[Q] Titan Poor Camera Quality - HTC Titan

Hey all.
I just got a new HTC Titan, which I originally thought to be fantastic as a shooter, however having taken sample pics over 3 days, to say I am dissapointed would be the least.
I've attached some images and I was wondering if you can determine if there is some problem with my Titan or if this is just the expected Cameria quality.
Even zooming in a tiny bit shows that everything is blurry. Looking at the keyboard, you can see all the writing on the keys are fuzzy (the top row is incomprehensible). At the building, the giant words are almost unreadable.
All shots taken with default Automatic 8MP settings. Good natural lighting.
Is this the normal quality or is something going wrong?

I don't see anything bad in these photos, except wrong focus.

I don't think so..
Never had much issues. Ofcourse not the best cam out there, but not bad either.

got vodafone-branded Titan (Europe)
compared to other WP-Devices before the Titan takes best photos...

No problems here
My camera seems to be working just fine =)

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[Q] how does the 5mp evo3d camera look compared to other 5mp cameras

hi guys. im just curious how the video and pictures on the evo3d look compared to other 5 or 8mp cameras. are they sharp ect. how would the evo3d compare to say the iphone 4?
im in the market for a good camera phone
I personally feel the evo3d only takes great pictures sometimes - meaning it is hard to get good pictures.
The pictures tend to look better on the phone than when you look at them on a computer, where they tend to look more grainy when not in the brightest light. This feels like a step down from HTC's other offerings, which can look as good if not better than iphone pictures when pulled to your computer. I have gotten some fantastic pictures, but for the most part the camera has left me a bit wanting.
Playing around with 3d pictures is quite fun, and video recording is very good - particularly the audio, which was lacking in the evo4g.
eazye1984 said:
hi guys. im just curious how the video and pictures on the evo3d look compared to other 5 or 8mp cameras. are they sharp ect. how would the evo3d compare to say the iphone 4?
im in the market for a good camera phone
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It takes a much better picture than the Evo4G did. Much sharper looking, even with 3mp less.
However in low light it still gets grainy...the sensor can't help that, but the software can...but it doesn't. It does, however, take fantastic macro shots for a cell phone...surprisingly.
The 5mp cam on the NS4G I had for a few weeks was phenomenal. When I came back to the E3D it really made taking pictures with it seem pointless...and that's not even taking into consideration the .5-1.5 second shutter lag from when you push the button.
For a freakin' cell phone? It's fantastic. I've never used an iphone4 camera but I've only heard good things. But after seeing what a Samsung 5.0mp sensor/lens/software combo can do I am completely down on the E3D's camera. Granted it does 3D and it is a rather compelling effect...though the problems with the 5.0mp single-cam shots get even more pronounced in 3D at 2.5mp.
YMMV, etc etc etc. It is a cellphone after all.
EDIT: Also any shots with motion are pretty much ruined before you take them.
I agree with nhutpham, post number 2. The camera is not nearly what it should be. This phone revolved around its camera's, I mean come on its not called "Shooter" for nothing. 3D pics turn out good, still shots do anyway. But standard pics, thats a whole other ball game. Low light produces bad pics, even with the flash. Some pics will get a greenish tint to them (whites) when using flash. Rather then use all the "auto" settings I find setting things manually will result in better 2D pics. The device was not purchased by me for the camera though. I bought for the dual core processors Though now that I have my dual core I am wishing HTC would have stepped it up on the 2D camera
i think at stock the pictures look ok. but when you adjust iso,sharpness,exposure,contrast in the settings it makes them look much more vibrant and sharp.
i took a compartive shot of small rocks and the evo3d looked crisper and better overall compared to the iphone 4. so the camera cant be all that bad
Maybe this might help. I'm actually surprised at some of the pictures on here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1243765
Being a photographer myself, I am impressed with the camera... but not all of the time. It takes phenomenal pictures outside in a good sunny day and even in overcast. Take the camera inside in average lighting of just about anyone's living room when the sunlight isn't dominating the light, then I'd be reluctant to show it of.
The poorer the lighting, the harder it is to focus and the photos can get very grainy. HTC also chose to compress the photos quite a bit which affects the picture quality, but makes it easier on the phone and network to share and upload. This goes back to a previous comment that they look better on the phone than on a larger display - its the compression.
If you're willing to root and mod this phone, there is a camera mod in the CDMA dev forum for this phone with camera improvements which makes me that much more impressed with the camera. Although, I think all that was changed was the compression for photos and video.
If you are taking a still picture under good light they look really good. If you have kids and are planning to take any pictures of them forget it.
Let's just they are playing baseball and you want to take a picture of them at bat. They get up there and you click the shoot button. The picture is then shown to you for review and you say wait, who the heck is that. Well while you thought you were snapping a picture of your child, by the time the camera actually took the picture your child got a double, the kid after him grounded to third, and in your picture is the batter who was batting 2 guys after him.....Great picture of someone elses child and of course that kid moved so the picture is blurry as well.
Okay, maybe I am exaggerating a little. You would probably get the batter right after him and not 2 guys down in the lineup, but it would still be blurry unless he batted like a statue....
Green, but otherwise good
Ya unfortunately the shutter lag makes the phone worthless in taking non still images.
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[Q] Really bad Picture Quality

Hey,
Suddenly after i have the SGSII for about a year and a half i've noticed a bad the picture quality is.
The settings are all on max (8MP etc.) And it's still quite ugly.
Here's the first 2 pictures i took with my SGSII:
As you can see it's pretty sharp, smooth and in high quality, for Far and Close objects.
These are 2 photos i took now:
Can hardly focus correctly, and even when it is, the quality is just Bad.
Does it look to you like Hardware or Software problem?
What can i do to take HD Photos in a good quality?
Thanks!
ArgamanZa said:
Hey,
Suddenly after i have the SGSII for about a year and a half i've noticed a bad the picture quality is.
The settings are all on max (8MP etc.) And it's still quite ugly.
Here's the first 2 pictures i took with my SGSII:
As you can see it's pretty sharp, smooth and in high quality, for Far and Close objects.
These are 2 photos i took now:
Can hardly focus correctly, and even when it is, the quality is just Bad.
Does it look to you like Hardware or Software problem?
What can i do to take HD Photos in a good quality?
Thanks!
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Ok, hard to say as I can see no pictures in your post.
Maybe it is a software issue.
Check if you have installed the latest camera firmware from Samsung. I think there is a camera update app in Samsung Apps for SGS2.
It could also be a hardware issue, e.g. a scratched camera cover. Have a look at the lens cover on the back of your phone.
Mine is scratched in the upper left corner as I never used any kind of protection.
As consequence, the quality of the pictures may become worse.
It_ler said:
I never used any kind of protection.
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Same here.Ended up costing me £60k lol.
Yeah for some reason when i posted it the pics were there and now it's broken...
Anyway thanks for the tips i'll check it now

Weak camera, how to make it better?

Hi Guys,
Ever since ICS and now JellyBean roms the camera quality has worsened...virtually unusable in poor lighting, night pictures impossible and very bad focusing even in good lighting, no detail in pictures and zooming in is just a blur....cheapest no-name camphones from china shoot better pictures than this
The Amaze camera from Gingerbread roms was the best.
How can I get decent pictures again with my EVO 3D...? this is supposed to be a shooteroo
iconias said:
Hi Guys,
Ever since ICS and now JellyBean roms the camera quality has worsened...virtually unusable in poor lighting, night pictures impossible and very bad focusing even in good lighting, no detail in pictures and zooming in is just a blur....cheapest no-name camphones from china shoot better pictures than this
The Amaze camera from Gingerbread roms was the best.
How can I get decent pictures again with my EVO 3D...? this is supposed to be a shooteroo
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For night time, you just have to put on the torch before you capture the image.
As far as the rest, it is what it is.
A torch is ok when your subject is 4 feet away but doesnt fix the camera...Gingerbread Amaze camera was far better and even had a night shot modus
Have you tried taking a night shot in the street for example? You only see the few lights and everything else is pitch black...
Yeah. Because of the low light and this cameras weird autofocus parameters, I've always had to use the finger technique.
If only they added the manual switch for us. But nope, they had to be scrubs.
The zoom-in blur is due to the fact that it's not a hardware zoom, it's a software zoom, so it blows up the picture, and then cuts out the edges. The quality would be terrible anyways. But, the camera quality should be OK. Look into Pimp My ROM, I changed my cam quality and it has been pretty noticeable for me, due to ROMs having really bad camera configurations, lol.
I meant zoom in into normal pictures...
For example a picture of several people huddled together, when I enlarge (zoom in) everybody is out of focus
which pimp my rom, is it an app?
iconias said:
I meant zoom in into normal pictures...
For example a picture of several people huddled together, when I enlarge (zoom in) everybody is out of focus
which pimp my rom, is it an app?
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Yup, it's an application available for free in the Play Store, it's basically an AIO app for tweaking your phone if you have root access. And are you talking about how, if you take a picture, it looks completely fine zoomed out, but if you try to blow it up (double-tap zoom), it looks low quality? If you are, that's also in the Pimp my ROM app, I personally don't know how to make this better by hand, I do know that PMR has it. But it has to do with it being JPEG, which is highly compressed image type, hence low quality.
Thanks, I was thinking more along the lines of a new camera app than a complete rom pimping app...
If you remember Amaze camera from Gingerbread used to be very good.....
I asked in the Yoda thread if it was possible to install that in ICS but its not---
iconias said:
Thanks, I was thinking more along the lines of a new camera app than a complete rom pimping app...
If you remember Amaze camera from Gingerbread used to be very good.....
I asked in the Yoda thread if it was possible to install that in ICS but its not---
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I've honestly never used the Amaze camera, the camera on my ROM seems to be working completely fine to me, then again I always resize my images for size issues, which tends to fix up the blurs in the process.

So the HTC One takes amazing close-ups and low light...but atrocious normal shots.

So I've been using my HTC One for a little over a month now. Tried many different ROMs, currently running the leaked 4.2.2 stock ROM.
I've noticed since day one the camera takes really fantastic close-up (3 feet or closer) and macro shots (few inches from subject). It also takes really great low light shots, again close up and macro. These shots in these situations rival my point and shoot Canon.
Once you go outside and take a "normal" shot in great daylight of a group of friends/family, scenery or a building ect. all hell breaks loose. We're talking like one of the worst camera images from a smartphone I've seen recently. Heck my Galaxy S2 and iPhone 3GS took much better looking "normal" shots from a distance.
Images become instantly washed out, details are completely lost, the picture is injected with a super dose of noise everywhere. What is up with this? Is there anyway software will be able to fix the camera in the future? Is it a hardware limitation?
I owned a Galaxy S4 for a few weeks and that phone took brilliant "normal and close up shots" but was severely lacking in low light where images would just be too dark or too blurry.
I'm really quite bummed because the HTC ONE with the new 4.2.2 update is nearly perfect, amazing battery life and performance, much smoother and faster than the POS Galaxy S4. I'm just really pissed that the Camera can't perform in normal situation with great lighting, I would think any Camera would excel in those condition over any other scenario. That and that stupid 5 minute time-out of the LED notification really holds back the HTC One from becoming the perfect smartphone for me.
I wouldn't go as far as saying the camera is atrocious in normal situations, however, the details might not be as good/clear as some other phones. I know the international version got a software update where it addressed many problems such as noise and exposure (issue with pics being washed out ect)... As for the noise issue i think if you go into the camera setting and make sharpness -1 or -2 it will help, at least it did for me. A big issue sometimes for me is that the auto focus is off so it makes the whole picture become what you described, but i guess its probably because i dont have the most steady hands when taking pics lol. I know tmobile pushed a software update a week and a half ago, but i dont think that it did anything to the camera. Apparently, some people say that when you first buy the phone it already comes with that update installed for the camera... but who the hell knows! Tmobile's, AT&T, and Sprints software versions are all different so its hard to tell
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I wouldn't go as far as saying the camera is atrocious in normal situations, however, the details might not be as good/clear as some other phones. I know the international version got a software update where it addressed many problems such as noise and exposure (issue with pics being washed out ect)... As for the noise issue i think if you go into the camera setting and make sharpness -1 or -2 it will help, at least it did for me. A big issue sometimes for me is that the auto focus is off so it makes the whole picture become what you described, but i guess its probably because i dont have the most steady hands when taking pics lol. I know tmobile pushed a software update a week and a half ago, but i dont think that it did anything to the camera. Apparently, some people say that when you first buy the phone it already comes with that update installed for the camera... but who the hell knows! Tmobile's, AT&T, and Sprints software versions are all different so its hard to tell
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regarding "steady hands", i thought this phone has optical image stabilization? i've only taken a few pictures so far and agree that i'm not liking what i see. my previous htc one s takes much better looking picts on well-lit areas. then again my tmous one is still stuck on 1.27 software

[Q] Picture and Video Quality

Hi all,
I'm concerned as pictures and video taken in a moderately lit room (but adequately lit) appear extremely grainy. I mean it is very poor. Pictures taken in broad daylight are kind of acceptable but still below par. Not that I bought this tablet for that reason but as my Samsung is acting up I have been using the tablet more, and to be frank the camera is very poor, I mean its like taking a picture and then but salt and pepper all over it ( at night but with lights on)
My question is how is everyone else experience with the picture and video quality night and day?
meteor999 said:
Hi all,
I'm concerned as pictures and video taken in a moderately lit room (but adequately lit) appear extremely grainy. I mean it is very poor. Pictures taken in broad daylight are kind of acceptable but still below par. Not that I bought this tablet for that reason but as my Samsung is acting up I have been using the tablet more, and to be frank the camera is very poor, I mean its like taking a picture and then but salt and pepper all over it ( at night but with lights on)
My question is how is everyone else experience with the picture and video quality night and day?
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Yes, the camera quality is not so great.
But you could easily have known that BEFORE you bought the tablet (there are many reviews and user reports on this thing called "internet"...), and if you want a device with a really good camera, you could have bought another device. So don't complain now.
And it's known that it's absolutely typical for tablets to have worse cameras than smartphones. Get over it.
Picture quality is piss poor, no idea why they even bothered putting that one in at all. It doesn't even have a flash, so why did they think we need that camera? Exchanging the back with the front camera and scrapping the back one would've been much better, in my opinion, at least you can use the front camera for video chatting.
I don't know why on earth people would even want to take pictures with a big clumsy tablet

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