Very bad quality with the camera
 

I'm having issues with the camera. I see on the "best picture you've taken" thread some amazing shots (relatively speaking, of course - nobody's expecting DSLR results from a phone), but my N900 could never approach that quality. The pictures I take with the back camera are washed-out, grainy and just plain ugly even when the flash is not used; when it is used the camera is barely good enough to take pics of things I want to remember (so I don't have to scribble them in the notes). Night-time pictures of people, in particular, are absolutely terrible - and yes, I know small lenses and LED "flashes" don't ever produce excellent results, but I see plenty from other phones that are at least somewhat passable. My N900 just takes pictures of zombies.

Do I have a bad camera?

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Maybe sounds stupid, but happend to me a time ago: from one day to another i had the feeling, all pics are of really bad qualitiy... lasted 2 weeks until i realized, i had set it to night-mode and forgotten to set it back to automatic... maybe you got a wrong setting anywhere.

An also important: a clean lense :)

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Hard to help without seeing example picture, took during day in good light conditions, and auto settings.

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Same problem with my camera...at daylight it's just fine, but at night....

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/...121026_008.jpg

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That stripes are very strange, indeed.

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At night I basically just the iso to lowest and try to hold very, very still. lol.

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But stripes aren't about ISO - high ISO would result in "dust" (btw, lowest ISO at night isn't best idea, too).

Of course, for correct nighttime photos, tripod is a must - but still, those stripes looks rather like damage of camera module. Same results apply, if using fCam?

/Estel

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I wasn't talking about the stripes, they're odd. I just meant in general, that's what I tend to end up having to do to get "decent" pictures at night.

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Stripes are always horisontal at level of some kind of light source on photo...look at modem's led indicators.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/...121103_001.jpg

This is using night mode.

And this is using Fcam.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/...0.22.24.78.jpg

I dont know what to do...maybe try to find new camera lens.

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If you don't have a problem pulling apart your n900;
http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_camera_sensor

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i'm not having these blue lines but when my N900 uses its flash at night pictures are bit bluish at the corners and i think it's because of the blue back of lens protector.

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Thanks...i didn't know that n96/85 has same camera module. It will be much easier to find n96 cam. module.

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Just have to wait 2~4 weeks for it to get there from China.

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I know but I don't think it would be "original"...so I found used one over here for 5 euros. I'll get it next week...and let you know how it works :)

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Nice. I spent about $50 on them, I bought 3 or 4 lol.

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How come...they keep breaking or what?

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I was dissecting them, broke them myself.

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Ok, I have changed camera module with n79 one, but now I get "operation failed" message. What could be a problem? I also tried with my old module but same thing again, "operation failed".

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Correct, this issue had even a huge thread here in 2010 when the N900 came out, just use some pen to make the blue part black ->
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2800/...f3d5ef2a0b.jpg

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+1

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Edit: Here's the thread http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36675

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I installed new camera module into my n900 and managed to fix this "operation failed" error...and this is the outcome:

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/...090101_002.jpg
(UPDATE: Damn camera was faulty)

So i tried to put my old camera module back and then I broke that one little thing inside that makes contact with camera.

Now my phone has 0 MPix. camera.

I just hope this part can be replaced:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/18/1440420/aaaa.jpg

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Pretty sure that part isn't supposed to come off.

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Unfortunately, this thing does.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/...07-093728r.jpg

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After a LONG three months, I have camera again. Replaced camera socket and camera module. Night-time photos look much better..and there is no more stripes.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/...130217_006.jpg

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Well for you.