Lifeblog: Day To Day Images (Nokia N95 Camera Test)
I have just put some new images up into my Lifeblog Images Section. Not usually of much general interest other than to me and to those following my Lifeblog Project, this time they might also be of some interest to those of you who were curious as to the true quality of the much-talked-about camera in the Nokia N95. Hyped, or not? See for yourself.
Here are the images;
First test shot, straight out of the box.
My Labrador/Ridgeback puppy, Juno.
The result of the first rain shower this Autumn here in the Algarve yesterday.
A really interesting and exciting photo of my boots.
An image made this afternoon of a bud on a plant in my courtyard that I have forgotten the name of.
And, finally, my lunch today of scrambled eggs and Tabasco.
For those of you who are indeed more interested in the technical photographic side of things than my lunch; all images were shot with the phone set to the full 5mp resolution. All on auto exposure, auto focus (wait for it to beep and confirm that it has actually found and locked focus – hold the shutter release half way down, then wait for the beep and the screen target bars to turn green before pressing the button all the way – or it will bite you and go ahead without focus), and auto everything else that could be switched onto auto, basically. The only slight exception was the image of the bud on the plant, which was shot using ‘close up’ mode, although other than the mode everything else on that shot was set to auto, too.
None of those images are now as they originally were straight off the phone. All have had some degree of lightness, contrast, colour and sharpness adjustments made afterwards. The negative side to that is that you need to do post-capture image manipulation at all, but such is life with digital. The positive aspects are that surprisingly little adjustment is required with the N95 imaging, and that the phone’s images do have plenty of information captured within them to adjust with.
Overall, considering that this is a phone that we are talking about here, I’m more than happy with the level of quality that it can generally achieve with reasonable lighting. I wouldn’t want to throw away my Nikons and try to make my living with it, but then that is not what it was designed for anyway.
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