Highest Camera Quality Setting

[FrankXS]

I've noticed that even when you set the camera to the highest resolution (3264x1952), the resulting images are only about 1.5Mb. Is there any way to get a higher quality (less compressed) image?

-Frank

 

[SHO95#AC]

Yes, you need to unselected Widescreen which would now give you 3264 x 2448 which would equal 8.5 mp. The 3264x1952 size is actualy a 6.7 mp quality.

 

[willis936]

I think he meant getting a raw file like png rather than jpeg but that's good info for max resolution.

 

[SHO95#AC]

I think he meant getting a raw file like png rather than jpeg but that's good info for max resolution.

That's what I was thinking but with this phones RAW or TIFF are not an option. Beside the MB would change base on the settings he has at the time a picture was taken. Darker images will be less MB but on a good lighting MB will increase.

 

[FrankXS]

That's what I was thinking but with this phones RAW or TIFF are not an option. Beside the MB would change base on the settings he has at the time a picture was taken. Darker images will be less MB but on a good lighting MB will increase.

No, I was talking about what digital cameras call "quality". This is the compression ratio. The less compression the higher quality (within mp and lens limits). The camera on the TB has no "Quality" setting (i.e. compression amount).

As for the images needing less bytes to depict a dark scene than a lighter more detailed scene, that's true. However, I'm talking about a much larger difference that this. I'm saying that on a digital camera with a ~8mp setting, at the highest quality setting (usually called something like "super fine"), a typical daytime scene would be around 5MB disk space, rather than the ~1.5MB on the ThunderBolt for the same scene.

Probably just comes down to the fact that the lens on the TBolt, as good as it is for a phone, isn't really good enough that less compression would help much, if at all. So... no need to waste disk space on an image that won't improve over the factory set "quality" compression.

I am quite happy with the TBolt images. Very good.

-Frank

 

[SHO95#AC]

Well at the end it come down to the image sensor cell phone use much smaller.

 

[mo-bile#AC]

Yes, you need to unselected Widescreen which would now give you 3264 x 2448 which would equal 8.5 mp. The 3264x1952 size is actualy a 6.7 mp quality.

Oh, good to know. I've been shooting on Widescreen.

 

[FrankXS]

Well at the end it come down to the image sensor cell phone use much smaller.

If only it were that simple. But it's not. Physical sensor size is important, but there are these other things that are just as important. They all need to match up to achieve the best possible image. It does no good to have one that is way better than another (the bottleneck). Sensor area is just one thing.

-Frank