Shite Quality Camera Phone Pics - HELP

[ViolentJ]

I've got a Samsung U600 with a 3.2 Mega Pixel camera.

Just been out and took a few pics, but in the majority of them the grass / vegetation is incredibly washy.

What have I done wrong / what setting needs changing?

Here's an example - click to enlarge.

This one seems fine and I changed nothing:

 

[bigmaddaz]

Go into your phone settings mate, you are probably one a low resolution mode, like vga or something

 

[bigmaddaz]

I mean your camera settings, goto how you take a picture, then should be options or something from there

 

[ViolentJ]

I'm taking them at 2048x1536

 

[Mells]

Its the light conditions that make the photo like that.

 

[Ady182]

Plus its a phone lol

 

[ViolentJ]

Re: s**te Quality Camera Phone Pics - HELP

Its the light conditions that make the photo like that.

Just looked through and it's set to automatic but there are options for cloudy etc.

Problem is, when all you've got is a tiny camera screen to check your pic, they always look ok no matter how s**t they are until you get home.

 

[unofficialPete]

Did you use zoom on the 1st one?

 

[Griff]

Change the ISO rating to 400.

 

[ViolentJ]

Re: s**te Quality Camera Phone Pics - HELP

Did you use zoom on the 1st one?

I've got a mixture of zoom and normal but they've all come out shitty

 

[ViolentJ]

Re: s**te Quality Camera Phone Pics - HELP

Change the ISO rating to 400.

I saw that option but haven't a clue what ISO does?

 

[unofficialPete]

ISO makes the sensor more sensitive to light but also reduces quality, you want to use 100 or less on a camera phone.

Your phone won't have optical zoom (I doubt) so when you 'zoom' its just the camera cropping the original image so reducing quality...

 

[Lagerlout]

Think of it as how sensitive the camera (sensor) is to light.

Higher ISO can result in more noise though so be careful!

EDIT - Beaten to it^^

 

[Chrisjk]

Change the quality to superfine ithink, thats on my E720

 

[cgap]

Re: s**te Quality Camera Phone Pics - HELP

You'll never get amazing quality from a camera phone. End of.

I have a 3MP cameraphone and just use it for fun shots, out clubbing etc.

Only time you'll get half decent results is in very bright weather.

I have a 6MP Nikon Coolpix and although that is much much better you still need a decent amount of light for best results. I've been taking it to gigs to try and figure out the best settings for low-light situations, with mixed results

 

[ViolentJ]

Re: s**te Quality Camera Phone Pics - HELP

Change the quality to superfine ithink, thats on my E720

Got nothing like that but that's possible just the name they give to the highest resolution.

 

[ViolentJ]

Re: s**te Quality Camera Phone Pics - HELP

You'll never get amazing quality from a camera phone. End of.

I have a 3MP cameraphone and just use it for fun shots, out clubbing etc.

Only time you'll get half decent results is in very bright weather.

I have a 6MP Nikon Coolpix and although that is much much better you still need a decent amount of light for best results. I've been taking it to gigs to try and figure out the best settings for low-light situations, with mixed results

I have got a proper digital camera that takes great shots but it's a good few years old now and too bulky to fit in my pocket. It's a Fuji FinePix A204

 

[Chrisjk]

Re: s**te Quality Camera Phone Pics - HELP

Change the quality to superfine ithink, thats on my E720

Got nothing like that but that's possible just the name they give to the highest resolution.

no, ive got a resoloution menu and a quality menu.

 

[Marky_]

Chris is right unless Samsung have changed it in their latest handsets. There should be a resolution AND a quality option, with superfine, fine etc.
As said above; don't expect too much from phone cameras, especially samsung ones.

 

[FiXX]

its a samsung

 

[Day]

My almost new samsung takes worse pictures than my 4 year old sony T610!!

 

[coatesy]

ive just bought a samsung g600 hope the quility is alot better than that

 

[ViolentJ]

Re: s**te Quality Camera Phone Pics - HELP

Chris is right unless Samsung have changed it in their latest handsets. There should be a resolution AND a quality option, with superfine, fine etc.
As said above; don't expect too much from phone cameras, especially samsung ones.

Definitely no quality option on this one.