Originally Posted by RevdKathy

If someone who was in Barcelona can identify Thomas (sp?) who was taking a lot of pics, for me and point me to his board username, I'd like to ask him to write us a wiki page on how to get the best out of the camera.

Originally Posted by deakhead

Cellphones generally have small aperture (the hole where light goes in) so it is difficult to take good pictures in dim light -- this includes N900.

Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles

That'd be Tuomas, and he goes by tigert. You can find him on Freenode most of the time.

Originally Posted by Bratag

Listening to people crap on about MP in cameras always reminds me of a mate who sold high end Audio equipment - when people would ask how many watts a speaker was he would always reply "How many would you like". The basic idea being that watts != good.

Megapixels in a camera will only get you so far more important are the aperture and the lens as well as the sensor size of the digital camera. So while your "old crappy camera" may have less pixels - it may very well take better photos because of a better combination of the above.MOST phone cameras have a very small sensor and this results in the bad image quality you see in low light.

Now its also important to remember that despite cameras being "point and click" a modicum of intelligence is required when taking pictures. Where the light source is, is a very important consideration. Since the camera is for the most part trying to detect what settings it should use (exposure etc) having a subject with a strong backlight is going to result in dark images as the camera tries to compensate for the light levels behind.

I strongly suggest people read

http://photo.net/equipment/digital/basics/

and

http://digital-photography-school.co...a-camera-phone

Lastly - it is in fact possible to decrease the compression of images taken on the N900 as per the config file. YOU MUST HOWEVER RESTART THE CAMERA DAEMON AFTER THE CHANGE.