HTC TyTN II camera performance

Here's a show of the camera in the TyTN II. For the first couple of seconds I'm "aiming" towards a brightly lit area. As you can see the fps is at ~20 which is kind of OK. (Though it still suffers from ghosting or slow response time). The problem is evident after a few seconds when I "aim" at a dark area. As you can see the fps drops to 2-3 fps. Also at the end I show you how long it takes from the point where you click the "take photo" button down fully (when the white square first appears) to the point where the picture is taken (same time as a picture is actually displayed in the video).

This renders the camera functionality pretty much useless unless you are in a extremely well lit room.

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[xdawpax]

there is a trick to fix the lag. turn on the camera. push the power button. wait like 5-10 secs than hit the power button again. the camera should work fine

[CAntonCNilsson]

The viewer has an acceptable framerate but the pictures are WAY too dark.

[myfreepress]

I don't get it. I love this phone. Who would buy a $700 phone and not do the research.

IMO it is the best all around PDA phone on the market. It is not a Camera, and is not a computer. It is a phone that, when asked, does camera work, and computer work better than any other phone I have ever seen.

[CAntonCNilsson]

I didn't expect a perfect camera, I just expected it to be usable. It clearly isn't in dim conditions.

No one is expecting it to be a great camera, but I think it's reasonable to expect it to perform on par with 99 USD phones.

[zagan1]

that's not dim that's called black, plus it's doing 18FPS.

what are you expecting out of it?

[CAntonCNilsson]

It's black because you vcannot capture the image output from a PC

it's 2-3 fps when the seeker is aimed at a dim envoirment, it goes up to 18 when I point it towards a lamp

(or you could just have read the video description and you'd know all that)

[arthurtrussell]

@Dreamerm6: You must set the photo resolution to 1M or less, to enable the zoom on/out buttons. The hardware achieves zoom by cropping the image on the CCD real time. But in the higher resolution modes, it can't maintain the resolution after cropping.

[suresh442]

its not a camera phone man its a pda phone..so zoom doesnt even matter

[aslos123]

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[Heihachi73]

Starting in 2010, all digital video cameras including cameraphones and webcams which can't spew out a minimum of 320x240 with minimal blockiness and >15fps should be all destroyed or placed in landfill, either by the manufacturers or the users themselves. What is the point of 'high resolution' blurry, grainy photos and 'video' recordings that record at 2 frames per second and sound like they were recorded underwater?

This isn't directed to the OP of course, but to the manufacturers out there.

[Dreamerm6]

How can I zoom with this camera?

[CrArC]

It is a pretty atrocious camera. It's outperformed by my old HTC Wizard or even my ancient Samsung SGH-E720.

Anything below full daylight and the screen just displays a slow, blurry mess unless you can stay stock still; so that's decent photos and videos out the window. Not what you'd expect on such an expensive phone.

It seems like unless it has enough light it just completely demolishes the camera shutter speed to compensate for poor sensitivity.

[jdbuk]

the fix works btw, justto sleep mode for 2-3 seconds and then wake it up and the camera is fine. put the phone in

[mnkhaki]

Not sure if the response has been posted but the zoom is on the sreen on the camera, left side center.

[celderian]

The iphone don't have a zoom either...