The Nokia Corporation (ADR)(NYSE:NOK) 920 may not have
been well received by investors and the tech community in general as lacking in
the `wow' factor, but in one respect the phone does perform very well - in its
photographing abilities.
The camera does live up to the hype of the PureView
technology that the European company is pugging as the phone's USP.
Pocket-lint has reported on a test devised by Nokia at
the launch event last Wednesday by comparing its camera with that of Apple
Inc.(NASDAQ:AAPL)’s iPhone 4S.
The test itself was simple as Pocket-lint reports:
shoot a photograph of a vase of flowers with virtually no light on it (through
a peep-hole) with the two phones and see which one is better. Basic and
unscientific we know, but it gives us some idea of the capabilities of the new
Pureview tech.
According to Pocket-lint: The Lumia 920, with the help
of its image processing technology, some software manipulation in real time,
and the super LCD screen captures the vase of flowers.
The iPhone does capture the flowers, but it is hard to
see them and you would have to use image editing apps like Snapseed to improve
it to a point where you could easily see what is going on.
Nokia told Pocket-lint that the Lumia 920 managed to
do such a good job "because it automatically uses a slower shutter speed
that lets in more light and therefore captures more exposure detail. That's the
easy part, however opening the shutter longer allows for more movement or
handshake, which normally results in blurry pictures."
What Nokia is claiming is that by floating the entire
optical assembly in sync with the camera movement - this is Nokia's latest
image stabilisation method - the shutter can remain open for longer than
competitors' smartphones, and combined with the bright f/2.0 lens that means
plenty of light can reach the sensor, Pocket-lint observed.
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