Video: Nokia 808 PureView Caterpillar Macro
Here is an example where the ‘lossless’ digital zoom comes into great use with the Nokia 808 PureView.
Like with the N8, when taking close up video, you don’t have to physically get closer. Just use that zoom in video. No worries about loss in detail. Compare post production zoom and zoom in video with the 808 and you’ll see it makes a heck of a difference.
Sometimes, if you’re taking snaps of these little creatures, going physically closer might disturb them so zoom is a better option.
This video also showcases the continuous AF, which is really fast and accurate. Touch focus is also possible on the 808 should you want to (pretty much) manually direct the focus points.
Note, when zoomed in, vibrations/shaking is also magnified so be warned. You might want to have a tripod if you don’t have super steady hands.
Listen out for the channel separation in the audio.
This is more representative of the kind of footage an every day user would get. We’ve seen Topolino70′s work showing the very best of the best, but that requires a little set up and some equipment (well a tripod).
Here’s another post discussion the 808 zoom
http://mynokiablog.com/2012/06/25/nokia-808-pureview-and-zooming-in-12x/
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Awsesome.. who would think this was from a mobile phone?
A whole new world. Fantastic.
The zooming simply destroys any other smartphone out there… simply no contest.
This phone just keeps amazing. Wow.
Hi Janne
Sorry for off topic but what about the battery life as I am waiting for red 808 in India.
I am interested as well as my N8 suffer from bad battery performance, (8 hours per charge) daily.
If you have a mail for exchange account it’s a battery sucker… also you can download and use battery monitor from nokia to figure out which apps are draining your N8 , also there’s a possibility you need to change the battery if your charged the phone more than a 100 times already …
!!!! 100 times??! that is equal to 3 months! considering I charging my phone once per day..
Sorry, no data at least yet from me. It has been a secondary device, I’ve taken it out for photographing and charged back home. Never run out of battery.
I haven’t noticed any uncharacteristic battery use anyway, but I guess I wouldn’t this way unless battery was going super fast.
Do whatever you wish. It will keep your phone running a whole day.
Despite earlier hopes, reports are starting to filter in that none of the UK networks will be offering the 808 on contract.
I know anyone who tries to talk about Elop conspiracies gets slammed, but how can they manage to turn off the networks from such an incredible device so unanimously?
I can think of one method which seems plausible from a business perspective and that is Nokia’s future resource availability for Symbian with regards to updates. Any carrier is going to want to have a promise of product support during the life of the phone’s contract period. It is easy to argue this should be around 2.5 – 3 years from the date of first availability. I can’t imagine Nokia now being able to agree to future product support for a gazillion carrier-locked variants (look at the time it takes to get firmware out on the N8) so this might mean they are not willing to offer the carriers their own locked variants, which would likely kill any deal with them stone dead.
O2 asks Nokia: We like the 808, can we have our own variant please, carrier locked with O2 branded bloatware?
Nokia replies: No, the 808 is only available carrier unlocked, global firmware.
O2 replies: Okay, stuff your 808. We don’t need you.
Repeat for each UK network. Simples.
This decision not to allow Carriers to stock the 808, is very puzzling.
Not one Carrier is able to sell them. This is in spite of huge praises from reviewers and consumers. I know Lumia is Nokia$ofts chosen saviour, but why limit the sales of a Classic device like the 808.
Absolutely crazy..
I don’t read anywhere that the UK carriers are being denied the 808, they are choosing not to take it.
I suspect that any carrier can have the 808 to sell on contract or PAYG just as long as they don’t mind it being an unlocked global device.
Not one Carrier in the World has chosen not to carry the 808? I dont believe it.. Its Nokias doing for sure.. They have deliberately stunted its exposure.
Hyperbole. All finnish carriers have it for example.
Again, in Finland all major carriers have the 808 on contract, so there is your proof that indeed carriers are allowed to carry it. I’m quite sure I have seen similar examples from other countries as well.
Can you link me one?, because i have not as yet seen one carrier to date.
TeliaSonera:
https://kauppa.sonera.fi/yksityisille/puhelin_ja_liittyma/paketti.aspx?PhoneName=Nokia+808+PureView&Packet=PerusPlus
DNA:
https://kauppa.dna.fi/puhelinjaliittyma/NOKIA_808
Thanks for that,,
Its still being pushed down even in Finland though. I have tried to search for it from 10 phone retailers, and nobody has it on display. Normally they have all the shiet in day one, even some really marginal phones and even those web links tell, that:
“Tuotteen arvioitu toimitusaika noin neljä viikkoa.”
“Estimated delivery time is ca 4 weeks.”
And this is a phone, that people ask a lot for. I cannot understand, why its not on display, and asked it from DNA and Elisa, and they told me, that they are delivered based, when people make a reservation for it.
Stock is still very limited. I doubt there is anything more to that then how fast they can manufacture it. Most new Nokia models are very hard to come by at the beginning.
As for displays and so forth, perhaps there aren’t any to put on display yet. And it IS a niche product, due to size and Symbian. I don’t expect major promotions for a niche product.
Limited production capacity? Nokia has several factories and they manufacture millions of handsets every month.
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They sold 1-2 million Symbian^3 N8 handsets in one quarter when it was released. It’s very hard to believe the 808 would sell more.
All it takes is a bottleneck component, it is not hard to imagine the new sensor or some other camera part as limited capacity production.
Many Nokia devices have seen scarce availability upon launch since times immemorial.
Seen it in Elisa and Sonera stores as of today. Interesting. Have seen even dummies of it!
In Msia and Spore no contract for 808. The contracts went to Lumia 900 for Nokia phones
It’s a niche product. You can’t expect a product like that to sell huge numbers.
It’s a great camera. It has a substandard OS reaching the EOL. The device is huge. It’s 17.95mm thick. Almost 3/4″. It has a very poor application support. The camera is great!
You need high technical skills to use this product as a smartphone. The 808 has a poor browser and a poor display resolution. I was told that most people never install any applications. They never install any browsers. They have to live with the default one. The defaulf browser is not very good one.
It has a great camera. You can take great pictures with the 808. However its’s hard to believe mobile operators would like to sell a great camera.
Yeah, if you are into tech you can use this device as a phone. You can even use it as a smartphone but an average user can’t do that. It’s yesterdays tech with a great camera.
Do you want to know why they can’t sell it in volumes? Just forget the camera and compare it to the SGS3. It can’t compete. That’s why the mobile phone operators are not interested in about the 808.
But hey, it has a great camera!
Don’t repeat yourself? Anyone want to repeat how Elop is destroying Nokia? Anyone want to repeat how bad Lumia is? It’s funny how some people want to repeat how Elop is evil and Lumia is crap.
Since you insist on not clarifying, for other readers: 808 is a around 13.9 mm thick. Only the camera bump is 17.95.
How tall are you?
Do you measure your heigh from shoulders?
It’s 17.95mm thick.
Have you always been as pathetic or did you just become one idolizing Elop, another pathetic loser, so much?
Actually it’s u who’re funny. U’re repeating yourself like a broken gramophone. This device has decent application support, but indeed not the best around. It’s not too thick, actually it fits perfectly in hand and is more suitable for both one-handed and two-handed use than SGS3 (SGS3 is just too wide for one-handed and don’t have proper landscape UI for two-handed use).
Default browser is indeed not very good one. But my experience is, that every Symbian user i personally know is using Opera Mobile. Even those who’re not into tech. One can say that Google Nexus has terrible video player, because it doesn’t support out-of-the-box usual video-codecs like DivX, Xvid or MKV.
U can use 808 perfectly as a phone even if u’re not into tech. And when it comes to “smartphone”, indeed, it’s not as easy to use as say iPhone, but it’s on par with Android.
Yeah, it’s not as easy to use.
That’s it.
Luckily, unlike the dumb ignorant Yanks, people in the rest of the world have this thing called intelligence and they can use way more complicated devices than TV remotes.
Any carrier that already has one or more phones running the same OS and version as the 808 would be far more open to carrying the 808 as well. But it is a big thing for carriers to take on a phone with an OS they are not already carrying because there would be a significant impact to training and support.
Gorgeous….my only take on it it is amsymbian phone…a meego with this would have been out of this world…both are dead in any case.
Great phone for collectors…it’s selling inexpensively here in Dubai…I saw it…Symbian as I said is the drawback…
Well i dont have a complaint about Carla.. Its not much different to Android..
Take it as a camera having additional (smart)phone functionality.
Nobody cares what OS a Nikon camera has…
Exactly.
Zkulor, if it’s a camera or video cam, there’s not even an OS to think/discuss/complain about, lol
i don’t like ppl see it in that way.. It is a smartphone..
The AF is much quicker than the one on the N8. Lovely shallow DOF during video.. good stuff.
Awesome example of what 808 Pureview can do!