AAS: Nokia N82 vs Nokia N8 vs Nokia 808 PureView Camera Tests (and a Damian Dinning Response)
Second part of the Steve Litchfield double whammy which includes a generous helping of Damian Dinning too.
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/reviews/item/15148_Nokia_808_PureView_part_2a_cam.php
Nokia’s imaging guru, Damian Dinning responds in two large comments to Stve’s mega test
This review is also a testament on the amazing job Nokia accomplished in the 808′s predecessors, N8 and N82.
These Xenon brothers were always ahead of the pack regarding all around camera performance, night and day.
The Blurry pic at the bottom? What is that? Why that’s a HTC One S.
Do read on as Steve’s test is actually part 2 of his Nokia 808 Review and there is of course that added bonus in the comments to Steve’s post from Damian Dinning (almost as long, if not longer than the review itself).
For a summary, the conclusion:
- Even the 2008 Nokia N82 camera is still comparable with, and in some situations superior to, the cameras in today’s non-Nokia flagships (e.g. iPhone 4S/Galaxy S III/One X)
- The 2010 Nokia N8 camera is still significantly ahead of the non-Nokia competition
- Used with default (9MP crop of the 12MP sensor) settings, the native resolutions on the Nokia N8 can often (depending on light) produce more detailed, clearer photos than the 808 PureView using its 5MP default. Partly this shows how good and high specification the N8 was/is, partly this is down the low resolution default chosen by Nokia for the 808.
- Set to 8MP PureView mode in particular, the Nokia 808, in my opinion, produces better, more detailed photos in all light conditions than any phone on the planet.
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Yep, i leave mine set to 8mp..its brilliant..
Absolutely brilliant review!
LOVED my N82. I have lots of great concert videos and pics from 2007 – 2008 because of that wonderful cameraphone. Back then, NOBODY could even come close to its picture and video quality. Can’t wait til my NAM 808 arrives next week from Amazon!
Sad day for all N9 Lovers…:(
MeeGo team says goodbye to Nokia, N9 quietly weeps..:(
I just got my N9..
http://www.gsmarena.com/meego_team_waves_goodbye_to_nokia-news-4478.php
i read about this too, i did hope that nokia, would remain bold with all the other os’s that that had but no…………
Reading Damian Dinning’s comments in that post, it seems to me Damian was trying to ask Steve not to run the tests that way, as he was blowing up the 5MP PV photos against the N8′s 12MP photos. Damain said for that comparo you should use the 38MP full image as no computer wizardry can make 5MP looks good against 12MP *at the pixel level*!
Not quite – 5mp scaled up to the same scale as the 12mp shot (when the 12mp is shown 1:1) will make the 5mp images look blocky – which they do.
Steves reviews are normally pretty good, but that one was relatively poor … almost up with gsmarena and their upscaling of the DSLR images to 38mp (how very, very silly).
Hats Off
*hats off*