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This questoin is for the folks who already have the Touch HD in hand. I have seen a bunch of YouTube VDOs and read a zillion reviews. But I am still not clear on how the camera works on this device.
I currently have a HTC polaris using a Cooked ROM. The camera sucked bigtime wih the stock ROM. But I have to confess, even with the Cooked ROM, its really not that great, especially in the night time with the home lighting... Unless my hands are really steady, the picture gets blurry and there is atleast a sec delay between when I click the picture and from when it is captured. I guess its the auto focus.
Having said that, how is the camera on Touch HD. I know it has a 5MP autofocus... but I want to know the reality of it in a practial sceaniro. I have a 10 month old kid and I love to capture some moments by pulling out this device and click some pics and mail them to my friends and family. Since he is never steady at one place, I could never capture a good pic with Polaris.
My wife has a iPhone 2G and it captures really good instant pictures even in the home lighting at night.
Thanks in advance for you time and response.
Could anybody inform me of the changes with camera performance with the new update? (other than auto flash and geotagging)
How fast is it to load and focus? what are the images like?
All reviews i have read are based on the old software, so wondering if those reviews would have been much better if using newer firmware?
Any samples?
Many Thanks.
Here you go.. photos taken in Hamburg yesterday with my X1, smabergs 6.0 ROM with the new Camera and HTC Camera..
Same place, different app:
R3A: http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5708/dsc0025a.jpg
HTC: http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/240/imag0004f.jpg
I don't know if it's a problem with smabergs ROM, but focusing takes ~1-2s and then after ~8-10s the picture is taken.. terribly slow for me.
A collection from last weekend using the different focus methods.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artesea/tags/blicklinghall/
Doesn't seem to be too slow
phenx said:
Here you go.. photos taken in Hamburg yesterday with my X1, smabergs 6.0 ROM with the new Camera and HTC Camera..
Same place, different app:
R3A: http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5708/dsc0025a.jpg
HTC: http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/240/imag0004f.jpg
I don't know if it's a problem with smabergs ROM, but focusing takes ~1-2s and then after ~8-10s the picture is taken.. terribly slow for me.
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i like the one with HTC better the X1 got some horizontal lines
but i dont know :S i thin i will stay at the xperia Camera
artesea said:
A collection from last weekend using the different focus methods.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artesea/tags/blicklinghall/
Doesn't seem to be too slow
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these pictures are never taken by the Xperia Camera xD
By the way, I was searching in R3A cam the self-timer / autotimer / automatic release, didn´t find it. Can anybody help, or is this basic function missing?
thanks for the samples, dont look too bad.
But 10 secs to take a photo is really slow! anybody else experiencing this?
after a softreset, speed of the camera is back to normal.. 1-2s
Really 8 - 10 secs to take a shot ???
1- could be the SAT link time
2- could be the flash charge time
I am pleased with the results, it is not a PRO camera: it's a phone with camera and I don't expect PRO pics
IMHO it makes decent (not "brilliant" or "great") shots
I took this one with zero adjustments, just grabed phone from pocket and shot:
If I need better shots, I take my cybershot with me
I'm still under impressions about the HD and all its feat.s, but the most is from 5MPx camera, well done for phone. So please post your the best done picture ever by you HD!!!
Ehhh why not...first one is of the Washington monument here in DC,
The second one is of my almost 3 year old insisting she ride her tricycle uphill to her auntie's house on the left (yes, she knows where the house is...but is still struggling with that pedal/steer combo... give her a break, some of you still get left and right confused!)
Not bad, looks quite nice
DTNT said:
I'm still under impressions about the HD and all its feat.s, but the most is from 5MPx camera, well done for phone. So please post your the best done picture ever by you HD!!!
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Is this your first camera phone?
I mean some of my friends have been really embarrassed with the camera performance of our beloved HD, when trying to impress ladies with the "latest peace of the mobile technology" they haven't been able to accomplish such an easy task as shooting a decent picture, unless on a bright light. Most of the relatively old Nokias or Sony-Ericssons can do this.
I don't wanna even talk about the video recording
Best picture? Come on, we all know that htc have no idea about cameras.
Actually...I'm happy with the [outdoor] performance with this camera. I mean occasionally you'll get a jewel of (an indoor) picture...heck, sometimes with my 10meg camera I'll be disappointed...and yes, some pictures do come out somewhat discolored outside, but I just simply use a photo editing prigram to fix the colors and I'm all set. Remember, you bought:
1. A phone
2. Web browser
3. Digital assistant
4. Mp3 player
5. Camera...
not the other way around.
I have taken 3 pictures that i think is the best i can get out of my HD:
the first one of my mom's dog:
the second one the first flowers:
and the last one a pumpkin from halloween:
I've been this close to going back to a Sony Ericsson because of the camera... Only the video playback (still not as good as it should be) on the large screen keeps me happy
Here's my two cents
The black Sea
Countryside
Beach
River Terek
Although I'm not happy with the HD camera performance I use it occasionally as a back up camera. It's not really practical to carry around a DSLR all the time.
User X said:
Is this your first camera phone?
I mean some of my friends have been really embarrassed with the camera performance of our beloved HD, when trying to impress ladies with the "latest peace of the mobile technology" they haven't been able to accomplish such an easy task as shooting a decent picture, unless on a bright light. Most of the relatively old Nokias or Sony-Ericssons can do this.
I don't wanna even talk about the video recording
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I made a test on My SE Xperia X1 (made by HTC and with HTC hardware camera) and I think that HTC's bad quality pictures is more software related than hardware related...
The rom I use has 2 camera application: the SE Xperia one and the HTC Rhodium one
Here is the picture taken with HTC app:
Here is the picture taken with the SE app:
>My wonder came after the shot done during my work, it was indoor and i shot a bottle, I think very good one picture;
>My mother owns SE K800, but I cannot compare pix, mine is better
>Anyways A+ to HTC for such camera (photo!), after Artemis's camera this one is earth and heaven.
Please continue attach quality pix by HD
pic is attached!
My abstract photo
This was taken through the windscreen of a van while moving.
The camera still's are not too bad on the HD but the video recording is utter junk, the original diamond take's far better video.
Here are my noob shots
...wish the car was mine though
After I got the EVO 4G at Google I/O, I went to France for my honeymoon, and have been using the EVO for taking pictures and videos all around Paris.
My review of the camera and the photos have just been posted at AndroidPolice.com: Review And Hands-On Results With HTC EVO 4G’s 8MP Camera – Paris In Photos
Videos coming later - I'm having trouble uploading them to Youtube from the crappy Internet connection.
Enjoy!
wow... great pictures!
JUST SAW THE MEMORY CARD ISSUE THERE.. ops.. had same problem.. got me a 16gb C4 and problem fixed.. i was worried at first
ajftl said:
JUST SAW THE MEMORY CARD ISSUE THERE.. ops.. had same problem.. got me a 16gb C4 and problem fixed.. i was worried at first
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Keep us posted if it happens again.
Sounds like the new SD card will fix the problem.
I've got my own SD card already loaded with music and pics.
When I get my Evo on Friday, I will just swap it out and be good to go.
Thanks for the post...
To be honest, I am disappointed with the picture quality. I am jealous you went to Paris, and your pictures looked fine, they were just not the quality I was expecting from an 8mp camera. They looked like a 3mp image over sharpened. FWIW, it won't stop me from test driving an Evo.
Everyone forgot to say Congratulations! on getting married. Welcome to eternal lockdown and possibly garnished paychecks. J/P in all seriousness congrats and the pics are beautiful.
any native resolution pics?? or uncompressed?? same thing, i know, not sure the technical term.
what settings are you using?
jeffla said:
To be honest, I am disappointed with the picture quality. I am jealous you went to Paris, and your pictures looked fine, they were just not the quality I was expecting from an 8mp camera. They looked like a 3mp image over sharpened. FWIW, it won't stop me from test driving an Evo.
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You're crazy...I'm a professional photographer and I've seen $700 Digital SLRs shoot worse photos
oh and also understand that he might have sharpening on....and the website obviously will alter the photos somewhat
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You're crazy...I'm a professional photographer and I've seen $700 Digital SLRs shoot worse photos
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Agreed. This camera is VERY good.. people are just expecting too much when they hear "8 megapixels". The sensor and optics in the camera on the back are great. Plain and simple. Don't drop your DSLR or point-and-shoot just yet, but definitely keep the EVO handy because with the processor, the pictures snap quickly and they geotag super fast and are easy to send to Flickr. I love it.
To answer some of the questions above, the settings are all auto - the only thing I changed was the resolution. No sharpening has been done, either when shooting or after. In fact, the camera doesn't have a sharpen option at all.
The website doesn't alter the photos either - what you are viewing in the lightbox is the full thing, granted it's scaled down by the browser to fit your screen. If you want to view the full size, just right click and copy link or Save As.
And thank you for the congratulations
I still think the camera on the EVO is really nice - yes, the optics could improve but I'm loving that I don't actually HAVE to have my point-and-shoot with me to produce some nice pics.
showmrock said:
You're crazy...I'm a professional photographer and I've seen $700 Digital SLRs shoot worse photos
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yeah im not a pro, but those pictures look GREAT!
fairly well written article, although it saddens me today's consumer needs the 'important parts' bolded so he doesn't have to read comprehensively.
oh wait, we're supposed to be talking about the phone?
yes, yes - nice pictures
Here are some i've taken tonight, I take alot of sunset photos, with different settings just to see the outcomes. I did the same and still do the same with my Omnia and with my Digital Cameras to.
Enjoy and please feel free to post some of your own sunset photos to, taken with the Incredible of course
Here are some better outcomes thought you might wanna see them.
Using Camera 30
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/5849/c36020100615205540org.jpg
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/5201/imag0061ap.jpg
Hold Still little one :0
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/6400/c36020100615205916.jpg
Standard Camera
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4466/imag0063i.jpg
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/3236/imag0064u.jpg
Posted as links as photos are big and don't want to lag the board
Guess we have no sunset lovers lol, oh well good to know the camera can pull it off
That looks pretty good for a phone camera. I will be receiving my phone today, It's good to know that I can takes some pics of sunsets over the Florida everglades.
Thanks for the post.
I like the pictures Matter fact, would you be willing to share the original picture of this one:
c36020100615205540org.jpg
Good pics!
zalez said:
I like the pictures Matter fact, would you be willing to share the original picture of this one:
c36020100615205540org.jpg
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That is the original, See the original and the hdr effect copy (crazy bright) below:
HDR Effect
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/8016/c36020100615205540.jpg
Original
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5849/c36020100615205540org.jpg