Sanyo 5300 pictures VS 1 megapixel camera picture

wow thats horrible

 

I'm not sure what went wrong with your pictures, but mine are substantially better. Here's a sample:
http://pictures.sprintpcs.com/share.jsp?invite=YEfr4jJd5h72Y8Soa7gk

Of course a 1 mp camera should be better than a .3 mp camera in a phone, but I think the camera-phone pictures are surprisingly good.

Carl

 

i dont know what the orginal poster is doing wrong or if his phone is defective but that is not what the sanyo 5300 camera is capable of.

the camera is good, unfortunately the earpiece volume is low

 

The picture I took was under incandescent lighting, and the camera's default "Auto" setting seems to do a great job of color balance under those lighting conditions. The original poster took his photo under florescent lighting, and I posted a picture earlier taken under halogen lighting. My picture had a greenish caste to it, and the original poster's picture also seems to have a color balance problem. Perhaps under certain lighting conditions it will be advisable to manually adjust the "white balance" setting. The default setting seems to work well both outdoors and under incandescent lighting, but perhaps when shooting pictures under florescent light it would be better to adjust the setting to "florescent".

As for volume, the phone is several orders of magnitude louder than my current phone, a Neopoint, and I don't have any need for a phone to be louder than this. In fact my wife asked if I could turn it down a bit. I don't use a phone in really noisy places, though, so that may be the difference.

Carl

 

Edit- Different kinds of lighting have different tints, and if the camera is selecting the wrong setting for the kind of light you have, that can really mess up a picture. As an old photographer, I used to carry various different color-correcting filters in my bag to fix this exact problem with standard film.

With your camera set on tungsten, your car picture looks pretty good. Your teddy bears still look a little off, though better than they were before. Have you tried the "florescent" setting? Since you are using florescent lighting for that picture, you'd think that the florescent setting would work best.


Carl

 

Strange. One would expect the "tungsten" setting to tint the picture green to compensate for the orangeness of tungsten, and the "florescent" setting to tint it orange to make up for the harshness of florescent.

I tried it on mine and it seems to work unpredictably. "Tungsten" works great under tungsten light, but actually made the picture more orange under Halogen. Very strange. I did find that there is a fifth setting underneath "tungsten", by the way, "Manual". You may find that since you have an unusual lighting situation with a mix of tungsten and florescent lighting that is the best way to get exactly what you want.

Carl

 

Yes, I agree. I suspect we'll both find ourselves fiddling with it. For most people, the most common lighting conditions are bright sunlight, cloudy outdoors, and tungsten light bulbs. If it can sense these three OK, it will do fine for most people. In my house I have a mix of halogen, tungsten, and compact florescent (mostly yellow tint), and the auto settings definitely are confused. LOL

By the way, now that you're using a manual setting, your teddy bears are definitely looking better. The color is still quite a bit different than the Sony picture, though. Which is the correct color?

Carl

 

Precisely the point.

It is not the best of best digital cameras, but is more of a compromise of fitting a camera in a phone. View it that way, and I think it does an excellent job of what it's supposed to do (picture messaging, not photography!)