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To: pyslent who wrote (27553)	9/29/2013 12:15:29 AM
From: lucky_limey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

Apparently MOTO pushed out a SW update that resolved many of the camera issues....

To: pyslent who wrote (27553)	9/29/2013 9:44:43 AM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 32692

The Moto X Camera ... Psy, << The reviews for the camera are terrible. >> Perhaps you should read reviews of the Moto X camera on TMo USA after ther recent update which just started rolling. This one is from AmandTech's camera guru, Brian Klug, who is one of the more competent reviewers of camera phones out there ... >> Moto X Update Dramatically Improves Camera Quality Brian Klug AnandTech- September 23, 2013 anandtech.com In my [original] Moto X review, I characterized camera performance and quality as very bimodal. In some scenes it could take great photos, in others it seemed to struggle and either produce images that looked somewhat washed out with weird white balance or aggressive noise reduction. In low light scenes where I expected the clear pixel to make a dramatic improvement, photos were a bit splotchier than I had hoped also from noise reduction. On paper the Moto X should’ve been a solid performer – Motorola went for a relatively large 1/2.6" format sensor, with 1.4µm pixels, a unique RGBC color filter array with single clear pixel, and an F/2.4 optical system. The good news is that Motorola is dramatically improving the Moto X camera experience with an upcoming OTA update that’s rolling out today to T-Mobile Moto X owners, and hopefully eventually to other operators after testing and approval is completed. Imaging performance improves dramatically indoors and out with this update. The update changes the tuning of the camera by improving exposure in outdoor and backlit scenes, white balance and color accuracy across the board, and reducing noise in low light scenes. I got the chance to play around with a Moto X with this update loaded on and of course brought along a Moto X without the update to compare side by side in my dual-camera bracket. I have to say that the changes Motorola makes to the Moto X with this update are nothing short of the biggest I’ve ever seen come across in an OTA update. There’s a lot of performance that comes from properly tuning a system, and it’s obvious that the imaging team has retuned a lot of the imaging pipeline in the Moto X with this update, as a lot of things are fixed. < ... Big Snip: see full update at the link above ... > ### It’s great to see the Moto X move a lot closer to the imaging performance that I expected given the impressive specs and emphasis that clearly was put on that axis of performance. - Eric -