Camera Tests: Nokia N82 vs Samsung Innov8 vs Nokia N97 vs Nokia N86
Nokia and Carl Zeiss have bestowed upon the N86 imaging enhancements beyond just upping the resolution from 5MP to 8MP; wide angle, improved latency, large aperture, better sensor in general all resulting (at least on paper) in improved image quality.
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As you can see from Rafe’s test, the N86 is superior in all conditions, except low light, where the N82 and its Xenon flash show exactly how to freeze time in .jpeg format.
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When there’s a low light scene however, and no flash is used, the N86 is leaps and bounds beyond the other three in the tests. That’s great for:
- low light situations where xenon flash would not help because the subject is too far away
- Situations where you’re not allowed to use flash (although it would really help) – e.g. in an art gallery or music/sport event.
- when flash would produce too much gastly reflections (e.g. trying to take a photo through glass)
- when you want to take quick successive shots in low light (xenon flash takes a second or two to charge up)
- taking pictures of your pets/other animals [in low light] – they may not enjoy the sudden bright flash, of either xenon or dual led.
- [insert other reason for not using flash]
As you can see when the scene was pitch black – the N82 was able to light it up and produce vivid reds of the car, the Innov8 and N97 poorly just bouncing off reflections, but the N86 – although only dual LED, with the combination of improved sensor, illuminates the scene, though not to the standard of the N82.
However, as pointed out in the AAS podcast by Steve Litchfield, though it can light up the scene a bit more than usual dual LED, it doesn’t freeze it like Xenon, so expect some blurs if you’re taking pictures of say…erm…people…in low light situations.
…..:( Without a Xenon flash it´s not possible to have a great all situation camera.
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Category: 3rd edition, Nokia, Nseries, Photos, S60
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This is a really shitty comparation. I mean i don’t know why you even put innov8 samples, because those are fake. I mean, i had C905(best cybershot), N86, and now innov8, and i have to say that innov8 is great in all conditions. Maybe not the best, but is all-rounded device. N86 had good quality pics, C905 XENON King, and innov8 really top shooter. N82 could never compare to C905, N86 or Innov8.
i guess all of them are in auto mode..
if we extract the best from each (with properly adjusted mode), i guess things would be different…I owned several nokia camera phones and it seems all of them are ready for picture taking. While samsung especially innov8 needs some adjustments before making the perfect shot. I’m not saying innov8 would perform the best but i own this phone after my n93 and i also use n82. I also test the n86 of my friend. Among the three. n82 is a night-shot performer but in daytime, innov8==n86>>n82….innov8 has natural colors with evenly distributed sharpness while n86 offers warmer and pleasing colors with fine detail. In terms of noise suppression, innov8 is the best competitor. I must say this: Nokia may have best carl zeiss lens but samsung has greater experience in image processing…
[...] It freezes frame even in pitch black. I’ve taken pictures of the kids sleeping, in complete darkness, which came out bright as day. [...]