Camera is poor...any fixes/apps to fix it?

[draconius]

So my wife was trying to take pictures of our friends concert last night and the picture/camera SUCKS in low light settings. My omnia camera took in almost 3 times as much light than the Droid. Is there an app to fix it, settings, etc to help with this?

Every other phones camera seems to out perform the Droids...

[JonV]

Originally Posted by draconius

So my wife was trying to take pictures of our friends concert last night and the picture/camera SUCKS in low light settings. My omnia camera took in almost 3 times as much light than the Droid. Is there an app to fix it, settings, etc to help with this?

Every other phones camera seems to out perform the Droids...

No argument here. As a shortcut I refer to this link to a thread in the Moto forum where similar discussion is happening by some folk who know more than I.

https://supportforums.motorola.com/t...t=15&tstart=30

One fellow is a quite accomplished photographer who is very happy with the Droid's results and he's volunteered to try and write up a guide to the tricks he uses. There's no dount that it suffers indoors in low lighting. Some say setting brightness to max when shooting helps. Some say using the $2 Camera ZOOM FX helps. Some say staying on 2megapixel helps unless you really need the 5. I recently installed FX but haven't had time to test much. It has a bunch of "trick shots" that I'll never use but a much better interface than stock Camera and additional settings such as a metered shot setting, etc. Not much help from me other than that.

I also wonder if future software fixes will make things better as time goes on. Maybe in the Jan 22 OTA update? The thought is it's not a hardware problem as much as software.

[hammer1320]

I am also looking for a fix for this, the phone is awsome but the camera is kind of bad. I left a HTC Diamond for the Droid and the HTC had a 3.2mp camera, the 5mp on the Droid dosnt hold a candle to the picture quality in all lighting situations.

But I did realize that the pictures I take with the Google Goggles app come out much clearer, has anyone else notice this? And that makes me think that it might be the stock camera program, not so much the phone.

[draconius]

The low light performance also sucks when you are trying to scan a barcode and it can't see it because it's too dark...

Thanks for the link! I will read up on it!

[phullofphil]

suposedly phonearena rated the droid to have the best camera. has anybody tried and put a picture on a computer or print it i wonder if it is just what we see that sucks.

[Humpa]

Originally Posted by phullofphil

suposedly phonearena rated the droid to have the best camera. has anybody tried and put a picture on a computer or print it i wonder if it is just what we see that sucks.

There is varyiing build quality in the Droid, which seems typical of Moto. That with the fact that these tiny sensors are extremely suseptable to noise, particularly in low light, results in some Droids doing better in low light than others. With so much electronics jammed into these small devices, any slight differences will result in different degrees of noise affecting the sensor. In good lighting, like outside in the daytime, you can easily get great pics. I'm still using my D300 though, of course.

I'm sure I could print some of my pics and they'd make a great 4x6 or 5x7. Like this one, for example:
http://www.thephonecam.com/pics/Eiffel_Tower_Vegas.html