Camera :@

[Guest DJ Big D]

Hello,

Right, had my Vario for about 4 months now & I still cant get my camera right :D

Anyone got any tips on how to get the best from the camera ?

Any suggestions appreciated :)

Your resident pest,

Dave

Edited February 9, 2006 by DJ Big D

[Guest XNUK]

What do you mean? you still cant get it "right"????!!!!

Please explain what problems you are having!

[Guest DJ Big D]

Sorry :oops:

The picture just doesn't seem to be good quality, I kno you can mess about with the brightness, contrast & saturation but I cant get it to look any good. The quality of my girlfriends D500 (which is also 1.3MP) is so much better.

If someone could put down the settings they have on there camera that would be brill :)

[Guest daftveggie]

the problem is that the lens is about a large as a pinprick.

Quality ain't gonna come on a camera phone no matter how high you jack up the mpx; personally I have the quality toned down to large so the camera is a little more responsive.

[Guest Rob.P]

To get the best picture out of any camera it will usually always come down to lighting.

I doubt there are any specific settings that anyone could give you to get the picture quality right for every situation.

Going from say dusk to bright daylight would require settings change for each to get best pic. At the end of the day camera phone technology is always going to be on a bit of a back foot, due to the size of the chips. Picture quality will improve over time but then what we compare it too will also improve, High Definition is well and truely on it's way and there is nothing like the picture quality of HD (at the moment of course).

[Guest JohnMcL7]

HTC don't produce good cameras, just the way it is. Although I don't expect camera phones to replace a digital camera there are quite a few phone cameras now which produce acceptable quality. HTC obviously go for the business side more but hopefully it's something they will improve in time.

John

[Guest fluffcat1]

HTC don't produce good cameras, just the way it is. 

Which handsets are you basing this statement on?

Richard

p.s HTC don't make the camera modules - Agilent Technologies make them for HTC. And for Compal's SonyEricsson handsets. And Shenzhen's Motorola handsets....

[Guest rockykabir]

I'll be honest, if you are looking for a camera phone, I wouldn't expect much from HTC. My sisters £40 nokia produces better images tbh. Perhaps as a earlier poster mentioned, HTC focused more on the business side of things. I reckon the camera is there just so that they can mention it on the specs.

To potential buyers: although the camera is a bit cack, the same cannot be said for the rest of the phone. Very high quality elsewhere imo :)

[Guest DJ Big D]

I now use Picasa (Free editing software from google) to sort my images out & they are perrrrfect :)

I suggest Wizard owners get this :D

[Guest adchaffey]

I now use Picasa (Free editing software from google) to sort my images out & they are perrrrfect :)

I suggest Wizard owners get this :D

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Good call! Picassa is a great application.

I've been quite impressed with the camera on the wizard. Coming from a C500 I think the picture quality is a significant improvement. Granted, as someone mentioned, you have got to get the lighting right, but I've taken some cracking shots!

[Guest adudley]

The camera is pants, a cheap samasung e330 is better, HTC are bringing out a phone with a 'strobing flash' soon, so from then on, maybe that will be the end of our lighting woes.

(hmm, Im on an 18month contract, was that such a good idea?)

[Guest JohnMcL7]

Which handsets are you basing this statement on?

Richard

p.s HTC don't make the camera modules - Agilent Technologies make them for HTC. And for Compal's SonyEricsson handsets. And Shenzhen's Motorola handsets....

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I think you know what I meant, but if you want to be pedantic HTC don't choose great camera modules for their devices.

I'm basing this on each HTC device I've seen or used, the cameras are appalling - other companies are using cameras which are actually fairly reasonable.

John

[Guest jpalmer99]

Here is a tip I just learned today. Take a pic in 'negative mode' and then reverse it back using mspaint or something similiar.

I was trying to take a picture of a snow covered mountain this morning. Problem was that it was a blue sky and you could barely see the mountian because there is not enough contrast between the two. On a whim I tried out my other modes, one of which is called 'negative'. I discovered quite by chance (I was holding my phone in camera mode which was in negative mode pointed at my laptop screen which had the negative picture displayed) that it reversed the picture back and looked like I had hoped it would.

So now if it is daylight out and all I see is 'white' on the screen I'll use negative mode and reverse it later.

Edited March 12, 2006 by jpalmer99