Peter_PC_FL wrote:
I have been to the local Verizon Store in Panama City Florida six times complaining about the poor quality focus and exposures of my droid's. My complaints have fallen on deaf ears.
Each of the first 5 times I was told to just play with the camera and given the brush off to move along.
The 6th time to the store the sales person told me if the camera feature was important to me that she would never have recommended the droid's. She then showed me her droid's and the pictures were the same as mine.
Obviously the camera is defective and my research is telling me this is consistent with many of these devices. Sad part is otherwise the phone is great.
Oh yeah, I updated the software and that did not resolve the issues.
Bottom line camera is bad the droid's is a defective device. What are my options to resolve this? Replace the droid's with another droid's? Get a different phone. Verizon sold me on this phone with the pitch "large screen, 8mp camera, etc." This device falls short of the hype!
Howdy neighbor. Which Droid do you have? The Droid X? If so, the X does take pretty good pictures in well lit situations. In low light, it does leave a bit to be desired, unless you're close to the subject. I know you were told to play with the camera, so did you try the various scenes, the exposure settings, the resolution? Additionally, sometimes the pictures look better when viewed on a computer than they do on the phone.
Have you tried a camera app? I've heard that Vignette and Retrocamera are pretty good. (I've not tried them.)
When it all comes down to it, this is first and foremost a phone. While it is convenient to have a camera with this phone, if I know I'm going to need to take good quality pics, I'll bring my digital cam. So, I may not be able to quickly capture a photo of any UFOs over Gulf Breeze, but I can get some good beach pics.
