The camera sucks

[gardobus]

Leftovers after eating a DELICIOUS bbq chicken sandwich and smoked baked potato:

Shot of my truck from the motel room:

One of our centerpieces at our wedding (notice tablecloth detail):

 

[windstrings]

NOW... the first few 5mp shots were NOT taken in the same bright light but it was no means dark either. We were just in a semi-shaded area. If I had half a brain, I would have saved what I took instead I deleted them as I went to leave room for more good shots since my card was filling up.

While my lightbooth test proved to me that 5mp shots were dirtier than 3mp, those are taken in artificial daylight and perhaps (as I said) new software was pushed recently that we are unaware of.

Guess we need to do another live shot comparison to know.

Quite fascinating...... shooting the darker pics may be causing the camera to use a higher "ISO" which will naturally be grainier.

Yes, it would be good to take the same shots in the shaded area in 3mp mode too......

I guess we will have to do some more experimentation.

BTW... these are some cool pix I'm seeing..... since we are trying to see the magic that makes it work.. it will really help if people can post settings that alter from default and if a flash was used or not on the close shots.

 

[jaysonstaurt]

Couple pics I took over the weekend. They're not bad but as some have said this camera takes some getting used to.

Hey Jason, I don't think those are bad at all! Especially since it's obviously an indoor shot. What settings were you on?

By the way I used to be BIG into R/C. Mad Force, super modified T-Maxx's a Stampede with a punched .21 on it. Then I decided I hated fixing stupid fast trucks constantly and got into building high-end rock crawlers. Going slow costs less over the long term. LOL

Actually it was outside and overcast. They may have helped with the quality.

 

[MAzing87]

NOW... the first few 5mp shots were NOT taken in the same bright light but it was no means dark either. We were just in a semi-shaded area. If I had half a brain, I would have saved what I took instead I deleted them as I went to leave room for more good shots since my card was filling up.

While my lightbooth test proved to me that 5mp shots were dirtier than 3mp, those are taken in artificial daylight and perhaps (as I said) new software was pushed recently that we are unaware of.

Guess we need to do another live shot comparison to know.

Quite fascinating...... shooting the darker pics may be causing the camera to use a higher "ISO" which will naturally be grainier.

Yes, it would be good to take the same shots in the shaded area in 3mp mode too......

I guess we will have to do some more experimentation.

BTW... these are some cool pix I'm seeing..... since we are trying to see the magic that makes it work.. it will really help if people can post settings that alter from default and if a flash was used or not on the close shots.

I agree. Posting the settings of these shots would be very helpful. I haven't used the camera at 3MP yet. But I guess that's the way to go until the update. There are some very nice pix.

 

[dylanthecat]

I took this last night. Thought is was pretty good for a quick shot. All auto settings. And yes, the Badgers did beat Duke!

 

[allison]

Anyone have a best setting(s) for "x" type list?

Hubby also just got a Droid a few nights ago and so far his seems to take way better photos than mine does. I do have a 10mp camera, but I don't always want to carry around both, and like having the mobile upload option.

My camera is "ok" outdoors in sunlight. Indoors low lighting it's horrid (grainy, slow, red eye). Hubby's took a shot in a dim-ish gym today with his and it's crystal clear. I'm sort of torn on whether or not to return mine for a new one. Worried I might wind up with other problems? :icon_eek:

 

[windstrings]

Anyone have a best setting(s) for "x" type list?

Hubby also just got a Droid a few nights ago and so far his seems to take way better photos than mine does. I do have a 10mp camera, but I don't always want to carry around both, and like having the mobile upload option.

My camera is "ok" outdoors in sunlight. Indoors low lighting it's horrid (grainy, slow, red eye). Hubby's took a shot in a dim-ish gym today with his and it's crystal clear. I'm sort of torn on whether or not to return mine for a new one. Worried I might wind up with other problems? :icon_eek:

thats quite interesting!.... mine does great outdoors or where plenty of lighting exists but I'm unhappy like in a room with just ambient lighting coming if from the windows... my LG dare did much better.
I can put the pics in "picsay pro" and it does wonders.... so I'm thinking this is just software..

Can you look at your hubby phone and tell us what version he has so we can tell if he has a later release?... if he has a later release, that should mean ours will be corrected too when ours are updated.

1. Go to settings----> scroll to the bottom to "about phone"
2. towards the bottom, I'll just tell you what mine says and you can compare.

Firmware version - 2.0
Baseband version - C_01.3B.01P
Kernel version - 2.6.29-omap1-g04df51f androd-build@apa26 #477
Build number - ESD20

 

[640k]

Anyone have a best setting(s) for "x" type list?

Hubby also just got a Droid a few nights ago and so far his seems to take way better photos than mine does. I do have a 10mp camera, but I don't always want to carry around both, and like having the mobile upload option.

My camera is "ok" outdoors in sunlight. Indoors low lighting it's horrid (grainy, slow, red eye). Hubby's took a shot in a dim-ish gym today with his and it's crystal clear. I'm sort of torn on whether or not to return mine for a new one. Worried I might wind up with other problems? :icon_eek:

thats quite interesting!.... mine does great outdoors or where plenty of lighting exists but I'm unhappy like in a room with just ambient lighting coming if from the windows... my LG dare did much better.
I can put the pics in "picsay pro" and it does wonders.... so I'm thinking this is just software..

Can you look at your hubby phone and tell us what version he has so we can tell if he has a later release?... if he has a later release, that should mean ours will be corrected too when ours are updated.

1. Go to settings----> scroll to the bottom to "about phone"
2. towards the bottom, I'll just tell you what mine says and you can compare.

Firmware version - 2.0
Baseband version - C_01.3B.01P
Kernel version - 2.6.29-omap1-g04df51f androd-build@apa26 #477
Build number - ESD20

i think all of those settings should be consistent across most phones. it's the build date underneath the battery that's the most interesting.

41/09 - 41st week of 2009 for me.

 

[windstrings]

i think all of those settings should be consistent across most phones. it's the build date underneath the battery that's the most interesting.

41/09 - 41st week of 2009 for me.

But what significance would those dates being different be if all the other parameters I just posted were all the same?

Are there other settings, software, or hardware that could exist from a later build date under the battery thats not covered on those parameters already?

 

[windstrings]

Mine is 40/09

 

[Varking]

Mind you I just took these right now and didn't have anything impressive to try and take a picture of as I am at my mother in laws house right now but I tried my laptop keyboard, a Mets ticket, and my hot brick aka battery for the laptop text.

These were just taken in sharp, 5mp, Portrait, autoflash.

 

[windstrings]

Mind you I just took these right now and didn't have anything impressive to try and take a picture of as I am at my mother in laws house right now but I tried my laptop keyboard, a Mets ticket, and my hot brick aka battery for the laptop text.

These were just taken in sharp, 5mp, Portrait, autoflash.

Those look great!.... but why isn't there anything impressive to take a picture of at your mother in laws house? :icon_eek:

And where is that "sharp" setting?... mine says normal, fine and superfine?

Just trying to see if you have different software.

 

[Varking]

Mind you I just took these right now and didn't have anything impressive to try and take a picture of as I am at my mother in laws house right now but I tried my laptop keyboard, a Mets ticket, and my hot brick aka battery for the laptop text.

These were just taken in sharp, 5mp, Portrait, autoflash.

Those look great!.... but why isn't there anything impressive to take a picture of at your mother in laws house? :icon_eek:

And where is that "sharp" setting?... mine says normal, fine and superfine?

Just trying to see if you have different software.

My apologies, I meant super fine, I was just trying to think of what it was called off the top of my head. When I was using all the default settings I couldn't take a picture of my fiance's cat without it coming out blurry, despite the fact the cat was sleeping and not moving. Then, when I switched to Portrait Mode it seemed to help steady things out a bit. From what I understand, the crappiness of the camera on the phone is currently a software issue and that the developers of this wonderful device know this and will have a fix for it.

I can't recall if it is supposed to be on the OTA update coming soon, or something later on though.

 

[Varking]

Firmware version - 2.0
Baseband version - C_01.3B.01P
Kernel version - 2.6.29-omap1-g04df51f androd-build@apa26 #477
Build number - ESD20

Firmware version - 2.0
Baseband version - C_01.3B.01P
Kernal version - 2.6.29-omap1-g04df51f android-build@apa26 #477
Build number - ESD20


Looks to be the same as yours.

 

[640k]

Mine is 40/09

the build date could be an indication of a bad batch of parts, failed inspections, etc., etc.