How the AT&T Tilt Camera Compares to Typical Camera Phones
If you're comparing the AT&T Tilt to a typical camera phone, it is a stand-out. Here's why:- While most camera phones have extremely low megapixel levels (sometimes even less than 1 megapixel), this camera features 3 megapixels.
- It's rare for a camera phone to have any form of a zoom. The Tilt has a 10x zoom, although it's entirely digital zoom.
- For most camera phones, you click to take a picture. This is one of the very few camera phones that has something comparable to shooting modes. There aren't many options, but you can choose to shoot between. Sports will help catch action. You can use the very cool panorama mode to shoot three consecutive pictures to form a panorama. There is also a picture theme in which you can choose fun frames such as a magazine cover. It also features burst mode, as well as video and MMS video modes.
- There is a pretty amazing array of shooter settings considering this is a camera phone. It includes a self timer, f-stop adjustments, resolution choices, and various white balance options.
How the AT&T Tilt Camera Phone Compares to a Digital Camera
- While it is easier than many camera phones to hold and shoot, it's still a phone before a camera and it's a little awkward.
- This camera must be held extremely steadily or you will end up with a blurry mess of a picture. Even typical hand steadiness is not good enough many times, which means you will need to at least create a human tripod by placing your elbows together on your chest while shooting. Better yet, find a solid level surface to rest your elbows.
- This camera has a much slower reaction time and shutter speed when compared to even budget digital cameras. It is especially difficult to capture anything that moves, and getting a decent shot of a child or pet requires many tries. You can use the sports mode to improve your chances, but expect at least half of action pictures to turn out extremely blurry.
- It can be a little disconcerting looking at the preview screen. Much like a Webcam, it has that lag-time and disorienting motion in the view. You have to hold the camera still for a few seconds before it stops and you can clearly see your subject.
AT&T Tilt Camera Smart Phone Picture Quality
The picture quality is actually quite good for a camera phone. If you can overcome the issues related to camera shake and slow response time (practice does help), the images themselves turn out quite nicely compared to other camera phone images (usually easy to spot by the graininess).The colors are slightly washed out, but still bolder than one might expect from a camera phone. The images are also very clear, particularly when resized to a smaller image size. It is common, however, to see blurring in the original image.
If you are looking for something to share images primarily digitally, by email, on a blog or on a web site, this camera is perfectly suitable and the images will be plenty large enough. For printing, don't expect much quality above smaller 3"x5" or 4"x6" prints.
AT&T Tilt Camera Smart Phone Ease of Use and Picture Sharing
Using the phone is quite simple and intuitive. You can simply press the camera shutter button on the side to activate the camera. You can use the touch-screen to navigate to the shooting mode you'd like (although there is a delay in response that can be annoying). If you want to make changes to settings, simply click menu for an impressive variety of options or press the bottom center for basic changes to things like white balance and f-stop.
Sharing pictures is extremely simple. After shooting a picture, you get a prompt with the option of sending the image. Then you can choose between sending by text message or email. With this smart phone's email settings, you can quickly shoot an email from a POP account with the image.
Viewing the pictures is very nicely done on this phone as well. The screen is extremely large, and you can easily choose to view a slideshow of the images in your phone.
