The HTC Touch’s two megapixel camera uses a CMOS sensor with a fixed focus lens. The camera takes 3.5 seconds to start and can take pictures ranging from 120x160 to 1200x1600 pixels. Four picture quality options – Basic, Normal, Fine and Super Fine – allow adjustment of the picture’s final size and compression. Digital zoom is only really helpful at the smallest size, where you get up to 10x of it, but most resolutions allow you only 2 – 4x while the highest one disables it completely. There’s a self-portrait mirror next to the camera, which helps for such pictures.

Burst mode allows you to take up to 30 shots in rapid succession, and you can also set how fast you want to take those pictures (Slow, Moderate or Fast). Pictures in burst mode can only be taken at up to 640x480 pixels and at this size, fast mode isn’t very fast. Other features include colouring effects (monochrome, negative, cool and sepia), and the appending of frames (on 480x640 images only). White balance adjustment is also available, which is good because the automatic white balance had a hard time getting it right. Most of the time it produced a picture that was too warm, but in one case I got a cold-coloured picture.

The Touch can also record videos at QCIF (176x144) resolution at 10 frames a second. Files are saved with the MP4 extension using the MPEG4 codec for video and AMR for audio. An MMS shooting mode can be used to limit videos so they fit within MMS size restrictions. The microphone can also be turned off in the settings screen.

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HTC P3450 Touch review

Table of contents:

Overview (Page 1)
Camera & Video performance (Page 2)
Major features (Page 3)
Problems/Issues (Page 4)
In Summary/Checklist (Page 5)