Picture distorted with Camera and getOptimalPreviewSize

I just suffered through the same problem, and came up with a similar but lighter weight solution. I don’t see anything wrong with your saving method though.

private Camera.Size getBestPreviewSize(int width, int height)
{
        Camera.Size result=null;    
        Camera.Parameters p = camera.getParameters();
        for (Camera.Size size : p.getSupportedPreviewSizes()) {
            if (size.width<=width && size.height<=height) {
                if (result==null) {
                    result=size;
                } else {
                    int resultArea=result.width*result.height;
                    int newArea=size.width*size.height;

                    if (newArea>resultArea) {
                        result=size;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    return result;

}

@Override
public void surfaceChanged(SurfaceHolder holder, int format, int width, int height) {
    //This line helped me set the preview Display Orientation to Portrait
            //Only works API Level 8 and higher unfortunately.

    camera.setDisplayOrientation(90);

    Camera.Parameters parameters = camera.getParameters();
    Camera.Size size = getBestPreviewSize(width, height);
    parameters.setPreviewSize(size.width, size.height);
    camera.setParameters(parameters);
    camera.startPreview();

}