How can two different 2.0 megapixel camera be so different

djk1 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-05-2007, 07:15 PM

Not to sound like a pest or anything but I understand that your SLR cameras take great pictures. I understand that the little click and shoot take better pictures, and even web cameras take better pictures. But unfortunatly I dont carry my SLR, point and shoot or even web camera with me all the time. What I do carry all the time is my $400 dollar sprint touch that claimed 2.0 megapixel camera. I know not all hardware are created equal but my wifes samsung upstage sometimes takes better pictures. I cant even put our camera in the same catagory as the iphone camera. By the way I had the Mogul for about three months and image quality on the Mogul is just as crappy as the touch.

linzgeneral · #2 (**permalink**) 12-05-2007, 08:44 PM

I can attest to these general sentiments. I recently performed a camera test between my touch and mogul. I took at least 10 identical shots with each and organized them on my laptop. The mogul camera blow the touch to pieces. Much sharper and richer pics as well as better low light performance. Funny thing I never used my mogul for taking pic as it didn't meet my expectations for a 2 meg camera. I had to use it since it was all i had at amonday night game and was pleasantly surprised with the results. Recently I took some pics of my son in the mall and was equally impressed. Now the mogul camera has me considering if I should keep the touch. I will be keeping the touch though since I have a 7 meg Canon SD 750. If the mogul only had more Ram and working bluetooth........

Touch999 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-05-2007, 09:42 PM

I took 5 identical pics with a mogul and a Touch. I manualy configured both for optimun lighting. And no matter what i did, the touch pictures just dont come out as sharp as the moguls. As for the colors, i Managed to get the touch to take richer colors and more accurate than the mogul. So in a nutshell, mogul takes sharper pics but touch takes more richer and accurate colors.

Zyphlin · #4 (**permalink**) 12-06-2007, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by djk1

Not to sound like a pest or anything but I understand that your SLR cameras take great pictures. I understand that the little click and shoot take better pictures, and even web cameras take better pictures. But unfortunatly I dont carry my SLR, point and shoot or even web camera with me all the time. What I do carry all the time is my $400 dollar sprint touch that claimed 2.0 megapixel camera. I know not all hardware are created equal but my wifes samsung upstage sometimes takes better pictures. I cant even put our camera in the same catagory as the iphone camera. By the way I had the Mogul for about three months and image quality on the Mogul is just as crappy as the touch.

And you got what it claimed, a 2.0 megapixel camera. It has just that. The problem is that other parts of the camera are not of "great" quality. You are taking one buzzword and thinking its the same.

Think back a few years in computers. "I have a 1ghz processer!" Great, good to hear. Is it a Pentium or is it a Celeron?

The iPhone was created pretty much to be a mobile multimedia beast with a phone attached. The addition of a phone would be a huge thing for their target audiance. The Touch is more based on being a complete overall device...which means it may not do the media things as great as the iphone, but it can do more in general.