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Wonderful Pictures and Videos from HD2

Hello All,
So we all know one way or the other we love our HD2. Let's show how wonderful your pictures and videos are that were taken from it.
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After having a HD, I was suitably impressed with the quality of images from the HD2 camera

xaccers said:
After having a HD, I was suitably impressed with the quality of images from the HD2 camera
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Really? How do you rate the HD2 Quality overall from 1-5?
I love it, just the screen quality, size and contrast make my friends lust over the phone especially when I'm in picture mode.

I love the screen but the actual camera doesnt seem to do it justice, the old photos on my sd card, taken on my N95 on the other hand look fantastic on the HD2 screen

I also love the camera on this
After having BB's for so long I am quite happy to have a decent camera to take those on the fly pics...look at the quality you can actually see the bee in the middle of the pic!

lowriderchick said:
After having BB's for so long I am quite happy to have a decent camera to take those on the fly pics...look at the quality you can actually see the bee in the middle of the pic!
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Wow, awesome pic.
conantroutman have you tried editing registry settings to improve quality? I have and GIGANTIC DIFFERENCE!
CHECK IT OUT HERE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638

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Wow, awesome pic.
conantroutman have you tried editing registry settings to improve quality? I have and GIGANTIC DIFFERENCE!
CHECK IT OUT HERE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638
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Im literally doing it right now....

Here's the one i took yesterday in my garden.
I took it with my hands without any special equipment
Uploaded with ImageShack.us

I was waiting a long time to tee off, so I snapped a few shots on the 6th tee and stitched a little panorama here.

conantroutman said:
Im literally doing it right now....
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Awesome..so how are the changes??

gjizaqin that flower pic really got me. The detail is just amazing and I love the panaroma picture buzz killington.

Here are mine. I rarely took photos with my HD2. Not so good but jealous with u guys so wanted to post

fantasytozi said:
Here are mine. I rarely took photos with my HD2. Not so good but jealous with u guys so wanted to post
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Haha.. join the conversation. Fantasytozi, you should try the change to the camera that I posted earlier in this thread. It will make your second picture look like your first and last. You take really good photography!

Various customed ROMS; tweaked camera registries
Photos taken at highland areas, approx > 1500m above mean sea level.
Already applied modded camera tweaks.

avemn1 said:
Awesome..so how are the changes??
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No change, Im a dumbass, I already had this enabled. I stand by my original statement.

Love have a camera that is useable in your pocket.

These are my thoughts about the camera.
As longs as there is a lot of light they are pretty good, but when you are forced to use the led flash or dont use it in low light I say the pictures arnt any good.
My old camera a sony ericsson k810i had a xenon flash. It could take awsome pictures in the dark.
What are your thoughts on low light fotography with the HD2? I would really like to tweak it so it improves.
/Erik

Are they tips #16 and #56? I just checked and they already there in my current rom, Laurentius26. Maybe I will try to take some photos again

Prešov, Slovakia
My photos

avemn1 said:
Really? How do you rate the HD2 Quality overall from 1-5?
I love it, just the screen quality, size and contrast make my friends lust over the phone especially when I'm in picture mode.
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If I would rate I would say 3-3.5 it is a good cam for just shooting some nice pictures outdoor. Video quality is pretty good in my opinion to. Shooting in the dark if you keep it in your hands without moving you get good pictures (for example in a bar). But it quite difficult to keep it steady espescially when you have drinken some alcohol . But at daylight you can take good macro for example documents.
Overall I would say a good outdoor shooter. But that is not very special for the camera's at the moment.

Is droid's 2 camera the same crappy module found in the original droid?

Is the camera used on the droid 2 the same as the original droid? droid's camera has got to be one the WORST cameras ive tried awful quality and slow

I never owned an original droid but I have been surprised at how good the images on my D2 look. They're still not at the level of a dedicated camera, of course, but they are miles above what I had before--a Samsung Omnia. Holy crap, now THAT was a terrible camera... I cringe just thinking about it.

yeah the droid 2 camera is one of the high points of the phone except you can't zoom

ljbaumer said:
yeah the droid 2 camera is one of the high points of the phone except you can't zoom
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Use the volume buttons...it can zoom zoom zoom

can u guys post some samples? btw heres what engadget had to say about droidd's 2 camera: "Motorola seems to have glossed over the camera without much thought... it's still 5 megapixels with a max video capture resolution of 720 x 480 (in other words, 480p). The original Droid has a famously bad shooter, and we regret to say the Droid 2 doesn't seem to be much better -- autofocus is still noisy and slow, macro mode doesn't really work, and images are often hazy and heavily artifacted. "

goliathvt said:
I never owned an original droid but I have been surprised at how good the images on my D2 look. They're still not at the level of a dedicated camera, of course, but they are miles above what I had before--a Samsung Omnia. Holy crap, now THAT was a terrible camera... I cringe just thinking about it.
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I totally disagree. I think the Omnia camera is much better than the D2. In order for me to get decent pics on the D2 I have to take the pics in really good lighting. I have taken pics in almost total darkness with the Omnia and they still looked good.
The first pic was taken with the Omnia, the 2nd with the Droid 2, the 3rd with the Droid 2 plus the Vignette software set to velvia, which made the pic a lot better.
The first 2 were taken one after the other in the same room with the same light, no flash on either. Though I think I had changed the settings on the D2 camera trying to get a better picture. I may have changed the ISO .

pool_shark said:
I totally disagree. I think the Omnia camera is much better than the D2. In order for me to get decent pics on the D2 I have to take the pics in really good lighting. I have taken pics in almost total darkness with the Omnia and they still looked good.
The first pic was taken with the Omnia, the 2nd with the Droid 2, the 3rd with the Droid 2 plus the Vignette software set to velvia, which made the pic a lot better.
The first 2 were taken one after the other in the same room with the same light, no flash on either. Though I think I had changed the settings on the D2 camera trying to get a better picture. I may have changed the ISO .
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that droid pic loks AWFUL :/ , im surprised at how much it looks with vignete :/

I like the D2 camera...
Even after reading the negative camera reviews, I really like it. I take pictures of my newborn daughter all the time. I use it in standard mode, b/w, and with the flash in low light. I have never had the washed out results that you see in the above attachment. I have attached a pic using the panorama function in my neighborhood. Really surprised at how easy it is to use. I agree that it should have been update in the D2 since the D1, especially with 720p recording, but I will keep it.

Chad_Petree said:
that droid pic loks AWFUL :/ , im surprised at how much it looks with vignete :/
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I have a few more with the D2 in good lighting and they are actually pretty good, but the key is the lighting.
Here is one.

Attached are some photos I've taken with mine. Keep in mind XDA resizes images to about 90kb. At full resolution, these look even better.

jamiedhouse said:
Even after reading the negative camera reviews, I really like it. I take pictures of my newborn daughter all the time. I use it in standard mode, b/w, and with the flash in low light. I have never had the washed out results that you see in the above attachment. I have attached a pic using the panorama function in my neighborhood. Really surprised at how easy it is to use. I agree that it should have been update in the D2 since the D1, especially with 720p recording, but I will keep it.
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that pic looks effing good, you almost convinced me until i saw the pics from these guys x.x
goliathvt said:
Attached are some photos I've taken with mine. Keep in mind XDA resizes images to about 90kb. At full resolution, these look even better.
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pool_shark said:
I have a few more with the D2 in good lighting and they are actually pretty good, but the key is the lighting.
Here is one.
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You did read where he said that xda resizes them, therefore the bad quality, right? lol

kwheel596 said:
You did read where he said that xda resizes them, therefore the bad quality, right? lol
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they should look even better in smaller size

Not dimensional shrink, file size shrink - he said they resize them to 90k.

I've found that in my testing, if you take a picture at 5mp and then resize to about 1024x768, the pictures look pretty good (unless it's in low light).
It's when you blow up the 5mp picture to 100% that you see the grain and noise.
I didn't like it at first but it's growing on me

It 's impossible. That Droid2's pic is awful. I can't believe it

Bad pictures from camera

Hi.
I just received my Arc and I'm shocked by something : the camera does bad pictures, cause the codec is lame. A 8Mp photo take less than 1Mo.
Can someone fix that in a rom or a kernel or is this to hard to do ?
Thanks.

the photos from almost every other Arc are incredible.. I suspect you have a problem... maybe you're settings are wrong .. or there's a fault.
Look here for examples of how good it is.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035589

Look at one of mine (all are the sames).
http://sberfini.developpez.com/DSC_0005.jpg
http://sberfini.developpez.com/DSC_0010.jpg
By the way I'm using an LT15i (3.0.2.A.181) not rooted nor unlocked.

I've just rooted by arc. Is there a way to fix the jpeg compression ratio? It's way too high by default and images are losing details as a result.
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you can try vignette that barely compresses at all - but everyone is pretty much saying that the photo's from stock cam are still better!

im_iceman said:
you can try vignette that barely compresses at all - but everyone is pretty much saying that the photo's from stock cam are still better!
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Thanks mate. Yeah I noticed almost everyone's saying that...but if one was to put the facts together, picture size alone for a 8MP resolution image can't be less than 1MB...
Will try Vignette and see if it's better. I just hope there's some kind of tweak (like in the HTC HD2) where you could set the compression ratio to further improve the quality.
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You should try checking your camera setting OP.
Vignette is good, except it takes longer to preview the image in real size, and the unnecessarily 5~6x larger files with slightly worse quality than stock camera app.

ArcOnFire said:
You should try checking your camera setting OP
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What's settings are you talking about ?
What's the difference between the one's who have a good quality photos and the others ? The firmware ? They have a LT15a instead of a LT15i ?
Please help me to understand.

Did you use auto scene recognition? The picture has some heavy noise in it, so I suspect you play with exposure value or select night scene mode.
2nd picture is blurry; Did you hold your arc firmly when taking the picture ?

Yes I'm using the auto scene detection. Should I disable it ?
For the fisrt picture, the flash was activated.
And yes, I was holding it firmly.

I use auto scene detection for most of my photos and they seem much better quality than yours there. Try some outdoor shots and post them, indoor ones can have a lot of noise if the light is low anyway.
I once had similar problems with a nokia n95. Everyone was posting great shots and mine were horrible. Turns out the handset was faulty.

[Q] So about the camera...

We all know the the N4 camera is not the best, so i was just wondering if y'all have made any modifications to make the camera better? If you have can you please share. Thanks.

There are a few popular paid cameras that are supposed to be quite good. I've always been content with CM's camera (not Focal). Seems to take pictures MUCH quicker

its a camera phone, of course its not the best camera. but if you know how to use a camera, the nexus 4 does really well, using the stock camera app. check out the post your photos thread in the general section. but if you have only the basic knowledge of how to get around a camera, then i can see someone calling it inadequate. the n4 cam just needs a little more knowledge to adjust it how you need it for that certain photo, using all the settings.

simms22 said:
its a camera phone, of course its not the best camera. but if you know how to use a camera, the nexus 4 does really well, using the stock camera app. check out the post your photos thread in the general section. but if you have only the basic knowledge of how to get around a camera, then i can see someone calling it inadequate. the n4 cam just needs a little more knowledge to adjust it how you need it for that certain photo, using all the settings.
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Heh, chill. I agree that if used the right way it can take good photos. All I was asking for is if there was a way to make the process faster and up to standard of the other "Camera phones"as you put it.

rockstarindian1 said:
Heh, chill.
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lol
i was just saying that i like really the camera. and that it gets put down without a real reason, because its being compared it to cameras from phones that cost $600+. its actually a decent camera, especially for the price of the phone. someones got to stick up for it :angel:

ziddey said:
There are a few popular paid cameras that are supposed to be quite good. I've always been content with CM's camera (not Focal). Seems to take pictures MUCH quicker
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Honestly I tried focal today and I was not impressed by it in its early stages. The focus is very hard to adjust and takes forever to focus correctly... The exposure bubble also has to move around to achieve maximum results. Overall it might be a good camera with a lot of options, but you have to be very professional in order to use all of them and know exactly which ones to use at certain times. The stock camera was made for an average consumer but focal was made for a photographer. Here I will show you some tests I did with stock vs focal...
First is stock then Focal.
In the first two pictures the Focal picture has a much lower resolution than stock (I didn't notice that until now) they were both taken in automatic mode with no adjustments. You can tell how much more saturation Focal has but it just can't seem to focus as good as stock.
The second two pictures were taken with flash and in night mode at the same resolution. Once again you can see how much more saturated the colors are on Focal. While stock is a much more sharper image without any blur
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simms22 said:
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i was just saying that i like really the camera. and that it gets put down without a real reason, because its being compared it to cameras from phones that cost $600+. its actually a decent camera, especially for the price of the phone. someones got to stick up for it :angel:
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No it definitely gets more flak than it deserves.

aanonymoushuman said:
Honestly I tried focal today and I was not impressed by it in its early stages. The focus is very hard to adjust and takes forever to focus correctly... The exposure bubble also has to move around to achieve maximum results. Overall it might be a good camera with a lot of options, but you have to be very professional in order to use all of them and know exactly which ones to use at certain times. The stock camera was made for an average consumer but focal was made for a photographer. Here I will show you some tests I did with stock vs focal...
First is stock then Focal.
In the first two pictures the Focal picture has a much lower resolution than stock (I didn't notice that until now) they were both taken in automatic mode with no adjustments. You can tell how much more saturation Focal has but it just can't seem to focus as good as stock.
The second two pictures were taken with flash and in night mode at the same resolution. Once again you can see how much more saturated the colors are on Focal. While stock is a much more sharper image without any blur
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Yeah, i've tried a few 3rd party camera apps too. Most either tend to result in very unnatural looking pics or they are pretty much stock with a different UI :I

I've never had overall success with any camera app besides stock. It does everything pretty good.

@aanonymoushuman.
Dem toes...
I bet you can hang from a tree branch by your feet with those bad boys.

simms22 said:
its a camera phone, of course its not the best camera. but if you know how to use a camera, the nexus 4 does really well, using the stock camera app. check out the post your photos thread in the general section. but if you have only the basic knowledge of how to get around a camera, then i can see someone calling it inadequate. the n4 cam just needs a little more knowledge to adjust it how you need it for that certain photo, using all the settings.
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i am one of those people that knows next to nothing. i've tried asking in the past but never got much of a solution. it seems to me that every picture i take with it is very blue or purplish. are there any simple tips on how to easily correct this?

estallings15 said:
@aanonymoushuman.
Dem toes...
I bet you can hang from a tree branch by your feet with those bad boys.
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+1

8 MP Superior Auto vs 15 MP Superior Auto

Hi everyone,
As i have rooted my Z2, i was able to install Xposed Framework. In Xposed Modes i found a mode which 'force' camera to use full 20 mp (or 15 mp in wide shot) in Superior Auto Mode. I have taken some pics to compare quality but couldn't understand anything. As i know, many of you guys are very interested in photography and know a lot about it, i decided to share some pics with you and let you decide which is better. Here's the link of 4 pics, 2 of them in 8 mp and 2 with 15 mp. (The names of the files indicate 'MP'): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vvpghc7w187b1ia/_uUAk9NFry
Can provide more shots if needed.

Mano1982 said:
Hi everyone,
As i have rooted my Z2, i was able to install Xposed Framework. In Xposed Modes i found a mode which 'force' camera to use full 20 mp (or 15 mp in wide shot) in Superior Auto Mode. I have taken some pics to compare quality but couldn't understand anything. As i know, many of you guys are very interested in photography and know a lot about it, i decided to share some pics with you and let you decide which is better. Here's the link of 4 pics, 2 of them in 8 mp and 2 with 15 mp. (The names of the files indicate 'MP'): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vvpghc7w187b1ia/_uUAk9NFry
Can provide more shots if needed.
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Great effort. Somehow I noticed the 15 mp has a wider angle. Generally they look very close and still very good quality for both, maybe different lighting conditions and in daylight too maybe easier to distinguish which is best.

There is a great discussion on quality 8MP and 20MP. Many say 8Mp is better than 20MP, which contain more vivid colors. This video explains a little about!
We could try posting pictures!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFP3Un1mRmY

ASD007 said:
Great effort. Somehow I noticed the 15 mp has a wider angle. Generally they look very close and still very good quality for both, maybe different lighting conditions and in daylight too maybe easier to distinguish which is best.
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Thanks for your feedback, mate Check the folder again, just poster some more shots. As it's night in Norway now, i couldn't take daylight photos. Will do it tomorrow..
BR4DOKYBrazil said:
There is a great discussion on quality 8MP and 20MP. Many say 8Mp is better than 20MP, which contain more vivid colors. This video explains a little about!
We could try posting pictures!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFP3Un1mRmY
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Thanks for your feedback, mate I will take more pictures in daylight tomorrow. Problem is that whenever you enable or disable mod, you have to reboot the phone

Hey can you also let us know what you lost from rooting? DRM etc?

robt772000 said:
Hey can you also let us know what you lost from rooting? DRM etc?
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Or that could stay in one of the other threads about rooting and bootloader and drm and this one could be about pictures. This thread has potential.
Sent from my D6503 using Tapatalk

jiggyb21 said:
Or that could stay in one of the other threads about rooting and bootloader and drm and this one could be about pictures. This thread has potential.
Sent from my D6503 using Tapatalk
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I've been here a lot longer than you son. Don't go telling me what to do.
Its still relevant.

robt772000 said:
I've been here a lot longer than you son. Don't go telling me what to do.
Its still relevant.
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Somehow I knew you were going to say that.
The reason I felt brash enough to say something is because half of all my posts since I've been here have been on that exact topic in other threads that explain in detail what is lost and what isn't. I know for a fact there's info available to answer your question without changing the topic of this thread. I'd link them for you but I'm about to watch Game of Thrones.... And don't get so bent out shape, I'm sure you've scolded more than one person in your long tenure here.
Sent from my D6503 using Tapatalk

jiggyb21 said:
Somehow I knew you were going to say that.
The reason I felt brash enough to say something is because half of all my posts since I've been here have been on that exact topic in other threads that explain in detail what is lost and what isn't. I know for a fact there's info available to answer your question without changing the topic of this thread. I'd link them for you but I'm about to watch Game of Thrones.... And don't get so bent out shape, I'm sure you've scolded more than one person in your long tenure here.
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Yep no worries. I'm just a fiery biker.
I heard the camera can break from unlocking.

I haven't lost anything that I'm aware of...

robt772000 said:
Yep no worries. I'm just a fiery biker.
I heard the camera can break from unlocking.
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You motivated me to finally put up an avatar.

From my tests and I've done a lot of them since I got the phone last month.
8mp in manual mode with my own settings produced the best results in all lighting conditions. Focusing for me is the z2's greatest problem and one which gets worse the more you increase the resolution.
From the watch photo the OP posted, you can clearly see that the 8mp sample is better focused. At 8mp, everything is better, detail preservation, focus, contrast and dynamic range. Yes you can't zoom in as far as you can with the 15 and 20.7mp snaps but the quality is noticeably better.
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Thanks, very interesting!
Quality is comparable, actually at certain shots SA at 8MP is maybe a more consistently detailed, 15MP is sometimes a little noisier and I don't see much quality edge.
Where this can be very useful however is shooting large resolution full 4:3 frame SA images, as on stock we're limited to 8MP @16:9. It makes sense to give the full 4:3 option, and I'd love to see some 8MP vs. 20MP SA comparisons, if you have the time. :good:

robt772000 said:
I've been here a lot longer than you son. Don't go telling me what to do.
Its still relevant.
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There are lots of us who have been here longer than you son :silly:

Haha. Internet's is fun.