picture quality and resolution

[ricoraw447]

Got my new HTC Amaze 4G. I absolutely love the phone (speed, features, ui, etc). I've noticed that the pictures in lower-than-normal light look a bit grainy. I've noticed that even at 8mp (3264x1840), the file size is about 1 mb. On every other camera I've used, 8mp resolution was about 4-6 mb. Is there any way to reduce the amount of compression applied to images? Can't imagine they would lock us into such a high compression rate without the ability to adjust it.

 

[Paddy Doherty]

You may want to try ProCapture. I haven't used it yet. Must read up on it

 

[going_home]

I wondered about this.
I have yet to have a phone beat the stunning pics I could take with the old Nexus One.

 

[ChromeJob]

I did some comparison macro shots with a colleague's SGSii ... the Amaze's camera had better edge detection, but introduced a fair amount of color noise in the resulting JPEG. His SGSii had fuzzy edges and corners due to some higher than normal JPEG compression ... or so we thought (image reported 98% quality).