Using the camera

[Guest aholdt]

Hi all!

New to the Vox and new to this site as well.

I've had the phone for about 3 weeks now and are very happy, except for the camera.

When taking pictures it takes what seems like at least a second or more, from when the button is pressed to the picture is actually taken.

I find this quite annoying. Anyone who has seen the same behaviour? is there a fix or is this simply by design?

Regards

Allan

[Guest James]

is it really a whole second???

i am aware there has always been a certain amount of a pause with windows mobile devices but never seen a whole second myself.... except maybe on the original SPV back in 2002/3 :rolleyes:

I thought all camera phones were the same myself from what i have seen in the past??

Welcome to the Site By the way!! :P

[Guest aholdt]

Hi!

- and thanks.

Well perhaps it is not a second, but it seems that way :rolleyes:

- it is enough to make it virtually impossible to get decent pictures of moving items (i.e. my children). I do a lot of photoblogging when om vacation, så it is really a step back from my old Nokia.

/Allan

[Guest paholman]

Hi!

- and thanks.

Well perhaps it is not a second, but it seems that way :rolleyes:

- it is enough to make it virtually impossible to get decent pictures of moving items (i.e. my children). I do a lot of photoblogging when om vacation, så it is really a step back from my old Nokia.

/Allan

I've had similar problems with the QTEK 8500, which I've narrowed down to the fact that I'm storing all pictures directly to the external storage card. It's a 1GB SanDisk Micro SD, but not an "Ultra 2" or fast storage card.

If you change to store your pictures to the phone internal storage, does it improve?

[Guest aholdt]

I've had similar problems with the QTEK 8500, which I've narrowed down to the fact that I'm storing all pictures directly to the external storage card. It's a 1GB SanDisk Micro SD, but not an "Ultra 2" or fast storage card.

If you change to store your pictures to the phone internal storage, does it improve?

Hi and thanks for your input.

I does not make any differende whether I store the picture internally or on SD.

I've also tried playing around with image size and quality but that does not make any difference either.

Perhaps the behaviour just is by design. I think I will try and ask HTC/Qtek support.

/Allan

Edited June 7, 2007 by aholdt

[Guest Pr0sper]

- it is enough to make it virtually impossible to get decent pictures of moving items (i.e. my children). I do a lot of photoblogging when om vacation, så it is really a step back from my old Nokia.

Maybe the Sport mode is the right for you ? It takes up to 5 pics in a fast intervall - maybe that captures a nice shot :rolleyes:

[Guest Samsonite]

Hi and thanks for your input.

I does not make any differende whether I store the picture internally or on SD.

I've also tried playing around with image size and quality but that does not make any difference either.

Perhaps the behaviour just is by design. I think I will try and ask HTC/Qtek support.

/Allan

i would agree that the shutter lag on the Vox is a bit unfortunate but i would be surprised if it was something that could be improved by anything other than a completely new camera application or a different piece of internal hardware.

its a performance figure of any digital camera - the lower the shutter lag figure the better - for precisely the reason you say its a problem; fast moving action is nigh on impossible to capture.

i tried the tips out from the other posts here and thought the storage to internal memory made it marginally quicker when moving onto the viewfinder after reviewing the shot but not by anything worthy enough of swallowing the internal RAM for.

[Guest uzsree]

This sounds like a "Review Duration" setting - The phone shows you the captured picture for the selected time.

To change this:

Open Camera -> Link Soft Button until you get to "Advanced" and the go to "Review Duration". You can select then from

1. No Review

2. 3 Seconds....

and so on

Please tell if this solves the problem.

Edited June 20, 2007 by uzsree

[Guest Griff_FFOC]

This sounds like a "Review Duration" setting - The phone shows you the captured picture for the selected time.

To change this:

Open Camera -> Link Soft Button until you get to "Advanced" and the go to "Review Duration". You can select then from

1. No Review

2. 3 Seconds....

and so on

Please tell if this solves the problem.

I think he's referrng more to the fact that when you get the camera set on what you want to take a pic of, then press the camera button it takes around a second to actually take the picture and save it. Thereby making anything moving, even slowly, difficult to get right. You also have tohold the camera quite still after pressing the button or you get blurring too. I wonder if having the sound enabled has anything to do with it (i.e. it has to load and play the sound, maybe before it takes pic?)