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Bad Picture Quality

12 replies · 3,869 views · Started 25 July 2004

Hi,
I have a little problem with my few weeks old 6600. I have taken lot of pictures with it. On the phone it appears clear but when I transfered it to the computer, they look very poor! I have also tried photographer, photoacute & photorite. But all of them show similar results or even bad... I have attached a few photos that I took. Is it only my phone??? I feel now that this phone is a waste...!

Biju

Attachments: attach.zip (81 KB)

PhotoAcute works for me plus my photo enhancement on my pc.

As for sure, you cannot get a good pic quality on any mobile cam 😎

Dude,

I got the same problem with my 7610. The picture quality looks like it was taken with a plastic lens camera. I have a CMOS based Aiptek Pencam SD that takes better pictures (same resolution). I haven't seen pictures taken with Sony Ericsson before, but Nokia takes crappy pictures, that's my opinion and I am sticking to it.

jackson127 at hotmail dot com

Burnok wrote:PhotoAcute works for me plus my photo enhancement on my pc.

As for sure, you cannot get a good pic quality on any mobile cam 😎


What photo enhancement on your pc do you use?

Nokia use too High JPEG compression an BMP image weight aprox. 500K in 640*480 in 16 bit , on to the phone it 's weight between 20 and 40 K, it 's silly to compress at this level in phone witch have a lot of memory with MMC card.

Is there any free or not free soft which can take picture on 6600 in raw format (ex: bmp) ??????

bijuabraham wrote:Hi,
I have a little problem with my few weeks old 6600. I have taken lot of pictures with it. On the phone it appears clear but when I transfered it to the computer, they look very poor! I have also tried photographer, photoacute & photorite. But all of them show similar results or even bad... I have attached a few photos that I took. Is it only my phone??? I feel now that this phone is a waste...!

Biju

Phone is ablsolutly oK , This is just trick.
Hold your phone for a second after clicking it.
it will work fine

I also have a nokia 6600. I have to admit that some times the quality is very good for a camera phone but some times the quality is very low. Try to hold the phone steady when you take a picture.

alexandra_v wrote:I also have a nokia 6600. I have to admit that some times the quality is very good for a camera phone but some times the quality is very low. Try to hold the phone steady when you take a picture.

even you hold the phone steady, you ll never had an high quality because of the too high jpeg compression of picture , the compression gives good result when the picture is displayed at 340x320 , a medium quality at full size (640x480) and awfull over 640x480, with less compression the pictures will be nice even displayed twice the size (1280x760)

the quality has been adjusted to screen size and to fit mms

I never had the problem with poor picture quality on my Nokia 6600 before my camera dies on me (rfer to the other thread that I started). Anyway, I have Microsoft Office's Photoeditor and I simply sharpen the photos after I uploaded them from the phone to the PC.

In the phone setting itself, you can set the picture quality to be high. That increases the resolution.

rgds,
m

This is a combination of both replies here!

Holding the camera still for a second or two after you press is essential, as the actual moment of capture is a tad late on the shutter noise,

But mostly I do agree with havana 7, that the compression is a far too high for phones with such a capacity. Just put your camera on the highest resolution and take a picture, then check it's size...crazy, even for a jpg!!!

The bottom line is, if you want some really superb pictures, get a dedicated camera...!

M.

it's possible to have better photos (not as good as a real camera) , we need an photo software which save photos in raw (bmp,..) or a less jpeg compression.

Nokia give source as example of photo software, i took a brief look to the code and i saw that the soft pick the picture in raw format and after save it with an high level of jpeg compression, but I'm not a developper and I can't change the code....

Attachments: CameraApp_v1_0.zip (48 KB)