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[Q] How do I fix Epic 4g Camera?

Hello guys, I just recently rooted my android phone and I installed a custom rom (Nebula 1.0.7) However whenever I use any video messaging app (Yahoo, Qik, and Fring) I notice that my camera is always sideways and I appear the same way towards the other guy. My front camera would always appear to be sideways even if I were to rotate my phone.
I never had this problem before, is there any way to 'mirror' my camera so that it would look upright?
Any help would be very appreciated

Same thing here. I don't think there is a fix for this until we get the official froyo.

Thats quite a shame, I wonder why they can't seem to fix it.
No matter ,its hardly a issue

Yeah I know. It does suck. First time I updated to froyo and saw that I was like wtf? Lol.
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I had the same issue running stock DK28. Sometimes it would rotate correctly, others not. I'm sure it will get fixed soon enough!
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Its Screen Rotation Lag.....I believe? I have been trying to fix that for a month or so myself to no avail. Its just a matter of time and a fix will become available. (Froyo/NebulaROM7Sisters-Ext4CWM3)

​I think I found the Fix, Download spare parts from the Market. Open it, in the section marked transitions....set that to fast. I just tried it and cleared up all lag for me.

Burning_247 said:
​I think I found the Fix, Download spare parts from the Market. Open it, in the section marked transitions....set that to fast. I just tried it and cleared up all lag for me.
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You're. Thinking of something completely different. Its video chat he's. Taklking about
sent from my Epi[demi]c:-D

I use oovoo and it works very well. I know it's a hassle downloading yet another video chat program but it's quite a bit smaller than Yahoo! video and actually works better.
You can video chat from phone to computer, phone to phone, etc.

Looking for a better camera APP

don't know about you, but for me all settings in the camera seem to be in the wrong place:
why are touch capture and resolution in the top menu
why is macro not in the scenes menu
for me in the top menu there should be
Capturing mode
scenes
flash
Focus
Exposure
i tried vignette demo but i'm not yet sure if i like it better ;-)

Camera 360 = awesome.

Yeah Camera 360 is awesome.

Well I found Camera X really great
Features
1. Flash Mode(Off, Auto, Red-Eye, Torch)
2. Color Modes(Mono, Negative, Posterize, Sepia, Solarize)
3. White Balance(Auto, Cloudy daylight, Daylight, Flouroscent, Incandescent)
4. Exposure Control(-1.9999979 to 1.6652)
5. Scenes(Auto, Barcode, Beach, Landscape, Night, Night-Potrait, Party, Potrait, Snow, Sports)
6. Focus(Auto, Continuous-video, Fixed, Infinity, Macro)
7. Camera Modes(Normal, Self-Timer, Time-Lapse, Anti-Shake, Bracketing, Burst)
8. Settings(lot more things)

Do you guys know that you can move each setting around?...
just expand the menu, tap+hold the one you want and drag to the top menu...

Oh wow! Awesome.
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Is there any Android camera UI better than Arc's??? Ofcourse NOT! It is great!!

If it isn't because battery drain and scalability problem, I would've use stock camera app. Because there's no other camera app in the market that bring you to preview in gallery (so that you can zoom in to check whether the picture blurry or not)

What's with the camera app and battery/scalability anyway? Is there proof to its connection or is it some sort of an urban legend? Was that "invented" to discredit the wonderful camera the arc has to offer?

mariolouis said:
What's with the camera app and battery/scalability anyway? Is there proof to its connection or is it some sort of an urban legend? Was that "invented" to discredit the wonderful camera the arc has to offer?
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1. Battery drain - you'll stuck with 20mA drain as opposed to 5mA drain during idle after taking picture with stock camera app and not rebooting your phone. Check out battery drain thread on Xperia Arc general forum. Look at the last couple pages.
2. Scalability - If you change your LCD density from 240 (default) to 180 or some other (smaller) number, the UI won't resize appropriately. Camera 360 exhibit this problem, but not Vignette.

Been using the default camera app but no battery drain on mine. 100% before going to sleep, 8 hours later, battery is at 98% sometimes 99%. Rooted with Gingerbreak bootloader still locked. Some default apps uninstalled. No app running to auto-update.
I've set lcd density at 182.
Im loving the default camera app unless I am missing something here.
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mariolouis said:
Been using the default camera app but no battery drain on mine. 100% before going to sleep, 8 hours later, battery is at 98% sometimes 99%. Rooted with Gingerbreak bootloader still locked. Some default apps uninstalled. No app running to auto-update.
I've set lcd density at 182.
Im loving the default camera app unless I am missing something here.
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Wow ... My battery goes from 100% to 79% overnight .. You keep Wifi and Auto sync on ?

mariolouis said:
Been using the default camera app but no battery drain on mine. 100% before going to sleep, 8 hours later, battery is at 98% sometimes 99%. Rooted with Gingerbreak bootloader still locked. Some default apps uninstalled. No app running to auto-update.
I've set lcd density at 182.
Im loving the default camera app unless I am missing something here.
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Really? What kind of hack did you do?
Mine is also set at 182, but whenever I tap on Scene recognition button, my tap register to resolution button. Since all 5 icons only occupy about 70% of the vertical space from bottom, it creates confusion on the UI. The bounding box of each button is resized properly, but the icons themselves don't resize accordingly. That's the problem.
Which app did you freeze to get rid of huge drain after the camera usage?
I'm not gonna call you a liar, but if what you say is true. That is truly a good news. And by all means, share your method here (or on the battery drain thread in general forum), since I do agree with you that , putting those 2 problems aside, Arc has a wonderful stock camera app.

How dare you calling me a liar. Just kidding!
I have edited the default SE camera app and aligned the buttons. Gave me a headache for days figuring out SE's terminologies for each item. Did it trial and error. I can give you the apk if you want. Better yet, maybe I will make a new thread about it tomorrow as I am sleepy now.
About the battery, nothing auto-updates in the background. Only gsm is running. No wifi, no bt, no alarms, no nothing. I do not need any of those while I sleep. The battery keeps getting better and better every week. One more thing, I have noticed that the battery life started to get better when I uninstalled stock apps. Especially that Whatsapp thing.

mariolouis said:
How dare you calling me a liar. Just kidding!
I have edited the default SE camera app and aligned the buttons. Gave me a headache for days figuring out SE's terminologies for each item. Did it trial and error. I can give you the apk if you want. Better yet, maybe I will make a new thread about it tomorrow as I am sleepy now.
About the battery, nothing auto-updates in the background. Only gsm is running. No wifi, no bt, no alarms, no nothing. I do not need any of those while I sleep. The battery keeps getting better and better every week. One more thing, I have noticed that the battery life started to get better when I uninstalled stock apps. Especially that Whatsapp thing.
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So the tweaks youve made are qualifiable?
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I don't know about you guys but, I'm practically in love with the camera app. Did you notice the delay while taking pictures. No? Do you know why? Because, "there is no delay". I've even stopped carrying my SLR around these days.

Monkii said:
Do you guys know that you can move each setting around?...
just expand the menu, tap+hold the one you want and drag to the top menu...
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I!!! LOVE!!! YOU!!!!!!
if you ever get to zurich i'll by you a beer. heck i'll buy you ten beer!

This might be a stupid question, but is there any Portrait/Landscape/Night/Snow etc. setting in the stock app?
I've noticed it's kind of adjusting itself in one of the capture modes, but still I wonder if I just can't find it?

cherryfish said:
This might be a stupid question, but is there any Portrait/Landscape/Night/Snow etc. setting in the stock app?
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Sure: set "Capturing mode" to "Normal" and then you can choose in "Scenes" menu

ArcOnFire said:
If it isn't because battery drain and scalability problem, I would've use stock camera app. Because there's no other camera app in the market that bring you to preview in gallery (so that you can zoom in to check whether the picture blurry or not)
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angel camera~~~it can bring you to check the photo you have taken~~it have all mode and setting you need~~~but the setting is not quite user friendly...........you can check this out

Would anyone make 3D Gallery better :( ?

it's been 1 year since I used 3D gallery in my Galaxy S and now I own Galaxy S II and I realised that 3D gallery doesnt improve much
I was wondering why is there no better 3D gallery? is there no one who could mod it? many has asked for :
1. sorting by name ( there's someone who mod it so that it sort by date but ascending only)
2. hide the photos so it doesnt show in gallery ( putting "." in front of folder name is just annoying )
3. auto rotate even when auto rotate turned off ( to save battery, it's needed mostly on gallery )
all of these functions are present on Quickpic app but I like the UI of 3D gallery better
I'd mod it myself if I could but I'm still studying basic programming languages ( C#, C+, php ) and I dont think it helps much

Just use QuickPic and be done with it. By far the leanest and quickest image viewer out there, with the possibility do to the things you require...

Pfeffernuss said:
Just use QuickPic and be done with it. By far the leanest and quickest image viewer out there, with the possibility do to the things you require...
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Thank you for the tip, trying it.right now
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For point 3 I use a tasker profile to switch autorotate on and off if I open the gallery! ;-)
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ughh... I'm using quick pic right now, it's great but I still miss the UI of 3D gallery
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For point 3 I use a tasker profile to switch autorotate on and off if I open the gallery! ;-)
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Wow thanks Man, that helps!!

i use QuickPic while on Desire cuz 3D gallery on Desire was slow. on sgs2 its really fast so i removed Quickpic. still the fastest image gallery though.
for hiding images, i purchased Gallery Lock. you can hide folders/single images from within the 3D Gallery itself. well it should be implemented out of the box but wth we need to live with it. Great app i would say. try it, the free version first.

The 3D Gallery on the S2 is by no means smooth or quick. It's the worst version of the Gallery I've seen so far. Choppy movement on the main gallery screen galore. It's a shame you "have" to keep it installed for some poorly written apps which depend on the stock app as I otherwise would have removed it alltogether.
YMMV ofcourse, so not saying this is the truth for everybody

Agree with that ^
Stock gallery is really, really bad IMO.
Quickpic all the way.
The 3D interface is all very well, but if it cannot run smoothly and quickly then what good is it? The movement on the 3D gallery on the S2 is particularly odd, almost like its too fast, but it still isn't smooth or pleasant to use.

When it is done loading images, it is quite fast. But you can always uninstall it with titanium backup.

JustPictures FTW.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.justpictures&feature=search_result

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The 3D Gallery on the S2 is by no means smooth or quick. It's the worst version of the Gallery I've seen so far. Choppy movement on the main gallery screen galore. It's a shame you "have" to keep it installed for some poorly written apps which depend on the stock app as I otherwise would have removed it alltogether.
YMMV ofcourse, so not saying this is the truth for everybody
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then u deserve this
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.camfiler.photosafe&feature=search_result
its PHOTO SAFE. i have tons of my private photos there and the browsing is super fast, i mean the private photo browsing.

Damn thanks for suggesting Quickpic guys. I just tried it out and it is amazing!
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I don't mind if separate app is needed to improve 3D Gallery like hiding photos as mentioned
Now if only there's an application that can sort 3D Gallery by name

Yh the stock gallery app on the s2 is just horrid. Funnily enough though, the sg1 had a much smoother gallery

rocketpaul said:
Yh the stock gallery app on the s2 is just horrid. Funnily enough though, the sg1 had a much smoother gallery
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Was that also 3d gallery ?
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yes it was

tried starting QuickPic with thousand jpegs, at first S II's back was starting to get hot
not serious though, only the first time

Try this
Gallery++ 1.6.9

Ive just JP and QP for a while and they are not really any faster or better than the stock gallery app IMO.
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Try this
Gallery++ 1.6.9
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Whats been changed?

Quickapp is the fastest but i'm sticking to the stock one just cuz i could show off the tilt to zoom to my friends. and using stock browser just for that too.

Pictures are Rotated 90° in Handcent

Just got the SE4GT. Gotta say this is a Great Device!
One of the issues I have is that when I attach a picture to Handcent, and it is converted to MMS, the pic is rotated 90° counter clockwise.
But when I use the native message app, the attachment is in the proper orientation.
The other issue is that when I am going to take a picture, and the camera is in
Portrait mode, the settings are horizontal. If I enable auto rotate in the phone settings, the settings rotate properly. But I usually have auto rotate off. Do I always have to activate it in order to have the camera settings properly orientated?

Don't worry about it... I've tried to manually correct it and send the picture and it just ruins it for the receiver. Even though it looks fncked up it is actually perfectly fine. Get over it, the person that matters (the receiver) sees it just fine and you already knew what it looked like.
...it drove me nuts for a few weeks, but, whatever...it's fine. Just remember to tell yourself that the other person sees it normal.

Thanks.
Didn't realize the receiver gets it correctly.
I put an inquiry into Handcent the other day.
Funny it works correctly in the native message app.
Would appear to be a Handcent compatibility issue.

Hmm I receive them rotated. I am wondering what I can do to fix this as well.

new to the forum and I just wanted to add my issue. I posted an ad on Craiglist from my E4GT and the image was rotated when posted. So i tried to rotate the image and see what happens. Image was still rotated in the post even after clearing cache/cookies. wondering if there is a fix
steve

I was having the issue as posted, in addition to MMS messages Hanging forever, and never get sent.
I since made the SE4GT native Message app the default, and messages are being sent correctly regarding >
1) picture not getting rotated
2) MMS messages being sent without delay
Don't know if it's a Handcent Bug, or a user setting issue.
Nevertheless, the native app is working properly, even though I'd like to use Handcent, as I have on my Evo 4G.

I had to stop using handcent because of this and I have used it for almost 2 years straight. But the stock messanger is cool in landscape mode. Toss in Honey Glow v3 with that themed stock messanger and your not even worries about handcent ( well I do miss being able to send higher quality 1.2mb pica for sure )

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I had to stop using handcent because of this and I have used it for almost 2 years straight. But the stock messanger is cool in landscape mode. Toss in Honey Glow v3 with that themed stock messanger and your not even worries about handcent ( well I do miss being able to send higher quality 1.2mb pica for sure )
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If the devs start to mod the msg app like evo 3d ....they change it to 5 mb viper will probably do this soon
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Epix4G said:
If the devs start to mod the msg app like evo 3d ....they change it to 5 mb viper will probably do this soon
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I have the inverse issue with Handcent. I have a Galaxy S2 running CM10 (10/29/12 nightly) and the stock messaging app rotates pictures taken in portrait mode by 90 degrees. I have found that Handcent correctly displays/sends the image (on my end and for the recipient).

Same issue with Go SMS
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The problem is within the camera app and camera hardware. I suggest you use an application like vignette or pudding camera. They use different coding i guess? that allows the picture to taken in the orientation you take them. I will assume you must have auto rotate on for them to know though. Before this, all my pictures would be sent sideways.

Devi0124 said:
Hmm I receive them rotated. I am wondering what I can do to fix this as well.
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I too receive portrait photos in landscape no matter what app I use.
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HOW TO: Increase Effective Resolution/Adjust PPI of your Note 2

Hey everybody
One of the most useful mods I have performed on my Note 2 is a PPI adjustment, which effectively increases the resolution of the screen. I'm not sure why this isn't more commonly discussed, because I think it really takes advantage of the phone's size and tablet-like qualities (especially with the new MultiView update, if that appeals to you). I know many users of the original Note did this mod, which is how I found out about it. I suspect that many other Note 2 users may not be aware of this trick...
WHAT IT DOES
It has the same effect as increasing one's monitor resolution - more content is able to be displayed on screen. If all the icons, text, menus, etc on your Note 2 just seem really BIG to you, this is the antidote.
Look at the two before and after screenshots attached. I would have posted them in line, but as a new user I am prohibited from doing so.
REQUIREMENTS
ROOTED Note 2 - there are other Howto's on XDA that cover this
ROM Toolbox Pro (other apps may work too, possibly including the free version of ROM Toolbox, but this is what I used)
HOW TO DO IT
Root your phone and install ROM Toolbox Pro. Go to the performance tab, and click "build.prop" editor. There will be two entries called "ro.sf.lcd_density"
Within each one, change the property value and the default value to 240. That's four numbers you're replacing. On the last change, go ahead and reboot. Done!
OTHER NOTES
With the original Note, it was common for this mod to break the Market. This is no longer the case. But, there are a few things that break to varying degrees. They're easy to fix though...
TouchWiz: The default launcher will not adapt to the new settings, and you will have a lot of blank space. Fix by installing another launcher. I use Nova.
The Clock app breaks completely. I replaced with Alarm Clock Plus.
The dialer, like TouchWiz, will remain small. You could replace with a custom dialer, but I actually left it as-is because a side effect is that it's really easy to use with one hand.
The Camera app has the same problem. Camera Zoom FX makes a good replacement.
the Samsung keyboard breaks, thus taking down handwriting input with it. Swype works fine, as does s-note.
Aside from those minor issues, everything has worked fine, including all the 3rd party apps I have.
Hope this is helpful to some of you guys.

Seriously, this phone is amazing at 240
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I have been using this since I first got my phone.
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This is great. One other app is the email app only takes half the screen on portrait. Really need to figure out how to install the AOSP JB Email app on here....

Another benefit is Swiftkey Tablet keyboard now does the split keyboard on landscape which is easier to type on.

The only problem is that you can't use the handwriting mode with the stylus with the ppi set to 240 because the Samsung keyboard keeps fc'ing. That's my only complaint so far with this phone is that the handwriting mode is tied to the Samsung keyboard.
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I had problems with apps saying they weren't compatible with my device... cleared data in the market app... still no dice. Any insight?
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I'm not real fond of the way the dialer looks so I'm using Go Contacts which has a pretty good dialer.
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mrush said:
I had problems with apps saying they weren't compatible with my device... cleared data in the market app... still no dice. Any insight?
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The market is probably filtering since at this resolution it is probably now considered an x-large device.
Really like this resolution, will need to use for a while to see which apps decide to crap out.

you can also edit the build.prop with root explorer. If you edit the it to be =160 it switched to tablet mode, but crashes a lot
=170 i think its still tablet and doesn't crash

firemedic624 said:
The only problem is that you can't use the handwriting mode with the stylus with the ppi set to 240 because the Samsung keyboard keeps fc'ing. That's my only complaint so far with this phone is that the handwriting mode is tied to the Samsung keyboard.
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This is true. I forgot to mention and will update the original post. Hopefully devs will fix at some point.

mhoepfin said:
The market is probably filtering since at this resolution it is probably now considered an x-large device.
Really like this resolution, will need to use for a while to see which apps decide to crap out.
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To be honest, with jelly bean letting us choose "tiny" text now and the screen size being so big, I'm not as inclined to change the Res on this thing anymore... in the past with my S2 that was the first thing i would do whenever I flashed a new rom.
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installed, set to 170, put on nova launcher, and downloaded a jellybean keyboard. so far so good, but how do I get the "hold home to bring up all running apps back" feature? It looks like Nova doesn't support this...

Dioscorus said:
installed, set to 170, put on nova launcher, and downloaded a jellybean keyboard. so far so good, but how do I get the "hold home to bring up all running apps back" feature? It looks like Nova doesn't support this...
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Hmm, which rom are you using? I have stock rooted with nova and this feature still works.

intelli78 said:
Hmm, which rom are you using? I have stock rooted with nova and this feature still works.
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I also have stock/rooted...

Fixed the dialer problem for me just got exdialer it work great and looks good too!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tb2Rvb2h1dC5kaWFsZXIiXQ..

Technically the Galaxy Note II does have a higher screen res than the Galaxy S III since the Note 2 does not have a pentile display. Paranoid Android in the future will also let you completely customize the size of everything on your phone without messing up the market due to DPI issues.

weehooherod2 said:
Technically the Galaxy Note II does have a higher screen res than the Galaxy S III since the Note 2 does not have a pentile display. Paranoid Android in the future will also let you completely customize the size of everything on your phone without messing up the market due to DPI issues.
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Do you think PA will come to this phone? If so, it will be a great addition and will fit this device perfectly.
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anyone with issues sending MMS? I had taken a pic and tried to send MMS but got a unsupported file type or something like that and wont attach the picture. reverting back to 320dpi works.
hopefully the samsung keyboard will work with this in the future, it looks sooo much better with the dpi change .. specially with multi-view (although the menu and border of it doesnt stretch all the way across the screen).

bala gamer is hopefully going to take a shot at FIXING the bits that don't work right at 240dpi !! I especially hope he can fix the keyboard as I LOVE the keyboard.
for the multi window just drag the menu to the TOP OR BOTTOM edge and it displays correctly at 240dpi (the separator is not wide enough but thats not an issue)
Zoom FX is no good since it uses "smaller" images (really small) in burst mode NOT 8mp. I found that out the hard way after I shot some really nice shots and later discovered the res was so small it was useless to me