Camera - Preview looks much better than the actual picture

[Saneless]

With my iphone, what I saw in the preview window was what I got. If I had the right lighting and took the picture, it was exactly how I saw it on screen.

With my Nexus, though, the picture looks fine in the window, but when it takes the picture, it does some f'd up things with the colors and kinda gives everything a green tint. I'ts not the best lighting conditions but wtf, the preview window looked just fine.

I've tried changing the limited white balance options (can I pick OFF???) and nothing helps.

It's not just a difference in the lense vs the screen - when I change it to video, it shoots it identically to how I see it on the screen. So it's definitely something in the white balance changes (I think). Can I fix this? I don't want my daughter asking me, when she gets older, why cameras in 2010 were so horrible. Mostly I just want this damn thing to be at LEAST as good as my iPhone when it's not using the flash.

 

[icebike]

Is color effect off?
Is your flash firing?
Are you under florescent lights?

For the record, I see none of this.

If you are under Florescent lights every other camera will tend toward the green. The picture is correct, you would light balance that prior to using the photo. The question then becomes why the preview does not show it that way.

 

[Channan]

Same problem here. Everything looks fine until the screen goes black. Then when you see the picture the Nexus One just took, it's got a green tint to it. Only happens in low light conditions, though.

Nexus One takes better quality pics than the iPhone, but the colors of pictures the iPhones takes are better. I can only imagine how much better pictures are going to look taken with an iPhone after the iPhone's camera gets a MP boost.