About camera shots compression rate

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It seems that the stock camera compress the pictures a lot. Are there any ways to adjust the compression way? maybe smali the camera.apk? Thanks.

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I´d like to know it too. The compression is pretty strong and you can see artifacts even on pictures taken with good light.

I downloaded Camera 360 for this reason - adjustable compression (if I remember)

Try igcamera free version, its the best if you ask me, Camera ICS+ is also good.

Cheers.

Wow! I didn't realize how aggressive the compression was until I tested this.

Took two pictures of the same subject, one with each camera app:

Default Camera app: 1.3mb
ICS Camera app: 4.3mb.

ICS camera pic has noticeably better quality.

Why would HTC do this? What is the benefit of making the pictures so small? They did this on the Vivid, too, including video, and it kind of ruined the quality.

Originally Posted by greyhulk

Wow! I didn't realize how aggressive the compression was until I tested this.

Took two pictures of the same subject, one with each camera app:

Default Camera app: 1.3mb
ICS Camera app: 4.3mb.

ICS camera pic has noticeably better quality.

Why would HTC do this? What is the benefit of making the pictures so small? They did this on the Vivid, too, including video, and it kind of ruined the quality.

Yup kinda of sucks doesn't it?

Also checkout the different in bit rate when recording with the stock camera and the igcamera or ICS+

You get like 12 mbps in bit rate with the stock and with the others you get 30 or more igcamera has the option to go to 100mbps, the difference is very noticeable.

Originally Posted by greyhulk

Wow! I didn't realize how aggressive the compression was until I tested this.

Took two pictures of the same subject, one with each camera app:

Default Camera app: 1.3mb
ICS Camera app: 4.3mb.

ICS camera pic has noticeably better quality.

Why would HTC do this? What is the benefit of making the pictures so small? They did this on the Vivid, too, including video, and it kind of ruined the quality.

I'd say it's probably for faster uploading to the web. Dropbox, social networks etc. Which is probably what most users are going to do with the photos they take of their mates vomiting in the gutter when pissed up.

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I have just installed the igcamera and the quality is REALLY REALLY superior to HTC's stock camera. It really makes you wonder what was HTC thinking.

What's igcamera and where can I get it from please ?

Ohhh LG! My bad
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Originally Posted by aslan93

What's igcamera and where can I get it from please ?

Ohhh LG! My bad
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...epper.lgCamera