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Bad JPG compression in Photos and Videos

The photos I have added to my phone from my PC look bad in the Touch Flo application's Photos and Videos page. They have massive JPG compression artifacting. The photos that were in the phone, and any photos I have taken with the built in camera look great. When I click on the photos to look at them full screen, they all look great, but it's just in the screen where you can "flip" through the photos that they look bad. I moved a photo from the memory card to the phone to see if that was the issue, but it still looked bad.
It's probably not that big of a deal, as the more photos I get loaded to the phone, the less likely I am to even use this "flip" function, as it would take all day to flip through a hundred photos.
On another note, what photo apps do people like that lets you organize lots of photos well?

Am I the only one with this issue? Or am I the only one that uses the built in app?

I'm no expert, but it sounds to me like the issue stems from a lack of resizing images for your screen resolution in the software. Remember, windows mobile is an inefficient hunk of junk. Just like Vista and, to a lesser extent, XP.
As such, developers rarely consider anything graphically or processor intensive when writing code (or they are simply lazy). Either way, sounds to me like the software simply can't re-size the images to fit your screen properly.
I bought a low-end digital picture frame for my grandmother a few years back. Almost all the pictures we uploaded to the thing looked horrible! Except for those images which mached it's native resolution. Go figure.
Why do pictures taken from your camera work? Dunno. I too would like to find a good photo organizer for my phone.
Just be glad your phone even takes pictures! My AT&T fuze camera flaked out, i can take pictures and view the thumbnails, but when viewing fullsize, I get a bunch of green blocks!!! (REALLY considering flashing that leaked rom and seeing how that goes)

[Q] Camera connection via usb?

I have a pretty specific question...
I'm a travel photographer on the side, a lightweight backup solution for my Canon 5d. It uses CF - not SD. Curious - will the host usb port on the keyboard dock allow me to transfer pictures from camera to SD card? to internal memory? anybody willing to try?
Or are there any other ways to do this that I don't know about? currently I use an ipad with a camera connection kit, but I'm not really a big fan of apple's software.

If your camera supports itself as being a mass storage device then yes it should work fine.

couple of issues that i have seen
1. Cannot scan images on camera sd card when inserted into dock. I can see the image files using a file manager and you can view/open the pics one at a time but cannot multi select so that you could flip thru them in gallery. Opening them one at a time is cumbersome especially if you have hundreds of them.
2. Image quality is subpar when viewing your dslr highres pics. I dont expect a lot but clicking on an image should not show a picture with jagged edges. The pictures are not vibrant at all like you would expect them normally to be and how they are shown on my monitor.

arkster said:
1. Cannot scan images on camera sd card when inserted into dock. I can see the image files using a file manager and you can view/open the pics one at a time but cannot multi select so that you could flip thru them in gallery. Opening them one at a time is cumbersome especially if you have hundreds of them.
2. Image quality is subpar when viewing your dslr highres pics. I dont expect a lot but clicking on an image should not show a picture with jagged edges. The pictures are not vibrant at all like you would expect them normally to be and how they are shown on my monitor.
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For your first issue, you can use Quickpic. I think it scans for sd cards by default, the but even if that doesn't work, you can set folders to scan.

arkster said:
1. Cannot scan images on camera sd card when inserted into dock. I can see the image files using a file manager and you can view/open the pics one at a time but cannot multi select so that you could flip thru them in gallery. Opening them one at a time is cumbersome especially if you have hundreds of them.
2. Image quality is subpar when viewing your dslr highres pics. I dont expect a lot but clicking on an image should not show a picture with jagged edges. The pictures are not vibrant at all like you would expect them normally to be and how they are shown on my monitor.
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How long did you wait after opening a picture to judge its quality. Android has always taken a few seconds to fully render the quality of a picture in the gallery app. We are talking about low quality, small files taken by the phone camera. I would imagine these files are much larger and would take much longer to open at full quality see as they are from a much higher quality camera.
In short, I hope you were not judging the quality based on the preview that is provided before the full pcture loads.
Sent from my CM7 Supersonic

rockcrawler said:
How long did you wait after opening a picture to judge its quality. Android has always taken a few seconds to fully render the quality of a picture in the gallery app. We are talking about low quality, small files taken by the phone camera. I would imagine these files are much larger and would take much longer to open at full quality see as they are from a much higher quality camera.
In short, I hope you were not judging the quality based on the preview that is provided before the full pcture loads.
Sent from my CM7 Supersonic
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Hmm...I was accessing the sd card (class 10) via the slot in the dock and when I'd browse a picture, it would not show up properly and perhaps would not load fully? I was using one of the file managers that I downloaded. I'm pretty sure that I waited a long time since I spent several minutes zooming in and out of the partially rendered pics.
But mirumirai's suggestion for using quickpic worked wonderfully. I can see all the pictures in full clarity even though they are around 5mb average in size.
Thanks for the help!

I have been using my transformer to view 4-5MB images from my dslr. I have been reading from sd card and using QuickPic, can view the pictures in the same maner as if transfered to the main drive.
It takes in the region of 1 second to fully resolve image quality for each image, which is slightly faster than some viewers on my PC.
I have had no problems with copy and pasting the entire image folder from the sd card to the picture folder within the file manager.

Going off the OP's question, has anyone done this with a COMPACT FLASH card, NOT an SD card? I am wondering what would be the best route to take for transfering from my Canon 7d onto the TF. I would love to view files in the field somehow, easily.
I know the Eye-Fi SD cards work as I have seen a youtube video of that but just wondering how the CF cards would work? Anyone?

npompei said:
Going off the OP's question, has anyone done this with a COMPACT FLASH card, NOT an SD card? I am wondering what would be the best route to take for transfering from my Canon 7d onto the TF. I would love to view files in the field somehow, easily.
I know the Eye-Fi SD cards work as I have seen a youtube video of that but just wondering how the CF cards would work? Anyone?
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USB card reader?
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[AppRequest] PhotoEditing App with Camera RAW file conversion

Hi Developers and everyone, firstly I must say I do know it might not be that easy to archive at the moment, limited by the hardware and software, as these sort of app isn't that common in iOS either.
As soon as the introduction of iPad 2, I had a thought of buying one for the purpose of "on the go photo browser" when I am out for holiday, which I could transfer the RAW files from my DSLR onto the tablet as a storage, viewing and RAW to JPG conversion, with some simple editing/adjustment ability (brightness, contrast, etc) as a bonus.
As I have aware there are 1 or 2 apps on iOS appstore that could do what I mentioned, but there are comments about these apps that the conversion time is very long, as well as the transfer from Camera/card reader to the tablet (iPad2). Having said that, I do see people using this solution when they are on the move, I only gave up because of the price of the iPad2.
As I am lucky enough to bought the Touchpad at such low price, the same idea arise again. I have seen test about the possibility of using the Touchpad as a usb host device, it seems to be possible and achievable.
Would there be any developer able to write such an app for TouchPad?

As cool as this would be I don't think it is likely to happen because it would not be very practical. Raw images are large, complex, and each camera requires a slightly different "codec" (For lack of a better term) to make viewing possible.
The two largest reasons I see for this are speed and limited storage when other options are cheap. The process of offloading images directly from the camera onto the tablet will be slow. Storage on the tablet itself is limited. Large high quality memory cards are cheap now especially if you use SD cards. Class 4+ 16gb SD cards are usually around $20 or less. CF cards are more expensive but not by a ton. With todays cameras producing RAW images that are in excess of 25-30mb each that is not much space for vacation, etc. Your better off with a external hard drive and a small laptop/netbook for pure storage.
The biggest reason I dont see this happening is speed. It would take FOREVER to convert a RAW image from a modern camera. I have a 18mp Canon 7D and it produces RAW files that can be around 30mb. My laptop is old at this point, 2ghz Coreduo processor and it took forever to open an image, make my changes in the raw engine and then produce a non raw file. On my i7 930 this takes significantly less time, but it is a much faster processor. The TP even overclocked is just not built to do this level of desktop type work.
Last thing is since Raw files are flat (colors, sharpness, black levels etc) raw images converted to jpg will look flat and not be something you will want to post online or anything until they are edited up.
Basically if you want to do this, shot in jpg then it all becomes possible.

Problem with high resolution photos

Hey,
I copy three resolutions of an image to my surface: 6099x4066, 1152x768 and 1366x911
The full resolution picture is not as sharp as the other two pictures. Why? Also if I zoom in and zoom out in the full resolution picture, the image looks horrible. I need to go to the overview and then click on the picture again to the it normal (but not so sharp). Whats the problem?
I want to convert my photos to a tablet resolution but 768px is to small for the future and the full resolutions makes problems now.
Best regards,
neon

Hi, I dont have one and was just trolling on this section of the Forum as I was thinking of buying one, but it might be due to the picture having to resize and optimize to fit the screen? It might be but its just a guess.

Ok, but the other versions must also be resized and ony the really big version has this problem.

It could be because the Big one has to either decompress or compress to fit, can remember which. >.<

Reduce video file size?

Being new to the world of shooting and compressing videos I wanted to ask you which is the best way to reduce video file size without major quality loss?
I am not an expert in videos and optics, all the info about bitrate, codecs and stuff is alien to me. As a simple IT whiz/programmer I want to shoot quality videos (let's say, on long trips, vacation, etc) with a smaller file size, in order to record more. I just don't want to bring my laptop everywhere over the world and store a huge amount of data on it.
As an example, and everyone might have heard this, but many full length movies (+90 mins) with 1080p resolution and quite a quality image have a file size of approx. 2GB. I just took a 6 min FHD about some fireworks and it came out 1,2 GB. That's way to much and I can't afford to store videos that large if I intend to shoot some more...
So any idea on how to save up space and shoot quality but lower file size videos might help me, and I'd be grateful!
Cheers!