ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity (TF700T) Review
by Anand Lal Shimpi on June 25, 2012 3:00 AM ESTCamera Quality
Similar to the TF Pad 300, the Infinity comes with an 8MP rear facing camera (F2.2 aperture, 3264 x 2448 capture resolution). For the first time, ASUS also ships a 2MP front facing camera as well (F2.8 aperture, 1920 x 1080 capture resolution).
Image quality out of the rear facing camera is comparable to what the Prime produced, despite the new sensor and lens setup. The gallery below has a bunch of shots showing what the rear camera is capable of. Overall the image quality isn't all that impressive at native res as most shots end up looking overexposed or washed out. When scaled down to web resolutions the camera's output is definitely passable for emailing or sharing though.
The camera app's built in panorama mode is very easy to use and produces reasonable results:
The front facing camera similarly delivers acceptable quality, but mostly if you scale it down below its captured resolution:
Video capture quality is ok as well. The rear camera will record in 1080p at just under 20Mbps using H.264 baseline profile, although again you'll really want to view video at a lower resolution for it to look good:
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semiconshawn - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
All that typing and nothing said. Well done.Miggleness - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
You sir, made my day. lol.I lost my Ipad 3 last week, just ordered one last night. But this one looks promising. WIsh it came out sooner as I'm an android fan myself, just not the android hardware i've been purchasing (Shame on you Motorola!)
Steelbom - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
I use my iPad 3 quite regularly and have never encountered any of the issues you've mentioned, you either had a defective unit or some really weird bugs which a restore might have fixed."being so technically incompetent you have to exactly double your pixel count each time because you can't code scaling graphics into your design"
What? Are you joking? Apple doubled the resolution so that everything would be seamless and as little effort as possible was required from developers.
sawilson - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
I think the problem is I was trying to use it as a desktop replacement, and it's not. It's a toy. I can remember my girlfriend saying "why do you do that so much?" when I was flipping between tasks and I was explaining it was because I was trying to five things at once and she was like "It can do that?" and I had to say "No, actually it can't". I was trying to use a toy to get work done. It was my own fault really.maximumGPU - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
Yeah it was your fault. she should dump you.ltphilpot - Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - link
Yet another troll post! I use my iPad to remotely manage 11 servers when I'm not on site, yup the iPad is just a toy!Belard - Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - link
Yes, it is your fault. You are holding it wrong :)Spunjji - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
So to make everything nice for developers, the customer gets stuck with an unnecessarily high resolution screen that makes web pages look like crap and lumps them with a thicker, heavier, power guzzling device that gets worse battery life than its predecessor.Yeah, that makes sense.
Shadowmaster625 - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
You can play bloons TD4 on an ipoop?sawilson - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
You can until it locks up completely solid at around level 100 on extended play, or you have more than 10 supermonkeys on the screen. Unless I was holding it wrong or something.