About the "Picture Quality" on some 720s

[JuxJake18]

Good day everyone,

Just something I would like to share with you fellow 720 users

Recently, I've upgraded my 720 from Portico to Lumia Black with 8.1 preview (Long story short, I've downgraded from lumia black to portico then upgraded back to black for the 8.1 update, I flashed a France ROM) and I noticed the picture quality "degraded" again, especially in LOW-LIGHT conditions. But I've tried playing with the settings in Nokia Camera, with my phone attached to a tripod and here are the results: (These images were captured in low-light conditions)

Auto Settings/ Default Settings:


Manual Settings: ISO set to 100


Manual Settings 2: ISO raised to 3200 ( this setting makes the image look washed out )


As you can see, the 2nd image looks good above the others and really feels like the quality is somewhat close to when the Lumia 720 was in Portico/GDR1 stage (Before Amber & Black updates ruined the post processing of the image)

Hope this could somehow help those who are having problems with the 720's camera, comments or thoughts are very welcome

 

[Nevin Alex Chacko]

So what exactly should we do to get back the original pic quality?

 

[rubenwidjaja]

all cameras with ISO higher than 400 will degrade the image quality
I have update my 720 too to wp 8.1 and I notice the image quality is better, less noise and sharper, better than black update
using Nokia Camera will give you more colourful and sharper image, better than using Microsoft Camera

I heard that Nokia will give more update algorithms for image quality when Cyan update coming, well I waiting for that

 

[JuxJake18]

For me, just try to adjust the ISO not above 400-800... The pic quality during the GDR1 stage was good because the ISO never exceeded above 800, steady hands should help as well, especially in lowlight