My playbook camera is awful. I can never get a good picture, even in light outdoor, its always got a 'fuzz' to it.
I don't know if its wen it was manufactured (may last year), if rim lied about camera specs or that you have go literally be standing on the sun to get a good picture.
Anyone else experiencing this or have experienced it?
my Playbook takes pretty decent photos for a tablet. I'm a DSLR user, so I'm not expecting phenomenal quality, but comparing it to the majority of tablets (minus The New iPad) it actually holds its own quite well. Have you got a skin on it that perhaps covers the lens? Is the lens clean?
If you check and both cameras (front and back) and either takes fuzzy pictures and the lens areas look clean, then you should return it. I don't recall if new units ship with any plastic protecting the lens areas.
I think the camera on my PlayBook is great. I haven't taken any bad pictures. And video on it is even better. Here's a picture of my Durango taken on a normal Florida day.
Unless your lense is dirty, I'd return it. I've been very impressed with the quality of photos the PB is capable of. I posted a while ago and instance where I went into Best Buy to help a guy choose a tablet for taking photos in the field for his work. We took photos of the same scene inside the store with every tablet they had and and hands down the PB was the obvious choice. For that matter, even negative reviewers have praised the PBs camera as compared to the other tablets.
Photo taking is a large factor in our PB use at work, as we regularly are taking photos of service difficulties or discrepancies and sending them right from the PB to the manufacturer. I assure you, they would never tolerate grainy or poor photos in this regard, yet we've had nothing but compliments on the quality of those we've sent.
If your photos are grainy or not well defined, especially in good light and it's not user error, there is something wrong with the camera. I would definitely return it. Go to a store with your PB, ensuring the setting are the same, take some photos with your PB and a demo PB and compare them. That should give you good comparison. Good luck.
FWIW, the 4:3 Pics are higher resolution than the !6:9 pics (5 megapixel vs 3.5 megapixel, I believe). Try changing the aspect ratio.
What this suggests is that the sensor has a pixel ratio of 4:3. When you select a picture that has a 16:9 format a bit of the top and bottom of the scene is removed. So while there are fewer pixels the resolution of the picture is the same.
I seem to think it takes nice photos for a tablet. Indoor shots can be troublesome if there is not enough light but that is with all cameras in general. Also the zoom will cause the picture to look grainy.
What this suggests is that the sensor has a pixel ratio of 4:3. When you select a picture that has a 16:9 format a bit of the top and bottom of the scene is removed. So while there are fewer pixels the resolution of the picture is the same.
the sensor does have a pixel ratio of 4:3. However, in 16:9, the image is blown up and closer because of how much is cropped off to take a 16:9 vs. a 4:3. So while the resolution of that particular section of the image is the same, the end result is a lower-quality image.
If you are having trouble visualising this, grab a sheet of paper, map out what a 4:3 ratio would be (8x6 works pretty well), then fit 16:9 within that and you will see why the image is technically lower resolution and lower quality when shot in 16:9.
