Bionic Camera Image Sharpness - Amazing!

[kodiak799]

The Apple picture reminds me of the way pictures used to come out on Canon digital cameras: highly over-saturated. The Bionic pic is perhaps a bit underexposed but the colors are far more true to life. I don't have a dog in this fight, so just giving it to you from the perspective of someone who's worked in photography and prefers realistic tones.

This is true. The IPhone pictures look great and vivid because it's kind of like an enhanced digital photo. Is a vibrant picture that "pops" more than the real thing bad? I don't know, visually it's more appealing but then you have the debate with purists saying it's not a real/true picture. "Bad" in that instance is a matter of preference and perspective.

 

[kodiak799]

It's nice to know there are fixes and improvements for the Bionic camera, so maybe I can underweight that factor a bit.

As for ICS creating zero-lag and massive improvements for cameras, I think this may be more than a little overstated. A lot of what you are seeing with the Nexus pictures is hardware driven. Maybe it's been debunked, but I thought the zero-lag and improved time between pictures had a lot to do with the hardware and choice of sensor.

I just think people expecting so much from ICS as far as the camera are going to end-up rather disappointed, not to mention with the Nexus you have a camera designed and tested specifically for ICS.

 

[natedogg11]

Agreed. I get the best camera-based photos yet with the Bionic. Use a replacement app to make the Bionic very snappy (no pun intended).

Which app would you recommend? I don't know anything about any of them so I'd really appreciate a little help. Thanks ladies and gents

 

[SSHGuru]

Camera Zoom FX by a mile.

 

[billyk]

What the Guru said.
Great app.

 

[Abadus]

The cheesecake updates help the camera a lot as well.

 

[samsung rogue user]

Wow... I just downloaded and paid for Camera zoom fx. This is what the original camera App should have been. If the OTA makes the native camera app this good.. I don't need it. Camera zoom just fixed the flaws. This goes to show you.. Motorola.. you don't know anything about cameras. But everyone else does...lol.

 

[Shadez]

Wow... I just downloaded and paid for Camera zoom fx. This is what the original camera App should have been. If the OTA makes the native camera app this good.. I don't need it. Camera zoom just fixed the flaws. This goes to show you.. Motorola.. you don't know anything about cameras. But everyone else does...lol.

Is there a big difference in quality between the free version and paid version?

 

[318Droid]

I downloadEd camera zoom fx, but is there a certain way to have the settings? Seems like the focus on stock looks better AFTER focused than camera zoom fx. Maybe I should change my settings or something.

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[samsung rogue user]

Whenever I took a picture it looks blurry just before the shot. Then when I checked it on my gallery the pictures were way better than the same picture taken from the native ap just a minute before. I tried many low light shots. No comparison. I uploaded to fb and compared the pics. Android uploads low quality photos to Fb for some reason... but the picture looks way better with Camera Zoomfx. Its not blurry or under saturated. It looks... well like a picture. Lol.

 

[floyd]

The camera hardware is clearly not the issue. It's definitely the "drivers".

This kind of programming is non trivial.

Some talented geek could make non trivial money driving the camera and making a good user interface.

 

[billyk]

Agree with the two previous posts...

- Camera Zoom Fx takes GREAT pix even though sometimes it looks like the camera didn't acquire the sharpest focus at shutter release time - but it does - every time for me.

- Yep it's the Moto software to blame - good to have free, immediately accessible alternatives that work great. I am the OP on this thread and this is kinda the point of the post. Collecting image information is a critically important task upon shutter release, and apparently the Bionic is out front on this. With better software currently available, the Bionic does a good job. But as stated in earlier posts, Moto has the responsibility to step it up to make the most of the Bionic's inherent capabilities out of the box.