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iPhone 4 has green spot in camera, back AND front!
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I would bet they all have it, unless you look hard it can easily be overlooked. This isn't something every user would see no matter what, you have to look for it.
It could just be that apple needs to tweak how the camera controls white balance, that's my bet. So yea, software tweak, agreed
All cameras get this from fluorescent lighting, some just have more capable software and/or lens attributes to fight it.
Just tested again in a room with halogen lights and no green spot! Only in my room with cfl bulbs does the green spot appear! Yay!
I can confirm this as well.
Of note, a room with mixed halogen and incandescent produced a more subtle tint.
I need to stay away from MacRumors.
I just did the test and I have the same blue tint.
My faith in Apple is dropping like a rock.
I have owned a crap load of Mac products. I am a freakin Apple evangelist in my family for Gods sake. This is embarrassing.
Great.
Read my previous posts, this is normal behavior for a camera in fluorescent lighting. While a update to how the camera processes the image may help this is not apples fault, it's your fluorescent lightings fault.
Incandescent would give you a warmer tint, maybe more towards yellows/reds mix. It would seem more subtle and likely harder to notice.
Normal light / sunlight = perfect
fluorescent = green roundish haze (circular)
Low light = reddish roundish haze (circular)
Low light + flash = normal except the flash isn't "full full" - there are shadows on one side as if it's a spot light. But since it's a camera flash RIGHT next to the lens (why didn't they put it onto the other side so the light didn't bleed into the lens?!) It's "acceptable"
fluorescent = green roundish haze (circular)
Low light = reddish roundish haze (circular)
Low light + flash = normal except the flash isn't "full full" - there are shadows on one side as if it's a spot light. But since it's a camera flash RIGHT next to the lens (why didn't they put it onto the other side so the light didn't bleed into the lens?!) It's "acceptable"
I read your post and thought my ceiling fan was running incandescent bulbs. I stopped the fan and checked, and they are fluorescent bulbs.
I reshot a pic under incandescent bulbs and it looks good.
Thank God.
Now if I can only find an answer to that damn proximity sensor. At least I am sure that can be taken care of with a software update.
Thanks for the info.
Are you in a room with CFL or any sort of fluorescent lighting? Your MBP has a CFL backlight you know
Fluorescent lighting will cause the green tint, the iPhones lens or one of the elements tends to over exagerate it for some reason (if you look at the lens its already a green'ish tint). I noticed I have the same green tint at my office, outside no green tint. My house is mainly CFL, during the evening I can see a slight green tint against my wall, in the day with natural light no green tint on the same wall.
This is not an issue with the phone, its the type of lighting that you are in and its affect on the camera lens. I'm surprised a photographer hasn't already chimed in here on this considering how many of them are on this forum.
I tested again and no green spot! Thanks !!!
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I'm over all of these issues (e.g., reception drops, green spots, etc.) and am going to try to stop being such an Apple perfectionist. The phone works.
Go outside and take a photograph of a white surface and it will be entirely 100% perfect. Nobody photographs things under fluorescent light anyway. At least if you do you probably don't care about what you're photographing very much.
And hey, look, other phones have this problem too. It's a combination of poor camera software and unfavorable lighting (fluorescent light = bad). http://www.modaco.com/content/i8000...n-spot-in-camera-and-photo-shot/#entry1184965
And hey, look, other phones have this problem too. It's a combination of poor camera software and unfavorable lighting (fluorescent light = bad). http://www.modaco.com/content/i8000...n-spot-in-camera-and-photo-shot/#entry1184965
Borrowed an Evo, a 3G, and a 3GS at the office and none have the green tint whereas both iphone 4's i tried do.....
what's the verdict on this? can we get it exchanged? mine has it.. it's irritating that i paid $300 for a phone and it's basic camera can't take nice shots.
you won't notice it under real world conditions, trust me
as if you'd wanna take loads of mainly-white-photos-inside-your-office pics
it is REALLY barely noticeable unless there's almost NO natural lighting whatsoever in the room and it's only lit by fluorescent lighting.
as if you'd wanna take loads of mainly-white-photos-inside-your-office pics
it is REALLY barely noticeable unless there's almost NO natural lighting whatsoever in the room and it's only lit by fluorescent lighting.