Android Camera Intent Image Quality

Question

I'm making an android application that uses the camera by using the built in one as an intent. I'm doing some analysis on the photo on a pixel by pixel basis. My wildfire returns 79000 pixels in a normal photo, this is making the analysis a little slow.

Is there any way to set the quality/resolution of the camera or image returned when using intents? I've had a look around on Google and the api and haven't come up with much. Anyone know if this is even possible or know of some other way to degrade the image resolution?

Any help greatly appreciated.