So my focus is fine now, but holy cow it's one of the worst pictures I've ever seen. My 3.2MP Blackberry takes much better pictures - these are just full of noise!
Despite the fix, I still have horrible banding and noisey photo issues. Hopefully they do not consider this issue resolved, or maybe this is as good as its gonna get. If that's the case I'm very unhappy.
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I dont think this is as good as it gets because they're actively working on a fix, and we haven't seen any fix yet. The focus is working now simply because of a mathematical anomaly. Other phones with bad cameras have gotten better with software updates, and Im sure this one will. It make be incremental over time, but I'm sure it will. It may never be what you expected of a 5mp camera due to lens constraints, etc., but it should get pretty good for a phone. The video is pretty darn good already, so that should be a sign of something.
My camera got green corners the very first picture I took, in a moving car, on the way home from Best Buy. I used my Droid's camera extensively before this "update" and got VERY decent pictures for a "phone" camera. I don't know if I am just lucky or what, but I notice no difference between now and then.
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I've had 88 phones over the past 9 years.
Got my Droid two weeks ago and out of the box 80% of the time red corners. But now 100% green corners all the time with auto focus must have been a OTA update. But still if I bust out the bar code scanner does the same. click click click,,focus in then out focus again then back out. Still get the click click click when I use both on OS camera app as well as camera magic.
You know something similar happened to Garmin, my nuvi 755 stopped getting a fix. They published an update and everyone's GPS chips started working again. Garmin just may not have wanted everyone to have non-working date related problems.
Google needs to buy Garmin, that would put Android and Google Navigation way beyond anything else!
Well I have read many pages here and have found no real answer as to returning our Droids for better cameras.
I have yet too mail in my $100 rebate and not sure what if any effect that might have as for returning.
I luv the phone, OS, etc. but this camera SUX. Yes I get green corners but it is almost impossible to take a picture that is in focus. Not to mention the light setting which won't allow you to see what you are shooting and never supplies enough for a decent photo unless outside in sunlight.
Some say they have cameras for photos, well I do also but with previous cells e815, V9m took great photos even in very low light. I can't believe the droid can't at least match the photo quality of $49 cells.
I would hate to have to relinquish my droid for some lesser cell but come on,, WHERES the cam???...
Sorry, had to vent a little on this subject.
X.BillyD..
well I can definitely say that the Droid's camera is not nearly as sensitive as my Tour or Treo's... I have a habit/practice of documenting my car's history/mileage by taking pictures of the odometer. On my Tour and Treo I could take pictures(no flash) at night by simply turning up the backlight on my gauges to maximum. With the Droid I just get blackness. Definitely not as good in low light.
Whoever took it moved, making it a bit blurry.
But the EXIF data shows it as 72x72 dpi where the Droid has 300x300 dpi.
All settings are at the highest level, 5 MP & Super fine etc. Also I ran it thru an exif viewer and it's saying 300 pixels/inch...
Maybe it's just blurry but damn.
DROID...Do you have camera problems? NOW FIXED???
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