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Hey Royden,

I tried to reproduce this with my MX4 on OTA-8. Can you maybe take a
picture of one of these patterns with another device and send it over,
so we get a better idea of what exactly might cause the problem?

cheers,
Simon


Am 11/23/2015 um 09:25 PM schrieb royden yates:
> Hi all,
> 
> in the midst of a frozen forest, I bumped into a strange camera
> bug on the MX4. I can reproduce it at will but would like to
> know 1) is it just my MX4 (doubtful) 2) assuming not, is it just
> on Meizu or on all devices, ie. camera application issue.
> 
> I was taking photos successfully - general forest
> shots and then tried a close-up of a frost dusted spider web.
> Focus was achieved, shutter sounded and "shot" animation
> displayed. Nothing got shown in Photo Roll aside of the
> Ubuntu spinner. A .jpg file is present in Pictures and if
> registered with Gallery via File Manager, the file displays
> with a "music-note" thumb. Assume file corrupted.
> 
> This happened twice in field, second time with frost dusted,
> repetitively patterned moss. Regular structure (macro only?)
> seems to be the key. 
> 
> Reproduced by placing black mosquito net over back-lighted opaque perspex and photographing
> from 15-20 cm distance.
> 
> Similar tests appreciated towards bug filing.
> 
> Royden
>