Touch Pro camera quality settings
 

To get better snap shots using your TP camera:

1. Turn Auto White Ballance off. Select the best for your situation.
2. Turn down the brightness all the way down.
3. Make sure you've got your resolution set to 3MP and quality to super fine
4. Turn off the shutter sound (this prevents your subjects to move before the picture is taken - auto focus sound can be confusing).
5. On your shoot option, put it to just touch (optional).
6. And set the image properties to +4, +3, and +5
7. Obviously, you should wipe your cover camera lenses with soft cloth right before the picture. Optionally, just take the back cover off.

Hope this helps!

Fabio

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im having the same issue with the camera

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camera does suck. playing with the white balance does help.

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My first and replacement TP had good camera. What build date is that? Maybe your autofocus is disabled.

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mrspeedmaster said it best. you have to play with the white balance yourself. i think the auto white balance is broken. ;)

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If you take the battery cover off before you snap the shot the quality improves a bit.

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I was going to suggest that. I didn't realize if but when I first bought my TP I must have touched the inside lens cover. I had a finger print right on it!

I doubt that is your issue Fabio. My pictures don't have that 'soft edges' look though. My only complaint is the rather lengthy focus process. If you don't wait for the green target square your pictures will always be blurry and washed out. Can you attach a mini-tripod to these things?

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I've found there are two big things you can do to achieve better pics w/ the TP. The first is to turn off auto white balance. Try to select what is appropriate for the shot you're planning to take or at least use the sunlight setting for all shots as a bare minimum if you don't have time to switch it around. The other thing may or may not be controllable but the amount of light is THE main reason why a picture will come out good or not. If at all possible, use the most amount of lighting. I can take pictures of people in motion with NO blur outdoors, but if someone is even just breathing hard in a dim room, the subject will be blurry.

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Things that I have gathered up in some posts are...

1. Turn down the brightness all the way down
2. Make sure you've got your resolution set to 3m and quality to super fine
3. Turn off the shutter sound
4. On your shoot option, put it to just touch
5. And set the image properties to 4, 4, and 5

Now these settings have gotten me good shots, try them out and see if it works for you.

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try this. It seemed to help mine some

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what exactly does that cab do?

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Wow, I can see a difference, but it is still not perfect. I disabled the white ballance and removed the back cover. Check it out in the attachment.

I've heard of a camera app for the iPhone that will only allow the camera to snap a shot when the G-Sensor detects that the phone is not shaking. Have you seen anything like that for Windows Mobile?

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The softness looks like motion blur to me.

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It sounds crazy, but with my last 2 camera phones I wait a beat after the shutter sound before moving the phone. Seems to help. I am not sure what the deal is, but if I move the phone right after the sound, things can get blurry. I get great pictures with the Pro and so far everyone I send them to seems impressed as well.

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Ok, here is a comparison. Now I have a lot less light because of sunset. Check the colors in the background. Much better settings.

For normal operation, removing the back cover is very cumbersome, though.... :)

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It changes your ringtone.

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oh im sorry wrong one. It actually changes your back cover pink. sorry for the confusion

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DUDE- did you guys try wiping off the back cover?
There's some adhesive from the packaging that makes blurry shots until you wipe it off with a cotton cloth.

My pictures looked that for one day, then I cleaned it and it's been damned near the best camera phone quality I've ever seen since then.

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VERY VERY usefull... :---)

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I cant turn off my white balance. It only goes through all the different types of lighting. Auto,night,day,indoor lights but no off setting.

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Camera does pretty well outside with bright sun

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3437/...21d563b8c5.jpg

Unfortunately I don't know which end is UP... here is the raw photo out of the camera!

http://media.shozu.com/cache/portal/...c8a82/67108910

It looks better if you stand on your head ;)

It is interesting how it looks reasonably sharp when scaled down to 500 × 375 in flickr, vs 2048 × 1536 raw... It may say 3.2mp, but it feels like .8mp - or rather it can actually produce sharp .8mp images.

There just is no way to get good images out of cheap cellphone cameras.

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This whole topic is laughable, IMO.

My "real" Canon camera also looks considerably crappier when fulled its full 7 mpixel resolution. That has to do with how the sensor works. You rarely ever view a picture at full res (7mpixel wouldn't fit on the average computer screen at once anyway). They say the sensor is capable of 7mpix, or 3.2mpix, or whatever, because it IS capable of that. However, when scaled down, the quality improves. This is NORMAL!

As far as being fuzzy, etc, that's mostly because of the packing adhesive that mucks up the battery cover sheild. Clean that up (as I already mentioned) and you won't have to take it off to get good pics.

IMO, the only thing that "sucks" about HTC camera phones is that the AUTO settings aren't worth the time developers spent writing it. You have to do everything manually to get a decent shot.
I'd upload some pics to show you, but I need to find some without any people in them (friends/family don't like being paraded online without permission!). Maybe later today I'll snap a shot of the snow melting and show you what I'm talking about.