Anyone got any tips for this? It’s a Samsung D500 phone, I’m finding that if I use the flash i tend to get some lines across the picture.
Did you stop to think that maybe the strippers don’t want you taking their pictures?
Not strippers, prostitutes.
Oh well, in that case, pop for the motel, ya cheap bastard.
I prefer it in cars.
What, you never heard of a dome light?
This really needs to be in General Questions.
your humble TubaDiva
Why is your [unspecified female acquaintance] moonlighting?
I dont know, money for crack? I really couldnt give a stuff, I need suggestions for taking pictures and I aint getting many!
Your chances of getting a good low-light photo in a camera phone without flash are slim to none. They simply aren’t designed for it, the lenses are slow and the CCD isn’t going to give you high ISO performance.
By throwing it the hell away and getting a proper camera.
To elaborate on what Telemark said, one of the TANSTAAFL rules in photography is bigger cameras take better pictures. When you use a tiny sensor chip and a proportionally smaller lens and absolute aperture you have less light to make an image. Small sensors have reached the point where if there isn’t super bright light there aren’t enough photons coming through the lens to make a smooth, noise free image.
To take good low light images you’ll probably need a DSLR which will have a sensor about an inch across or larger and a large aperture lens. Even the smallest of these like the Nikon D50 and Pentax *istD are going to be vastly larger than your phone. These cameras have a sensor that can take good pictures at ISO 1600 but they will still be noisier than low ISO pictures in bright light. There are probably some incremental improvements to be had from improved electronics for small sensor cameras but unless someone rewrites the laws of quantum physics camera phones will never take great low light pictures.
Look I just want to get the best out of what I have, I know I’m not going to get amazing quality pictures I’m not that daft!
Sorry if I was bit brusque, I should have put a grin smiley on it as I wasn’t trying to be mean.
Unfortunately you asked how to get better low light photos and implied that flash wasn’t an option due to other problems. I think the only way you can make the pictures better is to get more light for the exposure. That means brighter room light, larger aperture or longer exposure and none of these seem to be options.
There’s really not much you can do, the camera-phone is going to take crappy photos in low light situations. You can either add light, keep the shutter open longer, or gather more of the existing light. Options 2 and 3 are out, that leaves you with add more light.
If it’s small camera portability and lowlight Photography you want, then google around for the instructions on how to remove the InfraRed filter from cheap cameras. I have a “Pencam” that took lousy pics even in good light untill I took out its IR filter. Of course the colors are all off now, but if you convert to Black and white, they do ok. You can also rig up an invisable light sourse for these using IR LEDS from remote controls or your local Radio Shack. All for less than a specialized camera.
This person might be able to give you a hand!