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Have we gotten any kind of camera test shots yet?

Still looking for some comparison photos of the NG camera. The 5 MP camera is a bit offputting, but for years the iPhone camera was running at less MP and always seemed to have a better sensor and produce better pictures, i'm hoping that's the case right now. The camera and the size are really my two biggest concerns with the device right now.....

Droid life found some pictures from it back in October
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Something like that for example?
Test Pictures
They were made with a sample after the release show. Don't know if they are equal to the final product or not.

Engadget and Thisismynext did test shots between GN and the iPhone4S.
Not gonna be a lot of in-depth tests until review units go out.

The post about how megapixels don't mean crap in terms of picture quality needs to be made a sticky on this forum. I'm tired of it coming up. Take a Nikon dedicated camera that taps out at 5MP and compare it to a phone at 8MP and see which looks better.

If you have Google+ account, find Tim Bray and follow him.
He is one of the Android developer.
And he is testing the GN camera right now during his trip, posted in his Google+.
I saw the photos are amazing!
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You're right the nonshaky ones look good. I'm not stunned but I would say it's really solid work for a phone camera.

I'm not impressed. The night shot looked sharp for a night photo but the rest... no visible improvement compared to my Galaxy S. So much for sacrificing MP for quality.

ejkeebler said:
Still looking for some comparison photos of the NG camera. The 5 MP camera is a bit offputting, but for years the iPhone camera was running at less MP and always seemed to have a better sensor and produce better pictures, i'm hoping that's the case right now. The camera and the size are really my two biggest concerns with the device right now.....
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Comparison photos of the camera on the Nexus? Sure!
This is the Galaxy Nexus camera:
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And this is the iPhone 4 camera:
Compare away!

SomeGuyDude said:
The post about how megapixels don't mean crap in terms of picture quality needs to be made a sticky on this forum. I'm tired of it coming up. Take a Nikon dedicated camera that taps out at 5MP and compare it to a phone at 8MP and see which looks better.
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+1 I'm actually excited to see what this camera can do. The 5 MP cam on this phone will probably blow the mytouch4g slides 8 MP away. Bottom line, galaxy nexus Is going to be one badass phone. Period.
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gogol said:
If you have Google+ account, find Tim Bray and follow him.
He is one of the Android developer.
And he is testing the GN camera right now during his trip, posted in his Google+.
I saw the photos are amazing!
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Not sure what you're seeing. None of those pictures are any better than what my Fascinate takes. They should have went ahead and used the GSII camera. Seems much better than this one.

My HTC camera and Minnesota zoo

My phone officially replaced my point and shoot camera.
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so is this something for the best picture thread or should i go to the zoo and post some zoo pics?

brent8577 said:
so is this something for the best picture thread or should i go to the zoo and post some zoo pics?
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Haha posted just for fun of it. Thought ppl may enjoy some animals pics if they are bored of refreshing dev forum. And the fact they came out of hox makes it cooler!
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ceo.mtcl Good to see your enjoying the camera on the ONE X, don't forget to join us at the 'Flickr HTC ONE Users Group' http://www.flickr.com/groups/htc-one/
See you there!

Wow, I wonder why some people complain that the camera is flaky, etc. etc. (don't remember exactly what but to me those seem as very high quality pictures.

andreasy said:
Wow, I wonder why some people complain that the camera is flaky, etc. etc. (don't remember exactly what but to me those seem as very high quality pictures.
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are you kidding me?? They're terrible. I have been having nothing but bad experiences with this camera as well. Especially under low light, the pictures are incredibly grainy and lack detail. Thanks for nothing HTC

schiphol said:
are you kidding me?? They're terrible. I have been having nothing but bad experiences with this camera as well. Especially under low light, the pictures are incredibly grainy and lack detail. Thanks for nothing HTC
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Well, i dont have the phone yet to tell, i only judge those photos that i see here which seem very good to me.

schiphol said:
are you kidding me?? They're terrible. I have been having nothing but bad experiences with this camera as well. Especially under low light, the pictures are incredibly grainy and lack detail. Thanks for nothing HTC
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Dude it's a phone, the pictures are fantastic for a phone camera and there's a lot of shots which are very good as shown in the pictures in this thread and other threads
If you want a good camera and want to be able to not have any drawbacks, I recommend a DLSR
Or use photo shop to fix any photos maybe

nice pics!

The first two pics and the last one look pretty decent. The others are way too noisy though. Looks like the ISO was a bit high, that or the Digital Zoom has been used. Personal opinion, but Digital Zoom is always a no-go for me

roryjoe said:
The first two pics and the last one look pretty decent. The others are way too noisy though. Looks like the ISO was a bit high, that or the Digital Zoom has been used. Personal opinion, but Digital Zoom is always a no-go for me
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Agreed. Instead of zooming, id actually walk closer to the subject. Zoom on mobile devices are pretty useless.
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Get another S2 or gnex ?

Hello,
my galaxy s2(I9100G variant) was stolen and I'm thinking about getting a gnex for the updates and long developer support(there are other stuff I like about gnex but that's my main reason for getting it) but one thing is holding me back,the camera(also the lack of sd card slot but I can give that away if it's worth it).My phone is usually my main camera,I got a kodak digital camera but I use it in special events only.I mainly take pics with friends for uploading on social networks and stuff like that.So I wanted to know your thoughts on the camera,also would be nice to get some feedbacks from people who switched from S2 to gnex.Thanks in forward

The camera isn't that bad, sure its only 5mp compared to the 8mp on the s2 but its not the end of the world, its acceptable imo.

You wouldn't be able to tell the difference in picture quality if you took pictures outside with good lighting.

biscuitownz said:
You wouldn't be able to tell the difference in picture quality if you took pictures outside with good lighting.
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Hmm what about night out door photos ? like photos with a black sky and maybe a few buildings in the background ?

Why are threads like this allowed to exist....
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cwhitney24 said:
Why are threads like this allowed to exist....
sent from my Galaxy Nexus running official Jelly Bean!!!!
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I believe there's nothing in my thread that's against the rules.And yes I did search before posting and I couldn't find what I'm looking for.

I personally will choose GNex mainly cuz I want Google experience (pure)
If you can get S2 for a really nice price (REALLY NICE), and you want that slightly better camera (GNex isn't bad either btw, night shot is pretty bad though), nobody is stopping you from getting S2.
Bare in mind that S2 is almost dead in both updates and for developers, since S3 came out.

Madarox said:
Hmm what about night out door photos ? like photos with a black sky and maybe a few buildings in the background ?
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It'll look good if you focus on the light source. I'll try to take a few night pictures tonight and post them.
Here's one in the daylight
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biscuitownz said:
It'll look good if you focus on the light source. I'll try to take a few night pictures tonight and post them.
Here's one in the daylight
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Would be really thankful if you did That's a pretty nice shot btw ^^
Edit:Btw when I meant night shots,I was talking about taking pics of PEOPLE at night,not landscape pics if that makes any difference(sorry I'm in a noob in photography actually lol)

Yeah its not that bad. Here is one I took while bike riding.
One I'd when it got dark, the other is one it was bright
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Nexus 7 tablet Photography

Taking pictures with the Nexus 7 front facing camera isn't easy if you want to point the camera away from you.
Nonetheless I thought I'd try and see what it would do.
The hardest part was trying to figure out if your finger was correctly placed on the Camera app button.
Even if you have everything else where you want it, finding the tiger position, without any feedback, can be frustrating.
The Camera app is for both still photography and video, though, here I only tried the former.
You'd undoubtedly need some kind of tablet support to do video and that probably would help for still photograph too.
You can make photo adjustments after you take the picture, but they're pretty limited, more like the Instagram variety.
Deleting the bad ones is easy.
I emailed the four you see here to myself and processed them in Adobe Photoshop CS6, mostly adjusting the mid-tones and shadows and highlights. Then I cropped them and uploaded them so they weren't so big.
Here are the results:
http://www.pbase.com/beaucamera/image/145355842
http://www.pbase.com/beaucamera/image/145355843
http://www.pbase.com/beaucamera/image/145355844
http://www.pbase.com/beaucamera/image/145355845
Yes, you can do photography with the Nexus 7, but there's a lot of trial and error and the app's aren't very sophisticated.
With phone and tablet technology coming together, there's definitely a ray of hope for the future.

Really really nice.
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why?
why take pictures with a tablet? With all respects, these pictures look terrible. The camera is good for skype and such. Sometimes it is better to let it be...

I think its cool you took them just to show what the potential is and what is and isn't possible with the 7.
There are some applications where using the N7 for a tripod cam and writing or using a custom camera app just for time lapse to match the photographers parameters makes sense due to the cheap price point and processing power.
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Stop it!
nickles96 said:
Really really nice.
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Tell me you're joking, these are quite frankly awful - noisy, low-res monstrosities.
As previously mentioned, leave it be. There's a reason the N7 doesn't come with a camera app. Moreover taking photos with a tablet is an undignified task, not to mention back-to-front.

Do yourself a favor, use your smartphones 5-8MP camera.

MZero said:
why take pictures with a tablet? With all respects, these pictures look terrible. The camera is good for skype and such. Sometimes it is better to let it be...
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Jean_Baptiste said:
Tell me you're joking, these are quite frankly awful - noisy, low-res monstrosities.
As previously mentioned, leave it be. There's a reason the N7 doesn't come with a camera app. Moreover taking photos with a tablet is an undignified task, not to mention back-to-front.
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SoHaunted said:
Do yourself a favor, use your smartphones 5-8MP camera.
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Geezus, look at all the pro photography artists come out of the woodwork (pun intended). You're slamming the OP as if he is planning to enter the photos into an exhibition and is going to go across the country touring with his N7 photography suite.
All he was doing was messing around and showing what can be done. The pictures are not nearly as bad as you drama queens are making them out to be. LOL Monstrosities? Seriously? Take a pill man...
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ExploreMN said:
Geezus, look at all the pro photography artists come out of the woodwork (pun intended). You're slamming the OP as if he is planning to enter the photos into an exhibition and is going to go across the country touring with his N7 photography suite.
All he was doing was messing around and showing what can be done. The pictures are not nearly as bad as you drama queens are making them out to be. LOL Monstrosities? Seriously? Take a pill man...
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I slammed the OP? Did I say monstrosity? I just told him not to waste his time and use his smartphones camera, there really isn't any point in wasting time trying to make N7 FFC pics remotely decent.

The people saying that the pictures are terrible are total idiots. Photography is not about getting the sharpest or highest resolution picture. I have a very good DSLR camera but I still like taking pictures with the N7. Why? Because it forces you to think outside the box, which helps you become a better photographer.
And like previously stated, it's not like OP is going to enter these in a contest or something. He's merely showing what the camera can do.

People argue about the stupidest things...
The Nexus 7 has a camera. It works. Is it great, no, but who cares.
If I am somewhere and only have my tablet with me and need to snap a shot of something (picture is worth a thousand words).... I not going to run back to my desk to get by Phone/Camera if it will work good enough to get what I need. Its just a picture.
I rarely take pictures that I plan on posting because they are really good images, it is normally because it shows something, serial number, cable setup, location of devices etc...
BTW... I did some playing around with the camera as well to see what I could do with it.
Not sure how this is different experimenting with other functions of the device to see what the limits are and you can get it to do (GPS anyone?).
Maybe we should start a Nexus 7 Photo Contest... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Do yourself a favor and get DSLR controller, and shoot with a real DSLR camera. 5-8MP out of a tiny pin prick lens isn't that much better than the Nexus 7 camera, truly.

SoHaunted said:
I slammed the OP? Did I say monstrosity? I just told him not to waste his time and use his smartphones camera, there really isn't any point in wasting time trying to make N7 FFC pics remotely decent.
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I think multi quote confused you...
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Sometimes you may not have your phone, or your camera and you see something you never wanna forget. So you make do with whats there for you to use. Great pics honestly. I do photography for a living and artist will sometimes take the low end junky stuff and turn it into art like vintage art. so kudos to you sir who started this thread alot better then what i could do.

EvilDeadFan said:
Do yourself a favor and get DSLR controller, and shoot with a real DSLR camera. 5-8MP out of a tiny pin prick lens isn't that much better than the Nexus 7 camera, truly.
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Not everyone can afford a dslr.

I'll just leave this link here then...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWwPlu3wNsg&sns=em

jickbahtech said:
I'll just leave this link here then...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWwPlu3wNsg&sns=em
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Thanks, grabbed the app in the videos link. Works awesome.
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Simply great

My attempt lol
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Carnoustie said:
My attempt lol
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very beautiful cat great picture

Ugh the chromatic abberation breaks my brain. Nice attempt but I can see why google decided to forgo trying to go the iPad route. I'll stick with my D7000. Someone mentioned a DSLR controller... have they made one for Nikons yet?

hey there

how is the camera on this phone after the kitkat update

lg-sony-htc-samsung-apple said:
how is the camera on this phone after the kitkat update
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Sh*tty

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Sh*tty
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Lol Blunt.

I installed the newer Motorola camera from my Droid Mini onto the M. Everything seems to work for the most part, except the screen gets jumpy and glitchy when scrolling the settings wheel. It takes photos much faster. It was taking several seconds to take a photo with the original camera, so the newer Moto camera is a huge improvement in that regard. I don't know if the image quality is any better or worse, looked kind of bad to me, but I thought the photos looked kind of bad with the original camera ever since KK anyway. Might just be because indoors and not enough light though.

hey i am thinking about getting this
megaghostgamer said:
Lol Blunt.
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Thank you for your reply can u please tell me ****tu in comparson to any other phone u used

thanks for thevdetailed response
GnatGoSplat said:
I installed the newer Motorola camera from my Droid Mini onto the M. Everything seems to work for the most part, except the screen gets jumpy and glitchy when scrolling the settings wheel. It takes photos much faster. It was taking several seconds to take a photo with the original camera, so the newer Moto camera is a huge improvement in that regard. I don't know if the image quality is any better or worse, looked kind of bad to me, but I thought the photos looked kind of bad with the original camera ever since KK anyway. Might just be because indoors and not enough light though.
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Can u tell me how it compares to any other phone u used if any

lg-sony-htc-samsung-apple said:
Can u tell me how it compares to any other phone u used if any
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The Razr M's camera/sensor is terrible. My pictures come out foggy, grainy, and ever since KitKat...pinkish. Using Moto's new camera or Google's camera, my pictures don't come out with the pinkish hue, but there still terrible. My Galaxy Nexus takes better photos, and that camera sucks... bad.

Not as good as my iPhone 4S or Droid Mini. I just took a few indoor pics and they look out-of-focus and grainy. I don't know if they would look better with the stock camera since the new Moto camera replaces the stock camera app so I can't try both easily. Stock camera was just too damn slow to be useful. Moment is gone before it takes the pic. I feel like once upon a Jellybean, the phone used to take decent pics, and stock camera wasn't nearly as slow. I have a few pics that came out pretty decent that I was sure were taken on the M long ago, on JB. Granted, they were all outdoor pics.
I think even on KK, the pics it takes might be better than the Kyocera Hydro Elite I had (surprisingly bad for 8MP) and way better pics than the LG Lucid 2 which had the worst 5MP camera considering its speed/performance level was close to the RAZR M. Usually you only see cameras as bad as the Lucid 2's on cheap plastic single-core prepaid phones that come in blister packs.

thank u all very much i pressed it
Well after bith of your opinions and the revuews i read i think i will be looking else were for a phone fot work i need a cheap phone with a decent camera oh well thinking aout a used s3 or a used 4s thanks again guys if i could just strech for a used droid dna hope to see you all in anither forum

Hmmm, well, I guess the pics are not TOO awful.
Took a couple pics of my car with the newer Moto camera (don't make fun, it's an antique, lol). One in the morning, one in the afternoon. I think old camera probably took better pics, but was unbearably slow and the newer one takes pics instantly. I had HDR and spot focus turned off.
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I've seen better, but I've also seen much worse.

Which moto camera do you have ATTACK? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2380199 or one different... Really looking to replace the stock one
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ezknives said:
Which moto camera do you have ATTACK? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2380199 or one different... Really looking to replace the stock one
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I pulled it from a Moto X system dump. This isn't the latest version, but it works well. The latest version is very glitchy on our phone.
MOTO CAMERA & GALLERY
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NEXUS 5 CAMERA & GALLERY