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Does anybody use Universal's Camera??

I am considering buying a Universal and one concern is that the camera is only 1.3 mp....many reviews have said that 1.3 mp cameras are poor at best ....worthless use of space at worst...
Can any of you Universal users comment on your use of camera?? Can you get good pics from it ....or is it truly a waste of space?
thanks
on the fence...
Scott

The camera is not that great but this might be of assistance, have not tried it personally as I have a good digital camera
http://www.ateksoft.com/features.html

It's not the best camera I've used but if you have a stable hand then it can work pretty well.
This is from K750:
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All of these are from Universal:

I am not too impressed with the camera either, but then again, it's my first camera on a phone and I am used to digital camera quality. I use it for taking snapshots, and I use a good digital camera for photo's. That's the way it should be.
It just comes in handy when I'm on the road or whatever, because I always carry the phone with me, whereas I do not have a digital camera with me all the time.
I think it's just handy and the quality doesn't matter all that much for it's purpose.

look for more photos made by the universal here: http://www.newmobile.nl/eur/en/photos.php?phone_id=12bb134
you can also find photos on that site taken with other phones for comparing..

thanks everyone
thanks for the advice on universal camera
Much appreciated!!
scott

Its crap. And mine is broken.....
JAmes

Poor, but not crap!
Camera is poor, but definitely not crap!
These pictures were taken with Universal camera:
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ady said:
It's not the best camera I've used but if you have a stable hand then it can work pretty well.
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That last photo of yours...do you notice the dead/bright/insensitive pixels? I get that on mine as well....how come?

less camera light

is there any possibility to reduce the camera light?
if i take pictures from faces, the flash uses his full power and messes up the picture. there is an example:
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On my Sony Ericsson K800i the kamera did send out a light to get the focus and took the picture with the flash light...
anyone knows good settings to take pictures at darker places?
also the hd2 has a quiet bad image stabilization. did someone experienced something diffrent?

The TMoUS camera drivers fix the LED flash overexposure problem so all you have to do is find a cooked ROM which uses them.

I used to have a k800i too, the camera is far better than hd2 due to its xenon flash (better light management) and very short shutter time (reducing blur).
If as NeoGreendawg says the US rom has a fix then its only a matter of time till its fixed officially over here.
Right now i use a program called Torchbutton which turns the led's on. Then run camera app and set flash to disabled. The torch gives enough light but without the superbright flash that kills the pic.
Look on the sticky application thread in hd2 themes & apps for torch button.
As for image stabilisation i guess we just have to hold the thing damn still

galaxy vs nexus camera

does anyone else find that the nexus takes much better still pictures than the galaxy.
Better contrast, saturation, less noise, better focus, especially in low light conditions.
Here are 2 examples, both at the same settings, except the galaxy i activated anti-shake, which seems to reduce the graininess a little.
Sure the galaxy pic looks fine when shrunk down by 50% but compared at full size, imo it looks like crap compared to the nexus
Galaxy
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Nexus

Picture quality is indeed very poor on the SGS, maybe even worse than the HTC Hero I had before...pics look very blurry, almost useless really...hope future roms can improve this...(little hope).

After using the camera i feel that the auto focus system used aint that great and is the real failing point of the camera. Overall, pictures are soft and not well focused, and i just can never seem to focus on close subjects. E.g. when i try to take a picture of an insect, it focuses till its clear but then backs out and gives me the red box.

I think my Captivate cam is great.
www.dangdeals.com/dog1.jpg
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To large for the forum.

those captivate pics are better than my galaxy.
i tried a second galaxy and the image quality was quite improved over the first one ....wether it is the firmware or the hardware i have no idea, but i have a feeling they are using different sensors at random.
with an HD video camera, you would think it would also take decent still images
....they either come out very grainy or out of focus

also my SGS camera is very poor, i hope that it can be improved by future software. Previously i had an Nokia E90 3M camera and it was way better.

Camera Comparison - AOSP and Samsung ROMs

Hi Guys,
Did a bit of a camera comparison showing the differences between UltimaROM and UltimaAOSP, highlighting the differences between Samsung and AOSP ROMs like CM/Omni etc. Thought it was worth sharing it here.
In a nutshell, AOSP can take acceptable camera phone shots, but struggles when compared against the stock app. Exposure issues when faced with high contrast scenes and focusing problems on bright lights in addition to a lack of vividness means for some, the AOSP experience will never be complete.
Check out my Instagram to see the quality of some of the shots taken on my S3 using UltimaROM (Samsung base).
Any questions regarding the differences, from someone who values the camera performance of his device, then let me know!
Regards.
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I wish I could say aosp better,but cm rocks. Much more details and less light problems

I personally did an even bigger test. AOSP vs. Stock Samsung. With different camera apps and so on.
You can check it out here (Swedish forum, just check under "Testet:".)
http://www.swedroid.se/forum/showthread.php?t=95071

Sammy-based ROMs always do better in the photography department. But I still find AOSP/AOKP to be fair enough for everyday pics. That is, if they can get working without FC and autofocus issues
~ RazorMC

Stock Camera App Crops Video? Google Camera is wider widescreen.

Has anyone else noticed the following:
Take a 1080p video with the stock Moto camera app.
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Then take one with the Google Camera app.
(both taken with my phone sitting on my laptop on a mini tripod)
The Google Camera video is a wider wide-screen on mine, and I can't seem to find any setting that will make the Moto camera match it. Actually I've tried Open Camera too and it also crops like the Moto.
It looks like in the Google app, all it does is crop the 21 MP still image to 16:9 and records that at 1080p. But in the other apps, they crop out a bit from the middle too.
Anyone have an idea of what's going on here? I generally prefer the Google Camera, except it won't record to SD card and it won't record longer than 4 GB so I've been shopping for a new app (Open Camera works well, but isn't as wide screen!)
edit: This is a Droid Turbo 2. Mine is still LP and my wife's is MM, and it does this on both.

If you look harder, moto have a "programm stability" of videos. Maybe moto camera cut video for stabilization.

Good call, that was it. When I disabled video stabilization in Open Camera, I got the same field of view as Google Camera.