Find Your Forum
  
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

News: HTC Evo 4G by Sprint
Instinct Forum, Samsung Instinct message board, Samsung Instinct By Sprint, Samsung Instinct phone, new Samsung Instinct, Samsung Instinct phone, Sprint Instinct, Samsung Instinct phone
Best Screen Protector for Samsung Instinct                 Free Sprint Phones and Cheap Plans
                Samsung Instinct Scratch Protection
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4
« previous next »
Reply Print
Author Topic: Will the Instinct ever have a camera that can zoom in and out  (Read 7053 times)
Duke
[I][N][S]
***

Cookies: 0
Hometown: North Dakota
Posts: 26
« Reply #30 on: August 11, 2008, 03:01:57 PM »
yeah this phone is good just want to be able to take good pics
Logged
Duke
papped
Advanced Pro Member
Instinct Diehard
******

Cookies: 11
Posts: 836
« Reply #31 on: August 11, 2008, 05:14:14 PM »
Do your pics really look that bad in adequate lighting?  Most of the 2megapixel phones I've owned take extremely blurry pics, as to which this one seems much improved.
Logged
Duke
[I][N][S]
***

Cookies: 0
Hometown: North Dakota
Posts: 26
« Reply #32 on: August 11, 2008, 05:41:08 PM »
my phone takes pretty good pics just  not great pics
Logged
papped
Advanced Pro Member
Instinct Diehard
******

Cookies: 11
Posts: 836
« Reply #33 on: August 11, 2008, 06:48:12 PM »
Phones generally are not going to be up to snuff as far as taking pictures.


That's a pic taken from the LG KE990 Viewty, 5megapixel.


N95 8gb, 5megapixel.

Camera phones suck compared to real cameras and the megapixel # isn't really the major factor.
Logged
Duke
[I][N][S]
***

Cookies: 0
Hometown: North Dakota
Posts: 26
« Reply #34 on: August 11, 2008, 06:51:20 PM »
ok i thought the # meant it was going to be a good camera quality
Logged
papped
Advanced Pro Member
Instinct Diehard
******

Cookies: 11
Posts: 836
« Reply #35 on: August 11, 2008, 06:53:02 PM »
Most of the time it's because of the lens.  You can't really cram a good lens in a cell phone, much less have it be affordable.  Good lenses are really expensive.
Logged
JROW
[I][N][S]
***

Cookies: 0
Hometown: Mt. Jackson
Posts: 24
« Reply #36 on: August 14, 2008, 06:13:57 AM »
I would like to see some kind of zoom and am very disappointed that there isn't a zoom feature, when many of my cheaper phones have had it. The problem for me not having zoom is when I want to take a picture of a person, say for a caller id, I have to get almost in there face to make it close enough to be able to even see who it is. It would be ok if it would let you save the pics after you went in and edited and zoomed them on the phone, but you can't even do that...
Logged
papped
Advanced Pro Member
Instinct Diehard
******

Cookies: 11
Posts: 836
« Reply #37 on: August 14, 2008, 11:21:21 AM »
Is it pertinent to set the caller id photo right then and there?

The camera photo is far larger than photo id needs.  All you have to do is crop it.  Zooming actually reduces the quality of the photo, cropping does not.
Logged
JROW
[I][N][S]
***

Cookies: 0
Hometown: Mt. Jackson
Posts: 24
« Reply #38 on: August 14, 2008, 12:08:10 PM »
Quote from: papped on August 14, 2008, 11:21:21 AM
Is it pertinent to set the caller id photo right then and there?

The camera photo is far larger than photo id needs.  All you have to do is crop it.  Zooming actually reduces the quality of the photo, cropping does not.

Yeah, but I can't crop it on the phone and save it. It won't allow me to and then set it as a picture ID. and yes, thats the main thing I use my camera for, I have a digital camera for real pictures when I really need them.
Logged
papped
Advanced Pro Member
Instinct Diehard
******

Cookies: 11
Posts: 836
« Reply #39 on: August 14, 2008, 12:32:28 PM »
A lot of the digital zooms I've seen on various phones are something like 2x, which isn't exactly much of a zoom in (Sprint Mogul, Treo 755p).  You would still need to be fairly close to the subject for a caller id pic.

So asking for crop tools makes a lot more sense (and works better) than crappy digital zoom does.
Logged
JROW
[I][N][S]
***

Cookies: 0
Hometown: Mt. Jackson
Posts: 24
« Reply #40 on: August 15, 2008, 05:24:26 AM »
Quote from: papped on August 14, 2008, 12:32:28 PM
A lot of the digital zooms I've seen on various phones are something like 2x, which isn't exactly much of a zoom in (Sprint Mogul, Treo 755p).  You would still need to be fairly close to the subject for a caller id pic.

So asking for crop tools makes a lot more sense (and works better) than crappy digital zoom does.

I agree. I would be more than happy if it would let us zoom in after the fact and crop, and then save the image after edit. It seems to me we should be able to do this already though...
Logged
ImNoPrince
Instinct Fanatic
******

Cookies: 22
Hometown: B-More Md
Posts: 1352
« Reply #41 on: August 15, 2008, 07:52:43 AM »
Quote from: JROW on August 15, 2008, 05:24:26 AM
Quote from: papped on August 14, 2008, 12:32:28 PM
A lot of the digital zooms I've seen on various phones are something like 2x, which isn't exactly much of a zoom in (Sprint Mogul, Treo 755p).  You would still need to be fairly close to the subject for a caller id pic.

So asking for crop tools makes a lot more sense (and works better) than crappy digital zoom does.

I agree. I would be more than happy if it would let us zoom in after the fact and crop, and then save the image after edit. It seems to me we should be able to do this already though...

Thats the Funny thing I could have sworn on the Phonedog reviews his Beta version allowed this. He set a Call ID from a Zoom/crop image of some little figure.

I just hook it up to my computer and adjust and resave from there. I know it's another step but it works and it's right there anyhow.
Logged
Nightwisher
Advanced Pro Member
[I][N][S][T][I][N][C][T]
******

Cookies: 9
Posts: 515


Aragorn106
Email
« Reply #42 on: August 15, 2008, 07:59:08 AM »
Quote from: papped on August 09, 2008, 06:59:02 PM
Yep, digital zoom sucks.

I agree if your going to load the pics onto a PC, but if you just want to snap a pic of something and send it to a friends phone, sometimes digital zoom is nice.
Logged
My current Instinct mods: DDTM Disabled, PAM Enabled, Multimedia Buffer increased.
almostfamoushld
[I][N][S][T][I][N][C]
*******

Cookies: 0
Hometown: Hallandale
Posts: 78


Email
« Reply #43 on: February 05, 2009, 12:11:32 AM »
i agree with everyone else...digital zoom is crap...

hey there's an app for the iphone that allows the normally 2mp camera take 4mp photos...it basically takes 6 snapshots at once, aligns the pixels of all 6 images, and compresses them into one image, it looks pretty good in my opinion....does anyone think it would be possible to implement this same thing on the instinct? what would it take to get something like that to work on instinct?
Logged
mbrulla
No Autographs, please.
Global Moderator
Instinct Fanatic
*****

Cookies: 48
Phone Before Samsung Instinct: Sanyo MM-7500, MM-7400, some sanyo candybar, the cliche nokia, motorola startac.
Hometown: Sheboygan, WI
Posts: 1651



Email
« Reply #44 on: February 05, 2009, 12:15:46 AM »
To get that to work you'd need an iPhone. I wouldn't expect anything like that for our phone, sorry.
Logged
BE KIND TO THE SITE... SEARCH HERE before you post. 
Only takes a minute and we likely already have it here! Smiley
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4
Reply Print
« previous next »
Jump to:  

Got a new phone? Find the forum here


Subject Started by Replies Views Last post
camera zoom « 1 2 3 »
Shoot and Send Video and Pics 		queenshem 31 14449 Last post April 10, 2009, 12:57:39 PM
by joseamirandavelez
problem with zoom
Fast Internet 		shack25 2 938 Last post September 28, 2008, 05:12:26 PM
by shack25
Zoom In And Out « 1 2 »
How To.... 		daniel57 16 1607 Last post March 21, 2009, 10:08:22 PM
by SPElectronics
Video Zoom
Instinct HD Discussions 		jrnavid 3 634 Last post December 08, 2010, 03:58:06 PM
by Murley
Instinct phone camera problem!
General Instinct Discussions 		noonaim 0 65 Last post January 08, 2012, 05:31:29 PM
by noonaim




Galaxy Note | Samsung Galaxy Nexus | Kindle Fire | Atrix 4G | Motorola Xoom | Windows Phone 7
Nokia Lumia | Top Hosts | Samsung Galaxy Tab | Samsung Galaxy S2 | Samsung Galaxy S | Samsung Wave
HTC Evo 3D | HTC Evo 4G | HTC Incredible | HTC Incredible 2 | HTC Incredible S | HTC Thunderbolt
Motorola Droid Razr | HTC Desire | HTC Desire HD | HTC Desire Z | HTC Desire S | HTC Wildfire
Motorola Droid | Galaxy Indulge | Nokia N8 | Droid Charge | Droid X | Droid X2 | Droid 2| Droid 3 | Fascinate
HTC Sensation | HTC Flyer | LG Revolution | Asus Transformer | Xperia Play | iPhone 4 | Nexus S | Droid Bionic
HTC Wildfire S | HTC Droid Eris


This is an Un-Official fan based Website. The views expressed on this website are solely those of the proprietor, or contributors to the site, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the parties it covers, and is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by parties involved.
If you have a problem with any of the content posted on this website, please contact "sales@verticalscope.com"
Term of Use | Privacy Policy | BlackRain 2006 by, Crip





















CopyRight 2008 www.instinct-samsung.com
Powered by SMF 1.1.11 | SMF © 2006-2007, Simple Machines LLC