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***Official Camera Pictures Thread***

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Wolfedude88

Android Expert
Lets use this thread to post our pictures and discuss what we think about the phone.



When using flash I feel like this is one of the better phones for taking pictures I have used. This phone seems to an excellent job to be in a pitch black environment. My pictures below are in my bedroom, pitch black, no light whatsoever.

I am very impressed with the quality of the pics, I am by no means a photographer and I am sure you guys will be able to take a lot better picture. Also I have not changed any settings, this is stock.

Also I woke my dog up as you can see in the pictures. :D


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fastharryDOTcom said:
i was expecting more grain than a bowl of cereal...those aren't bad. Cute Bow Wow , BTW
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Yeah, I am really impressed with the low-light sensor in the phone. Sure it isn't perfect, and far from a mediocre-good DSLR, but it is way better than any other phone I have used.
 
Can you do me a favor and upload these from your phone to flickr. Galaxy nexus isnt listed as a searchable phone (to find pictures from it) and im wondering if no one has uploaded any photos yet, or if its hidden device until it gets more of a following.
 
Those look fantastic for a smart phone. Much better than my D2 pics, and I use my phone for pictures quite often.
 
Pitch black? You serious? Those are great in those conditions. Looking forward to seeing more appropriate situations.

Also, I laugh to myself thinking of you taking pictures of a dog in the dark as an animal paparazzi.
 
LOL, yeah I couldn't see the dog at first until I tapped the screen to focus, it lit the room up and I saw my dog. Hopefully in a few I can take some more pictures now that it is light outside.
 
Here are some more pictures

The first one is just a shot outside in the sunlight, the second and third one are inside with decent lighting of our two dogs, and the last on is in the garage will little light.

None of the shots are using flash.

All in all I am happy with the camera, not sure how everyone else will feel but I think the camera does a great job so far in all settings I have tried.

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Wow....I must say...those pics are really clear from both Fabs, and Wolfs phones.

Dammmm....now I'm second guessing buying one...lol
 
I've been having buyer's remorse regarding the Nexus (before even buying the phone, it's just how I am) and one of the issues was the camera but those shots look great. The only other phone that is currently an option for me is the Rezound, and from everything I've seen/read it takes better pictures but I like the Nexus overall.

How about 1080p video? The single comparison I've seen shows the Rezound having a better video experience, and independent videos of the Nexus show it as being pretty choppy.
 
This will definitely be my next phone. I had a chance to play with one today and the camera alone blew me away! Not only are the pictures above par for a phone's camera, but it takes them at break neck speed as well. I was able to take 10 decent pictures in less than 3 seconds...no exaggeration. My Bionic will more than likely go to my gf. I won't miss it with this in my pocket :)
 
So we got my parents a cabin for their 28th anniversary and we went down there to visit them, so I took few pictures. Overall I think they came out pretty good, I still have a problem taking some steady pictures, but I have a shaky hand from the medicine I'm on because of surgery I had a few weeks ago.

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So, just wondering, is there a way to resize the images from within the phone itself? So you don't upload like 2000 pixel by 2000 pixel images.
 
One frustration I have with the camera is that the image will look richly colored and detailed when composing and previewing the picture, but once you tap the photo to look at it in the gallery, it will be very washed out.

Still undecided whether this is a bug in the image processing, or whether the choice of camera module is to blame.
 
alee0729 said:
One frustration I have with the camera is that the image will look richly colored and detailed when composing and previewing the picture, but once you tap the photo to look at it in the gallery, it will be very washed out.

Still undecided whether this is a bug in the image processing, or whether the choice of camera module is to blame.
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I have been wondering this as well. Seems like it is happening to the AT&T (at least) GSII & Skyrocket as well, and is apparently (according to members in those forums) a difference in brightness settings. The viewfinder and quickview seem to be ignoring the system brightness settings and displaying at full brightness, while the Gallery reverts to the system settings for brightness and can be starkly different.
I am not 100% convinced that is the issue though, because there also seems to be a slight loss of detail (unless I am imagining things), and so I wonder if there is some sort of compression going on as well...
 
s.m.knipe said:
I have been wondering this as well. Seems like it is happening to the AT&T (at least) GSII & Skyrocket as well, and is apparently (according to members in those forums) a difference in brightness settings. The viewfinder and quickview seem to be ignoring the system brightness settings and displaying at full brightness, while the Gallery reverts to the system settings for brightness and can be starkly different.
I am not 100% convinced that is the issue though, because there also seems to be a slight loss of detail (unless I am imagining things), and so I wonder if there is some sort of compression going on as well...
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It's way more than brightness. There is definitely some very heavy compression going on. Anything short of outdoor lighting and the details are all crushed. The images don't correct well with just brightness/fill either... saturation has to be cranked up a lot just to be neutral.

Happens to a lesser extent on my Galaxy Note, but all the same the camera is definitely the most frustrating aspect of this phone.
 
Ugh....a great phone possibly ruined by a crap camera. Hopefully a software update can saturate the colors a little more and possibly give it better detail....not to mention if this damn phone gets delayed one more time I may defect to crapple if I am not sober.
 
How many people buy a P&S camera to make phone calls?

There are simple facts why a cell phone will suck as a camera. #1 the sensor is going to be so small that you will never get good photos. #2 The MPs and sensor are not matched to take the best possible photos. Having a 500MP "camera" with a 5MP sensor will give crappy results. It is better to have a 5MP camera with a 5MP camera than a 12MP camera and an 8MP sensor. #3 Photo quality is based on the glass/lens. I have a 2Lb lens for my camera that is designed to take excellent pictures. This still doesn't make it easy to take excellent pictures, it is simply a tool. #4 There are too many settings that work in conjunction to take quality photos. Almost none of these exist in a cell phone: aperture, ISO, shutter speed, focal length, and a buttload of others.

Simply put, don't use your cell phone for pictures and don't use your camera to make phone calls.
 
Sorry BigRedNole... I don't buy this argument.

Nokia and Sony has been building spectacular cameras into their phones long before smartphones. Now, manufacturers have all started producing phones with cameras that are at least reasonably competitive with an average point and shoot. I've got a bunch of phones, and iOS gripes aside, the iPhone 4S has a damn good camera.

Yes, you can argue noise this and light that (like many others here, I have an arsenal of DSLRs, lenses and other gear for the serious stuff). But while having a camera is better than no camera at all, other manufacturers are way ahead of the game. Considering that a 5 yr old Nokia can still run circles around a lot of camera phones out there, it's plain and simple -- much better quality cameras can be sourced if the manufacturer wanted to. In this case, instead of the $10 bin, they chose out of the $5 bin. And it shows.

Still love the gnex, but for a reference platform and a halo phone for Android 4.0, I would have expected better camera hardware.
 
Yes there are awesome cameras for phones that cost about 13 bucks...it really does look like samsung went in the $5 bin like he said...it so far looks like junk. ;-(

I use my cell phone camera to take all kinds of pictures and even record my in car racing via a mount...I dont want to carry more than one device. The last thing I want to do is lug around my dslr with me at all times...or even a deck of cards size point and shoot defeats the whole purpose.
 
BigRedNole said:
How many people buy a P&S camera to make phone calls?

There are simple facts why a cell phone will suck as a camera. #1 the sensor is going to be so small that you will never get good photos. #2 The MPs and sensor are not matched to take the best possible photos. Having a 500MP "camera" with a 5MP sensor will give crappy results. It is better to have a 5MP camera with a 5MP camera than a 12MP camera and an 8MP sensor. #3 Photo quality is based on the glass/lens. I have a 2Lb lens for my camera that is designed to take excellent pictures. This still doesn't make it easy to take excellent pictures, it is simply a tool. #4 There are too many settings that work in conjunction to take quality photos. Almost none of these exist in a cell phone: aperture, ISO, shutter speed, focal length, and a buttload of others.

Simply put, don't use your cell phone for pictures and don't use your camera to make phone calls.
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Have you seen pictures taken by the Rezound or more importantly, the Galaxy S2? Maybe you should.
 
BigRedNole said:
How many people buy a P&S camera to make phone calls?
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Yep, agree w/ the others, BRN, your view just doesn't match reality these days. This coming from a guy who appreciates his Panasonic LX5 and FZ50, not to mention the compromised but slim Sony TX9 that normally lives in my wife's purse.

A "real" camera most definitely has its time & place -- and more power to anybody who carries one around all the time.

But the real life truth is the camera tech built in to a cell phone is capable enough of filling the role as an every day carry, something *always* available in the back pocket -- with results capable of producing shots good enough for posting pics w/ friends to Facebook, documenting incidents @ work, sharing baby pics with Grandma, and basically just "being there" as a camera for that time you'd least expect to need one.

And as the technology gets better, so to should buyers' expectations.

After all, you don't buy a phone to surf the internet, do you? That's what a PC used to be for.
 
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