 <p>we are using the following options when calling .getPicture:</p> <pre><code>quality: 50, destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.DATA_URL, encodingType: Camera.EncodingType.JPEG, sourceType: Camera.PictureSourceType.CAMERA, targetWidth: 800, correctOrientation: true </code></pre> <p>The quality parameter doesn't seem to have too much implication on file size, though. targetWidth and, for some odd reason, correctOrientation do. The resultung picture size with these settings is around 24kB depending on the device's camera resolution.</p>