Color and shadows, direct sun and shade are very similar for Verizon's Motorola Droid (original), Droid 2 and Droid X. The Droid X sometimes appears more vibrant, but my testing is in not scientific with slight variations in cloud cover.
The Droid 1 and 2 are 5 MP while the Droid X is 8 MP.
Like the Droid X, the zoom control shares the mechanical volume toggle and the shutter release is a mechanical button. The Droid 2 gives you the option of virtual on screen tap shutter release.
The physical buttons on the Droid 2 are also smaller with a top bump on each (unlike the Droid 1 or X), giving more tactile control over the physical button.
You want a stiff button (that won't activate with a brush) with good feel.
Adding a virtual button and refining the physical button ends all debate about shutter buttons.
The Droid 1 also had a physical and virtual shutter button, but the virtual button was lower on the touch interface and more awkward.
The Droid 2 camera takes on the camera interface from the Droid X, a great improvement from the original Droid camera interface (which was recently tweaked during the Froyo 2.2 upgrade).
Like the Droid X, the Droid 2 has a wide screen mode that crops down the full size image for an 11 x 17 image that would display on a widescreen TV without the black bars.
The widescreen image is really a cropped version of the full sized image. So perhaps it's just better to shoot the full size image and crop it yourself to give you the option of both, unless you would like a direct preview to wide screen.
Droid 2 - widescreen - 2592 x 1456
Droid 2 - full resolution - 2592 x 1936
The Droid 2 has the same Panoramic feature as the Droid X with faster processing time for stitching than the Droid X. I would assume that this has to do with the Droid 2 running Android 2.2 and smaller file sizes vs the Droid X running 2.1 Motorola says the X should receive the update to 2.2 by late Summer 2010.
More Motorola Droid Panorama on greenmesh:
Droid X Panorama mode is the phone journalist's wide angle
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