[blue quill]

Here's a couple of pictures taken in macro mode on the Z10 with a little help from PicShop.
To give you an idea of scale, each fly is 3/8 inch long.
The file size may be a bit too big to show the full clarity of these pics, I should have saved to a smaller size for the Web.
I'm really pleased with the camera.

[TTQ225]

Where is macro mode in Z10 camera? I searched the help and the forums and can't get find anything resembling macro setting.

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[edwingmel]

Yes. Please tell us.

[Bold9930]

there' not macro mode..it auto-focused close up for macro that's all. BTW: Those images arent't very good..use image stabilization.

[Midnight City]

More macro shots http://forums.crackberry.com/blackbe...my-z10-778103/



Also, as he says: "Took the last two pictures 4 days ago with the 4:9 setting in the camera! If you switch the ratio to that, the Z10 will use all of the 8 MP available, if you're on the 16:9, change it now! because 16:9 = 6 MP only!"

[Marauder2]

Has anyone else seen better shots in 4:9?

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[Dextermutt]

There's 4:9??

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[andyJH]

ten characters

[andyJH]

with flash

[Jerryg50]

I have used the Z10 camera for closeups. It works very well for a phone camera. I am surprised at the quality of its camera for what it is. I have photographed documents, and pages from service manuals for reference. I have also emailed photos of business cards.

I take a closeup picture, and then do a crop and zoom using Windows Paint. I then import the picture in to MS Word and add my text along with the picture, and then adjust the picture to properly fit the document.

[Jerryg50]

The camera does an auto focus as if it had a macro mode. I am under the impression the macro mode is automatic. The results for a phone camera are impressive.

[rider997]

The camera does an auto focus as if it had a macro mode. I am under the impression the macro mode is automatic. The results for a phone camera are impressive.

The Z10 really needs a dedicated macro mode that encourages the contrast detection autofocus to attempt to focus on the nearest object. I find that even when a subject nearly or completely fills the visible autofocus box, the camera has a tendency to focus on the background, even when the subject is well within the Minimum Focus Distance (MFD). This minor software change would be a huge boon for macro photography.


The first image is a 100% crop (no editing of any sort). You can see some noise reduction evident even in ~EV11 conditions, there are sharpening artifacts and halos, etc. Still, for a cellphone camera, it's quite adequate.




The second picture is after some minor editing.


The third picture indicates how small of a crop the finished product is.



I would honestly like to see a RAW mode or at least an unprocessed .JPG option- the camera is actually pretty good, but the pics are a bit overprocessed to allow for immediate sharing, which makes post processing more difficult than it should be.

[dannejanne]

Haven't really tried the camera that much yet. Here's an uninspired low-light macro shot of my keyboard I just took.

[cmdrkeen86]

4:3 also seems to keep the pictures in the orientation that you took them. Taking a 16:9 picture in portrait seems to auto-rotate to landscape when you transfer to a computer. At least that's what I've found so far.

[cmdrkeen86]

Haven't really tried the camera that much yet. Here's an uninspired low-light macro shot of my keyboard I just took.

You need to clean your keyboard.

[ealvnv]

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[b1gbleu]

Rider, Nice spider!

[enzo_mmx]

Pasted with my BlackBerry!

[Brandon8ch]

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