Smartphone camera can almost do it all
If you're anything like me, your cellphone and its built-in camera is always on you, while your digital camera gathers dust at home. But as smartphone makers have increasingly realized the potential of the built-in camera, there's been a deluge of phones with cameras that can match - and sometimes outperform - low-end dedicated devices in a snap. It has an 8-megapixel camera and plenty of the settings you'd find on a normal digital camera.
Although you can easily find a cheap digital camera that can take higher-resolution photos than the myTouch, the phone has a lens that gathers more light, which makes for better shots in dim lighting.Indeed, I generally found the phone's built-in flash too blinding andgot better results by simply using the camera's night setting. On many cellphone cameras, there's a lot of shutter lag - the irritating gap between when you press the shutter button and when the camera actually takes a photo.
The camera records continuously when the camera application is open and grabs the frame that corresponds with when you pressed the button. That said, the myTouch's camera is quite good for closeup shots. As is the case with standalone digital cameras, the myTouch's camera includes facial recognition and smile-and-blink detection, as well as preset "scenes" for doing such things as taking portraits or action shots. It was nice to let the camera decide which settings it thought were best, but I also liked to play with the exposure, contrast and various color filters.
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