as shown here.
For this I require a camera that allows exposure time of ~20s. I don't own a SLR/DSLR/Digital camera. I have a 5MP camera on my phone. I wanted to ask if ...
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How would a mobile phone with external zoom lens compare vs DSLR?
I am new to photography and my knowledge is limited to just this - have sufficient light, press button to take photo, quality of images in digital zoom is
not as good as that of optical zoom and ...
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Is the Nokia Lumia 1020 a suitable replacement for my aging Canon G3?
For it's price point and pixel count, the Canon PowerShot G3 (2002) produced pretty good images. Now that mine is 12 years old, it doesn't hold a charge anymore and getting a new battery seems like ...
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How can I easily tell if a cellphone camera sensor or lens is damaged?
How can I easily tell if a cellphone sensor or lens is damaged?
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What kind of lens are used in mobile phones?
Usually what kind of lens are used in mobile phones. I mean of the types similar to convex, concave etc.. Are they fixed focal length usually?
How do we get the focal length of camera from digital ...
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Is HDR more important on a phone camera than a standalone camera?
I've had good luck using my iPhone's HDR feature when I'm out without my digital camera (Nikon COOLPIX S630); I tend to take the kinds of pictures for which HDR is useful. The standalone camera doesn'...
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How to enhance a cameraphone photo so you can see stars?
In the context of star photography, clearly you are not going to get as good of a photo with a smartphone camera as you could with a real camera and a long exposure. However, provided you have taken a ...
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Could a phone-camera have a medium-telephoto lens and still fit in a phone?
[to keep it simple, all focal lengths noted are 35mm equivalents; crop factors for phone cameras are about 7-8x, give or take]
As far as I can tell most new phone cameras have a fixed, medium-wide ...
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How iPhone 5S can have such a big aperture? f/2.2?
I thought that in order to have a big aperture such as f/2.2 a big amount of light should be able to enter to the sensor and in order to do it, a big lens was needed.
How is it possible that in the ...
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Finding the point corresponding to a known height in an image
I have an image of a wall taken from a phone camera from a known height h from the ground.
Assume that the camera was held perfectly parallel to the wall and that the bottom of the image is perfectly ...
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What coatings do mobile camera lenses have?
I have been using iPhone's camera since a long time and I have always wondered, what coatings or filters do mobile cams have in place (if the have any). The reason I ask is sometimes my iPhone is able ...
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How to take panaroma shot using my Nokia C6?
I have a Nokia c6. I want to shoot wide angle panoramas shots, without using a special lens. How can I do it?
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What is the focal length on your typical cell phone camera?
I know cell phone cameras are generally wide angle, which makes sense because people wanna go out to dinner, or a show, or at the park with their kids, and they want to get the whole scene. And even ...
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Is "Ultrapixels" just marketing or is there a real benefit?
HTC has branded the sensor in its new phone (the HTC One) to be "Ultra pixels". For the same sensor size it only gives you 4MP where today's standard for top of the line smartphones is 8MP and up. Of ...
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Is there a point and shoot that offers "on-camera" creative photography features as in cellphone apps?
Generally I enjoy using cellphone apps such as kitcam or hipstematic.
But I want a better camera.
I would like to be able to control DoF, aperture and iso, but I would like to see the result with the ...
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How do smartphone cameras focus? [duplicate]
I'm curious, when I focus my DSLR or my pocket camera the lens moves back and forth changing the distance from the sensor. Does this really happen inside my smartphone?
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What (presumably mid-range) phone cameras compete with $100 Point & Shoot cameras?
I heard on another board that the Lumia Pureview can easily compete with the most serious Point & Shoots in the $5-600 range.
My interest is different. Let's take a decent recent Point & ...
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Will an add-on mini macro lens for my mobile phone help get a blurry-background effect?
I am new to photography. I am really interested in taking close up photos (macro photography) of objects with a blurry background. But my mobile phone (a Sony Xperia Ion ) does not have the facility ...
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Where can I find detailed camera, sensor and lens specs for cameras in smartphones?
For pretty much any dedicated digital camera out there I can easily find detailed specs on sites such as dpreview.com.
For cameras in smartphones however, these details are not easily found, or maybe ...
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is it possible to get "bokeh balls" using a cellphone camera?
Is it possible to get "bokeh balls" using an cellphone camera? I'm using an iPhone but the question could apply to any cameraphone. bI'm sure there are a lot of apps which allow you to insert fake ...
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Is there any way starburst diffractions could be captured with a fixed f/2 smartphone lens? [closed]
There's been some controversy surrounding the publicity camera samples for Nokia's new flagship smartphone, the Lumia 920. First it was shown (and admitted by Nokia) that the stabilised video footage ...
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Does the Nokia Lumia 920 truly present any significant advancements in cameras?
Nokia is touting the new Nokia Lumia 920 as a breakthrough on many fronts for digital photography, even going so far as to say that it can achieve DSLR like results.
Of course one of the things that ...
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How to best take a picture of a screen, like a computer monitor, with a phone camera?
Are there any tips on shooting with iPhone another screen, like a computer monitor or another phone? Maybe it requires some special lightning?
I'm trying, but it's always too dark or noisy.
Here ...
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Motorola Razr Maxx compression removal
I've recently acquired a Motorola Razr Maxx. I had hoped its camera would be good for those random shots of opportunity, but unfortunately its quality seems crippled by overzealous JPEG compression. ...
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How can you make the most of mobile phone cameras? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get the best results with a cell phone camera?
I don't always have my DSLR with me, yet someone in the group usually has at least an iOS or Android device with them. ...
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How can I get the best quality prints from an iPhone photo?
I have a photo on my iPhone that I'd like to print, but the quality is poor. Is there anything I can do so that I can print it?
I have Photoshop CS5.
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How can I improve my smartphone photos of a product for eBay?
I've got a 8.0 Megapixel camera (The camera of Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone).
I need to take pictures of the product, and I want to make it look as best as can be!
It's a notebook, and it even looks ...
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Can I combine several low quality pics into one higher quality picture?
Is there an easy tool to combine low quality pics taken from a mobile phone, all of the same thing but taken within a few seconds interval from one another, mostly suffering from slight out of focus ...
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What is Interoperability Index R98?
In the uploaded pictures from my mobile phone, I get a line with the following information: Interoperability Index = R98? What is this Index?
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Why do cell phones have the camera in a corner and not in the middle?
It seems counter intuitive because of how you hold the cell phone.
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What are the technical camera specs for the HTC Wildfire S?
I am trying to do some CGI manipulations on pictures I've taken. In order to fake reality with some 3D object inserted in the picture, I need some information to configure my virtual camera so it can ...
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How many megapixels are needed on a smartphone to take above quality photos?
Just regular above quality photos for Facebook and normal things.
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What does interpolation mean in the Nokia 808 Pureview?
The new Nokia 808 Pureview claims a 41MP sensor when shooting still images. Engadget tells us that it is due to "interpolation jiggery-pokery that condenses four or five pixels into one pixel". I ...
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Is the iPhone 4S camera good enough to serve as one's "everyday-carry"?
I'd like to have a camera with me at all times, but my DSLR is often too bulky. For some time now, I have tried cell phones as a compact camera substitutes, but with limited success. Often, the ...
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What Android phone has the best camera? [closed]
I am going to buy an Android mobile phone and I want to be sure it has good camera (and video camera).
What phones do you recommend that have good camera?
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