Another Nokia 808 PureView shot and comparison

[Ian]

It's not easy to tell, is it?

Ian

[Graham_of_Rainham]

Re: Another Nokia 808 PureView shot and comparison

That is really quite impressive. Going by what you said about the FoV of the 808 lens and that you were using the Panasonic 12-35 most of the time, I will guess at the wider FoV in the second shot being from the OM-D with the lens at the wide end. Although the more saturated colours in the first image, are slightly more appealing to the eye, I think the second image may be more true to reality.

A very interesting comparison and one that will raise some questions...

[mike_j]

Re: Another Nokia 808 PureView shot and comparison

This is excellent performance from the camera phone and will only accelerate the reduction in sales of compacts - see here

I use a Nokia N8 (Nokia's previously top camera) and don't have a compact - the camera in the phone is entirely adequate for most things that I would use a compact camera for'

[Ian]

Re: Another Nokia 808 PureView shot and comparison

The N8 has an exceptional 'conventional' smartphone camera. Unfortunately, the E7, which is the version of the N8 with a keyboard (which Julia has) doesn't have the same camera.

My daughter, Elizabeth, has the newer Nokia Lumia 800 Windows phone, which resembles the N8 but again, the camera in that, although not bad, is not a patch on the N8's.

But the 808 PureView is a league ahead of the N8 again!

Ian

[Ian]

Re: Another Nokia 808 PureView shot and comparison

Graham, you're right. The Nokia 808 PureView has a 28mm equivalent wide angle lens and the other shot was taken using a focal length equivalent to 24mm. There was some cropping on both to take into account of straightening the vertical centre line.

Ian

[OlyPaul]

Re: Another Nokia 808 PureView shot and comparison

Just goes to prove what I have always said, any well taken image looks good on the web and only the content and thought behind them differentiates them and not the camera used.

Kind of seems silly when someone say of a 800 pixel image that the image is good because the latest wizbang camera has made it.

[Ian]

Re: Another Nokia 808 PureView shot and comparison

I remember when trying out the Olympus Pen Pal bluetooth adapter that the images that ended upon Facebook looked soft. Basically, in the various stages that the camera image passed through (resized by the Pen Pal, resized again in the phone and probably resized again by Facebook, that the image degraded noticeably.

The Nokia 808 PureView looks impressive even at 100% pixel peeping.

Ian

[Patrick]

Re: Another Nokia 808 PureView shot and comparison

I remember when trying out the Olympus Pen Pal bluetooth adapter that the images that ended upon Facebook looked soft. Basically, in the various stages that the camera image passed through (resized by the Pen Pal, resized again in the phone and probably resized again by Facebook, that the image degraded noticeably.

The Nokia 808 PureView looks impressive even at 100% pixel peeping.

Ian

Makes you wonder where it will all end up, but then it will never end developments will march on to new heights.

Patrick

[Graham_of_Rainham]

Re: Another Nokia 808 PureView shot and comparison

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The Nokia 808 PureView looks impressive even at 100% pixel peeping.

Ian