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Atrix 5MP Camera vs............

Here are some comparison shots from my Atrix compared to pics from my iPhone 4. Most of them are very different......
Some of these are in low light, but all are on default - automatic settings, and iPhone 4 has HDR turned off. Flash is on Auto on both also and it came on the exact same shots so there should be no difference there.
Feel free to post more comparisons. The Atrix shots are 1st and iPhone 4 2nd btw.
iPhone 4 vs Motorola Atrix Camera - a set on Flickr
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wow thats pretty bad...
u sure u did everything right lol

The iphone has a backlit sensor and I don't think the Atrix does... it simply has a better camera sensor so this is no surprised to me =\
the iphone does have a tendency to oversaturate its pictures though...

that's pretty bad :'(
engadget was lying then when they said that the camera was good enough to use it on a daily basis

emudojo said:
that's pretty bad :'(
engadget was lying then when they said that the camera was good enough to use it on a daily basis
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Maybe its better outside and that's how they tested. I'll try it out today.

I'm no camera expert, but the Atrix camera is great (but not as good as the iPhone 4). It could be much greater if it fixed the lighting control issues. Too much light. Too much JPEG compression, too.

I've definitely gotten better results than the ones above, but the camera isn't as good as the iP4's. I don't generally factor the camera into my phone buying decision too much, but it's nice to be able to get a good shot. I've had an x10, iP4, Captivate and Inspire most recently. The x10 and iP4 had the best cams. I wouldn't go back to any of them because of it though.
btw, I like that table

dsjr2006 said:
Maybe its better outside and that's how they tested. I'll try it out today.
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WOW
that sucks. we need more of this, and it would nice to see a captivate vs atrix comparison.
And inspire vs atrix comparison would be useful as well.

It's also not as good as the Captivate, but it is by far not the worst.

doug7 said:
WOW
that sucks. we need more of this, and it would nice to see a captivate vs atrix comparison.
And inspire vs atrix comparison would be useful as well.
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Captivate
Atrix
These were 2 quick shots and I think the flash was reflecting heavily off of the guitar in the shot.

lol, and seeing them both blown up they both look like crap. My bad.

Same photo with the winmo htc tilt:

Outdoor pics.
Captivate
Atrix

Honestly, the atrix is probably closer to what your eyes see. Which isnt always as pretty as a camera picks up.
iPhone 4 tends to saturate the **** out of pictures especially inside. Those actually dont look all that bad.

Well one thing is for sure, There is a purplish hue in its pictures.

Even on the first page the Atrix photo's look more "real".
Iphone even the 3gs does SOOOO much processing to an image it's not really a reflection of the hardware... Iphone pictures look better because of MUCH better processing software.
My 3gs iphone can take nicer looking shots in CERTAIN cases then even a older canon 5 or 6mp dedicated camera.
I think the Atrix pictures are great... there is a bit of blue/purple hue but I think a better camera app would probably fix that.

Sony Xperia S Camera comparison vs Arc

I went to a Sony Mobile "Insider on Tour" event tonight and got the chance to have a look at the S, P, and U.. I also took 2 photo's one with my current arc, and one with the S.. I've stuck them together, side by side and here's the result.. The camera on the S is incredible.
[EDIT : FYI - I took both pictures with default settings.. and the S photo was taken from standby to test the quick shot feature.. it took the photo in under 2 seconds.. easily. The 2 photo's were cropped and I used the left hand side of each to make this image, no post processing on the image quality at all.. just cropped and added the labels.]
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Interesting. Look at the seat numbers, and the seats at the back... The Arc resolves them, the S does not.
The S may have better shadow noise, but it looks like the Arc has better detail. Of course, for the S, you did not have that bright spotlight in the frame to throw off metering either

Rashkae said:
Of course, for the S, you did not have that bright spotlight in the frame to throw off metering either
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I think he cropped that out of the S' photo.

Not a fair comparison IMO. Would be a much better one without those light sources.
Anyways, it does seem the picture taken by arc to have more resolved detail.

Haha, Arc seems better!

Could you post some more pics, please?
Snapdragon S3 keeps me away from the new devices, but the camera might change that.
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I did crop the two photos...just took the left side of each.
The handling of the light sources was what made it such a good comparison..
I only had it in my hand for 2 minutes so only managed to take that photo and Bluetooth it to my arc..
The s handled amazingly well.. And the camera really was very impressive..
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I have unfortunately read a review for the Xperia s that states the camera as having the same jpeg compression as the arc s, ray and neo. I truly hope this isn't the case as I was extremely let down but the quality from the arc s camera.
I believe this review might have been posted on Engadget today?
If anyone has some proper hands on experience with some outdoors shots compared to arc s, iPhone 4s and sgs2, please post your findings on which has the better detail and quality, megapixels withstanding.

Flo95 said:
Could you post some more pics, please?
Snapdragon S3 keeps me away from the new devices, but the camera might change that.
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What's wrong with that? It's a decent chipset.

harlz said:
I have unfortunately read a review for the Xperia s that states the camera as having the same jpeg compression as the arc s, ray and neo. I truly hope this isn't the case as I was extremely let down but the quality from the arc s camera.
I believe this review might have been posted on Engadget today?
If anyone has some proper hands on experience with some outdoors shots compared to arc s, iPhone 4s and sgs2, please post your findings on which has the better detail and quality, megapixels withstanding.
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There are some photos posted in xperia s forum. One user posted there a link for full size images captured by the device. Haven't checked in 100% magnification though.
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1530157
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doomed151 said:
What's wrong with that? It's a decent chipset.
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New flagship devices use the S4 (like HTC One X). It's as fast as the Tegra 3. Also the rumoured Hayabusa/Mint from Sony (autumn flagship) will have the S4.

sdk16420 said:
New flagship devices use the S4 (like HTC One X). It's as fast as the Tegra 3. Also the rumoured Hayabusa/Mint from Sony (autumn flagship) will have the S4.
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Maybe because of time constraints to test S4 platform for Q1 release? Xperia S is now on sale. HTC S4 devices will come this Q2.
Waiting for an S4 device with Sony branding!

doomed151 said:
What's wrong with that? It's a decent chipset.
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S4 chipset is as fast as Tegra 3, so the S3 chipset is slow in comparison.
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The quality doesn't look much different. Maybe a bit, but I think the arc is still pretty decent.

Are there any more comparisons?

N8 camera owns arc& xperia s cameras - sad, but true . N8>X10>XS>arc

[REQUEST] Real world photos

I'm toying with the idea of getting one of these cameras, maybe it's a bit too soon to ask but, can some of you with the camera, post some photos you've taken with it, real world photos from actual owners and not just press shots.
Not really fussed if you've used the built in apps for editing the images you post, as it will just add to the "things you can do with this device" I just want to get the opinions from actual users who have spent their hard earned cash on it and get their points of view about their experience with it, what the performance is like, how good/poor is the daily use image quality of the camera like, whether you think it was worth the £399 etc... etc....
TIA.
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Real Photo Taken By Me
Here is a Macro:
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A Rich Tone:
And a Normal:

Slow Motion Video
Here is a Slow Motion Video:
http://youtu.be/tcQtKfO16bo

Some more pictures
I took these photos this morning...
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Interesting. Some purple camera flare in the shoot with the sun. Just like the Iphone 5

Here's a handful I took a few days ago.. (Dropbox Link)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sgjjatb3zv06ib8/_VGWEPCPiq

It all looks really good, has anyone ventured into the manual settings much?
Swyped, from my finger to your face, on my Samsung Galaxy Note II

apprentice said:
Here's a handful I took a few days ago.. (Dropbox Link)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sgjjatb3zv06ib8/_VGWEPCPiq
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Nice shots - just got my galaxy cam but don't have any paths nearly that beautiful to walk with it. Would love to see photo spheres come this device.

I'm no photo bug but those look like some nice shots to me.
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Here are 3 live videos of Gary Barlow on Monday evening. I was stood well back hence the enhanced shaking hand effect http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb4AsPYRrYlN6bcceKarcDlCtMSf_Ueui

The Moon
This a picture I shot of the moon using manual settings.

Video quality is really good, and surprisingly so is the sound.
Swyped, from my finger to your face, on my Samsung Galaxy Note II

I've bought the camera on the very first day of availability, 7th November, directly in London's Samsung flagship store at 5pm when the boxes were brought in I might be the first to have bought the camera officially...
However, on my Flickr account I've collected some pictures that I've made since then.
The lens is amazing, the CMOS chip not so, zooming into pictures details become just a mess of pixels. Or should I say mash?
But it's just a point-and-shooter and it does very good pictures at low light. Unless you don't zoom in too much, that is.

paulikxp said:
I've bought the camera on the very first day of availability, 7th November, directly in London's Samsung flagship store at 5pm when the boxes were brought in I might be the first to have bought the camera officially...
However, on my Flickr account I've collected some pictures that I've made since then.
The lens is amazing, the CMOS chip not so, zooming into pictures details become just a mess of pixels. Or should I say mash?
But it's just a point-and-shooter and it does very good pictures at low light. Unless you don't zoom in too much, that is.
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I know it's a bit apple and oranges but which one would you consider this one, or the Sony. I currently have 2 S3s in my household + my current phone is Note 2. Maybe that's a bit too much of the Galaxy goodness, what do you think?

victorator said:
I currently have 2 S3s in my household + my current phone is Note 2. Maybe that's a bit too much of the Galaxy goodness, what do you think?
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Haha, I sold my S3 and a Nexus 7 to help fund the purchase of a Note II and the Galaxy Camera, I considered keeping the S3 at one point, as I love Samsung's Galaxy range! So now the camera and Note II are my absolute favourite gadgets of all time ツ
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Cape Manza in Okinawa/Japan
Hello, I shoot two pictures at Cape Manza.
One is the bird with tele-mode(zoom-in), other one is the cap with wide-mode(zoom-out).
I shoot with out the tri-pod.
Thanks.
riki0081 from Japan.

I took these shots of the weekend at a bodybuilding show... The battery lasted for about 4 hours of very use... I was using the picpush app to stream photos to facebook as I was taking them... This is a very cool device! remove the space in the url lol
facebook dot com/media/set/?set=a.10151155433826297.435735.584311296&type=1&l=87f30869cc

After seeing lots of photos from you guys I don't think I will be getting this camera. I will go for the sony hx20 or lumix tz30 (leaning towards the lumix, although sony kills it with image stabilization and speed of operation).

victorator said:
After seeing lots of photos from you guys I don't think I will be getting this camera. I will go for the sony hx20 or lumix tz30 (leaning towards the lumix, although sony kills it with image stabilization and speed of operation).
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That's your decision... but both of them are not comparable to the Galaxy Camera in my opinion as they don't come with Android/touchscreen/3G.
I think only somebody who really wants those features will buy the Galaxy not because of its picture quality, which is good but far from perfect.

Jelly beans
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At last, the wait is over for Oppo's latest flagship device

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At last, the wait is over for Oppo's latest flagship device. Launched in Beijing earlier, the Find 5 comes with pretty much all the top ingredients in the current market -- many of which had been teased by the company multiple times already: 5-inch 1080p display, Qualcomm's quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 chip with 2GB RAM, a 2,500mAh battery and Android 4.1.2. There's also NFC, and on top of that, the Find 5 will come with two NFC tags (remember LG's Optimus LTE Tag and Sony's SmartTags?) plus a special version of Sina Weibo that uses the phone's NFC to let users instantly follow each other.
The 13-megapixel, 5fps camera on the back isn't just about numbers, as it also packs fast hardware-enabled HDR for both photos and video! Oppo claims it's the first in the mobile industry to carry this awesome feature. Additionally, the main camera can capture slow motion of up to 120fps, though it isn't clear whether the resolution is reduced to achieve this. On the other side of the device there's also a 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera, which beats most phones these days. Audio-wise the Find 5 features Dirac HD, a technology that's embraced by the likes of BMW, Bentley, Rolls Royce and Datasat; making Oppo the first mobile phone brand to join the party. The included earphones are fine-tuned for Dirac, naturally.

Find 5 could have been the first phone with HDR video if it had been released just a month ago... Now Sony beat Oppo to it, with a phone that's superior in other aspects as well
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1337RYoN said:
Find 5 could have been the first phone with HDR video if it had been released just a month ago... Now Sony beat Oppo to it, with a phone that's superior in other aspects as well
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I'm pretty sure it was the first phone with HDR but it was only sold in China at the time. It was released in China first and has been available for a couple months now in China, I'm pretty sure. It was released a month ago in the US, They just sold one batch though in the US and it sold out in minutes, it crashed the Oppo servers from people trying to purchase, they wasn't ready for the demand, I guess and server went down, but some lucky people got in on the first batch. They are selling in the US and other countries now. I prefer the second batch personally anyways because of the button etchings, see pic below. Now they have more in stock so its easier to get at www.oppostyle.com if they don't sell out again soon, I already purchased mine so I got one coming 32GB version? the second batch in stock now ships in 1-2 weeks but people are already starting to get processed emails.

1337RYoN said:
Find 5 could have been the first phone with HDR video if it had been released just a month ago... Now Sony beat Oppo to it, with a phone that's superior in other aspects as well
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I just watched a review on the Z, and next to the OPPO the colors look washed out and dull, and the viewing angles are sad. Also the camera isn't getting the best reviews either. So its arguable that the Z is superior.
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Coreym said:
I just watched a review on the Z, and next to the OPPO the colors look washed out and dull, and the viewing angles are sad. Also the camera isn't getting the best reviews either. So its arguable that the Z is superior.
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Xperia Z and Oppo Find 5, have the same Sony Exmor RS camera sensor
The display is awful on the Xperia Z IMO, if you are not looking at the screen straight on, it gets really washed out, and another thing is that it is such a fingerprint magnet. Every review that I have saw, the device has fingerprints all over it and that is one thing I can’t stand personally. The Xperia Z does not have Gorilla Glass 2 either.
I would hate to have a stand/charger/holder for at night while trying to watch a movie on the Xperia Z, you would have to have it directly in front of you to get a clear picture,. You couldn’t have any angles or the video would look washed out. The only advantage I see is that it has an SD card slot, but this may not be an advantage for everyone. I have the 32GB version of the Find 5 and with all my Cloud Storage accounts, so I’m fine with 32GB. You can’t use the SD card anyways for the use with games or apps, which Google screwed up by doing this for some reason.
The Xperia Z is a nice device but, I was just turned off by the display, and all the fingerprints it picks up. I don’t think the Z is superior in any way, both devices have the same specs, but the Z has an SD card slot. Both have the Sony Exmor RS camera sensor, so it’s a pretty close call, it comes down to which device you like better, Both phones are nice to have though.

Camera Problem goes Worldwide thanks to us !

Good Morning from Germany,
Sony have officialy answered on this Problem here you can read that :
http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/126134
Now i decided to write an Email to XPERIABLOG.NET that they should something about the Cameraproblem or an image comparison between
HTC One, Galaxy S4 and Xperia Z
Here is the Email :
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and here you can read the article about this Comparison :
http://www.xperiablog.net/2013/04/18/camera-shootout-xperia-z-goes-up-against-the-galaxy-s4-and-htc-one/

It's good that this gets more attention, but I don't hope that Sony will only look at this problem as a compression problem, because there is a lot more wrong here.

Sorry but I've had a good test of the Sony camera compared to HTC one and galaxy s3 and the xperia camera edges it barring the odd bit of over compression but I'll take it for less noise and better colour reproduction than both those phones
I believe the z has bigger fish to fry like unforgivable viewing angles, awful speaker quality, lag and ui skipping issues, over heating and odd and inconsistent battery life.
I loved this phone on face value but the more I use it the more I pick it apart
The camera is by far it's best attribute and is better than its competitors right now even if the photos are a little soft.

biffsmash said:
I believe the z has bigger fish to fry like unforgivable viewing angles, awful speaker quality, lag and ui skipping issues, over heating and odd and inconsistent battery life.
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Viewing angles: You want to look at the phone from a 45 degree angle? For what reason? Or do you love that other people can read your text's?
Aweful speaker quality: Ok lets put a better speaker in, but remove the whole concept of the phone being water proof/resistant
Lag: Yeah lag..... where!?
ui skipping issues: ??? Examples please.
Over heating: Name 1 phone that doesn't overheat, isn't it logical that the processor becomes hot when it need to process something big?? Since our phone's are made out of glass we will notice it even more, since glass is a good heat conductor (You could/should've known that before you bought the phone)
Inconsistent battery life : Partly true, it also has to do with the apps that you run, so you can't really blame Sony for that.
ANYWAYS.....this topic is about the camera so lets leave other issues aside.

What's all this about the camera, the Zs camera is easily the best I've ever seen. Stop using reviews as a basis for a petition. Many of these sites have their own agenda. I've repeatedly heard them say the Zs camera is worse than that of the iPhone. Well they could have fooled me. That claim doesn't stand up at all. It's biased stupidity.
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zodiac100 said:
What's all this about the camera, the Zs camera is easily the best I've ever seen. Stop using reviews as a basis for a petition. Many of these sites have their own agenda. I've repeatedly heard them say the Zs camera is worse than that of the iPhone. Well they could have fooled me. That claim doesn't stand up at all. It's biased stupidity.
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I don't know about other people, but I've got my own pictures as a reference:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38823948&postcount=39
Not mine, but you can clearly see that there is too much noise:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38847402&postcount=41
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38858346&postcount=46
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39024438&postcount=76

Dsteppa said:
I don't know about other people, but I've got my own pictures as a reference:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38823948&postcount=39
Not mine, but you can clearly see that there is too much noise:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38847402&postcount=41
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38858346&postcount=46
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39024438&postcount=76
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One of those guys said:
Amazing low light shots..not possible with my previous phones to look so clear (S3 and iphone5).
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You should not expect the same quality pic in a macro shot than in a night shot. With other phone, in those conditions, you would get a nice black photo. In Xperia Z you get a noisy pic, but at least it's not black.

I have to agree with the issue here. Before I even looked at the Xperia subforum, after coming from an S3, I knew straight away that I couldn't take a half decent picture and after 30 or 40 shots didn't get a single image I could use.
I could get a perfect picture on my S3, default settings almost every time, and if not, certainly the second time.
Nobody can say that's placebo caused by popular belief because I never even saw the complaints until I had decided for myself the picture quality was apalling.

the camera app itself is a big problem because it was ported from x1,x2 (windows phones) and tweaked a bit. guys who have/had x1 or x2 know what im talking about
when sony finally makes new or updates camera app some problems might go away

Some camera problems are dued to picture softness. Camera360 automatically "improves" the quality with a focus filter, you should test it.