How to dramatically improve your camera (picture and video) quality

[Wlliam.]

For those who don't know yet..

The desire's backcover has a camera lens protector made by very cheap plastic, that scratches very easily. When this happens, the pictures will have a "glowing", blurry, unsharp look.

What I did was removing the piece of transparent plastic "lens protector" on the backcover and then used a small piece of screen protector and sticked it on the lenses. Even without it the chances you actually scratch the lens is virtually none. So now I have a hole in my back cover, but I dramatically improved my picture and video quality.

Don't worry about the looks, there is still a black ring and I think it looks better now. I hate shiny plastics.

Here a pic.

And a video.
YouTube - ‪HTC Desire cover on/off camera comparison‬‎

 

[czechplastik]

Wow, that's a big difference. Thanks for the post.

 

[extralarge22]

Wow. Pretty big improvement. How did you remove the plastic cover?

 

[Racheluk]

Wow. Pretty big improvement. How did you remove the plastic cover?

x2

 

[LECTER]

Damn!! That's a HUGE difference!!!

 

[Phenomenological]

It'll only be that big a difference if your cover is scratched to hell. And you can buff out the scratches as mentioned earlier with a bit of toothpaste.

 

[weyland76]

What cover do you have on your phone?

 

[Pedro7]

toothpaste you say? how do i do this?.. pictures used to be great when i first got the phone but now im plagued with blurry pictures..

 

[lekky]

Holy crap dude, I didn't realize the difference was so big. Took a picture, the took another one with my back cover off... WOW. It's literally like 10x better. I'm actually in shock just how good it is..

 

[Pedro7]

im disappointed now.. i want clearer pictures..

 

[lekky]

With back cover on: Bad
with back cover off: Good

Nothing else changed, literally just took the cover off.

 

[ocaz]

Wow that is amazing just checked it out myself, my only concern would be damaging the lens itself if I recmove the plastic as I don't have case for my desire and generally carry it in my pocket

 

[Eris Ed]

With back cover on: Bad
with back cover off: Good

Nothing else changed, literally just took the cover off.

I'm totally stunned....what a huge difference!!!!

 

[.ParanoidAndroid.]

Such a basic change for such an incredible improvement, nice find

 

[Mushhushshu]

HTC need to release a tweaked design back cover with a higher quality lens protector for those of us who don't have the surgical skills for this

 

[lekky]

Wow that is amazing just checked it out myself, my only concern would be damaging the lens itself if I recmove the plastic as I don't have case for my desire and generally carry it in my pocket

ditto, need to think of another method i guess

 

[anoniemouse]

ditto, need to think of another method i guess

Surely a better idea would be to remove the plastic lens & replace it with a piece of glass

 

[lekky]

Surely a better idea would be to remove the plastic lens & replace it with a piece of glass

easier said than done tho!!

 

[diS]

That's just mind blowing!
If someone can think of a good idea to replace the plastic cover with
please let me know

 

[Wlliam.]

for those of us who don't have the surgical skills for this

The lens protector is held by a double side contact tape, just punch it with a pen from the inside out.

I shattered mine by doing that but what the heck, i dont need it anyways.

Plus you can stick a small piece of screen protector to prevent scratching the camera lens, and foam around the hole to block the dust.

What cover do you have on your phone?

$5 ebay case, more pictures here

http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/53943-htc-desire-cases-20.html

 

[adam_hilluk]

OMG cannot believe the difference!!!!

great discovery

 

[beyond]

Hm I'll try this later. Another 'issue' may be the compression rate the desire does when it actually saves the file. For pictures it's not bad but video quality seems to be compressed quite a bit.

 

[LECTER]

Hm I'll try this later. Another 'issue' may be the compression rate the desire does when it actually saves the file. For pictures it's not bad but video quality seems to be compressed quite a bit.

What does that matter? We're talking about how much better the quality is with the piece of plastic gone !!!!!

I'll be punching out that plastic as soon as my Desire arrives!!

 

[adam_hilluk]

!!!!!

+1

 

[Arctic-Winds]

For those that see a vast difference, have you had your desires for a long time? My Desire's kept in the HTC case and I can't really see a difference whether it's photo or video .