Thanks for info. It's quite strange, cause if I use camera-ui (from CSSU) in front-camera mode, resulting picture is ok. Same apply for Smartcam using front camera to transmit video over network, to my desktop (allowing to use N900 front and back camera as... well, camera, for both Linux and windows applications like VoIP or goddamned Skype).

Photo took in exact same conditions using SMSCON are gray/green/addict dream or, most of the time, just plain unusable. So, it seems that somehow it's related to method (command?) of taking picture. Maybe reverse-engineering camera-ui Open source version code (related to capturing photos in font camera mode) can bring solution?

If no, I'm out of ideas - unfortunately, as I'm pretty sure it is *not* hardware limitation. The front camera isn't producing good quality pictures, and can be quit terrible in non-optimal lighting conditions, but it is not *that* bad.

/Estel