• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Help Unable to Zoom!!!

How do you change the piture size to minimum when using the camera on the Samsung Galaxy Ace.

Just go to the wrench icon, go down to the next page and click resolution and you should have a screen like this....
7aae4916-6668-86bd.jpg
Then select 0.3M for highest zoom and you will be able to zoom with volume buttons...
 
  • Like
Reactions: priyanshume11
Upvote 0
It is not due to android. It is due to samsung only. They have disabled zooming at max resolution. Use Camera Zoom FX from the play store if you want zoom.


I also had this problem with my old nokia phone as well.. its a limitation of the digital camera to create a digital zoom effect when you are using the maximum allowed resolution.. if you still want the zoom just take a picture and then zoom using any photo editor... the image quality reduction will be the same as that of a zoomed click....
 
Upvote 0
That's STUPID!!!! When you're zooming IN, you're not increasing resolution, you're decreasing it! So, why the hell won't it let me decrease my resolution??? What does it have to do with max resolution? It's not like I'm trying to increase it somehow (in which case it woudl be normal to show an error), I'm trying to DECREASE IT, you stupid Samsung!!!!

It's not like when you set your image to "medium" resolution and zooming in, your resolution will increase. NO! It will decrease as well. It doesn't matter which picture resolution you set on your phone.
I hate Samsung! This is a freaking BUG! Logic bug!

If it's not, then how come a HTC Android user can set his camera to maximum resolution and zoom in with no problem?
 
Upvote 0
That's STUPID!!!! When you're zooming IN, you're not increasing resolution, you're decreasing it! So, why the hell won't it let me decrease my resolution??? What does it have to do with max resolution? It's not like I'm trying to increase it somehow (in which case it woudl be normal to show an error), I'm trying to DECREASE IT, you stupid Samsung!!!!

It's not like when you set your image to "medium" resolution and zooming in, your resolution will increase. NO! It will decrease as well. It doesn't matter which picture resolution you set on your phone.
I hate Samsung! This is a freaking BUG! Logic bug!

If it's not, then how come a HTC Android user can set his camera to maximum resolution and zoom in with no problem?

The resolution won't decrease if you zoom, but clarity will as it is only digital zoom and a 5 mega pixel image will be large and hence a greater loss of clarity! So samsung has altered the camera in such a way that you can fully zoom only in 640x480 and that too only upto 2x so that you will not have much clarity loss even after zooming. This will seem to reduce loss of clarity than a 5 mp zoomed picture.
 
Upvote 0

BEST TECH IN 2023

We've been tracking upcoming products and ranking the best tech since 2007. Thanks for trusting our opinion: we get rewarded through affiliate links that earn us a commission and we invite you to learn more about us.

Smartphones