My SGSII pictures were about 2mb in size and the Lumia is only around 400kb, maybe. The SII takes a phenomenal picture compared to the 920 and it makes me wonder if the Nokia is using a ton of compression to keep file sizes down? That would certainly explain the crappy pictures.
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It's because your picture settings are on 16:9 aspect ratio and it's only taking a 720 resolution picture. You need to change the picture settings to 4:3 to get the full 8MP resolution.
After doing so, my photos are around 2MB with ISO of 100.
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Whenever I get photos off the internet with higher resolutions than 1080 x 960 and crop them to that resolution they come out a little blurry. I've seen other wallpapers that were very sharp so I know its not this display. Should I crop them to the correct aspect ratio then scale them to 1080 x 960 or what? A response would be much appreciated.
TransX2 said:
Whenever I get photos off the internet with higher resolutions than 1080 x 960 and crop them to that resolution they come out a little blurry. I've seen other wallpapers that were very sharp so I know its not this display. Should I crop them to the correct aspect ratio then scale them to 1080 x 960 or what? A response would be much appreciated.
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You want to crop them, not scale them. Scaling them will distort and compress the pixels, making it lose quality. Your probably saving the jpg at a low quality, save it at 100%, it really won't hurt anything .
Is there a way to take 12mp photos in the same aspect ratio as the screen, rather than have to stick with 9mp for that? Thanks
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No.
I take my pictures at 6mp so what's wrong with 9mp? The quality isn't less good then on 12mp you can barely see a difference
It's not that a normal Xperia S user will take pictures to show on a giant screen
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Its not normal, but I do occasiomaly use larger screens but thanks, 9mp is indeed still great, and MILES ahead of any other phone ive seen
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But why Sony designed the 12MP camera when it is actually not optimized on Xperia S screen (i.e. full screen)?
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joshua_sx1 said:
But why Sony designed the 12MP camera when it is actually not optimized on Xperia S screen (i.e. full screen)?
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Xperia S screen is actually 0.9MP (720*1280=921600). Any picture taken with larger resulution is not possible to display without reduction in size. That's the first reason.
The second one is that 12MP has 4000x3000 pixels with aspect ratio 4:3 while the screen is 9:16 (or 16:9 in landscape).
Hope this helps.
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Guys, I'm also interested in one thing, I'm newbie photographer but I'm doing well in taking pictures, but I wonder one thing, which resolution is better for photography 12 or 9mp, I see there is not big difference in resolution since 12mp is 4000x3000 and 9mp is 4000x2250 << please help with it.
giorgobiani554 said:
Guys, I'm also interested in one thing, I'm newbie photographer but I'm doing well in taking pictures, but I wonder one thing, which resolution is better for photography 12 or 9mp, I see there is not big difference in resolution since 12mp is 4000x3000 and 9mp is 4000x2250 << please help with it.
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It depends on whatever you like best. I use 9mp, cause it's the same aspect ratio as my phone and my TV.
Thanks, I like 12mp because of details, but 9mp more modern I think, 4:3 resolutions looks a bit ugly, and I dont loose much details 750Pixels not big deal
Also, the more megapixels you have, the more chance you have of getting more noiee2!
I always use 9mp on my XS, because it's still better than most camera phones out at the moment! (IMO)
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To get 16:9 12 mp you will need more than 13.333 mp sensor to do so .
Or just simply upscale to 12mp from 9mp .
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Thanks, I like 12mp because of details, but 9mp more modern I think, 4:3 resolutions looks a bit ugly, and I dont loose much details 750Pixels not big deal
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Also, the more megapixels you have, the more chance you have of getting more noiee2!
I always use 9mp on my XS, because it's still better than most camera phones out at the moment! (IMO)
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There is no difference in quality/details/noise whether you use 9 or 12mp. The only difference is that when set at 9mp, the image will be cropped to the 4000*2250 size. That means you lose 1.5mp (4000*375 pixels) from the top of the image and the same from the bottom just to get the 16:9 aspect ratio, resulting in a narrower field of view.
So basically a 9mp photo from our xperia S is the same as a 12mp photo cropped with photoshop for example, to make it have a 16:9 aspect ratio.
Is there any way to get pictures to show up full screen after you take them?
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If you set the camera to 6 megapixels and take pictures, they will be full screen (but not as good on a computer). I found it annoying that the 8 megapixel shots have black bars on the side, but I love the camera apart from that. (I hope this answers your question).
Well pictures ratio is usually 4:3 if you go 16:9 you loose quality, usually HTC phones come with 16:9 and that's why a lot people think they don't have the same quality
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mostly always I have taken photographs on my Mobile phone in its maximum resolution (so say a mobile phone has 13mp maximum resolution I have left it on that setting) but at 13mp and even some resilutions below if you go into camera app settings you will see it takes the photo in 4:3 (square?) dimension I am personally thinking of changing things and shooting at a lower resolution at 16:9 Widescreen setting. I mean at the end of the day if you had a modern film camera that would take photos landscape (really old film cameras took in square format) and then the later digital cameras would take 16:9, then you have Widescreen televisions and widescreen laptops and if you wanted to display photos on youtube you would use 16:9 and a photo (especially a scenic one with a landscape would look better in 16.9)
so I am just wondering what other on here have their phones cameras set to? - and what do you find the best?
my defaut ration was 10mpx while a have a 13mpx camera so i changed it for 13mpx, it's true that the photos are 4:3 with 13mpx but i noticed that the frame is wider than 10 mpx simply crop the photo to have it on 16:9
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Hello Group,
I got my LGV30 last weekend so I'm still a newbie with it but I am loving it so far. I have a couple of questions about the rear facing camera. I'm trying to understand the 16MP setting, here is why I'm kinda confused. Under the cameras settings I chose this: 4:3 (16MP) 4656x3492 . So when I take a picture shouldn't the result be at least near that particular MP?
When I hook up my LGV30 to my computer and look at the shots that I have taken a lot of them are 2 MP to 7 MP, so I dont understand...I do know that just because I selected 4:3 (16MP) 4656x3492 doesn't mean that every shot will be that large however it should be 11MP or better, correct???
Also, in the setting when I have to make a selection of the size I want I notice that this number is there too, 16:9 (12MP) 4656x2620, so if I am taking a 4:3 shot and then switched over very quickly to the 16:9 shot, then what MP is then used for the 16:9 shot since I didn't select a setting ?
Thanks, Jake
I seriously don't know what are you doing. I checked my photos and all of them are 16 MP or 13 MP (Wide angle).
As for the aspect ratio: Camera sensors are tend to be 4:3 - so it is 16MP. When using 16:9, the output from the sensor has to be cropped, so the final result is 12MP, for 18:9 is 11MP etc.
Thanks for the reply. This is so weird as on my cell the shots look great but looking at them on my computer it shows them ALL as way under size. Maybe its a Windows 7 thing but I dont know as of yet...still troubleshooting.
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I seriously don't know what are you doing. I checked my photos and all of them are 16 MP or 13 MP (Wide angle).
As for the aspect ratio: Camera sensors are tend to be 4:3 - so it is 16MP. When using 16:9, the output from the sensor has to be cropped, so the final result is 12MP, for 18:9 is 11MP etc.
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Yeah, a lot of people don't realize that the "16MP" is if you use the outdated 4:3 aspect ratio. Wide-screen will give you less, but turning the phone "sideways" or seeing on a 16:9 computer monitor or TV will be much more aesthetically pleasing.
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Hello Group,
I got my LGV30 last weekend so I'm still a newbie with it but I am loving it so far. I have a couple of questions about the rear facing camera. I'm trying to understand the 16MP setting, here is why I'm kinda confused. Under the cameras settings I chose this: 4:3 (16MP) 4656x3492 . So when I take a picture shouldn't the result be at least near that particular MP?
When I hook up my LGV30 to my computer and look at the shots that I have taken a lot of them are 2 MP to 7 MP, so I dont understand...I do know that just because I selected 4:3 (16MP) 4656x3492 doesn't mean that every shot will be that large however it should be 11MP or better, correct???
Thanks, Jake
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Thanks for the reply. This is so weird as on my cell the shots look great but looking at them on my computer it shows them ALL as way under size. Maybe its a Windows 7 thing but I dont know as of yet...still troubleshooting.
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I think you are confusing MB with MP. When you say "a lot of them are 2 MP to 7 MP", I believe you are looking at file size, not pixels.
MB is file size. Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte, etc. Plus, you can have different file sizes for the exact same picture, depending on whether it was saved in PNG or JPG. (The default on our phone is PNG format but some phones use JPG.)
Whereas, MP refers to the amount of pixels in an image. Usually higher MP in a camera means better pictures, but don't go by that alone:
http://www.blurbiness.com/web/en/bl...egapixels-does-not-mean-better-quality-photos
So you may find a camera or smartphone which, having less Megapixels, but with a better sensor and better lenses, gets clearer images than other cameras with more Megapixels. ... Basically, if you use a worse camera and worse lenses with more Megapixels, you will have more worse quality pixels
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n2bowling said:
Also, in the setting when I have to make a selection of the size I want I notice that this number is there too, 16:9 (12MP) 4656x2620, so if I am taking a 4:3 shot and then switched over very quickly to the 16:9 shot, then what MP is then used for the 16:9 shot since I didn't select a setting ?
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If I am understanding your question correctly, and forgive me if I'm not -- when you switched over to 16:9 shot "very quickly" it would take 16:9. However, that would not be your DEFAULT setting when you open the camera app. Next time you open the camera it would probably be back at 4:3.
You probably want 16:9 to be the default, so you should select that setting. Close the camera app, then re-open and see if it sticks.