I was messing with a Galaxy 2 today, and noticed that it had a 8mp camera on it. I thought the quality of the pictures were also really nice. How does the Nexus's camera compare to the one that is on the galaxy 2? Also, why would the downgrade the camera? I know that mega pixels isn't everything when it comes to pictures, but is the nexus 5mp camera better somehow that the 8mp that comes on other recent devices?
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Unfortunately there is nothing special about the 5mp camera on the nexus.
I can't speak for the galaxy s2, but coming from a Droid 1 which also has a 5mp camera I can say the nexus completely blows it away, very sharp too. Same MP, big difference. There are many discussions on what makes a 8mp camera suck and say, a 5mp be better, ill avoid that road but say it is more than just MP!
And as a second thought, its a phone! The nexus camera is more than adequate, and if you really need top quality, buy a real camera
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While there is more than MP the best unfortunate truth is that most high end phones have better sensors AND more MP
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I'm not 100% sure but I believe megapixel has to do with the size of the photo?
Quality of the camera doesn't really depend on the megapixel.
Despite saying that, the galaxy nexus camera isn't that good. The software is ok but I think its worse then my 5megapixel camera that used to be on my galaxy s captivate.
Please correct me if I'm wrong. Just my thoughts.
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my old htc Dinc got a 8mp camera, to compare the both, i dont see any differences beside the GNex came are godly fast.
I can coax better shots out of my Dinc...
That and stock software takes terrible shots, not even at the expense of speed, just poor decisions in noise reduction.
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I wonder if they choose to use a smaller sensor to keep the camera so fast. Maybe the larger sensors weren't performing as well speed wise. But I agree others, it isn't the best out there.
zeke1988 said:
my old htc Dinc got a 8mp camera, to compare the both, i dont see any differences beside the GNex came are godly fast.
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staticx57 said:
I can coax better shots out of my Dinc...
That and stock software takes terrible shots, not even at the expense of speed, just poor decisions in noise reduction.
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bummer. the camera is one of the main deciding factors for me. i'll be upgrading from a Dinc, and while it served me well the past two years, I really would like to upgrade to a better phone cam, since the Dinc's cam is terrible at low light situations and can overexpose at outdoors. the flash on it is terrible also, being overly bright, which just washes out the photo. do i have another option in verizon, or is the iphone 4s my only other option? my upgrade is due now by the way. thanks.
MP is just the size of the photos. How good a camera is has a lot more to do with just the MP count. However, MP count does play an important role in phone photography. 99% of the phone camera lenses have no optical zoom. All the "zoom" are digital zoom, which just means cropping and enlarging the original picture. In this case, all else equal, the higher the MP, the better the "zoomed" result. Moreover, and very unfortunately, MP count aside, the lens and the sensor on the Galaxy Nexus are pretty poor.
The camera isn't amazing, but I would definitely not suggest anything but the GNex since it's all round just a perfect phone, you'll regret not getting it IMO.
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bummer. the camera is one of the main deciding factors for me. i'll be upgrading from a Dinc, and while it served me well the past two years, I really would like to upgrade to a better phone cam, since the Dinc's cam is terrible at low light situations and can overexpose at outdoors. the flash on it is terrible also, being overly bright, which just washes out the photo. do i have another option in verizon, or is the iphone 4s my only other option? my upgrade is due now by the way. thanks.
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If I were you on verizon I would get the Rezound. It has a really nice camera compared to the Gnex and it also has a 1280x720 screen and even a more powerful GPU (but not CPU). I had it before I switched it for my gnex but I can't stand not having an AMOLED screen otherwise id still have that phone.
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If I were you on verizon I would get the Rezound. It has a really nice camera compared to the Gnex and it also has a 1280x720 screen and even a more powerful GPU (but not CPU). I had it before I switched it for my gnex but I can't stand not having an AMOLED screen otherwise id still have that phone.
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yea i was trying out that phone in store. it's a bit of a brick though, and i wasn't impressed with the screen as well. any other ones coming out soon that i should wait for? will verizon get the galaxy S3?
Im impressed with the GNex cam. I do a lot of custom paint and mostly metallics so i like to take very close pics and they always come out great
I gone through many review of Galaxy Note 8.0 and found that the only issue with this device is its camera. So I was wondering whether it is possible to replace its rear camera lens with some better 8 MP or 13 MP lens... Please share your view if you have any idea of it.
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Its not like you are switcing lenses, like on an DSLR camera. Its not a "lens" that determines megapixels. Its a whole camera module. Changing the module wouldn't do jack, since the tablet would not have the drivers for a different camera module to function.
But I understand the frustration. Manufacturers constantly cheap out and use crappy cameras on tablets. Its not my primary camera by any means (even for taking spur of the moment snapshots). But on a device like the Note 8 (a portable note taking tablet), I could see how the camera has a lot of utilitarian purpose. Such as for inserting photos into work notes.
Maybe your camera is jacked? Mine takes a decent snap shot. It's not support quality, but it's not bad either.
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Well i just bought a Nexus 5x. Took a few selfies with it. And they turned out utter-crap compared with my Galaxy s6. Heck even my LG G2 produces better results???
Is my unit faulty or what?
Well, the frontal camera's quality is good but the colors are a little bit flat and that doesn't look beautiful. + the HDR is bad too.
Crap? I don't think so especially with HDR+ on. It's the only front facing camera I've used that can get faces with a bright background like a sunset, yet neither is over or under exposed. Highly recommend using HDR+ every time.
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Well i just bought a Nexus 5x. Took a few selfies with it. And they turned out utter-crap compared with my Galaxy s6. Heck even my LG G2 produces better results???
Is my unit faulty or what?
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Yes your unit is faulty. The device is fine.
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I don't go for that hypothesis often but it might be a faulty unit. I've had the S6, (even the S7) and the 5X front camera is way better. In any situation. In low light, you' ll have a little bit noisier image but way more details than with the over sharpening that Samsung does.
hi everyone
yesterday i just got the oneplus 3
Im loving this phone, but i noticed that the rear camera is not that good indoor , and when i took a photo from front camera indoor with good light i photo came out much clearer with less noise and brighter, does anyone know why?
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hi everyone
yesterday i just got the oneplus 3
Im loving this phone, but i noticed that the rear camera is not that good indoor , and when i took a photo from front camera indoor with good light i photo came out much clearer with less noise and brighter, does anyone know why?
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The front camera is the same sensor as the back camera on the Nexus 5 - and having both phones I can say right off the bat that both cameras on the OP3 smoke the hell out of the Nexus 5, there's just no competition. The front camera on the OP3 is subject to quite a bit of noise (more than you think) when it's not being post-processed by the camera app
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The front camera is the same sensor as the back camera on the Nexus 5 - and having both phones I can say right off the bat that both cameras on the OP3 smoke the hell out of the Nexus 5, there's just no competition. The front camera on the OP3 is subject to quite a bit of noise (more than you think) when it's not being post-processed by the camera app
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but thats weird that front cam is better than rear one in low light
I have Realme X2 handset which I buy 2 years ago and till then it is the best handset of my life. I have no issues regarding its software and hardware but facing certain issues regarding its camera and images' quality which I wanted to discuss here.
Whenever I opened the camera of my mobile handset and here I am talking about both front and rear, I see that there is always a blurry vision that appeared on my camera which makes my images look blurry and worse.
I saw certain white colors more than colors in my pics and it spoiled all the fun of taking pictures. I have a DSLR camera which is enough for me to take pictures but still, I always carry mobile to capture images for a shorter distance so I want it to fix. Thanks for having me here.