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Just bought the Droid Maxx and a day later received a software update that improved the camera, among other things. The image quality looks about the same as my daughter's iPhone 5, so this is all good. The one problem I have with the camera app is the forced 16:9 aspect ratio, which cannot be adjusted even just to crop for composing purposes. Annoying to those of us who rarely want to compose as wide as 16:9. After receiving helpful comments from others on this forum, I've experimented with two camera apps that offer a 4:3 aspect ratio option: Camera Zoom FX and Camera FV-5. Both work well (and almost identically, actually). I've also tried Perfectly Clear, but found this cumbersome and of little use given that I use Auto Update Enhance, which auto corrects more simply, and behind the scenes.
This leads me to my question. In comparing the output of Camera Zoom and Camera FV-5, I notice little or no difference in image quality right out of the camera. In a sense, this is not surprising, of course, inasmuch as each app uses the same hardware, as does the Motorola native camera app. I had thought, though, that there might be inherent differences in processing algorithms. Am I wasting my time looking for image quality differences? That is, post-processing programs such as Perfectly Clear aside, are the differences in these apps just in function, in which case I should stop looking if I'm happy with what I have? Thanks in advance.
This leads me to my question. In comparing the output of Camera Zoom and Camera FV-5, I notice little or no difference in image quality right out of the camera. In a sense, this is not surprising, of course, inasmuch as each app uses the same hardware, as does the Motorola native camera app. I had thought, though, that there might be inherent differences in processing algorithms. Am I wasting my time looking for image quality differences? That is, post-processing programs such as Perfectly Clear aside, are the differences in these apps just in function, in which case I should stop looking if I'm happy with what I have? Thanks in advance.