HTC Wildfire ->> CIF video

CIF video

HTC Wildfire records CIF videos at 15 fps, which is nothing to be excited about.
The camcorder interface is similar to the still camera’s and there is a surprising (by Android standards) number of customizable options. You can set the video resolution, encoding type and recording limit.

As far as image adjustments are concerned you get exposure compensation, contrast, saturation and sharpness settings as well as color effects and white balances settings.



Camcorder has plenty of options

Auto focus is also there for you to enable but the Wildfire only focuses before the recording starts and acts as a fixed focus camera after that. In our test unit, this actually works in our favor – there’s no trace of the blurring we saw in still images.

But anyway, video quality is bad. There’s purple tint all over, the amount of resolved detail is poor and the framerate (15fps) ruins the whole thing.
Check out a sample CIF@15fps video clip.

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