Hi,

when I compare the pics of my N900 with those of my old N82 the difference is staggering. The N900 pics are grainy and show much less detail. The colors are also horrible. One reason I bought the N900 was because I was expecting similar picture quality except in low light conditions. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks very much.

P.S.: Otherwise the N900 is great

Do your pictures look anything like the ones here

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=536105

or here

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1184299@N24/pool/


If not you might have a defective device.

if you recognize a blueish haze over your images...
you may want to take a look here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36675

camera function of the N900 is still half bake. So it is normal for some functionality and quality issues with it.

Unfortunately from a little googling, it does look like the N82 camera was fantastic and vastly superior to the N900, which itself is better than the N97.

A shame, but I guess its all a balancing act between improving one piece of hardware over another.

Have you changed the settings on the camera itself? You can increase the quality from the default settings. Plus, when taking photos, I find I get much better quality shots when you do the two-stage snapping - hold down the button until the viewfinder square goes green, then press it fully.

There is a massive difference in quality of pictures taking them this way.

and don't forget that the blue rim on the camera lens cover produces a terrible haze on some photo's.

Last night we compared
- Samsung S8300 8MP
- Nokia 5800 3MP
- Nokia X6 5MP
- Nokia N900 5MP

The X6 was clearly the best. Better colours, much sharper -- pretty impressive performance. whilst we sold the N95 8Gb/N96 it seemed a step up from these. Really did look like a significant improvement. We're using the new v12 firmware.

The N900 shots didn't look bad - but didn't have the crispness of the X6, so a little disappointing, probably on a par with N95/N96

The 5800 being lower resolution was not as detailed nor crisp, but surprisingly good for 3MP

The samsung was somewhat disappointing. It was ok - probably not quite as good as the N900 but better than 5800. Fell down much more in worse light. Certainly 8MP is a worthless statement here as the X6 was so so much better.

This was just a few profile/wine bottle shots over dinner so YMMV...

I should add that the front facing camera on 5800 and X6 is positively awful. Worst I've seen in many years, but then I guess it gets little use. A huge step down from previous models & N900.

Hope It's only a software problem. The N900 is quite a thick phone, there should be enough place for decent optics. I mean N95 and N82 are 3 years old..