Nokia 808 PureView, creative long exposure ND filter photos.
Neutral Density filters are sometimes used sometimes used to prevent over exposure by reducing the amount of light that enters the lens. Useful outdoors in bright sunlight. Often, it would be seen on big DSLRs to achieve motion blur on slow shutter speeds/longer exposure times. I believe the key Nokia phones have had ND filters since the N73? You’d have to keep the camera still of course. This way, all the static parts of the scene stay still but all the moving parts (usually water) can produce an creative dreamy like effect.
In some of the new pictures from the Nokia 808 gallery, posted as part of the 808 post yesterday, you might have seen several examples where Nokia manually forced the ND filter on to use the long exposure time to blur the water. Not sure how much control they had over exposure times.
Check the samples out here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nokiaofficial
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These are awesome. Hope to see some light painting.
Not going to be practical – you need a much longer exposure for light painting, and preferably aperture control.
I think I was working with 10+ second shutters, F22, ISO 100 …. the current 808 ND enabled shots are still only at sub 1 second shutter speeds, and the aperture is fixed.
I’ll be happy with just the little extra control supplied by the 808.
there’s a guy on flickr that has some pretty good light paintings that he’s done with the N8
hope that means the 808 will be able to better that performance
Do you have any links? I’ve not found anything thats genuine light painting off the N8.
Closest so far is the third party Exposure Camera application, but iirc thats not particularly reliable.
ill try looking for it but its been awhile they were more of car headlights/taillights and the person used Night Mode to take them
Ahhhh, I’ve done that with the N8 with varying success (didn’t have a tripod at the time) – for regular light painting you need a considerably longer exposure.
So, bots started publishing articles.
What a time has come… We are going to be slaves sooner than thought! LOL
The one who scheduled the post was a human, Jay, not the matrix by itself.
I just love long water exposures.. only need 2-4secs generally. I wasnt aware 808 could do that..Awesome..
Actually the shutter times obtained from the EXIFs show the slowest shutter speed among the photos to be 1/11s (I think it’s the 2nd image you see on this page). It’s not really that long, and I doubt there will be anything significantly longer than that.
Oh well. ISO 50 and ND filter it is.
what is ND filter?
Neutral Density.. Dark filter..
Sunglasses for the lense
The most obvious use for a camera phone, and it’s biggest failing, is in a social setting, indoors/evenings. Can we see some pics?
Aye, will be good to see some of those, but likely to come from first reviewers.
The N8 does a pretty good job under those conditions, I’d hope the 808 moves the game along a fair bit.
I don’t agree really. Who cares of party pic quality. I know I don’t, it’s just the memories that matter, so I’m good with whatever quality I get. What matters to me are those times when I see something worth picturing, but don’t have my dslr with me. That’s when I want quality and not some washed out blur with a pink spot in the middle (I own lumia 800). I think that’s when pure view makes a difference. I do agree though, that the phone camera will not be used for this purpose most of the time
No doubt the pics are awesome. But the big question is “when they will make this phone available ?”. They have already lost the best time to release it. If they release it after galaxy S3, then the 808 is already doomed. I don’t think they really want to sell this awesome device. They are just creating a hype about the pureview technology for next lumia phones. Very bad.
WP needs more than pure view to entice me at least so if the tactic is to delay and delay with the 808 it might backfire on Nokia. People will simply leave the brand.
That’s what I am trying to mention here. With this amount of delay and S3 release is over the head, 808 is already doomed.
eh.. the 808 is doomed since feb last year..
No its not. Anyone even thinking buying Pureview won’t even look at the SGS III.
I am thinking of getting the PureView, and I also looked at the SGSIII. I think the SGSIII is not practical at all.I sure won’t do any HD video authoring on that thing, so I’ll skip the quad-core. The Galaxy Note however caught my attention as the PureView’s partner and as a secondary phone.
Then stop whining and get the S3, nobody is forcing you to get the 808.
You didn’t get it mee-gone. It’s not whining. They are just not doing any justice to this awesome device.
Don’t worry. It won’t take that long untill Nokia will be able to put the PureView camera module to the Windows Phone and after that it’s availability won’t be a problem.
Let’s hope Nokia is not planning to postpone PV for Symbian to make the Lumia’s version more attractive. That would really help the Lumia sales.
I doubt they can port PureView PRO to win8 so quickly.. maybe, but we are likely to get N8 tech badged as “pureview”
What’s so hard in porting PureView to Lumia? It’s just a camera with a better resolution.
They should just add 1-3 sec. shutter speed modes in the settings, that should be enough to blur motion.
But its nice to see that it can be done anyway.. the N8 can’t do that
It is pretty interesting to follow Damian Dinning in the Twitter:
http://oi48.tinypic.com/30wq9w9.jpg
“Shutter speeds to 2.7 seconds when using manual ISO”
Great,, Thanks..
well, lowest ISO is 50 .. so it would all depend on the scene lighting/conditions for the rest. Like you said in your other post, it will be much better to have manual control over the shutter speed.
I have a feeling it will be released after the s3. Let the s3 have the limelight early june. We will probably have our pureview by the end of june. Definitely worth the wait.
In Finland the Lumia 900 will be available this Friday so I don’t think that the 808 will be available here very soon… They probably want to keep the focus on the Lumia series for some time. And that sucks!
Ah,I think you are right. They want to focus on the lumia series for some time. Hmmm we ll keep on waiting then
very glad to hear that 808 can achieve 2.7 seconds exposure time that nokia never reach,thanx
Just a note the video was encoded to 25fps when we know that the 808 records @ 30fps wonder if someone had a slight oversight like Topolino did when he released his video; so this ‘making of’ could look even better
Those shots look about 1/2 and really not bad at all! Especially like the first and third one.
Would be great if Nokia added full camera control (Just shutter speed really, we already get ISO and Aperture is fixed), would make this phone even better!