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Google Camera 7.5 brings a much-needed change

Posted on August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 by Prakhar Khanna

The latest version of the camera app for Pixel phones, Google Camera 7.5 is bringing some notable changes. It includes a change in the file naming scheme for photos and it finally stops saving portrait photos in a separate folder.

The latest development comes from Android Police. Google Camera version 7.5 is switching to the prefix “PXL” instead of “IMG” for starting the file name. The change is said to apply to all photos and videos including Motion Photos, Night Sight clicks, and portraits.

Coming to the much-needed change, Google Camera 7.5 will now stop saving portrait photos in separate folders. It is likely to be appreciated by everyone who uses the Google Camera app. To recall, earlier, portrait pictures used to be saved inside individual folders within the DCIM/Camera directory.

The new Google Camera 7.5 is sideloadable on Android 11 betas.

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Google Camera update adds 8X zoom support for video capture on Pixel 4

Posted on June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 by Lee Kelly

The Google Camera app has been updated to version 7.4, and it finally allows Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL users to capture videos at 8X zoom level. Earlier, the camera could only go up to 6X zoom level while recording videos.

However, an XDA-Developers report notes that you can’t use the auto or 60fps frame rate options that are available for 1080p video capture. Also, if you were hoping for 4K 60FPS video mode to finally arrive on the Pixel 4 duo, you’re out of luck.

The update also adds video resolution and frame rate toggles in the drop-down menu for video mode, allowing users to easily switch between 1080p and 4K resolution. In the Google Camera app’s older version, users had to go all the way in the Settings section to do that.

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Google Camera app from Pixel 3 available with RAW support, fresh UI

Posted on October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 by Anton D. Nagy

The Google Camera app from the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL is now available to download as APK, bringing a fresh UI and RAW support.

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Google says Pixel Visual Core is not used for Pixel 2’s native camera app

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Jules Wang

The company said so in an interview published in November. Why is it the case that Facebook can use this machine-learning co-processor, but not Google Camera?

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The Pixel’s purple camera crash problem may be with geolocation

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Jules Wang

A purple screen and distorted memories are what many Google Pixel users in Europe have been dealing with for more than a month now.

An issue stemmed in the Google Pixel User Community by Mike Fox on October 27 showed what appeared to be a major problem with the Pixel taking pictures with the Google Camera app. Snapped results would often end up with the frame “off-sync,” where a portion of the picture is shifted to the opposite side of where it should be. Bright magenta bars tint portions of the image as well.

All of this would frequently end up freezing the phone upon review.

After testing with third-party apps, complete data wipes, secondary units and further reports — many of them from the UK and Germany using the international Pixel SKU, though there was an isolated case with a US-bought Pixel XL on Verizon being used in Italy — along the thread were not able to pin down the problem for some time.

Then it was suggested that the problem could be related to how data reception is for any particular area. The risk is especially heightened in poorer 2G spots. Pictures taken on Airplane Mode did not cause the issue. At this point, we’re inclined to guess that automatic cloud backup may be a factor in causing the bug to show up though from further posts, it seems that geolocation tagging may be a bigger culprit.

The Pixel’s camera has also been affected by a “halo effect” caused by the glass. Google promised that a software update would remedy the issue. A software update that was sent to Canadian Pixel units may have the fix on this case, but it has not been sent to other regions that we know of.

MobileSyrup has contacted Google for a response to this issue.

Image: Dominik Naumer

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Google Camera as seen on Android N preview now at Play Store

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Jules Wang

It’s been a while since we’ve talked about Google’s stock camera app that has been relegated to the realms of Nexus. Those of you on the Android Beta Program have been able to peek into some new features as carried in the app through the

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Google Camera update brings UI from new Nexus phones to other Marshmallow models

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Stephen Schenck

Android users know that Google makes the latest platform updates available for its Nexus family of devices before anyone else gets them, but it’s easy to forget that Nexus phones sometimes also have another advantage, with the latest models introducing new app-level software ahead of its availability elsewhere. With the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P, that meant picking up the latest changes to the Google Camera app first, but now Google’s finally ready to start sharing the love with the rest of the ...

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Things that went wrong with my tech this week

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Joe Levi

Reading the articles on Pocketnow, you might think that everything is always perfect and that we never have problems with our tech. That couldn’t be further from the truth! Here are just a few tech failures that I’ve had to deal with this week.Do you have the time?I love my Moto 360 smartwatch – despite the fact that changing the band on it literally drew blood. It gives me the information I need right when I need it, thanks to its always-on, battery munching Ambient Display.

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Google Camera update on Android brings loads of new and returning features

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Rithvik Rao

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Google Android app updates: Wallet, Camera

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Stephen Schenck

Yesterday we saw Google deliver a pretty substantial update to Maps, not just for Andorid, but iOS as well. And while that was a well-appreciated update, it also felt like it landed a tad bit early; as we mentioned at the time, Wednesdays tend to be Google’s big days for app updates. Well, Maps may have jumped the gun, but Google’s still got some new software it was saving for us today, and we’re hearing about new updates on their way for both Google Wallet and Google Camera. Wallet’s changes ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 092: Galaxy S5 vs HTC M8, Windows Phone 8.1 review, and Engadget’s Brad Molen!

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Michael Fisher

Skipping listener mail for two weeks in a row? We know, we know … unconscionable. But we also know you’ll forgive us in exchange for two things: a packed review schedule, and an awesome podcast guest. We’re bringing you both of those as the week winds down to a close. In addition to the usual news segment narrated by the soothing voice of Chief News Editor Stephen Schenck, we’ve got additional insights on Samsung’s new Galaxy S5: how it compares to its forebears, how well it fares against competition like the HTC One M8, and a debate on the merits of standout ...

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The new Google Camera app: finally, Android’s stock shooter stops sucking (Video)

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Michael Fisher

“Once we’ve got the 3D pose of each photo, we compute the depth of each pixel in the reference photo using Multi-View Stereo algorithms. MVS works the way human stereo vision does: given the location of the same object in two different images, we can triangulate the 3D position of the object and compute the distance to it. How do we figure out which pixel in one image corresponds to a pixel in another image? MVS measures how similar they are — on mobile devices, one particularly simple and efficient way is computing the Sum of Absolute Differences (SAD) of the RGB colors ...

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