Nokia 808 PureView pixels versus the iPhone 4S – AAS

Steve Litchfield from AAS wanted to illustrate what makes the Nokia 808 PureView so special, in an attempt like Damian Dinning and a few of our own rants, to clarify the misconceptions of Nokia’s achievement merely being 41MP in a phone. I’ll save you guys again from another rant.

The diagram above shows the effective pixel sizes. You’ll note that at 38MP, the pixel sizes are the same as the iPhone 4S. But the magic of PureView is not to take huge images. Look what happens when oversampling and pixel binning tries to process these extra pixels into a ‘super pixel’. The pixel size increases massively, especially useful for low light. It’s even more helpful that the Nokia 808 has a real flash, a xenon flash, not some crud LED.

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/14347_PureView_pixels_versus_the_com.php

Category: Nokia, Symbian