Poor Quality Camera Images/Compression - Motorola Q Forum

GentlemanLoser · 06-09-2007, 03:11 PM

So I love my Q, however, the camera is giving me quite a headache. I was expecting better resolution from a 1.3 megapixel camera. The imges I get are very highly compressed .jpg files, coming in at file sizes around 125Kilobytes. The images are splotchy and lack the definition I would expect from 1.3Megapixel.

I have the setting set with resolution at 1280x1024, and the compression level set to High Quality.

Is there anything that I can do to get quality images from this thing? Is there a setting, or a hack, or some 3rd party software that can just not over-compress the photos?

Duke4062 · 06-09-2007, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by GentlemanLoser

So I love my Q, however, the camera is giving me quite a headache. I was expecting better resolution from a 1.3 megapixel camera. The imges I get are very highly compressed .jpg files, coming in at file sizes around 125Kilobytes. The images are splotchy and lack the definition I would expect from 1.3Megapixel.

I have the setting set with resolution at 1280x1024, and the compression level set to High Quality.

Is there anything that I can do to get quality images from this thing? Is there a setting, or a hack, or some 3rd party software that can just not over-compress the photos?

Try messing around with the white balance setting. My pics. are usually around 200 kb.

GentlemanLoser · 06-09-2007, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Duke4062

Try messing around with the white balance setting. My pics. are usually around 200 kb.

Tried messing around with the white balance. Still got pictures that lacked a fair amount of definition. And this splotchyness is really indicative of a poorly or over- compressed file. I'm just wondering if the Q just has a bad graphic encoder built in, and if so, can it can be relpaced?

The attached picture shows the splotches of solid color that I am referring to.

bcw757 · 06-09-2007, 10:14 PM

I can't tell you what is wrong with yours, but I can say that i get much better quality from my q than that..

fusion1 · 06-10-2007, 12:48 AM

Not sure what the splotches are but mine is very grainy like yours. I just assumed it was because it was ONLY a 1.3 megapixel camera. Until I realized my first digital camera was an Olympus D460 and it was a 1.3 megapixel also. I know a digital camera will take superior pictures but the difference is pretty apparant, probably the limitations of the lens?

toomanyhandles · 06-10-2007, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by bcw757

I can't tell you what is wrong with yours, but I can say that i get much better quality from my q than that..

Can you post one?

kalina · 06-10-2007, 05:15 PM

I use the cool camera software and my pics are now a lot better. It's not the camera it's the software. (Check out the pics that another user posted in the Photo section - search "cool camera" in that thread)

extremum · 06-10-2007, 05:33 PM

Like every other digital camera (unless it's SLR), digital zoom destroys the quality of a photograph. With low-to-middle end digital cameras, you'll get much better photos in daylight, and using little or no digital zoom at all, especially on a camera phone.

Example...

This photo was taken with my Q - no zoom in medium daylight. No post-editing, whatsoever - just straight from the Q. Not bad, right?

With a camera phone, you have to have an extremely steady aim/hand, because the camera phone's shutter speed isn't able to keep up with any motion. You can get away with getting a decent photo with 2x, maybe 4x on a great day, but many nighttime and 6x photos look god-awful. It's not the phone's fault - it's the way digital photography works...

See the difference in picture quality?