I read that same article before I bought the phone. The Droid X, which the author cites, has an 8 megapixel camera. I'm suspicious of the noise level with that many pixels on an itty-bitty sensor. I know my 5-megapixel Panasonic P&S delivers plenty of resolution for most purposes. But I wasn't shopping for a camera. I needed a communication device with a screen large enough for an old fart to be able to read e-mails. Both the Droid X and Droid 2 have nice big screens. But the Droid X has only a touch-screen keyboard. The Droid 2 has a touch screen keyboard and a pushbutton keyboard that slides out the side. It's like a mini computer keyboard. With my fat fingers, I have a real problem with touch-screen keyboards. I found the Droid 2 keyboard made typing much easier. The fact that it has a decent camera was just a pleasant surprise. Paul
On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Darren Addy wrote: > 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. -- 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.
