camera blur fix?

[Guest danolaru]

i read on other forums that there is a tweak for camera , for speeding, and for clarity

could you help me, plss

[Guest hyedipin]

SDA camera seems very quirky and weird for 1.3 Mpixel camera!!!

Samsung with VGA cams take much better pictures overall.

Lighting is very slow on SDA.

If you find anything, let us know.

[Guest G35C]

I was very satisfied the camera on my previous smartphone (Audiovox 5600 aka C500). All it required that I change the Ambience setting to "Night" and the pictures/videos came out brilliant.

Now with same settings on the SP5, the white balancing is terrible. The lighting jumps back and forth and most of the pics are overexposed rendering the pics/videos useless. So now I just use the "Grayscale" setting and live with B/W pics/videos... ;)

Edited May 5, 2006 by G35C

[Guest james_h_winters]

it all depends on how much ambient light you got when taking a shot. i like the 'warming' effect that the 'fluorescent' setting makes. if the pictures is kind of dark, try to have your phone's camera focus on something really dark (if you want the picture to be brighter) or something really bright (if you want the picture to be darker) and immediately focus on your subject and take the shot. this all should take place in less than a second. also, you might want to try adjusting the quality to 'superfine' and the flicker to '60Hz', to decrease motion blur.

but generally, i dont do this because my sp5m's camera is near perfect. pictures taken at maximum resoultion are almost the same quality taken using a 1.3MP digital camera...

[Guest hyedipin]

Flicker is a bit weird on SDA, if I set it lower to get more light I notice the screen has lines scrolling from top to bottom, especially if I am taking a picture against light.

You can see the difference, flicker Auto = and point at a CRD monitor, and Flicker 60, do it again, they will disappear.

[Guest kaplanfx]

I've seen this thread over at xda-developers:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic....rd+camera+tweak

It's for tweaking the camera on an HTC wizard (PPC not Smartphone). I have looked at the registry for smartphone for the HTC camera and I don't see all the same keys, but I have a feeling that the issue with washouts and blurring is due to the software not the camera hardware itself. Why? well in an evenly light place if I hold the camera totally still it actually takes very good shots. My hope is that software can fix our problems, lets get tweaking!!

-Kap

[Guest danolaru]

I know about the HTC Wizard forum and I also know the software is the reason for blury pictures

the tweak about showing frames is goos and can be aplied, also the tweak on the forum with the maximazing the max frames /sec captured in video but i see no real extra performance

I'm still documenting about it, it's a very good camera (hardware) but as always the software

a bug you many know probably is when you select night shot and take a picture the picture is taken in night mode, but after the first it's reseting the mode (to auto) and this "auto" is not good at all

the registry does many wonders

we have to try it all

i espect from everyone who reads this topic could try if interested to tweak, or something

if not we should hope that someone more "qualified" to do that

[Guest kam_]

Go here and download this registry editor (30 day trial):

http://www.torchsoft.com/

It edits it from PC, which makes it easier.. Backup your whole camera keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera

Then fiddle! Here's how far i got, noticed small improvements so far.

[Guest kam_]

Go here and download this registry editor (30 day trial):

http://www.torchsoft.com/

It edits it from PC, which makes it easier.. Backup your whole camera keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera

Then fiddle! Here's how far i got, noticed small improvements so far.

SP5CameraFix.zip

[Guest kaplanfx]

Go here and download this registry editor (30 day trial):

http://www.torchsoft.com/

It edits it from PC, which makes it easier.. Backup your whole camera keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera

Then fiddle! Here's how far i got, noticed small improvements so far.

How did you know to add these keys?

"Sharpness"=dword:00000003

"Contrast"=dword:00000005

"Brightness"=dword:00000006

"Saturation"=dword:00000003

"Hue"=dword:00000005

My P1 and P2 don't have defualt keys in there for those vaules. Did you just guess based off the work being done on the wizard? In fact I see a lot of keys in the General section that you added where there was no key previously with a default value. Do you have some documentation on what keys the camera software will read in each mode?

-Kap

Edited May 12, 2006 by kaplanfx

[Guest mini_man]

Go here and download this registry editor (30 day trial):

http://www.torchsoft.com/

It edits it from PC, which makes it easier.. Backup your whole camera keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera

Then fiddle! Here's how far i got, noticed small improvements so far.

Attached File(s)

SP5CameraFix.zip ( 431bytes ) Number of downloads: 14

Is this fix worth it then? cos ive noticed that the C550 and the C600 have to be kept really still when taking a picture.

So how much better is this now when using this tweak?

[Guest hyedipin]

Why do you need registry hack for this? ON my SDA you can manually change values of these by slider and it saves it for future use.

What we need is a faster shutter and less blurines, which non of these will fix.

[Guest kaplanfx]

Why do you need registry hack for this? ON my SDA you can manually change values of these by slider and it saves it for future use.

What we need is a faster shutter and less blurines, which non of these will fix.

Well I don't know a whole lot about cameras, but the bluriness is most likely caused by the slow shutter speed and the fact thats its very hard to hold the phone still in a vertical orientation due to its size. As for the shutter speed, with some tweaking we should be able to get the light modes speed down, however the way the night mode works from my understanding is to leave the cmos capturing for a longer period of time in order to capture additional light. This cuases the washouts and the streaking on screen becuase the software doesn't compensate for the motion. Seems to me the cmos itself is decent quality, while the physical optics (the lens) and the software are not so great. with proper software tweaking we are still never going to get outstanding pics due to the low quality of the optics (yeah its got plastic over the lens which refracts light badly and cuases artifacts in the picture). Hopefully someone else who is more experianced with cameras can give us a little more insight.

-Kap

[Guest kam_]

I pretty much guessed based on the work with the wizard. I was hoping these new keys which weren't present before change default behaviour. I only tried it quickly before going to the pub and it seemed to make some improvment.

The bigest problem actually is the 'shutter speed'. Effectively there is no mecahnical shutter, so its all software deciding when to start and stop sampling. For this reason there can be some dramatic effects by changing some of these values. The post processing (hue, saturation etc) can be changed with lesser effects.

By default the camer is set to perform average in all circumstances. If like most of us you only take pictures outside with plenty of light then the brightness is way way too high and the colours get wahed out.

I think its better to tweak that to get good outdoor shots, and then use night mode for indoor shots.

[Guest kaplanfx]

By default the camer is set to perform average in all circumstances. If like most of us you only take pictures outside with plenty of light then the brightness is way way too high and the colours get wahed out.

I think its better to tweak that to get good outdoor shots, and then use night mode for indoor shots.

agreed, both the outdoor brightness and the night mode brightness get washed out for me. The shutter speed is too slow in both modes.

-Kap

[Guest Albie]

The camera on the C500 seemed a lot quicker than on the C600. I know the camera was not a 1.3M camera, but the pictures were really good, and had less problem with delay and bluring.