Camera Settings

[apaquette0069]

try turning the brightness down to -2.0 and i feel that the picks are less blurry and less white light. try it out and see!!!

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by apaquette0069

try turning the brightness down to -2.0 and i feel that the picks are less blurry and less white light. try it out and see!!!

I have always done that myself.

~John

[linzgeneral]

Originally Posted by apaquette0069

try turning the brightness down to -2.0 and i feel that the picks are less blurry and less white light. try it out and see!!!

I just tried that. Maybe less white light but pics are still grainy like heck!

[jimmiekain]

Originally Posted by trids

One more 100% crop to illustrate how oversharpening costs you detail.

wow thanks dude!

[gianthobbit]

Lowering the brightness seems to have the most impact on the speed of the shots. Drives me nuts when I try to take a picture and the littliest movement makes it blurry. Personally I would rather have grainier pics that are at least not blurry.

[brownhornet]

Pencil in one more in favor of the TP1 pics. I have both phones side by side and took pics of the EXACT same thing with the exact same resolution, uploaded both to photoshop and the tp1 pic looks way better. You can rationalize it how you want to but the fact of the matter is the tp2 camera sucks. I'm not even going to mention how dark and dull the videos come out.

[gregg]

I just got my VZW TP2 last week and immediately noticed a lower image quality than on my Fuze. On my Fuze the only "tweak" I made was to have brightness at -2.0 and capture key delay set to "0"...everything else default setting.

The main differences I noticed on TP2 stock settings is that the TP2 images appear washed out and there is lots of noise from the ISO setting. This phone would have greatly benefited from an LED flash, so it's a real shame that HTC decided to leave it out.

After taking dozens of shots with the TP2 and playing with the settings, I have decided the following settings work best for my taste:

White Balance: Auto
Brightness: -2.0
ISO: 100 in normal light, 200 in lower light conditions (never go above 200, otherwise you can see the graininess on the phone itself, not just when viewing images on a computer)
Resolution: 3M
Widescreen: Off
Quality: Super Fine
Contrast: +4
Saturation: +3
Sharpness: +5

It seems that using widescreen mode hurts the image quality. Unless you are taking a photo for which you must have widescreen, I would leave it off. In low light conditions, there is not much you can do other than turn the brightness setting up, but unless it's pretty much dark, I don't think you will need to.


Maybe someone else can try my suggestions and report back?