First, there will be no disassembly pictures, because i did not have a camera, just look at the youtube disassemblyvids.
You basically open the batterydoor, unscrew the screws for the back, pop it of, pop out the cameraglas, and polish away the faded AntiReflective coating with a rag and toothpaste.
Clean the Camerasensor and glas with windowcleaner afterwards. Put it back togheter.
Profit.
Before and after pictures.
This i guess, works for all phones.
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I did this to mine the other day, although I didn't disassemble it, I just cleaned the lens while it was on the phone. It really made a huge difference to my photo's, before they were all bloomy and blurry, now they are nice and sharp! :laugh:
Reminds me of the 'fix' back when I had a MyTouch 3G Limited Edition Fender (i.e.: HTC Magic/Sapphire). Except the glass filter was much much easier to remove.
But yea for me, since I'm already walking around with an expensive Olympus Pen E-P3 I have a number of Lens pens in my bag, one of which being a micro that just enough to cover the G2's glass cover and take any film right off.
Wouldn't that have a negative impact on shots outdoors in sunlight?
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Wouldn't that have a negative impact on shots outdoors in sunlight?
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Indeed it would, harsh glare/flare, the alternative would be to simply kick up the contrast a little on the image. Which is what I suspect the software did on gb, when full camera driver/control was available.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2
Exactly what I suspected, thanks for clearing that up.
One thing I read about. CM7 and such ROMs compress pics, causing picture quality to be subpar. Believe someone posted a fix on another phone thread, I could never figure out how to implement that for the G2. It explains why Sense ROMs and stock have better picture quality.
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Exactly what I suspected, thanks for clearing that up.
One thing I read about. CM7 and such ROMs compress pics, causing picture quality to be subpar. Believe someone posted a fix on another phone thread, I could never figure out how to implement that for the G2. It explains why Sense ROMs and stock have better picture quality.
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Depends on the camera drivers used in the kernel and how the provided software works with it. For example If the Desire HD had gotten ICS, or when the Virtuous team manages to rewrite the drivers, direct control over camera's hardware will allow some camera apps (third party or otherwise) to make the most use of the camera's raw data, which can then be tweaked prior to compression.
I'm not very familiar with how it even works now, just that the drivers some of the ICS roms use currently is kind of a work around, i.e.: no real control over the camera but 'functional' for the most part. It's like getting your 3D accelerated graphics card working with at least some 2D functionality.
I also used tootpaste today for cleaning glass and result is very big! :good:
Thank you, I hadn't considered the glass.
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I took an idea out of Lifehacker and ripped out the lens from a DVD player to make a ghetto macro lens. I taped this to my HD2 and took a couple of these shots. They were grains of rice about 1mm in diameter. (Rice grains can come in huge sizes too, but these were tiny )
Photos were then touched up in Resco Photo Manager and sharpened a little in Pocket Artist. I used Photoshop on my laptop to resize the shots to exactly 604 pixels on the longest end. This ensures maximum sharpness when uploaded to Facebook... however, that step was not entirely necessary of course and I could have just sent it straight from my phone to FB or Flicker using Resco Photo Manager 7.03 (an AWESOME program!)
DOF was tiny and there was no additional lighting used apart from the camera's LED. It wasn't easy. The lens was almost touching the rice. In post processing, I had to reduce gamma and brightness and boost contrast. However, in keeping with the main goal of the project, I did all such modifications to the photo on the HD2 itself
What do you think?
Here is a link to that Lifehacker site;
http://lifehacker.com/5345067/turn-a-dvd-lens-into-a-cellphone-macro-lens
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Thats actually fairly impressive! Is the colour balance your choosing, or a side-effect of the HD2s camera in such proximity?
All we need now is a way to turn this macro lens into a flip-on flip-off attachment to a phone
When I say "fairly", I mean "very", btw
They look pretty damn impressive!
Can you get a close-up of your fingertip? It's always a good judge of a lens as to how clearly they can get a fingerprint.
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They look pretty damn impressive!
Can you get a close-up of your fingertip? It's always a good judge of a lens as to how clearly they can get a fingerprint.
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I will try that later tonight I did have a go yesterday but didn't keep the shot... The magnification was so great though I think I could only have 5 -6 lines of my fingerprint show up....
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Thats actually fairly impressive! Is the colour balance your choosing, or a side-effect of the HD2s camera in such proximity?
All we need now is a way to turn this macro lens into a flip-on flip-off attachment to a phone
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That was the HD2... after adjusting gamma and contrast... before, there was a blueish glow to it. The rice was sitting on my black HD2 case which came with the phone
Ah I see. Still, I will have to dig out an old PC and see if I can get the lens from it and do this myself. I think with a few people working on it and sharing settings/ideas we can get a good thing going!
That's pretty damn trick. I like it!!
Simply awesome
Do you guys experience the same ? Pictures are not sharp, colors are mixed up.
only in darker rooms. outside with sun pictures are looking quite well.
look here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/29/htc-trophy-review/
Horrible quality.
As usual with HTC... always these "orange-pink blurry" images.
Nothing compared to the great Omnia 7 camera unfortunately.
Quality is indeed very bad:
Here's a picture taken with my Trophy:
http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/8599/wp000050.jpg
You can cleary see the pink/orange circle in the middle.
I hope they put a better camera in this when it comes across the pond to the us. I don't care about mp I want better quality
Yeah camera quality is quite awful. subpar when outside and when inside it's just horrible.
On another note are any of you noticing the 'GSM radio' sounds on video files you've recorded with the device?
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Do you guys experience the same ? Pictures are not sharp, colors are mixed up.
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It doesn't look good even outside with clear sunlight! What a shame
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It doesn't look good even outside with clear sunlight! What a shame
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my photos come out ok during the day.
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i was in quite cloudy conditions and photos still looked good. i think it's just night shots or dark places that it falls over.
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my photos come out ok during the day.
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Too much noise. They are OK for a low budget phone, but I don't think that the Trophy is low budget (at least I payed more than 200€!)
Thanks for sharing
I'am having the same issue, only outside with clear weather it makes nice pictures. Also the flashlight is horrible, if you try to make a picture of a person it will always look away from the camera
I'm thinking of getting a trophy but I'm really put off by this pinky orange circle issue - does everybody experience this? Is it a hardware issue or could it be fixed by a future update?
Cheers
I have the red colorisation in the centre of the image also, not too fussed as I never use the phone to take pictures I use my Canon D450, if its that important that you need to use the camera for images then you can fix them images in Lightroom.
I got my HTC 7 trophy (australian stock) and think the camera is outstanding. Definitely the best non-iPhone camera phone I've used. Don't understand what all the fuss is about, really.
I have one and the camera is like my old htc p3600 in outsides when I use the flash the quality of the photo is bad with too much noise and blur.
I hope it is a software poblem and MS correct that in a future version!
Has anybody considered creating an extension lens that can be mounted onto your CCD?
They already have some custom kits developed by users for pocket HD video recorders that adds wide angle lens capabilities.
Any ideas?
You mean something like this
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It works really well for me but I can't fit it in my pocket... any ideas?
First this would be an attachment not a mod. Second it's a phone what are you expecting from such a small lense. I mean if you want to take a good picture use a true camera.
well, wouldnt it be cool, for the sake of nerdism, to pull a lens and mount it onto your phone like some form of SPEC OPS tactical kit???
and yes, thats a nice add on. Any video or pic?
You may laugh but - there is actually an add-on macro lense avaliable for the EVO.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/htc-evo-4g-meets-magnetic-macro-lens-shoots-gorgeous-closeups/
However its not working on hd2 I guess (different shape)
but try it out please
check this out
I understand wanting nice pictures. I use the camera on my phone all the time but when I do it's to do things like take a picture of something and send it via email or mms to somebody to ask them a question or laugh about something. Sometimes it's just to take a picture but I know it's a phone and not to expect much from it. If I'm going to waste the space to carry around some bulky attachment I might as well carry a nice half decent size camera and get a real quality picture. Hell I can even go so far as to use my camera take a series of pictures put the card in my phone because the camera uses micro SD with adapter. So I can still be able to send them or view them.
To prove a point that this is a waste of energy.
These pictures were done really quick using a special macro tool I found sitting on my desk.
ISO set to 100 no flash..using Android NAND
holding the phone no more the 2 inches away...could have been a bit closer.
Same distance with my macro tool
the tool............
hmm, maybe this is what you are looking for: http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/cell-phone-lenses/
I don't understand the point.
No matter what kind of lens you attach to the HD2 or any smartphone for that matter, you're still significantly hindered by the tiny, crappy little image sensor on the phone. The image sensor is at least as important as the glass. (I'd say it more important)
I suppose one could benefit from being able to shoot more creatively by being given more control of depth of field and what-not, but I doubt the image sensor can capture enough detail to make it worthwhile.
relax people this is just for entertainment and exploring ideas no need for it to be useful. Im simply exploring
In my youtube channel, ive posted some of my experimentation with post enhancements softwares for the sake of learning something about video quality. Note that these videos were all shot by HD2 (under Froyo 2.2):
Nov Sun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSjEySzGutE
Nov Sun 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFd2Ms7DY_o
dusk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZA_nNwyaHs
indoor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_OcY5-A-iM
snowy day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGo80DXiWyY
Thanks for the post so far
In the wm6.5 there was this fellow, who was modifying the registery to increase the bit rate for the video recording. Also, there were adjustments on the color, sharpness and etc
well....
i saw this in desire thread.........
someone did a comparison in photos with backcover(battery cover) on and without it.. it there was a noticeable difference
in camera clarity.......
it was much improved with back cover removed...
i thought it should have been improved but a negligible. but it was a great difference..
tried it with nexus also and i also found a big difference.
the glass of backcover and the space between the glass and the camera reduces the camera clarity...
i guess i should remove the glass....lol
Man! Thanks for this reminder!
I've been noticing lately that focusing and picture clarity was rather lacking lately on my N1...Then seeing this thread it reminded me that I needed to clean the back-cover protective glass!
Especially for me, since I carry my N1 around "naked" (no case, no sleeve, just the bare nekked phone), it's not just the phone's screen that gets the smudges!
I totally believe that removing the protective glass pieces would improve picture clarity...But I'm not so eager to do anything about it as I'm not so confident in the camera's protection without them.
agreed and more importantly is the difference is more visible on a pc rather than yr nexus screen
yup, my cover is fairly scratched up at this point. If I'm taking a picture, I'm pulling it. Just be sure to hold the battery in place.
Can you post some pics for reference? Can you also post a pic with a legit camera of your camera window?
I've been thinking this may be true, but I haven't done any testing yet.
agreed and more importantly this.
Thanks, i tried it and the quality is better
I was skeptical, but there actually is a noticeable difference in clarity.
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I confirm it does have a slight effect on the contrast and sharpness. I took the pictures with a spit-clean camera cover and one without.
http://imgur.com/a/v64nJ#5PseR
The first one is WITH THE COVER ON and the other one is with the cover taken OFF. Noticeable difference in contrast for sure.
I have had this phone for three months, and have taken care of the phone very carefully. Now this random dark spot appears on the none wide angle camera in photos and videos. I haven't done anything that I can think of that would cause this other than accepting this big update on my phone a week or so ago. Anyone know if it's defective, or something else like software? This is the Canadian Rogers LG G6 version. I love this phone and just got it no long ago... I have no idea what I should do, because it ruins certain videos or pictures now. Here's a video to show what I mean, https://youtu.be/31gP0E3hmwo
Weird - did you take an extended video of the sun? Also, I'm sure you already have cleaned the camera glass many times, but when you clean it, did you look closely for anything out of the ordinary, maybe trapped between the outer glass and the inner lens?
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Weird - did you take an extended video of the sun? Also, I'm sure you already have cleaned the camera glass many times, but when you clean it, did you look closely for anything out of the ordinary, maybe trapped between the outer glass and the inner lens?
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No, I always avoid getting the sun into my camera for the fear burning the lens. Only thing I can think of my lens getting a lot of light is when taking extreme zoom in pictures of leaves that were in the sun one of those zoom in clip on lenses. Though the camera was facing down on leaves and not towards the sun.
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I will have to look at the lens again when cleaning, because I didn't notice anything before.
I just did another test while looking for dust on the lens with a soft flashlight and this spot turned into something else. So confused, because I don't see anything when I look at it. Here I recorded it https://youtu.be/ujwJEvfcQ44
I think there is something between the lens and the sensor. I would send it to repair.
I've the same problem few month ago, I just shake the phone because I thought it was a dust and the dark spot disappeared
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I've the same problem few month ago, I just shake the phone because I thought it was a dust and the dark spot disappeared
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I think there is something between the lens and the sensor. I would send it to repair.
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I'll trying shaking it before sending it to repair, hopefully shaking works, thanks for the ideas.