[Elk666]

The settings in the camera (pictures) is set to 2048x1536 with superfine quality but when i take a pic it ends up being 640x480...what gives?
what am i doing wrong here?

[Thisshouldbeme#CB]

I had the same issues. No matter what resolution i would put my camera to, it would come out 640x480. The solution that worked for me was to put the resolution to 640x480 and do a battery pull. After it rebooted i changed the resolution and took a picture. It would take it in the resolution that was set until it was powered down or rebooted. Prior to upgrading to .85 i made sure the setting was 640x480 and upgraded. Haven't had the issue with the resolution resetting itself since.

[Elk666]

I just set it at 640x480 then back to 2048x1536 and now it's working fine, didn't need to do a battery pull...
thanks!

[korp#IM]

What do you need a picture that big for! lol people look better smaller anyways.

[anon(21359)]

The resolution of the image is related to the zoom level:

1.0 2048x1536
1.2 1024x768
1.3 1024x768
1.4 640x480
1.5 through 2.0 640x480

[Detective M Downs]

http://forums.crackberry.com/f86/bes...ttings-119979/

[sbudaj]

I just checked this on my unit and had the same problem. All resolution settings took pictures at 640x480 even though it was set at the highest resolution.

So I manually set it to 640x480 then I did a battery pull and reboot and then took another picture. It was 640x480, as expected.

I then set it to the highest settings and it took the picture at the highest settings. (You can tell this by the size of the picture file. The 640 pictures are about 60k and the largest resolution pictures are about 760k.)

But after I took a few pictures, turned the flash on and off, it reverted back to the small file size.

Anyone know how to get it to stay at the highest resolution? I will never use the lower setting.

[anon(21359)]

See reply #5 above your post. The resolution is controlled by the zoom. It does not matter if your camera is set to 2048x1536, it will take pics at 640x480 at zoom level 1.4 and above.

[jakeh0]

What do you need a picture that big for! lol people look better smaller anyways.

OP: my car starts to shake at 65 miles per hour, what could be the problem"

korp: well what's the big hurry anyways? slow down! enjoy the scenery!

[sbudaj]

See reply #5 above your post. The resolution is controlled by the zoom. It does not matter if your camera is set to 2048x1536, it will take pics at 640x480 at zoom level 1.4 and above.

That is the craziest thing I have ever heard, but it seems to be true!

What would be the reason for making the picture file smaller just because you zoom in?

[chuckh0308]

I was having this problem too except that mine would just change the resolution randomly. I have not experienced this problem since installing the .85 OS, though now I have random reboots while using the camera. I guess RIM wanted me to have a choice...random reboots or random resolutions...

[anon(21359)]

It's actually logical .. There is a fixed number of pixels on the camera chip. The zoom on this camera is digital so that means when you zoom, you're only using a portion of the total pixel area. So, at no zoom you get ALL the pixels and the high resolution. At a zoom of 2.0 you only get 1/2 the pixels and therefore a lower resolution.

A "real" camera zooms using the lens - not digitally. So then you're using the full chip (all pixels) no matter what.

That confusing enough?

[sbudaj]

It's actually logical .. There is a fixed number of pixels on the camera chip. The zoom on this camera is digital so that means when you zoom, you're only using a portion of the total pixel area. So, at no zoom you get ALL the pixels and the high resolution. At a zoom of 2.0 you only get 1/2 the pixels and therefore a lower resolution.

A "real" camera zooms using the lens - not digitally. So then you're using the full chip (all pixels) no matter what.

That confusing enough?

Confusing, but it makes some sense.

So regardless of what you are shooting, you should never zoom in so that you get the highest resolution possible and do your cropping (zooming) when you download the file to your computer later (unless the purpose of the picture is to send via email or mms. Then you want a small file.) After cropping, you can then load it back to the Storm. This will likely result in a better picture.

[stunn]

Curious...

I was having the same problem, and my zoom level was set to 1.0x

The problem was resolved when I changed the zoom to 1.1x, took a picture, then changed it back to 1.0x and took another.

A little bit of experimentation shows that if you exit the camera with zoom greater than 1.0x, then open the camera again, the zoom level is displayed as 1.0x, but the camera believes it to be whatever you left it at previously.

The moral - if you change zoom level, make sure to put it back to 1.0x before exiting the camera.