HTC Desire S [Android] - straight out of the phone ... errrr

[Hari]

maybe i should say camera



This is an exact rendering of the light at the moment

It's pretty amazing what these little phones are capable of nowadays!

The phone has a no name camera, not some zeiss or sony ericsson camera

[Olivier]

What a light !

These phones give good results nowadays for keeping nice moments in memory. It avoids to fully regret not having taken the big camera.

[Hari]

[poilu]

and the gps coord are in the pic, basic for smartphones but absent in cameras

[LucisPictor]

[Nordentro]

Yes, mobile cameras is getting better!

Here's one from my Samsung Galaxy S II

[David]

I'm consistently amazed with my HTC Evo's 8mp camera, which is better than my Canon Elph's 8mp IQ, despite the smaller sensor and lens glass. Phones do have a downside in the amount of image data put in the exif, though.

[David]

Here is one I think I took with my Evo:

[cooltouch]

Our cell-phone contract expires at the end of this month. I'm looking forward to getting a decent smart phone, and one of the things I'm gonna insist on is one that has a camera that takes halfway decent pics. My current phone has a 2mp camera, but the pics always seem to be so soft they're mushy.

[ludoo]

Great shot Hari!

Funny how during vacation time (or summer at least) we all start resorting to the new instamatics -- our cell phones. Except for Orio of course, who keeps posting great pics taken with dream lenses.

I too used my phone in the past few days, an Acer Liquid, for family snapshots. I could really like it if it had instant shooting instead of having to wait about a second for AF which often makes me miss a shot.

another (involuntary) one in the "girl with a pet" series


100% crop from a different image, not bad for a tiny sensor and a tiny lens, always covered in grime and fingerprints

[tikkathree]

My phone too, and my point and shoot pocket camera of choice, plus video of course.

I thought I could ID the camera in this review but not so:
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/htc-desire-hd-717295/review?artc_pg=6

Even though there are more than enough camera apps to add features I stick with the bundled app for most things. Let me know if you want a list of camera apps...

[David]

Michael,

For good cameras in phones, I've found HTC and Samsung tend to provide consistently good results with respectable IQ and minimal vignetting and color loss. I've actually done photo stitches off my Evo that turned out as well as ones from my K-7

However, the Evo's phone DOES lose a lot of edge focus. Note on the photo below the tree on the left. It goes from in focus to all a blur about 3/4 up. That's one of the photo seams and it's pretty obvious where the shots merged. There are also some small glitches on the right side where Photoshop stitched areas and made them blurry.



That was done with my Evo. Now, if I'm honest, there's a huge blurry spot right in the middle where I didn't get coverage, so I had to copy and paste and then touch up the spot with some surrounding data. However, it was really just a test to see if I could stitch and image from a camera phone.

I don't think it could win any awards other than "most inept use of Photoshop". In short, the lenses provide good IQ for their size, but are clearly not pro lenses.

David