Help flash not synced right with camera..

[ruckingoodtime]

I have had my warp for a couple weeks now, the pictures that it takes aren't too bad in the light. But when you need the flash it seems like the flash is off sync with the shutter and the picture just turns out to be white or have a huge white spot in it... Anyone else have this issue/ have a fix for it...

 

[primetech]

How huge and white are we talking here? (Post pics?) LED pictures always look like they're cheap and vignette to some degree.

 

[ruckingoodtime]

How huge and white are we talking here? (Post pics?) LED pictures always look like they're cheap and vignette to some degree.

Here is a picture I took of an HDMI to micro HDMI cord...

 

[Deleted User]

I have had my warp for a couple weeks now, the pictures that it takes aren't too bad in the light. But when you need the flash it seems like the flash is off sync with the shutter and the picture just turns out to be white or have a huge white spot in it... Anyone else have this issue/ have a fix for it...

I've had it happen randomly in well lit situations, I just turned the flash off

 

[ruckingoodtime]

I've had it happen randomly in well lit situations, I just turned the flash off

Is there a way to set the flash timing?

 

[primetech]

Okay, that's really bleached all right. I'm gonna try replicating your photo tomorrow, after everybody in my house wakes up to the sun and not an LED flash.

How far away is your phone from the cable/floor approximately?

 

[ruckingoodtime]

Okay, that's really bleached all right. I'm gonna try replicating your photo tomorrow, after everybody in my house wakes up to the sun and not an LED flash.

How far away is your phone from the cable/floor approximately?

I would say a foot to a foot and a half... no matter how close though it shouldn't do that... I took pics all the time with my triumph at that distance and never had an issue....

 

[primetech]

This is no Triumph. Unfortunately.

 

[jjohnbubby5]

Mine does the same thing, but I don't use flash

 

[n0ve]

I've noticed that happening too, but usually if i take my time, and hold the camera press untill the box is green/steady , then fully press the button, the images seem to come out better.

 

[ruckingoodtime]

This is no Triumph. Unfortunately.

I honestly like the warp better than triumph, I had received 5 or different phone from boost because the screen kept going white and eventually would just stay white, that's the main reason why I switched to boost. Virgin didn't have any better phones than the Triumph, and I wasn't going to downgrade. Since I have switched, I have noticed my internet is way faster. The flash is the only complaint I have with the warp.. as for the triumph, I could go on and on.....

 

[primetech]

Well I just noticed something horrendous. The camera flash never fires while your phone is evaluating the balance of dark and light in the picture, only while taking it. Which means the only pictures that will look good with a flash, are the ones that would look good without one. Isn't that just dandy nice?

 

[ruckingoodtime]

Well I just noticed something horrendous. The camera flash never fires while your phone is evaluating the balance of dark and light in the picture, only while taking it. Which means the only pictures that will look good with a flash, are the ones that would look good without one. Isn't that just dandy nice?

Yeah I noticed that... maybe someone can figure something out.... I have tried taking pictures differently and pushing it halfway down letting it focus then pushing all the way, but that doesn't seem to make a difference either... it's really unfortunate...

 

[primetech]

All I can say is either turn the flash on permanently when taking a picture (rooted) or use a flashlight as a secondary light source (when not rooted). now that's just another issue I'll be sure to take up with ZTE when I meet their American ambassador.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

I have had my warp for a couple weeks now, the pictures that it takes aren't too bad in the light. But when you need the flash it seems like the flash is off sync with the shutter and the picture just turns out to be white or have a huge white spot in it... Anyone else have this issue/ have a fix for it...

Here is a picture I took of an HDMI to micro HDMI cord...

Okay, that's really bleached all right. I'm gonna try replicating your photo tomorrow, after everybody in my house wakes up to the sun and not an LED flash.

How far away is your phone from the cable/floor approximately?

I would say a foot to a foot and a half... no matter how close though it shouldn't do that... I took pics all the time with my triumph at that distance and never had an issue....

This is not a synchronization issue; but a basic exposure issue.

The only effect a synchronization issue could have would be to make your pictures too dark, as a result of the picture not being taken at the same time the flash is going off.

I don't know what the level of sophistication is in the camera in your particular phone, but this is exactly what I would expect of a fairly low-end camera with a flash. Keep in mind that the degree to which the flash will illuminate the subject of the picture various with the distance squared. In order for a camera flash to work well over very wide a range, the camera and the flash would have to have a certain degree of sophistication to compensate for different levels of exposure at different distances. Without that degree of sophistication, pictures taken too close (which I would expect

 

[Bob Blaylock]

I would say a foot to a foot and a half... no matter how close though it shouldn't do that... I took pics all the time with my triumph at that distance and never had an issue....

This is no Triumph. Unfortunately.

I just got a Triumph myself, a bit more than a month ago—my very first smartphone. One thing that I found surprising about it is how sophisticated its main camera is. Among other things, it is indeed capable of taking flash pictures as close as a foot (or even much closer, in fact) and getting the exposure right.

To be able to do this requires a much higher level of sophistication than I expected to find in a cell phone camera. It must either be able to judge the distance (possible, since it also has—to my surprise—auto-focussing (I would have expected any camera this small to be fixed-focus)) and adjust the exposure and/or flash output accordingly; or else it must be measuring the cumulative exposure while the picture is being taken, ending it when the right exposure has been reached.

I have a couple of standalone digital cameras that do not possess this degree of sophistication; their flashes are only useful within a fairly narrow distance range, with a foot being well outside of that usable range. Were I to try taking flash pictures at a one-foot range with either of them, I would get results very similar to what ruckingoodtime is getting at that range.

I think that the answer is going to turn out to be that the camera in ruckingoodtime's phone just doesn't have the sophistication that is needed to be able to properly regulate the exposure of a flash picture at so close a range.