topic Re: problame with background defocus in Other/General

problame with background defocus

arsh07 — Wed, 14 May 2014 04:47:56 GMT

SIr, i've tried so many times by completing requirement of defocusiing. I put object around 30 cms from background and wait for almost 5-7 min with steady hand to blur the background, but still cant defocus background.

Re: problame with background defocus

Uliwooly — Wed, 14 May 2014 05:06:30 GMT

its all about practice

Re: problame with background defocus

arsh07 — Wed, 14 May 2014 11:48:44 GMT

but how much time i shoud be steady.. ?? it doesnt even defocus a bit ... any standerd procedure for that ???

Re: problame with background defocus

_alexdon_ — Wed, 14 May 2014 11:49:35 GMT

You have to tap on the screen first on the object you want,after that you can take the shot.

Re: problame with background defocus

arsh07 — Wed, 14 May 2014 11:53:09 GMT

actually sir i tap on object and when i try to capture it it shows mesage that " could not blur background" .. i tried even through physical camera button ...

Re: problame with background defocus

_alexdon_ — Wed, 14 May 2014 11:57:15 GMT

It happened to me first time I tried it (on Z1) but now it works great.

Re: problame with background defocus

Danial-mach1 — Wed, 14 May 2014 18:13:34 GMT

background must have at least 2-3 foot distance from your object or background must have same depth

otherwise it wont defocus or just a little of background got defocus

Re: problame with background defocus

him — Thu, 15 May 2014 01:59:32 GMT

You're not alone look at the play store ratings for background defocus for Xperia sp many people rated it 1 star and the reason behind this is same as yours. I'm also facing the same problem.

Re: problame with background defocus

hmds007 — Thu, 15 May 2014 05:51:59 GMT

Background defocus dont work for xperia sp. All the time it shows can't blur background. Sony has just released it to us to show that our sp dont deserve it as its price is lower than xperia z series. Shame on u sony.

Re: problame with background defocus

arsh07 — Thu, 15 May 2014 06:30:47 GMT

i think sony should include tutorial instead of written instruction .. bcz its not a normal camera app ... Look at the google camera, users can easyly do BG defocus. Even in Z series its easy to use this app ...

Re: problame with background defocus

Danial-mach1 — Thu, 15 May 2014 08:31:03 GMT

check this..taken with xperia SP and camera defocuse app

Re: problame with background defocus

Looser99 — Thu, 15 May 2014 12:53:50 GMT

Sir, i think not. Can you try the background defocus app on a xperia sp and then suggest something more substantial? Thanks in advance

Re: problame with background defocus

electro_nik — Thu, 15 May 2014 17:52:44 GMT

Very bad in macro photography

Re: problame with background defocus

fedebt — Thu, 15 May 2014 21:19:48 GMT

I don't say it doesn't work at all but I've tried many and many times and no results for me. I've searched in Google play store comments and there are a lot of people with SP with the same problem.

Re: problame with background defocus

arsh07 — Fri, 16 May 2014 13:22:24 GMT

i just want to know proper steps to follow .. becuase i have also tried many of times but i failed ... and i also want to knwo that camera will automatcally warn us while defocus complete or any sign that shows us defocus is complete ??

Re: problame with background defocus

Danial-mach1 — Fri, 16 May 2014 19:00:43 GMT

first of all: your object must be about 30cm from phone..then tap on it

also nothing must have on that distance..for example if you hold object in hand your hand will be defocus with object

secend:the background must have 2-3 meters away about object

i did try capturing pics for many times until i found how to capture it properly

as i mentioned above i did take those pics with my sp

Re: problame with background defocus

arsh07 — Mon, 19 May 2014 11:45:23 GMT

sir, in your case, atleast, camera can defoucus background. in my ( and many of other's) case it constantly shows message " could not blur background". i think sony has released this app just for some limited kernals.

i m not saying that unable to capture defocus pics is only sony's fault. but i tried my best.

i have searched on playstores comment, i have never seen a XSP user commenting that it works good. All i have seen are ZL,ZR,Z,Z1 compact,Z2 users.

atleast sony can make it userfriendly like google camera.

Re: problame with background defocus

arsh07 — Fri, 23 May 2014 14:24:14 GMT

Re: problame with background defocus

arsh07 — Fri, 23 May 2014 14:36:54 GMT

beckground defoucs by me ... actually i must say sorry to sony for all these blasphamy .. n coardially thankz fo this app..
for those who want to get the result ...
first of all u have to know that it captures TINY images first and defocus it properly so my advice is to put finger in that "SQUARE" ( when it says you to touch the area you want to focus) as i'hve shown in last image ( put finger very close to camera lense )... when you put it would defocus in no time ... ( if not then try to move finger very slowly away from camera lense and see whether it defocus or not )

in my other images background is almost 4-6 feet away and that DEO bottle if very close to lense ....

my another advice is that please do not put OBJECT ( you want to focus ) on groundflor .. becouse it would be hard for camera to diffrentiate between background and ground flor ...

but still i can not defocus a background while capturing picture of PERSON ...

but it feels good after capturing it ..

Re: problame with background defocus

User29 — Sat, 24 May 2014 02:51:34 GMT

Hii I too had d same problem previously but now it wrks fr me.. You have too take pic frm atleast 1ft distance n it wrks..dnt knw i cudnt make it work in indoor condtions but t wrked in outdoor conditions perfectly for me