Does camera lens have plastic film cover?
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My T-Mobile version did not. The volume buttons and power buttons did.
My ATT didn't either, trust me I checked! I thought there was though due to the extreme pixilation im getting on zoomed in photos
AFAIK it is just a digital zoom, not optical, like pretty much all smartphone cameras.
So when you "zoom", the camera is really just cropping away the outsides of the full frame, and blowing up (stretching) the middle that you are asking for.
I've noticed the pixellation on the phone's screen on zoomed pics, but have not yet compared on a computer. I would expect/hope that a zoomed-in pic would look no worse than a zoomed-out version that is cropped down to just what you wanted, then enlarged.
Try taking the same pic, zoomed out, then zoomed in, and blow up the first picture on your computer until it's the same zoom level as the second.
The only time I used the zoom on my last phone was to crop down to just the area I was interested in, to help with proper exposure in difficult lighting. Like a bright scene, where you are interested in the small darker area. When the bright areas aren't on the screen at all, the camera would expose better.
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So when you "zoom", the camera is really just cropping away the outsides of the full frame, and blowing up (stretching) the middle that you are asking for.
I've noticed the pixellation on the phone's screen on zoomed pics, but have not yet compared on a computer. I would expect/hope that a zoomed-in pic would look no worse than a zoomed-out version that is cropped down to just what you wanted, then enlarged.
Try taking the same pic, zoomed out, then zoomed in, and blow up the first picture on your computer until it's the same zoom level as the second.
The only time I used the zoom on my last phone was to crop down to just the area I was interested in, to help with proper exposure in difficult lighting. Like a bright scene, where you are interested in the small darker area. When the bright areas aren't on the screen at all, the camera would expose better.
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I took a few pics as a test.
One zoomed out normally. The next zoomed in fully, centered on the same object.
I was surprised to see that the camera stores the fully-zoomed picture at the full resolution. When really, the camera only captured the center of the sensor, so it actually recorded much less than the full resolution. They are essentially stretching that small-capture up to 16MP. Trying to fool us, I suppose.
If I view the normal, zoomed-out picture at 100% , it looks like the picture that was taken zoomed in. But I have to view the zoomed-in picture *out* in my image viewer to 12%. If I compare both zoomed to 100% in the image viewer, the zoomed-in picture looks ridiculously pixelated, because the camera took a 2MP (?) image and stretched it out to pretend to be 16MP.
I am using the word "zoomed" too often, I apologize, this has gotten confusing.
Short form: don't expect much from a zoom on a typical smartphone. And when viewing a picture that was taken with the digital zoom, don't zoom in to 100% in your image viewer. Alternately, unless you need it for a specific reason, don't bother with the digital zoom, and simply crop the image later, down to the smaller area you want to "zoom in on". You will likely achieve the same result as using the digital zoom.
One zoomed out normally. The next zoomed in fully, centered on the same object.
I was surprised to see that the camera stores the fully-zoomed picture at the full resolution. When really, the camera only captured the center of the sensor, so it actually recorded much less than the full resolution. They are essentially stretching that small-capture up to 16MP. Trying to fool us, I suppose.
If I view the normal, zoomed-out picture at 100% , it looks like the picture that was taken zoomed in. But I have to view the zoomed-in picture *out* in my image viewer to 12%. If I compare both zoomed to 100% in the image viewer, the zoomed-in picture looks ridiculously pixelated, because the camera took a 2MP (?) image and stretched it out to pretend to be 16MP.
I am using the word "zoomed" too often, I apologize, this has gotten confusing.
Short form: don't expect much from a zoom on a typical smartphone. And when viewing a picture that was taken with the digital zoom, don't zoom in to 100% in your image viewer. Alternately, unless you need it for a specific reason, don't bother with the digital zoom, and simply crop the image later, down to the smaller area you want to "zoom in on". You will likely achieve the same result as using the digital zoom.
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