Droid camera SUCKS... big time

[yg17]

They look good to me

 

[Hrududu]

some of them are worse than 1 MP camera phones:

No.

 

[MTI]

The Moto Droid will have multi-touch (pinch, etc) . . . in Europe, according to Motorola's website. No explanation of why it's not enabled in the US/Verizon unit.

As for the Endgadget pictures . . . they seem to suffer from bad composition more than component failure.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

The Moto Droid will have multi-touch (pinch, etc) . . . in Europe, according to Motorola's website. No explanation of why it's not enabled in the US/Verizon unit.

As for the Endgadget pictures . . . they seem to suffer from bad composition more than component failure.

Is it not on the us version or they just never announced it for it? I see no reason that it would not be on the US verson of it

 

[GoCubsGo]

I'm a little disappointed because I wanted a droid, but the camera is really important to me so I don't have to carry one around in addition to the phone.

Here is a gallery of some photos taken with the droid, I don't even need to explain what's wrong with them because some of them are worse than 1 MP camera phones:
http://www.engadget.com/photos/motorola-droid-camera-test-shots/


Is there any hope a software update could improve the quality of the Droids photos, or do they never do that type of thing?

It has a 5mp camera, how can it be that bad??

Surely you're expecting too much. 5MP or not the sensor will judge how good the image is. You people and your lack of understanding. MP aren't everything.

 

[jav6454]

Surely you're expecting too much. 5MP or not the sensor will judge how good the image is. You people and your lack of understanding. MP aren't everything.

What she said. High MP and sh*t level sensor mean bad image always.

 

[MTI]

Is it not on the us version or they just never announced it for it? I see no reason that it would not be on the US verson of it

Moto's Western Europe site:

OPERATING SYSTEM
Android 2.0
BACKLIGHT
Yes
DEDICATED KEYS
Back, Home, Volume control, Camera, Search, Power/Lock, Menu
DOUBLE TAP
HAPTIC FEEDBACK
KEYPAD LOCK
LIGHT-RESPONSIVE DISPLAY
PINCH AND ZOOM
QWERTY KEYBOARD

The US Moto Site for Droid doesn't mention pinch & zoom and all the US reviewers say it's not there.

 

[Konz]

From the BGR review today:

Camera:

The camera, a 5 megapixel autofocus dual LED flash, is straight up disappointing. It doesn’t seem to be hardware-related as we’re almost positive it’s a software issue, but man… did Kodak just say peace out to Moto or? This thing couldn’t focus on any sort of scene, portrait, landscape, a close-up — nothing — to save its life. On top of pictures not coming out focused properly, the camera application is ridiculously slow, sometimes pausing up to 7 or 8 seconds after you’ve taken a picture before it will let you snap again. What’s worse is that with geo-tagging enabled, delays get even longer.

Everyone who disagreed about those crap photos being crap can go eat crap and die.