Poor camera quality

[gregg37]

Pictures are ridiculoudly grany on this camera. The Nexus One's camera blows this away.

 

[MrLogan13]

It may be your phone or your settings, but mine takes fantastic shots.

 

[gregg37]

go outside during the day. shoot the horizon. go inside. look at the sky

 

[gregg37]

I'll give it to you for busy or inside shots though. Looks okay. Nexus one camera still destroys this one.

 

[majedkassis]

From what I've seen, the camera is good.

 

[gregg37]

I went on a cruise in august. I used my Nexus one as a "point and shoot" on days when I didnt feel like lugging around my DSLR. Looking back through the photos now, I can't tell which were taken with which.

If I were to add in photos by this camera, it would be easy to spot. It's grainy. Still fine for a cell phone, but like I said, it could (and should) be so much better.

You people coming from the Pre are probably impressed with your upgrade, but this one is disappointing.

 

[jerseygirl]

I went on a cruise in august. I used my Nexus one as a "point and shoot" on days when I didnt feel like lugging around my DSLR. Looking back through the photos now, I can't tell which were taken with which.

If I were to add in photos by this camera, it would be easy to spot. It's grainy. Still fine for a cell phone, but like I said, it could (and should) be so much better.

You people coming from the Pre are probably impressed with your upgrade, but this one is disappointing.

I'm impressed with the additional editing and fine tuning options on this phone, but even without all of the options I found that my Pre took really great shots. But then again, I don't have a super fancy camera...so maybe I'm just not used to very high quality photos, lol. I just have an 8mp Fuji.

 

[Droidus Maximus]

Wow, is this camera horrible.

That's the best they could do?

Video or still? Because if it's still...it's user error. This camera is a beast! My regular cam is 22 megapixels, and I'm very pleased at what's been touted as the best cam phone on the market.

 

[Phongables]

The best camera phones on the market is on Nokia high-end devices.

 

[dahlberg123]

These are obviously resized but they look pretty crisp to me.

The good 'ol Mississippi

 

[SilverZero]

I'm coming from a Motorola ZN5, which was one of the first 5mp camera phones. The camera is actually a Kodak component, and it really took fantastic pictures in just about all conditions. Tonight I was playing with the Evo cam inside, not the best lighting, but the natural photos were very blurry and noisy, and the flash pics were washed out because the flash is really just a short flashlight (not really a "flash").

I'll play with the settings, but I'm hoping I'll at least get something that can take decent photos when I'm out at the park with the kids.

 

[cheebahawk1]

The first two pics I took wit the Evo looked like crap, but after messing wit the options 4 contrast, saturation, brightness, & saturation the pics r awesome n looks really nice.

Very comparable to reg point n shoot cameras IMHO

 

[bjones521]

The first two pics I took wit the Evo looked like crap, but after messing wit the options 4 contrast, saturation, brightness, & saturation the pics r awesome n looks really nice.

Very comparable to reg point n shoot cameras IMHO

What are your settings? and what are the settings of most people that to take decent pics??

 

[Batman809]

mine is tooo grainy indoors and so are the videos.

 

[fr4nk1yn]

Camera phones aren't going to take great indoor photos with "bad" light.
Looking at the photos in the reviews and posted photos taken with the I/O phones I was worried.
I spent Saturday driving around doing deliveries and taking photos.
The quality isn't phenomenal but it's not as bad as I thought they'd be.

 

[BBossman1]

Funny, my Cannon Rebel keeps dropping calls...

 

[kona2day]

I have to tell you when you start tweaking the settings on the camera (brightness, saturation, contrast, sharpness, iso, etc) there is a BIG difference in the quality of the photos. You really need to play with it a bit.

 

[r-nice]

Someone should make a camera thread and have everyone post what their settings are so we can find an optimal setup.

 

[Wynder]

In photography, exposure is controlled by three things:

ISO: How sensitive the sensor is to light falling upon it.

Aperture: How wide of an opening is selected to allow light in -- this is fixed on the EVO.

Shutter Speed: How long the shutter stays open to allow light in -- this is determined by the camera on the EVO.

So, you point the camera at something and, based on the amount of available the camera's internal meter detects, it will adjust the ISO setting (since it's on auto by default) and, from there, determine the shutter speed it's going to use. If it's very low light, it'll throw up the LED "flash" (more of a hot light, which have even made their way into the "real" photography world) and meter the scene based on that.

So, as folks have mentioned, you have the option of hard-setting the ISO at a low value -- the lower the number, the less digital noise you'll have in your photo; however, this requires longer shutter speeds so you're more likely to get a blurry photo.

Some software handles ISO noise processing better than others, but ultimately it comes down to having a noisy photograph that's otherwise sharp or a photo that's not noisy that's not going to be tack sharp.

Your best bet is to put as much light onto your subject as possible so the camera doesn't have to resort to higher ISO's.

 

[Wynder]

Someone should make a camera thread and have everyone post what their settings are so we can find an optimal setup.

The thing is, the same combination of settings isn't always going to be optimal for every single photograph. If you hard set the ISO at a low number, your photos will wind up being blurry more often than not... If you leave it at Auto and take a low light photograph while you have sharpness cranked up, the noise will be amplified.