Hello,
I feel like the pictures I'm taking are of sub-standard quality and the voice in videos a little bit muddled. How do I know if the camera is under performing and if I can go switch it with another one? I did buy it in May.
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Hey,
Just got my atrix today after huge fiasco with att stores. Anyway, so far i love it this thing is blazing fast compared to my captivate and the gps works =).
My one gripe is the camera quality, everything looks washed out almost like there is a film on the camera lense that can't be removed. The same thing applies to when i recieve an mms picture. The quality looks so bad that it's hard to even tell what it is sometimes
Anyone have any workarounds or tips on taking photos?
Yeah, noticed the same thing, especially coming from an iPhone 4, the photo AND video quality on the Atrix look washed out and grainy. Hopefully it would be a software fix.
The only solution so far is just to take photos in the 5MP resolution. the 3MP and Widescreen (which is like 3.?) are horrible.
was just fixing to post how horrible the camera and video quality is compared to the captivate! ughhh... i hope it is fixable via a software tweak this is nasty. like dirty sand
trapjawmusic said:
was just fixing to post how horrible the camera and video quality is compared to the captivate! ughhh... i hope it is fixable via a software tweak this is nasty. like dirty sand
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ahh, dirty sand is exactly how i would describe it
I only take pictures at the 5mp quality and it seems to be fine? : shrug :
can someone post a few test shots?
nitrog7 said:
Yeah, noticed the same thing, especially coming from an iPhone 4, the photo AND video quality on the Atrix look washed out and grainy. Hopefully it would be a software fix.
The only solution so far is just to take photos in the 5MP resolution. the 3MP and Widescreen (which is like 3.?) are horrible.
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Correct, I love the phone but MMS coming from iphone 4 purely suck!
Also coming from iPhone 4, setting the camera to 5mp does seem to help some for sure though.
tbae2 said:
I only take pictures at the 5mp quality and it seems to be fine? : shrug :
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aye it looks fine when not comparing it to anything. But hands down the ip4 camera is far superior and even my captivate camera looks better, meanwhile they're all 5mp
Can someone tell me about HTC amaze video, i very impressed with amaze and probably getting one soon, but i found complain about amaze's speaker volume and their "sound effect".
I not expert myself about video stuff, can someone take a look and tell me what really going on with this 2 video i found online?
Thanks!
techtv.ws/engadget/2011/10/htc-amaze-4g-sample-1080p-hd-video/
youtube.com/watch?v=FTKTWpQmcCY
Those 2 sentences above is a link, have to add www" in front for it to work~
I cant add any link because i'm a new user, so this is the best i can do. Sorry for the trouble and thanks for looking~
I can't check the links since I"m at work but I have to say I'm relatively impressed with the video camera. I feel that it does over sharpen the images a bit, and that it doesn't handle back lights well.
I'll see if I can upload an MP4 straight from the phone somewhere so you can see it.
Thanks for the reply.
I not concern about the camera, i heard good review about their camera. What do you think about their sound quality during video playback?
I still cant post any link from youtube, can you do a search on youtube with "HTC Amaze 4G 1080p HD Video Sample"? The comments under the youtube clip is concerning to me. " the audio is atrocious , sounds like a 99c mic through a friggin tube telephone. " either he did a poor job on taking the video, or maybe amaze does have sensitive mic.
The device does pick up a lot of sound so in a noisy area like the youtube clip, it was pretty rough. My experience is similar, but not as bad as those videos.
Hey Spovik,
Can you try something out for me? I "think" one of the reason why amaze is able to pick up so many sound because of the extra mic, i know there is couple of them near the camera and bottom of the phone.
This is my idea: can you try video recording while covering some of the mic up, see if the sound quality improves or not?
Thanks!
Greenturtle23 said:
Hey Spovik,
Can you try something out for me? I "think" one of the reason why amaze is able to pick up so many sound because of the extra mic, i know there is couple of them near the camera and bottom of the phone.
This is my idea: can you try video recording while covering some of the mic up, see if the sound quality improves or not?
Thanks!
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If you go to settings in the camera, there should be a way to turn off stereo recording. I also feel like that's what's giving the video some crazy loud weird audio. Please if anyone could test this out and let me know how audio is in video mode. I would hate to have to buy a phone with a wonderful camera but bad audio. I will probably buy this phone once I can find out how the audio is and if it's good.
I'll check this tonight. I don't know if I can replicate 100%, but i"ll try and record either some football or a movie (something which will hopefully allow differentiationg of the stereo sound).
Here are recordings. I recorded the same clip from LotR (Dolby 5.1) I stood in the middle of the room and extracted the audio from the MP4.
It's hard to tell and sounds pretty crappy in both formats, but I think it's more of the environment and the volume I had the movie playing, but the mono seems to sound a little better than stereo without the wavering audio.
- Stereo
- Mono
need an equalizer app to process the videos and adjust according to user specs, and preview, (like audacity for amaze)
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
Me and a friend used Google Hangout and he noted that the image quality was poor.
I updated the tablet and we tried again the next day (now with 8.0.0.123) but the quality was still bad.
First time it was a bit dark as it was in the evening, but the last time it was during the day.
I have an M3 so swapped to that to try it out and was told the image quality was now much better
(hence I believe it to be a software issue unless they put in a worse camera).
I did a Hangout with someone else to make sure it was nothing at his end.
The audio quality was better but the picture was still terrible.
Anyone else experienced this?
It looks like the M5 is over exposing the image.
Is it isolated to hangouts? Take a few selfies with the camera app.
Hi everyone, I haven't seen anything in the threads mention anything about this but I've been trying to use my phone for video calls and it's god awful. It looks zoomed in and it's just blurry looking in every app that I've tried so far including Google's own Duo application. I have never been so embarrassed by a phone until yesterday when my friend asked what kind of phone I have. I was like I had a Pixel its made by Google the creators of android and asked to video call someone just to hear the person on the other end of the call say whats wrong with ya connection the picture looks horrible.
Came home and Duo called myself from my Samsung A72 and wow it looks like utter crap. On the other hand, the budget Samsung A72 was looking great, not to mention the A72 has the ability to record 4k with its front camera as well. I was thinking the latest update would fix this but nothing. This may definitely be a deal-breaker for me.
One more thing, does anyone else's background looks orange/yellow when taking a selfie that has a wall background?
Is anyone else having this issue with their Pixel?
I have used only Viber and Telegram calls and quality was fine. I haven't tested Duo yet. Maybe you could try with other application...
I have the same problem with my Pixel 7.
Quality on WhatsApp, Viber, Messenger, Instagram, and its own google app for video calling, its just bad .i mean for a phone that you give solid amount of money should make the job for the most common task,video calling.
To mention that camera is perfectly fine when using it from phone.Just in apps it's really bad.
Hopefully it get fixed with future updates.
Front camera is plain bad. Small sensor and bad software. It's the same camera since Pixel 2...
I fixed photos quality by installing Google Camera mod with some personal settings, but video quality is terrible...
biglo said:
Hi everyone, I haven't seen anything in the threads mention anything about this but I've been trying to use my phone for video calls and it's god awful. It looks zoomed in and it's just blurry looking in every app that I've tried so far including Google's own Duo application. I have never been so embarrassed by a phone until yesterday when my friend asked what kind of phone I have. I was like I had a Pixel its made by Google the creators of android and asked to video call someone just to hear the person on the other end of the call say whats wrong with ya connection the picture looks horrible.
Came home and Duo called myself from my Samsung A72 and wow it looks like utter crap. On the other hand, the budget Samsung A72 was looking great, not to mention the A72 has the ability to record 4k with its front camera as well. I was thinking the latest update would fix this but nothing. This may definitely be a deal-breaker for me.
One more thing, does anyone else's background looks orange/yellow when taking a selfie that has a wall background?
Is anyone else having this issue with their Pixel?
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Try to set a native aspect ratio (4:3), disable EIS, and zoom all the way out.... if your software allows it.
The "default" way to capture video from that camera tends to be in 16:9, EIS, and zoomed in a bunch. All of these cause the image to be cropped. EIS uses a buffer zone around the captured video and moves the selection around in it to stabilize the video.
Unfortunately, most video chat programs don't allow these kind of controls.