camera quality

[Guest viskas]

hi everybody!

I've been using my desire for a month now.

I am not happy with the battery, but I think one of the most disappointing feature is the quality of the camera.

Pictures are poor, colors seem "flat", quite unreal.

I use automatic settings for everything.

any suggested settings to get better pictures?

thank you!

[Guest Sashimi]

hi everybody!

I've been using my desire for a month now.

I am not happy with the battery, but I think one of the most disappointing feature is the quality of the camera.

Pictures are poor, colors seem "flat", quite unreal.

I use automatic settings for everything.

any suggested settings to get better pictures?

thank you!

pitch up the contrast and sharpness settings a little. I personally also bring the saturation down a bit.

[Guest nollie]

^Thanks for the tip, I've also been pretty disappointed with the camera as the colours seem unflatteringly bland. I increased contrast and sharpness, but left saturation as the same - comparing 2 pictures with higher contrast/sharpness but altering saturation I found leaving it the same looked a lot better.

[Guest yabolek]

This is typical HTC poorness.

If Nokia would launch an Android handset I would jump right on it!

[Guest viskas]

^Thanks for the tip, I've also been pretty disappointed with the camera as the colours seem unflatteringly bland. I increased contrast and sharpness, but left saturation as the same - comparing 2 pictures with higher contrast/sharpness but altering saturation I found leaving it the same looked a lot better.

thank you!!!

you'r right! much better!!!

(I just tried to shot a couple of pictures with samsung bada, amazing!!!)

[Guest munkimatt]

If you don't mind retouching afterwards, Picsay is good for this.

[Guest khtse]

If you don't mind retouching afterwards, Picsay is good for this.

I found leaving contrast and sharpness default, and +1 to saturation looks best for me.

The colour on the AMOLED screen is way over saturated. If the photos look fine on the Desire screen, you will properly find them under saturated once you loaded them onto a PC.

[Guest Sashimi]

I found leaving contrast and sharpness default, and +1 to saturation looks best for me.

The colour on the AMOLED screen is way over saturated. If the photos look fine on the Desire screen, you will properly find them under saturated once you loaded them onto a PC.

it's not "over" saturated, it's just more saturated than the average lcd screen.

[Guest khtse]

it's not "over" saturated, it's just more saturated than the average lcd screen.

No, it's over saturated.

I have a calibrated Dell 2408 to compare with it, and you can easily Google a lot of color accuracy tests with AMOLED and OLED screens which will give you the same conclusion.

OLED screens are capable of displaying much higher contrast and color saturation than LCD screens, but they are over doing it in the current generation for the WOW factor. This is okay for movie viewing or to show off to your friends how gorgeous the screen of your phone is, but for taking pictures it create a lot of troubles.

[Guest Quist09]

I've found that +1 contrast and +1 saturation works best for me. In some instances, +1 brightness also helps.

I usually like my pictures fairly sharp, and the first day I had the phone I realized that the standard sharpness setting was already on the verge of oversharpening things so I keep that at the standard setting. Some may even want to lower it by one.

[Guest Azurael]

I actually don't think the camera on the Desire is too bad. If anything (being a bit of a camera geek), I'm impressed with the corner-to-corner sharpness of the lens (much better than some of the entry level digital compacts on the market, but those have zoom lenses which are always worse...) although the distortion (unusually for a fixed focal length lens) is quite comical. The noise seems relatively low for such a small sensor, and I tend to agree with the oversharpening... The flash even does something, which is quite impressive for an LED.

No, I don't think the Desire's camera is ever going to replace even a fairly basic digital camera, but compared to most of the phone cameras I've had over the years, it's actually pretty good, and I'm not always carrying a camera. I think I'd say it's even a little bit better than my old SE K800i which was the best I've had to date - of course that had a 'proper' flash, but I don't like flash anyway. :( The only thing I will say is that it has very limited dynamic range compared to a 'real' camera. Perhaps it's also a side effect of the gallery application being in 16-bit colour - I haven't seen many photos from my Desire on a different screen. Highlights blow out really easily and it's not capturing much detail in the shadows either.... But I have to remember it's a small sensor, they all suck really. Compact digicams included.

Edited June 2, 2010 by Azurael