Moto Droid Camera versus Incredible

[Roy Aguilera]

I'm here. Both take decent pics. I can see a difference between 3 and 5 pixels. I can also tell the difference between 5 and 8.
The thing that really makes the incredibles camera better though is all the adjustable settings.*





*That is my opinion

 

[Scarab]

Until I payed for an after market camera app! The way it takes pictures is more like a real camera. . . . . . I was blown away at the difference. I actually enjoy taking pics now.

What after market app did you buy?

 

[Adawg1203]

When it comes to the Moto Droid and HTC Droid cameras, there is no comparison. The HTC produces much better images than the MOTO. Sorry, but it's true. I own both phones.

The Moto has limited settings and its images can be, very inconsistent. Its not because of the 5MP's, but rather, cheaper lens material. But that's OK because, its a phone, email, texting, internet and everything else device, first. Which its highly successful at.

Now, HTC produces photos closer to that of, a compact P and S device. The images are excellent and if your skilled they can even be stunning. Obviously, HTC went with a little better lens with higher image quality.

I think we all tend to forget these are devices that do a lot of multi tasking. No two device manufacturers, will emphasis the same points of functionality, in the same order. It would seem HTC had camera a little higher on there list then Moto, at the time. For those of you into quality images you'd never use either phone as your primary image device. These are not geared that way. However, they make the perfect backyard shooter and spur of the moment image devices.....

 

[delrey1900]

The only good picture I can get out of the Droid are outdoor pictures...

 

[arw01]

dropped a pm to callerholler to ask about that..

What after market app did you buy?

Maybe he will come back to the thread and ask. What apps are in the store for camera control?

The google previews for 2.2 or maybe it was gingerbread showed browser access to the camera coming.

 

[bubbatex]

Just getting ready to ask about the camera on the Droid and any apps myself. Yes, the Droid's camera sucks. I am hoping I can swap for an Incredible for this reason alone - if they come back in stock before my 30 days ends.

 

[GivenToFly]

Having both phones, I can say with certainty that the Incredibles camera is worlds better than the droids. That being said, the Incredibles camera isn't perfect though.

Here is my real world experiences with both cameras,

The Droid will take beautiful pictures in well lit conditions when the subject is still. Never had a complaint when taking pictures of scenery or if I could get my 1 year old to sit still for a moment. But if there is any movement, forget about it. The focus delay on the Droid made it impossible to get a good picture of a moving object. Even in low light, my droid took passable pictures for a cell phone. As long as my target was still.

The Incredible on the other hand is much quicker. I can snap pictures of my ever moving monkey of a child all day long, and 99% of them come out beautiful. But again, in lower lights, the camera falters. I find the dual flash to be overpowering sometimes, washing out the image. And the pictures get very grainy in low light.

As posted above, the MP only matter when blowing up an image. at 4X6 for example you can't tell the difference between a 5 or 8 MP camera. Both phones do take high quality pictures. My opinion here is the usablity of the camera, and its reliability to take a decent picture.

Ask people who have owned both phones, not someone who used it in a store for a few minutes, I bet most will say the same thing. "The Incredible has a better camera", not just because it takes better pictures, but because it can take pictures of more things reliably.

 

[Wrong way down one way]

I have the same issue with the Droid camera, it is slooooooow.

 

[maduhbee#AC]

I'm new, and I'm also from the camera world and though many people will say "it all comes down to glass", that's only true when you're pixel peeping. In all honesty, most non-photogs will not notice the quality that different glass can do! What glass will help with is the chromatic aberrations, vignetting, and sharpness (when you've blown the picture up 100%). Of course, other things such as barrel distortion is also controlled by a quality lens when you are at your wide end. And if you guys also really know, lens can help with light diffraction occurring on the sensor -- This translates to lens resolution (This talks about light intensity -- controlled by the aperture of the lens).

What really matters and how the image looks is mostly dependent on the sensor itself, just like the old film days. The sensor can be considered the "film" of the camera, as that's exactly what it replaces. The memory card just stores the images of what the sensor takes. The sensor determines the contrast, the color reproduction, the dynamic range, the amount of grain, etc. I've talked about diffraction earlier, and the sensor size can also have "diffraction" occur when the pixel density is too high. If we think about each pixel on the sensor (in this case the Droid Incredible being 8MP, and the Moto Droid being 5MP) as buckets, then we can better understand the concept of digital photography. So the bigger the buckets, the more detail information you can hold. However, in contrast with pixel density, the higher the resolution (higher MP), the bigger the print you can make, the bigger the picture will show up on your screen! In fact, I think the biggest SCREEN resolution I've seen is approximately 4MP (2560x1600 @ 30") so your motodroid's resolution is still higher than the biggest PC monitor available to us!

I'm guessing the moto droid and the htc droid incredible's sensor size is the same. If that's the case, the motodroid have more potential to crank out better detail than the HTC droid incredible, but if they put a sensor that's worse than the droid incredible, then that makes ALL the difference. Plus it helps when there's the app where you can mess with your image!