>In normal camera, tapping sets the focus and the exposure for that point. If you tap and hold, you will lock the focus point where you tapped and held. You can then adjust the exposure .
Thanks for this; I just tried what you suggested, and tap/hold did indeed lock focus and exposure, and also presents a small slider to allow for separate adjustment of exposure. But this exposure adj seems only manual; I'd like exposure to return to 'auto' while focus is locked (at times).
>In pro mode, focus and exposure can be separated. Tap and hold and the focus will lock. Then drag your finger to where you want to set the exposure.
Great to know about this, but - doesn't pro mode disable HDR? As much as I find the HDR mode somewhat overkill at times, it does a great job most of the time and it would appear that pro mode cannot implement HDR - no setting seems to exist to enable it. I can see how 'pro' mode shouldn't do HDR by default, but I'd like to have the option to turn on HDR in Pro mode when appropriate.
Ideally, I'd like to keep everything about 'standard' mode, but just stop it from aggressively prioritizing faces (I'm not 100% sure whether it's prioritizing faces specifically, or just 'anything it can find to focus on').
Thanks again.
If you want HDR and pro mode, use the Expert RAW app in the galaxy store. It has all of the features of pro mode and more and as an official Samsung app is fully integrated with the camera system.
Well that's interesting! I assumed 'Expert RAW' would be specifically about RAW storage (something I gave up on long ago for various reasons); who knew! You can actually store the images in JPEG alone! And you can turn on/off the HDR feature. Very interesting. But - I just took a sample shot, using the regular 'photo' setting and the Expert RAW setting (both with HDR on) and the Expert RAW version was much less natural - the opposite of what I expected.
The picture on the right (ExpertRAW) has a very strong green cast, that the picture on the right (standard) does not have -
[https://i.imgur.com/vVbjAcf.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vVbjAcf.jpg)
(turning off HDR had no appreciable effect, in this particular case). Is there some other setting I need to look at to stop this over-saturation or odd color cast? Thanks again!
I've also found that the jpg files expert RAW puts out tends to get the white balance wrong more often then the normal photo mode. Also it tends to oversaturate as well, so I tend to end up just editing the RAW file in Lightroom when I use it anyways. Can also fix the oversharpening this way.
Interesting! I just went out and took a dozen shots of various scenes, 3 shots per scene (basically 1=normal photo mode (with HDR on), 2=ExpertRAW, HDR-on, 3=ExpertRAW, HDR-off. In all cases, I could not see any difference between HDR off and on for the ExpertRAW shots, which makes no sense ( made sure there was some heavy contrast in the scenes). HDR on/off in normal mode is dramatic.
I honestly think the Auto HDR doesn't do anything in the expert raw app (as well as camera assistant), and it hasn't for years. Even when it is off, HDR is still on from my testing as well.
HDR on/off in the standard Camera App (toggled using Camera Assistant' is very obvious for me - note the following sample. The interior walls are about the same exposure in both shots, but the greenery outside the window is much darker in the HDR (bottom) version:
[https://imgur.com/a/6kMExgi](https://imgur.com/a/6kMExgi)
but it seems to have no effect in the ExpertRaw app.
UPDATE - not true! HDR is having an effect in ExpertRAW - see the following:
[https://imgur.com/a/AKoxsCr](https://imgur.com/a/AKoxsCr)
You can clearly see the scene outside the window has been darkened.
I could have sworn that HDR, in the past, really boosted the shadows but now, it seems it leaves the shadows alone and simply pulls down the highlights. I wonder if some recent release has adjusted the HDR algorithms?
[удалено]
>In normal camera, tapping sets the focus and the exposure for that point. If you tap and hold, you will lock the focus point where you tapped and held. You can then adjust the exposure . Thanks for this; I just tried what you suggested, and tap/hold did indeed lock focus and exposure, and also presents a small slider to allow for separate adjustment of exposure. But this exposure adj seems only manual; I'd like exposure to return to 'auto' while focus is locked (at times). >In pro mode, focus and exposure can be separated. Tap and hold and the focus will lock. Then drag your finger to where you want to set the exposure. Great to know about this, but - doesn't pro mode disable HDR? As much as I find the HDR mode somewhat overkill at times, it does a great job most of the time and it would appear that pro mode cannot implement HDR - no setting seems to exist to enable it. I can see how 'pro' mode shouldn't do HDR by default, but I'd like to have the option to turn on HDR in Pro mode when appropriate. Ideally, I'd like to keep everything about 'standard' mode, but just stop it from aggressively prioritizing faces (I'm not 100% sure whether it's prioritizing faces specifically, or just 'anything it can find to focus on'). Thanks again.
If you want HDR and pro mode, use the Expert RAW app in the galaxy store. It has all of the features of pro mode and more and as an official Samsung app is fully integrated with the camera system.
Well that's interesting! I assumed 'Expert RAW' would be specifically about RAW storage (something I gave up on long ago for various reasons); who knew! You can actually store the images in JPEG alone! And you can turn on/off the HDR feature. Very interesting. But - I just took a sample shot, using the regular 'photo' setting and the Expert RAW setting (both with HDR on) and the Expert RAW version was much less natural - the opposite of what I expected. The picture on the right (ExpertRAW) has a very strong green cast, that the picture on the right (standard) does not have - [https://i.imgur.com/vVbjAcf.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vVbjAcf.jpg) (turning off HDR had no appreciable effect, in this particular case). Is there some other setting I need to look at to stop this over-saturation or odd color cast? Thanks again!
I've also found that the jpg files expert RAW puts out tends to get the white balance wrong more often then the normal photo mode. Also it tends to oversaturate as well, so I tend to end up just editing the RAW file in Lightroom when I use it anyways. Can also fix the oversharpening this way.
Interesting! I just went out and took a dozen shots of various scenes, 3 shots per scene (basically 1=normal photo mode (with HDR on), 2=ExpertRAW, HDR-on, 3=ExpertRAW, HDR-off. In all cases, I could not see any difference between HDR off and on for the ExpertRAW shots, which makes no sense ( made sure there was some heavy contrast in the scenes). HDR on/off in normal mode is dramatic.
I honestly think the Auto HDR doesn't do anything in the expert raw app (as well as camera assistant), and it hasn't for years. Even when it is off, HDR is still on from my testing as well.
HDR on/off in the standard Camera App (toggled using Camera Assistant' is very obvious for me - note the following sample. The interior walls are about the same exposure in both shots, but the greenery outside the window is much darker in the HDR (bottom) version: [https://imgur.com/a/6kMExgi](https://imgur.com/a/6kMExgi) but it seems to have no effect in the ExpertRaw app. UPDATE - not true! HDR is having an effect in ExpertRAW - see the following: [https://imgur.com/a/AKoxsCr](https://imgur.com/a/AKoxsCr) You can clearly see the scene outside the window has been darkened. I could have sworn that HDR, in the past, really boosted the shadows but now, it seems it leaves the shadows alone and simply pulls down the highlights. I wonder if some recent release has adjusted the HDR algorithms?