HTC Magic camera sample photos & video

[Chris Davies]

One of the questions we've been most asked about the HTC Magic is regarding its camera quality.* HTC used the same 3.2-megapixel sensor as in the T-Mobile G1, albeit with some software refinement, so that means it's the same autofocus unit with no... Read more

[DonVincenzo]

none of them have been edited or processed, they’re straight off the smartphone.

True, however your inline images in the post have had they're aspect ratio warped...makes them look kinda funny until you click on them.

(btw, love the fact that you featured Hummingbird Bakery cupcakes in your test shots!)

[aperepel]

Shouldn't you blur the car license plates on your pictures for legal reasons?

[LazyGenius]

very nice pics!

[Chris Davies]

True, however your inline images in the post have had they're aspect ratio warped...makes them look kinda funny until you click on them.

(btw, love the fact that you featured Hummingbird Bakery cupcakes in your test shots!)

I'm not sure why the system warps them - they look find when I preview the article before publishing it!

And I'm glad someone spotted the in-joke about the cupcakes

Shouldn't you blur the car license plates on your pictures for legal reasons?

Good idea, photo amended

very nice pics!

Thanks! The camera is reasonable, but I was disappointed with the video recording functionality.

Chris

[louie875]

so the camera is exactly the same as the one in the G1 ? will we get this software improvement because the g1's picture quality is pretty poor

[mr.black]

pics look pretty good, but no flash is killing me still, i think im gonna hold out for sammys' rendition.

[Pikcachu20]

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[hanged_man]

i was hoping for a side by side comparison with the g1 pics with cupcake installed. Someone out there has to confirm that the blue-ish thing is a hardware or a software issue.
iphone crappy 2 mp cam is much better than g1's and this is extremely disappointing for me.

[DaYuMu6ft7]

I don't think the 1.5 camera pictures are bad, But having some sort of flash would make it all that much better.