Ipad 2 camera grainy

wished i saw this b4 i went to apple store. i went through the restore to original process with someone on the phone then they made an appt for me at the store. The store replaced my ipad 2 but when i tried the camera at home it's the same grainy photo quality. now i have to go through the whole set up and have hundreds of apps to download to the new ipad. what a waste of time.

btw, good tip on taking photos under the light. i dont use the camera function a lot mainly only when i need to take photo and upload to website immediately such as selling on eBay. yeah, wished the quality is a bit better (half as good as iphone 4 would be nice enough). the ads are absolutely misleading. 😟

I just bought my ipad2 maybe like 2 months ago and I actually thought something was wrong with the cameras it was that grainy. I'm really disappointed with the quality it has. I had my husband use the iPad for pictures of our newborn at the hospital including the delivery and I'm so sad all my pictures are horrible looking. Yeah I hear that the iPad wasn't made for the purpose of being a "camera", but being that the billboards and stuff advertise FaceTime and picture quality being crystal clear, I thought that was what I was going to get.. I went to the apple store today and luckily one of the guys was nice enough to let me know about a software update I can download when I sync my iPad to my computer. It will allow me to edit and auto correct any photos I take which should help. I haven't downloaded it yet but he showed me the feature and it looks like it should help a LITTLE. :/

Ouch! Talk about a bad situation to have an iPad as your main camera... In any case yeah some sort of app or something to clean up noise COULD help, but then you lose detail in the image as well. I am interested to know what app/ update the guy recommended. I have used adobe Lightroom and photoshop and nothing has even come close to making noisy iPad camera images 'look good'.

I have resigned myself to just using the images for work and video recording. It isn't too bad at that.

brandonmilwaukeeWI wrote:

I am interested to know what app/ update the guy recommended. I have used adobe Lightroom and photoshop and nothing has even come close to making noisy iPad camera images 'look good'.

I suspect the update to which the previoius poster is referring is iOS 5 which adds additional editting features to the iPad.

If you bought your iPad to be your main camera, the failure is not with the iPad but with the research that went into chosing it.

Best of luck.

I am first time apple user. I bought this iPad for several reasons. However I am very upset about the camera. No one at the store corrected me when I asked if it took good pictures, in fact they said it was a 720p camera just like it says on the website and several other places. What exactly can it record in 720p since it has no other video inputs? If apple expects the customer to research their misleading technical jargon they are becoming more like bill gates.

Well, as mentioned above, it DOES shoot 720p video. And the video actually isn't terrible. But still images are poor. The 720 in 720p suggests an image width resolution of 720 pixels. A decent 12 megapixel camera can produce images with *4000* pixels - a considerably higher resolution image. Not to mention the sensor in the iPad camera is just low-quality. It is unfortunate that apple saw fit to put such a poor camera in their tablet offering, but at this point your only option is to return it (if a recent purchase) and hope that the iPad 3 has a camera of decent quality (wait for online reviews - they'll tell you if it's bad again)... Or just use a separate device to take photos.

Again, I do think that the video, at least, is of decent quality. The iMovie app is a pretty nice way to use the iPad to produce usable home movies.

I was deceived by the ads as well. It's kind of embarrassing to show pics I've taken but more importantly... I use ForScore which uses pictures to make a digital, editable version of my sheet music. Terrible and illegible chords, lyrics and notes. The app was $20 too. And to everyone saying you shouldn't expect a great camera....apple ran an ad promoting the ipad2 as a national geographic picture taker. Just saying. I'll be upgrading as I'm sure the next iPad will be improved. I hope.

What can you expect, it's apple.

Here is the exif data from my ipad2, did someone say it was set to high ISO, mine says 80

I too am disapointed with the image quality and have left feedback, I do hope they will update the firmware for the camera.

I've had my iPad for just over a month now and since I also own an iPhone 4 I was expected there to be an "HDR" option in the Camera app.

I'm wondering if there is a better app that I can use to capture some pictures that are slightly better quality?

The iPad isn't my primary photo device but in the instance that I want to use it I want it to be slightly more reliable.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

It doesnt seem right that they advertised stunning hd pictures, and video, like the iphone 4, although you can still get good quality video in the right environment. Dissapointed really. Expected better with such good quality in advertisments and on the screen itself. 2 and 7 MP cameras? If they'd advertised that no one would even buy it. Maybe if you could build a custom one like the mac, eg. select what camera, screen, processor and internet options? Be cool.

JCB

Tonight I took several photos five minutes apart in low light conditions. Some on an iPhone 3GS, some on an iPad 2. The iPhone 3GS photos were clear. The iPad 2 had miserable, grainy resolution worse than a five dollar, plastic disposable camera. For a device that's sold as top-of-the line, that's unacceptable and Apple knew better than to promote the iPad 2 as having a camera with clear pictures. It would be ridiculous to expect anything but clear picture for the money charged for the iPad 2. $829 + the extra warranty = over $1K out the door.

I'm taking the iPad 2 to Apple's (sub-)Genius bar tomorrow and at least let them know more of us noticed they've misrepresented it. When you accept anything that's substandard, you eventually get more of the same.

It's function isn't to be a main camera, but more for video confrencing and apps like Photo Booth.

is there any way to unsubscribe to this ******* thread? porbably not if it was designed by apple. in that case it's probably way too oversimplified therefore overlooks any customization and a lot of vital basic functions.

i really don't ******* care about this topic anymore. it pops up in my email like every day.

i sold my ipad 2 because it was a novelty at best... and yes, the terrible camera was a contributing factor.

the WiFi recepetion, especially video streaming capabilities, were very poor and it would almost always get thrown to the side after failing to load a youtube video when a laptop on the same network would do it instantly... kind of sad when the device is only good for web surfing, tetris, and fart apps.

TL;DR ENTIRE THREAD: Realists discuss disappointment ****-tier camera while ****** fanboys defend why it's beautiful just the way it is.

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