Nokia 920 Camera - Unfocused and over-exposed phot...

I've been so let down with the camera on this phone. Every photo taken appears out of focus and the white balance is WAY off making skin tones bleech white. I've compared it to my old iphone 4s and the sharpness and color correctness blows my 920 away.
Is there any chance this can actually be fixed or will the lack of focus/sharpness continue to be an issue. I only have two days left to return the phone if I dont like it and the main reason I bought it was for the camera and WM8.

You can tweak your exposure value to fix most of that problem but applying post-process sharpening is about the only way to improve the softness... unfortunately that is a bandaid. You can't really put fine detail back in to a picture after the fact. Some folks have reported better results after changing the aspect ratio to 4:3 but that claim is mostly unsubstantiated as far as I can tell.
barareklam wrote:
I talked yesterday with Nokia care about images being not sharp on Lumia 920, and they told me that it is the first time thay get rapport about that issue? Very strange.
That sounds like standard support-line nonsense. The Lumia 920 camera issues are pretty well known and there have even been comments made by a Nokia rep that they are working on fixing the problem (clearly implying that Nokia is aware of the issue). The general census is that it is probably an issue with the compression/filtering the camera uses at the software level (so it should be relatively easy to fix through an update). Take a look at the fairly well lit shots in the first few articles that come up on Google... obvious issues.
http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-57542752-85/nokia-lumia-920-camera-vs-htc-windows-phone-8x-vs-iphon...
http://www.slashgear.com/nokia-lumia-920-pureview-camera-hands-on-vs-iphone-5-05255660/
You can certainly cherry pick best-case scenario shots from the Lumia 920 and say those look great (and everything is dandy because of it) but its the direct comparisons (apples to apples) that tell the real story. You can clearly see in med-high light situations the Lumia 920 consistently underperforms (compared to the iPhone 5 in particular... the camera on the 8x isn't really a selling point for that phone)..
"Nokia France’s Xavier des Horts responded to a tweet about this supposed issue, which described images taken with plenty of lighting as too smooth, or soft-looking. Des Horts only replied briefly, but did note that Nokia would work to make adjustments to the 920′s camera to address this issue."
http://pocketnow.com/2012/11/05/nokia-lumia-920-camera-fix

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