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jojo99

jojo99

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I've had this HTC EVO V 4G phone for 5 months now and am very disappointed in the poor photo quality at the 5mp size. There is a lot of noise and focus fuzziness in most of the photos I have taken.

I also recently noticed that this camera takes photos at 72 DPI (as opposed to 180 DPI by my Canon point & shoot camera, for example).

Does the DPI affect the quality of the photo when viewed at maximum size on a Windows PC? Could I change the DPI on this phone?
 
Moved to HTC EVO V 4G Section. :) I have read about that before with some people being disappointed. This may sound odd, but see if there's a plastic cover over the lens of the camera.
 
Metroid Prime said:
Moved to HTC EVO V 4G Section. :) I have read about that before with some people being disappointed. This may sound odd, but see if there's a plastic cover over the lens of the camera.
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There is a clear plastic cover on the lens but it does not appear to be something that can be removed by the user. Such a cover could affect focus but wouldn't affect the 72 DPI.

Seems HTC "economized" on this phone by taking a number of shortcuts such as a crappy camera and no apparent support for the 5GHz band. Unless it was Virgin Mobile that had them downgrade the phone, which I would not be surprised by. VM support and service sucks.
 
Hmm... I see. Thanks for pointing that out. :) Sorry about the camera on it though. The overall device is very nice though.
 
The phone wasn't "downgraded" by VM, it's identical hardware wise to the 3d's, 2 years ago it was a pretty good camera sensor and very few phones had 5 Ghz wireless N support. It's really not fair to compare a EOL phone to something more modern. ;)
OB
 
OverByter said:
The phone wasn't "downgraded" by VM, it's identical hardware wise to the 3d's, 2 years ago it was a pretty good camera sensor and very few phones had 5 Ghz wireless N support. It's really not fair to compare a EOL phone to something more modern. ;)
OB
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Well, wireless N standard has been in testing for maybe 5 years and was finalized on 9/11/2009. SO no reason why support for this was not included in the phone except for saving a few pennies.

As for photos, here are a couple of rather poor examples. View these at full resolution. Note the excessive noise in the sky and the soft focus. Also, the over saturated sky color.

http://i.minus.com/ibn7SgB3IYUGAf.jpg
http://i.minus.com/i9hZ2iBmnOXYG.jpg

Perhaps 5mp was a big deal on phones two years ago but I had a Minolta camera maybe 7 years ago with 5mp that took great photos. So its not like the technology was new or HTC was breaking technology barriers.
 
I agree that the EVO V camera is pretty crappy and I wish it was better. But comparing it to a real camera doesn't really work. The big issue is that the megapixel rating isn't the only thing that makes good pictures. The size on the image sensor is also a huge factor, and you just can't get a sizeable sensor in a phone. Generally, you will be better off with a larger image sensor and less megapixels than more megapixels and a smaller sensor. The more megapixels you cram into a tiny image sensor the more noise and less usable ISO range you will have. Larger image sensors allow you to capture images with less noise and greater dynamic range than a smaller sensor. That results in better images.


Or course HTC could have used better optics, maybe better software, and probably a bigger image sensor. Oh well ..... we still have 3D!!! :D
 
The phone doesn't take the best pictures; the white balance is often off on mine. Maybe you can dial down the saturation under Image Adjustments.
 
From what I've read, HTC software is the real problem, not the actual hardware. I haven't tried the mod posted by Ranhead yet, though I'll report what happens.
 
If you want a nice camera phone, get one with a real lens

Samsung_AMOLED_12M_1.jpg


Or maybe this is more your style

P9080011.jpg
 
The camera is a little sub-par but with the right techniques, it can work pretty well.

Here's an example.
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No edits to it. The colors might be a little washed out but with a little editing in Photoshop or in an app like Pixlr express, it can turn out pretty nice. Only thing I did was use a macro lens for phones. I'm also on Dastins 4.2 so I'm not sure if that would affect the quality at all.

Over all, this camera is a definitely better than on the Moto Triumph. :D
 
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