On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll just add that when I clicked the link I was surprised. It was > better than I had been expecting!
Particularly with some of the reviews out there that call the Droid 2 camera "mediocre". One article's quote: The Droid 2 is a total upgrade from the original Droid, with one exception: the camera. The Droid's camera was bad, and the Droid 2's camera isn't much better. The 5-megapixel snapper took decent shots outdoors with bright, natural looking colors, but details weren't as sharp as photos taken with the Droid X or the iPhone 4. I was even less impressed with my indoor shots. A few had a greenish cast to them, but this may have been due to the lighting. Details were a bit soft too; not as sharp as photos taken with the recently reviewed XPeria X10. I also detected some graininess, and a few objects had a sort of ghostly aura around them. The camera's autofocus isn't very effective, and despite the nice variety of scene effects, I didn't find them to be very useful in improving my shots. Another strange omission is the lack of support for 720p-quality video capture, which is pretty much the default for high-end cameras these days. The Droid 2 captures at 480p, and there's no dedicated "narration" mode for capturing your own musings via video. Video quality was decent, although a bit pixelated when capturing fast-moving objects. Despite the missing narration mode, the Droid X did capture audio pretty well. Another plus: one of the treats in Android 2.2 is the ability to use your camera's flash as a light for shooting video in dimly-lit environments. http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/646269/review/droid_2.html Of course, these articles are from back in August, so maybe they upgraded the camera they put in them in response to the reviews? Also of possible interest are the Best Droid 2 camera APPs: http://droid-2.net/?p=949 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
