Better Videos and Pictures on Android

[BotDamian]

Hello everyone,

I want to record a video but the quality is extremely bad.

 

I use a RoG Phone 5, from the specs the camera should be ok. It looks good on my phone but as soon as I see it on my PC it's extremely bad. I had a 100euro DSLR and I'm familiar with iso, shutter speed etc

 

It looks like it has extreme smoothing to the point where it creates artifacts, it doesn't have this "static noise" from high ISO it has a weird corny texture.

 

I've seen someone make a video about Filmic Pro App and the features are nice but my problem isn't iso lighting etc but those smoothing artifacts.

 

Does anyone know more about this? How to get better Videos and Pictures?

[pythonmegapixel]

I imagine that kind of thing is implemented in software. Maybe try downloading a camera app which gives you more customisation. I've used this one before and it's pretty good. The Play Store incorrectly lists it as containing advertising, which it doesn't.

[VFXGuy]

9 hours ago, BotDamian said:

Hello everyone,

I want to record a video but the quality is extremely bad.

 

I use a RoG Phone 5, from the specs the camera should be ok. It looks good on my phone but as soon as I see it on my PC it's extremely bad. I had a 100euro DSLR and I'm familiar with iso, shutter speed etc

 

It looks like it has extreme smoothing to the point where it creates artifacts, it doesn't have this "static noise" from high ISO it has a weird corny texture.

 

I've seen someone make a video about Filmic Pro App and the features are nice but my problem isn't iso lighting etc but those smoothing artifacts.

 

Does anyone know more about this? How to get better Videos and Pictures?

Phone cameras aren't great. From the specs they advertise, one would think they're not bad but subjective opinion on whether photo/video is good or not is comes into play.

They're are apps like you mentioned which allow you to easily adjust camera settings. This might make the photo and video better.

[BotDamian]

1 hour ago, VFXGuy said:

Phone cameras aren't great. From the specs they advertise, one would think they're not bad but subjective opinion on whether photo/video is good or not is comes into play.

They're are apps like you mentioned which allow you to easily adjust camera settings. This might make the photo and video better.

But are the 15 bucks worth it compared to buying a new DSLR?
I want to make videos and vlogs so yeah, it needs to be somehow good and because it's a phone I always carry it with me.

[VFXGuy]

22 hours ago, BotDamian said:

But are the 15 bucks worth it compared to buying a new DSLR?
I want to make videos and vlogs so yeah, it needs to be somehow good and because it's a phone I always carry it with me.

I would say recommend starting with a basic DSLR (if you have the resources) like a Canon 80D. If you aren't going to have the around 60+% of the time you need to be filming- I would pay the £15.

[Krzysiu]

It hugely depends on the phone, but many (majority?) of them won't allow apps to access raw sensor data - and that would be the only way to skip that horrible denoise of phones. Also if you'd decide for camera, get DSLR (80D is indeed a fair choice!), as VFX suggest, instead some cheap camera, because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter is sadly a standard for the latter and for dynamic scenes you wouldn't want that.

 

You could invest in better light setup, but you probably already know that. It will give slightly better results, but overall you still lack the control over the photo.