tgyberg
Silver Member
I never used the physical camera button on my D1 or my X. I felt like trying to depress the button caused me to shake the phone!
I tried the same thing, with not the same results... What did you do, exactly?
The way I see it this camera sucks maybe when we get some roms someone will get us a new camera or moto will fix it
I held the phone about 20 inches away from the screen and did not zoom in....waited for the auto focus to settle down and pushed the shutter button.
I'm thinking you got a bad camera...
While you're framing the shot and slightly moving the camera around, does the focus go in and out and in and out and then settle down with a good focus. Is the picture on the phone display focused when you snap the pic? Or is it just as fuzzy as the results?
Mine gives a picture that corresponds to what I saw on the phone for the most part. If it won't focus for you, there is somethng wrong.
Have you cleaned off the lens?
I don't understand the gripes with the camera quality. Pay the couple bucks for the Vignette app. Problem solved.
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Hello,
Let me start by admitting that I am new to Android, and I know nothing beyond what I've learned on these forums digging around for the past few days.
I'm also not a photographer, and claim no advanced knowledge on picture quality beyond what I've experienced with other phones I've had.
I'm opening this thread as a plea for help, really, since I can only suspect that I'm doing something wrong when I'm taking pictures with my new Bionic.
Before anyone responds with the "It's a phone with a camera, not a camera with a phone" response, I would like to say that I'm not looking to submit any pictures I take for a Pulitzer. Really, I'd just like to be able to see them. And right now, I'm not even getting that.
I've seen some amazing pictures taken from Bionics out there, so I was starting to think that maybe my device was defective. I ran over to my wife, who also has a Bionic, and learned that hers takes pictures of the same caliber that mine does. So unless I got two faulty Bionics, the blame must lie with myself as the camera holder.
So my question is: Is there some trick, or something else that I'm supposed to be doing to get a decent picture out of this thing? I'm using the stock camera app, with default settings. I've tried Camera360 and Vignette, with similar results.
I'm holding the camera steady, waiting for the focus box to turn green, and then taking the picture by tapping the camera shutter icon on the screen.
I took two pictures to use as samples. One is of my dog. This was taken from about 5 feet away, and the dog is not moving. I also tried taking a picture of some instructions on a sheet of paper by holding the phone about 16-24 inches above the paper and taking the shot straight down. There is indirect florescent light on the paper when I took it. Neither photo used the flash.
The dog picture is blurry, and the paper picture is unreadable.
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Any tips, help, suggestions, or the like would be appreciated.
Thanks!