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Also I noticed in my burst folder on my sd cards it stores a folder for burst shots even if I had deleted every shot from the group when taking them. I know it is not a huge issue but that is going to leave a ton of empty folders to sift through if I am going through my photos down the road. Any ideas on fixing this?
 
I'm confused about how burst mode works.

If I hold the shutter down it takes X# of pictures, and then it asks me to select the 'best'. What if I like two or three of those pictures? I don't see where you have the option to keep more than one?

I thought I had found the solution in /dcim/burst/ . That directory appears to be where 'working' images are stored, and a couple of times I've found all my burst photoes there, but sometimes there aren't any at all? Not seeing a pattern.
 
burst mode is designed to only offer you one BEST SHOT out of multiple shots. So what you are seeing is correct in how the developers designed it.

Please keep in mind this is a cellphone computer and not a Nikon D800 so compromises had to be made.
 
So the Evo 4G LTE's burst mode differs from the One X.

I can choose the best photo and then I can decide to delete the others or to hold them.

The gallery shows the best photo and when I tap the burst icon, all photos of the burst are be shown.
I can delete photos of the burst or re-choose the best.

Harry
 
zardoz said:
I'm confused about how burst mode works.

If I hold the shutter down it takes X# of pictures, and then it asks me to select the 'best'. What if I like two or three of those pictures? I don't see where you have the option to keep more than one?

I thought I had found the solution in /dcim/burst/ . That directory appears to be where 'working' images are stored, and a couple of times I've found all my burst photoes there, but sometimes there aren't any at all? Not seeing a pattern.
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marctronixx said:
Burst mode is designed to only offer you one BEST SHOT out of multiple shots. So what you are seeing is correct in how the developers designed it.

Please keep in mind this is a cellphone computer and not a Nikon D800 so compromises had to be made.
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Burst mode and best shot are to work in conjunction with eachother like Marc is saying, and was designed to work in that fashion.


(this is the little work around I've used)

However, if you would like to circumvent selecting a best shot you can back out of the choice using the hardware 'back key' and then get into the Gallery. In Gallery, go into the Camera Shots folder and select the album. Then click the software button in the lower left corner. Once in there you will see the option to select best shot, cover, delete, and expand. You'll want to hit expand and it will break the burst shot album into individual images (cannot undo this choice). Then you will have each image from the burst shot images album. Now you can manually select which shots to delete and which ones to keep, you can even keep multiple shots you enjoy.

The tricky thing is if you have alot of shots saved to your general camera folder already, and you expand an album you may end up with an unorganized mess. I can't remember how the file and folder structure looked last time I did that. If you manually use a PC or android file browser, and separate your images into other folders you should be fine?

Harry2 said:
So the Evo 4G LTE's burst mode differs from the One X.

I can choose the best photo and then I can decide to delete the others or to hold them.

The gallery shows the best photo and when I tap the burst icon, all photos of the burst are be shown.
I can delete photos of the burst or re-choose the best.

Harry
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We do get the same choice, when you select the best shot it gives the option to delete the rest of the images or keep them.
I think I'm remembering the file and folder system is very counter intuitive and doesn't group the burst shot images together very well.
 
I must be missing something here. My experience is that of the op...wither choose the best shot or back out and have them all saved. I don't know anything about a burst icon.. what and where is this?
 
there is not a "burst icon" its a setting. the burst mode is explained here and in the sticky post up top.you can also view this on the users guide built into the phone.

http://androidforums.com/4403141-post12.html

Take Continuous Camera Shots
Do you want to take photos of moving subjects? Whether it’s your kid’s football game or a car race, you can capture the action.

Tip:
On the Viewfinder screen, just touch and hold . The camera takes up to 20 consecutive shots of your subject.
After taking the shots, review your photos and delete the ones you don’t want to keep.
Want to capture a lot more shots? Touch > Continuous shooting, and then clear the Limit to 20 frames option.
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marctronixx said:
burst mode is designed to only offer you one BEST SHOT out of multiple shots. So what you are seeing is correct in how the developers designed it.

Please keep in mind this is a cellphone computer and not a Nikon D800 so compromises had to be made.
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I missed some great action shots because I didn't understand how the burst mode worked on the stock camera.

I had Fast Burst Camera from Spritefish on my Motorola Photon but didn't install that app on my Evo LTE because I thought the built-in camera burst worked the same. I installed that app now and anybody who uses this app will be surprised how great their cell phone will take action shots.

I must add that I've only used Fast Burst Camera in the day time when no flash was required.
 
The "burst icon" he's talking about shows on the cover picture in the gallery. You just hit the little "icon" on the lower left hand corner of the picture and it opens up that folder and lets you flip through all of the pictures in that series. I use burst all the time and love it. Usually if I'm taking that many pictures I don't want to take the time to figure out which is best so I just hit the back button and it saves them all.

My only complain is that in the burst folders all of the pictures have the same name as the other folders so when you copy them to your pc they always want to overwrite other files unless you rename them or make sub-folders. Kind of an over sight there imo.
 
Hi all...

My wife got a new EVO LTE and I plugged it into my MacBook for the first time to download and backup some files.

I noticed in the DCIM (picture) folder a folder "100BURST." I thought that this had something to do with the rapid shutter "burst" mode but couldn't figure it out.

Check out the attached screenshot of the 100BURST folder:

HF1E5.jpg


Various subfolders, some subfolders empty, others have some weird "IMAG000#_COVER.jpg" designation...??

I would have thought that if the "burst" mode images were contained here and where I have heard the shutter release rapidly that in these folders (or somewhere) would be a series of pictures. I cannot find them...

So, what is this 100BURST folder and where, if anywhere I can access, are those burst mode picts??

THANKS!!

Scott
 
scudder said:
Hi all...

My wife got a new EVO LTE and I plugged it into my MacBook for the first time to download and backup some files.

I noticed in the DCIM (picture) folder a folder "100BURST." I thought that this had something to do with the rapid shutter "burst" mode but couldn't figure it out.

Check out the attached screenshot of the 100BURST folder:

HF1E5.jpg


Various subfolders, some subfolders empty, others have some weird "IMAG000#_COVER.jpg" designation...??

I would have thought that if the "burst" mode images were contained here and where I have heard the shutter release rapidly that in these folders (or somewhere) would be a series of pictures. I cannot find them...

So, what is this 100BURST folder and where, if anywhere I can access, are those burst mode picts??

THANKS!!

Scott
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I believe this is where the burst images are saved before the "best shot" is selected.

The best shot is saved in your regular dcim folder, while the rest of the burst shots are saved here.

I "think" that's the way its set up, but I'm not 100% sure.
 
Just wanted to say that the amount of shutter sounds does not equal how many shots are actually taken. It's very misleading.
 
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