Dissapointing camera :( With example pics!

Karlos G

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Last night I went to take my first picture in dimly lit conditions ( I was in the Pub DJ'ing), and am hugely dissapointed!!

Firstly you cannot see anything on the screen when trying to look at the subject about to be photographed, for a second I thought the screen had tuned off it was that black!!
So I then took the photo (blind) and this was the result.......



Asside from the fact that it is blurry which was probably down to me not holding the phone steady as I was in shocked disbelief that I could not see anything, it is a terrible picture, he looks like a ghost because of the white out effect from the flash!

It really was a bad experience which is a million miles away from the day time photo taking pleasure that see results like this....



Although it is still a little washed out.

Does anyone have any tips for better quality pics?? Or a tweak that actually allows you to see what your about to photo when it's pooly lit (like in a Pub)?

Cheers!
 

Karlos G

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Cheers but it's not the pink splodge i'm dissapointed with, I cant see that in any of my pics.
It's the fact that you cant see anything on the screen or focus when your in low light conditions, shooting blind, and then the white out effect!
 

bahardman

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Last night I went to take my first picture in dimly lit conditions ( I was in the Pub DJ'ing), and am hugely dissapointed!!

Firstly you cannot see anything on the screen when trying to look at the subject about to be photographed, for a second I thought the screen had tuned off it was that black!!
So I then took the photo (blind) and this was the result.......



Asside from the fact that it is blurry which was probably down to me not holding the phone steady as I was in shocked disbelief that I could not see anything, it is a terrible picture, he looks like a ghost because of the white out effect from the flash!


It really was a bad experience which is a million miles away from the day time photo taking pleasure that see results like this....



Although it is still a little washed out.

Does anyone have any tips for better quality pics?? Or a tweak that actually allows you to see what your about to photo when it's pooly lit (like in a Pub)?

Cheers!

My HD2 takes pretty good pics for a phone.
 

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MaskedMagi

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I agree. It seems crazy for you to be expected to frame a shot properly when the screen is pitch black ,the light should come on on its own when the light sensor detects that it is dark!

The best thing to do for now is to manually turn the flash on using the flash button before you take the shot, at least thats an easy work around.
 

Karlos G

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Any updates on the flash adjustments
No nothing :(

Theres seems to be a problem with the flash timing/sync etc..!!!
its a commoon problem, ive contacted HTC(as have others). Check out this thread to see their replys.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=590916
Yeah i'm active in that thread mate.... I actually started this thread on the 22nd of November ;)

I find that if you turn the assistance flash on before you take the photo, the light levels are better adjusted.
Yup... try this.
Nope makes no differnece whatsover..................
Example pic...

 

loomx

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lol the camera is fine, its not as good in macro if you use the camera flash, what I do is just turn the flash on using the torch aplication, then have the flash set to off in the camera app and all is fine.
 

~Johnny

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Sadly I don't think there's much you can do here, that's just the nature of LED flash; it's just useless (and that's why you never see it on normal cameras). And this thing has TWO LED flashbulbs xD

They should have just used xenon flash like a normal camera?? But I think they use far more battery life.