Review: LG Fathom
Photos
Photo quality from the LG Fathom's 3.2 megapixel camera was not very good. Without zooming in, images looked okay, and could certainly be usable for quick sharing on social networks and multimedia messaging. But looking at the images up close revealed a number of problems. The camera is very blurry. Indoors, I saw noise dominating my images, even in spots that seemed well lit. Outside, colors faded and looked drab. The camera has auto focus capabilities as well as a macro mode, but neither of these seemed to help. The Fathom still seems to aim like a fixed focus camera, shooting the background instead the subject inside the framing brackets. Close up shots are beyond the camera's capabilities.
Video
If the photos were not good, video was downright horrible. Even on the camera's viewfinder, videos looked remarkably blurry, with no way to adjust the focus before or during a recording session. I cleaned the lens before every take and still got the same result. I wouldn't even send these videos as MMS messages, let alone post to YouTube or other social sites.
3GPP / MPEG-4 format (viewable with QuickTime)
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LG Fathom
