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[Q] Desire camera Tweak...!

i dont know if any of you have noticed or not ,,desire camera quality is not as good as Samsung galaxy s or any other 5mp camera phones....!!
-so if there is any tweaks for camera settings ,please let me know
-thank you

Use Vignette or Camera 360. Makes a huge difference.

both vignette and camera 360 are great but wont allow you to adjust the camera image processing settings
i'm getting excellent results with the HTC camera
first and foremost lower the sharpness in settings to -2, this will disable all the heavy edge sharpness and noise suppression applied by default and you will get proper photographic quality, this way you can leave adjustments like sharpness (if needed) to other apps like photoshop or picsay, i also raise the saturation to +1 for more vibrancy
you need to set the compression quality to high, i leave everything else to auto, except metering set to center area and of course highest resolution choose 4x3 aspect ratio if you want full mega pixels
one final thing in auto the htc camera chooses the lowest possible iso and hence a little sensitive to movement try to be still for a second when you shoot a photo
as for video recording 800x480 preforms great in good lighting it gets you 25fps, 720p gets around 20fps, unfortunately at low lighting the recording frame rate drops
camera performance is also improved when you are using a2sd (if rooted)

it could be the cheap crappy plastic cover over the camera lens causing your trouble, I removed mine ages ago (replaced it with a cut up screen saver) and it was like removing a cataract from my eye...!
see here:
http://androidforums.com/desire-tip...rove-your-camera-picture-video-quality-3.html

Camera options

There's a couple of options in the camera app that aren't entirely self-explanatory. Anyone able to shed any light?
Anti-shake: The manual says, "reduces image blur due to the movement of the subject of the photo or hand movement." Any ideas why this is disabled by default? Are there any downsides to reducing shake?
Auto contrast: The manual says, "provides a clear image even under backlight circumstances where intensity of illumination can vary excessively." Does anyone have any idea what this is doing? Is this HDR?
Outdoor visibility: The manual says, "allows you to take better pictures when outdoors." Anyone know if this does anything besides just make the screen colors brighter?

Anyone have any ideas?

Anti-Shake is an option to use to help reduce the effects of the camera moving while shooting a picture. I see no downsides to enabling it unless you like blurry pictures. It might reduce battery life a tiny bit more while using the camera.
Think of it as mouse smoothing in games, if you do that sort of thing.
Auto contrast is a nice feature (if it works well) that adjusts the pictures light levels in case of a dark subject and a bright background, or vice versa. It should help to make a better overal balanced picture.
Outdoor visibility has to do with the LCD screen itself. If you are outside on a bright day you want that on. It makes sure the backlight is on full and the colors are bright so you can more easily see the screen.

[Q] Camera settings for best picture quality?

Hi I just got HTC One V but I noticed the picture quality on my laptop rather looks washed up. can anybody recommend good settings or tweaks for better results

Decrease the brightness or use these settings...
When I took a picture of me and transferred it to my laptop, my pic also looked like a painting on which little water was spilled... Then I realized that it was the brightness of my laptop. I had increased it to its fullest for some work earlier. When I decreased my brightness, my pic was looking great. :laugh:
If this doesn't help, Try these settings:
Flash - OFF.
Image Resolution - 5MP.
ISO - Auto.
White Balance - Auto.
Scene - Auto.
Best of Luck :fingers-crossed:

Decrease the Sharpness and Saturation counter by one.
Never trust in-camera picture adjustments settings on any Mobile camera or Digital Camera.

power_8383 said:
Decrease the Sharpness and Saturation counter by one.
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Power, we don't decrease olthe saturation or sharpness on our PC... do we?
If we use the settings I've stated above, there's no sharpness-saturation problem.

Rear camera too dark

Anyone else find the rear camera almost pitch black compared to front camera? I've changed various settings but it doesn't go any brighter.

Q8-V08 said:
Anyone else find the rear camera almost pitch black compared to front camera? I've changed various settings but it doesn't go any brighter.
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Most units have the dark camera. Some have a brighter camera.
The best you can do is adjust the exposure setting.

I just posted in another thread that I had this issue, even adjusting all the setting makes very little difference when using the camera in video mode, picture mode is fine though, no issues with darkness etc.

Gilly10 said:
I just posted in another thread that I had this issue, even adjusting all the setting makes very little difference when using the camera in video mode, picture mode is fine though, no issues with darkness etc.
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Sorry I didn't see your thread, yes I have exactly same problem in video mode being darker than camera mode with the rear camera no issue with front one though, my bad I should of stated which mode it was in.

Don't know about the dark only in video mode issue.
What I've seen is most cameras look find in bright rooms, but in dimly lit rooms, everything is very dark. I just figured this was normal for this level camera, but then I saw a unit that was able to have the same image my eye could see, rather than being so dark it was hard to make out details.
That's when I came to the concusion there are different cameras or the same camera with different variances.
I could adjust the exposure in the dark camera to the highest level and get about 75% of the brightness of the bright camera, but never as bright. By bright, I just mean you can make out the details in the scene.

It seems to be more of bug though because it's also doing it on sphere & panoramic modes too, it's like it's automatically setting the exposure to -2 when your under unnatural light. The setting shouldn't be any different to camera still mode as all it does is stitch multiple stills together.

Q8-V08 said:
It seems to be more of bug though because it's also doing it on sphere & panoramic modes too, it's like it's automatically setting the exposure to -2 when your under unnatural light. The setting shouldn't be any different to camera still mode as all it does is stitch multiple stills together.
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I went back and tested my camera in more depth.
When I turn on video mode, it ignores any exposure setting. Is it possible you have exposure turned up (not necessarily by your own doing) in the camera mode and when you switch to video, it doesn't honor the exposure?
Basically what I'm asking is, rather than video mode being dark, is it possible video mode is "normal", ie no adjustments to exposure, and camera mode has exposure upped up, possibly some change/fix that was made to account for an overly dark camera?
I know this makes no "effective" difference to you, but might explain why it behaves differently in camera and video/stitch/etc. mode.

Sometimes it also goes redish dark in picture / still mode too but that can be fixed by pressing home and then returning to it via recents, you can hear the shutter or lens reset.

4.4 gives a slight improvement, it's lighter now hopefully with another tweaked update it'll be fixed.

Vignetting issue in stock camera manual mode

Has anyone noticed black concentric circles, a bit like vigenetting, when using stock camera in manual mode in very low light environment with a tripod? It has been there since 3T till 5T. It was ok in 3. By low light i mean very very low light conditions like capturing stars on a pitch black night. The shot i tried had iso 100, Shutter speed 25, WB auto, Focus infinity