Lumia 920 photo quality post black update

[Alvin Lo]

I missed the photo quality before GDR2 updates i.e. GDR1. I opened some photos taken by my Lumia 920 with gdr1 and found that the photos now suck. Not sharp and poor white balance and contrast. Can anyone contact Nokia to air our concern!? I don't believe a 920 would be delivering such inferior photos. And even if I am to upgrade my phone, Nokia will not be my choice since Android really works better.

 

[AndrewL920]

I just want to share Nokia Camera Guy's twitter account. https://twitter.com/jalakarhu

 

[Rafael Marcondes]

Black has just become available for me. I really want the new features that come with it but I'm afraid I'll be disappointed with the camera. I've seen some people here saying that though the yellow tint is still present, the sharpness overall quality is better, and some saying that it's worse.

I took some photos now, also made that screenshot comparison. Let's see how it will perform after updating.

 

[AndrewL920]

Thanks

 

[Rafael Marcondes]

I don't think the photos are worse or better now. I can barely notice any difference, the quality appears to be the same, with the yellow tint still present

 

[Rfuser]

Preview photos are still sharper.
I don't care about noise reduction. Why force it on us?? Makes the photos soft...

Should be in settings.

 

[AndrewL920]

Preview photos are still sharper.
I don't care about noise reduction. Why force it on us?? Makes the photos soft...

Should be in settings.

Yes. I wish they include "Turn off Jpeg Compression On/Off " in camera/3rd party camera settings. Honestly my $70.00 Android phone takes sharper photos than my 920 but of course 920's camera is better and can take better pictures. Please Nokia allow us to turn off/on the built in jpeg compression.

 

[supershi80]

Yes. I wish they include "Turn off Jpeg Compression On/Off " in camera/3rd party camera settings. Honestly my $70.00 Android phone takes sharper photos than my 920 but of course 920's camera is better and can take better pictures. Please Nokia allow us to turn off/on the built in jpeg compression.

Is not jpeg compressione but a postprocessing correction algorithm issue

 

[prasath1234]

Yes. I wish they include "Turn off Jpeg Compression On/Off " in camera/3rd party camera settings. Honestly my $70.00 Android phone takes sharper photos than my 920 but of course 920's camera is better and can take better pictures. Please Nokia allow us to turn off/on the built in jpeg compression.

Yes same is the case with lumia 820 they screwed the camera with update.

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[taymur]

Yes same is the case with lumia 820 they screwed the camera with update.

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I always go to the Edit tab, and click the auto fix in the WP default editing tool, it clears the greenish/ bluish tint that the algorithm adds, as for sharpness, also could be fixed.

I know this is idiotic, but at least this is the way I manage it.

 

[MrWhiteman]

I always go to the Edit tab, and click the auto fix in the WP default editing tool, it clears the greenish/ bluish tint that the algorithm adds, as for sharpness, also could be fixed.

I know this is idiotic, but at least this is the way I manage it.

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Also, I turned the Vibrance right up to show how bad the green tinting is (note around the edges. That PC case is meant to be black!:

 

[supershi80]

We have a camera phone with horrible camera quality... :-(
Nokia is crazy !!!!

 

[Sangeeth Sudheer]

Yup, it was getting worse right after Amber. Portico was pretty fine by me and never came to notice this issue. After Amber, I started to get suspicious and been shouting to forums and Nokia threads about this problem with no official response. I made a thread and a list of pictures and other problems are noted there. This is the link -- http://forums.windowscentral.com/no...ra-bugs-other-issues-[bug-report]-[poll].html

 

[vikrant1982]

As some one else has mentioned, after black update i have noticed that when i turn on front camera for photo mode, the screen continuously shows changing white balance. It looks like continuously changing white and yellow hue on the screen. Although the pictures taken are consistent and not affected by this changing hue. I don't remember if this issue was there in Amber as i had not used the front camera much during that time. At first i thought that the camera was faulty but then i noticed that the front camera does not have this issue in video mode. I have checked this in both stock camera app and in pro camera. Both the apps show the same issue.

Are there other people who have noticed this issue?

 

[vikrant1982]

Also, i think this whole camera issue and our request to switch to portico algorithms can be voiced out through a petition on change.org.
What do you guys think?

 

[KllR007]

Or spam emails to Nokia

 

[AndrewL920]

I am looking forward on having the camera algorithms of portico in 8.1 update.

 

[Ralph Anthony Enriquez]

how to spam emails to nokia? what is their email? im going crazy to this camera problem, my 520 camera is good compared to my 920 camera.

we should held a petition to include portico camera algo to 8.1 just like andrewl920 said. i know that camera algorithm is hard to update, it needs a major update just like lumia black, amber. so the next update will be 8.1, so im hoping to fix this in 8.1, we should petition to nokia. what do you think guys?

 

[Chris Wayne2]

The colors are way better after black, details are better too.

 

[Rafael Marcondes]

The colors are way better after black, details are better too.

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I think this is true only in low light conditions