Why was the Gnex's camera chosen?

[pushdrops]

I agree with rcpa ....

Yeah, I thought that once and ended up with the Thunderbolt. I want to do video with my camera and indoor video in typical home lighting on a thunderbolt is so useless that the phone might as well have not come with a camera.

So now I care a little more about the camera. But, I'm quite happy with what I've seen with the Galaxy Nexus so far. 5 megapixels is just fine.

 

[pushdrops]

Once you have a phone with a camera such as the galaxy s2, settling for anything less is rough. Unless u don't hang out with friends or get into hobbies such as playing in bands or anything else where it's great to be able to take decent pictures without carrying around a dedicated camera.
Guess for someone that doesn't take many pictures or lugs around a full sized camera at all tines, they can deal with a lame phone camera...

The camera is probably the last thing I care about yet, it's the most showed in the hands-on videos. I only use my phone's camera for fun or if I want to take a quick pic of something. Most of the pictures I really want, I take with my regular camera.

 

[SoulWeaponry]

Droid Charge shipped with an awful file system that crippled the phone. Rooted and installed stock Gingerbread vs the old Froyo, ran faster but still lagged. Updated to the official Gingerbread, same version number - night and day difference in quadrant. Lag completely vanished.

How does a rom filled with bloatware perform better than stock android? Because the official roms were optimized for those phones. #whypeoplebuyphonesthatshipwithvanillaAndroid.

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[kilofoxtrot]

The best camera is the one you have with you. Since I will almost always have my GN with me, I want it to be at least on par with the GS2, not last year's Nexus S.

Why it is not is perplexing.

 

[ManBearPig618]

The best camera is the one you have with you. Since I will almost always have my GN with me, I want it to be at least on par with the GS2, not last year's Nexus S.

Why it is not is perplexing.

I would disagree.

 

[kilofoxtrot]

I would disagree.

I disagree with your disagree.

 

[nsurg]

I disagree with your disagree.

And I disagree^3. I suspect it will be about 10 years before any mobile phone comes out with a lens/sensor that I even find acceptable compared to current garbage point and shoots NOW. I have little kids, which is the best reason to have a camera at all IMO. I find zero value in taking garbage photos. Why can't most people reconcile that a 1/3" lens that doesn't move will never take a quality photo? Why can't people understand that a lens like this deserves nothing more than a 3-4mp camera at best, and that the optical resolution of the lens always limits the sensor at these scales anyway? It's fine for facebook posts and twitter of outdoor social events, but garbage for indoors and for anything you'd want to print or refer to.

Buy a real SLR if you want good photos and minimal lag, buy a P+S if you want convenient acceptable photos with a severe flash shadow, and use a camera phone for trivial social media.

I'm almost bummed out if I end up using my phone as a camera these days because if the photo was a good opportunity I should have predicted and brought my camera.

On the mp issue I have an old canon g2 photo (4mp, kids) that is printed to a 5 foot canvas hung in my living room. I did add resolution with photoshop, but I think 8mp cameras in phones is hilarious. Save it for brainwashed apple bozos.

 

[jopher]

Believe Panda said that google/samsung went with 5MP since that was the max they could use at this time to get no shutter lag due to write speeds so I'd choose to believe that.

And it's obvious that you have 0 interest in the gnex and are continuously nitpicking to troll this forum

on a engadget's latest mobile podcast, myriam notices that the camera module in the nexus S and the galaxy nexus looks identical. i understand that they went with a 5 MP camera so that they could make the galaxy nexus take pictures with no shutter lag,
but why didnt they choose to use the iphone 4's 5 mp camera? its pretty good. (worse than S2, better than nexus S)

 

[SoulWeaponry]

on a engadget's latest mobile podcast, myriam notices that the camera module in the nexus S and the galaxy nexus looks identical. i understand that they went with a 5 MP camera so that they could make the galaxy nexus take pictures with no shutter lag,
but why didnt they choose to use the iphone 4's 5 mp camera? its pretty good. (worse than S2, better than nexus S)

If the zero shutter lag came at the expense of worse quality/blurry photos, i don't want it when ics comes to other phones. Does the zero shutter lag mean the phone's camera doesn't dynamically autofocus before it takes the picture? That if the focus was out of focus, it would just take the picture and you'd end up with a fast blurry picture? Is there a setting to turn this off?

At the little demo they had upon the announcement where the dude in the large room was taking sample pictures, i wish he would've just taken his time taking pictures in focus. The few in focus pictures actually look pretty good. At the announcement, it was almost like they were trying to screw up. Even a group of us would know, if we were going to test the camera, we'd take some stationary pics, some moving, some of inanimate objects, some of actual people to get the idea of color and flesh tones. Really. Can we just do the conference for the next nexus?

 

[dammitcubs]

dude...its better than the nexus S. I have used the Nexus S camera, that camera was horrible at night. And for that matter so was the GS2. Atleast this one lets me see my subjects at night.

 

[moosc]

Look like this as a society you walk into bb you see this comparison sheet. All specs look same till u see 5mp vs 8mp. Joe cool doesn't care about the software its the size 8 is bigger then 5 so 8 is better. I would rather seem a 12mp camera

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[Bong Bubble]

Looking at that comparison sheet the skyrocket w/ICS will be the phone. MicroSD, 2mp front camera, 8mp back camera = android phone of the year

 

[ribtits]

Looking at that comparison sheet the skyrocket w/ICS will be the phone. MicroSD, 2mp front camera, 8mp back camera = android phone of the year

yea but the galaxy nexus will come with a better screen (I'm pretty sure the 1280x720 will more than make up for lack of super amoled PLUS) and will have a better GPU/CPU (the skyrocket has a snapdragon not the Exynos that the other s2's have). and of course the galaxy nexus is a nexus, so faster updates. I think 32gb is enough so I think the only thing going for the skyrocket is the camera.

 

[Droid800]

Looking at that comparison sheet the skyrocket w/ICS will be the phone. MicroSD, 2mp front camera, 8mp back camera = android phone of the year

...with the worst screen of any similar phone. Seriously. The wvga resolution of the skyrocket stretched onto that giant screen is enough to make the eyes bleed.

 

[Bong Bubble]

...with the worst screen of any similar phone. Seriously. The wvga resolution of the skyrocket stretched onto that giant screen is enough to make the eyes bleed.

True, but without sdhc & 2mp/8mp its a bust. For right now i'll still have to carry around my iPh4S & Nexus One

 

[whiteshadow001]

It's pretty much a consensus now that the camera on the Galaxy Nexus is not any better than most 8 MP cameras and is worse than the best 8 MP cameras, so I don't understand why they chose it, but there has to be some reasoning. Now as to the shutter speed, HTC has achieved instant shutter with 8 MP cameras that are either better or just as good as the one in the Nexus, so I'm doubting if shutter speed is really the reason for their selection. What do you think?

I actually have seen the image quality of the gnex and it's actually as good as the S2. MP's dont matter guys

 

[whiteshadow001]

The best camera is the one you have with you. Since I will almost always have my GN with me, I want it to be at least on par with the GS2, not last year's Nexus S.

Why it is not is perplexing.

The cam on the gnex is great! I've seen the image quality of this phone and it actually takes really good photos. The photos aren't as vibrant as say an S2, but the color reproduction of the gnex is way more realistic

 

[SoulWeaponry]

I actually have seen the image quality of the gnex and it's actually as good as the S2. MP's dont matter guys

Care to post examples to back up your claim? The nexus isn't criticised for the mp. It's criticised for the crappy outdated sensor. I'd love to be proven wrong though as I'm hugely looking forward to the nexus

 

[jephanie]

Care to post examples to back up your claim? The nexus isn't criticised for the mp. It's criticised for the crappy outdated sensor. I'd love to be proven wrong though as I'm hugely looking forward to the nexus

Here you go: Gnex Photo Samples

 

[kilofoxtrot]

Here you go: Gnex Photo Samples

I thought the GN pictures had a blue/cold cast to them when compared to the S2. In some photos it was a dramatic difference.. others somewhat. I also think the GN has a slower lens than its S2 counterparts.

I could care less about the megapixel count... what does count for me is the quality of the photos when compared to other pictures from other phones made by the same company.. which in this case is Samsung.

I wont argue that a nice P&S or mirrorless kit or DSLR will take far better pictures.. that cant be contested. What has me scratching my head is it appears that Samsung did not elect to put their best camera hardware in the GN.