Nokia 808 PureView - 41MP Sensor!
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So does that mean something like - if I take lets say an 8 MP pic, the detailing would be awesome enough even on zoom. Whereas if the pic is originally a 41MP, the details wouldn't be as much on a zoom?
dissel
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here a sample from the nokia's own team (full 38 MP, 6 MB file size)
http://press.nokia.c...08-pureview.jpg
Flickr stream here which contain actual image and the crop out image
[media]http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesburland/sets/72157629106679170/with/6790869958/[/media]
http://press.nokia.c...08-pureview.jpg
Flickr stream here which contain actual image and the crop out image
[media]http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesburland/sets/72157629106679170/with/6790869958/[/media]
dhruvrock2000
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So basically the deal is , you take an 8MP photograph while the sensor records full 41MP. Now even if you zoom in , it is basically cropping into 41MP image. So you get optical zoom without requiring the HW for it.
Keep in mind , you can ALSO shoot full 38MP images if you want. You will not have the zoom function available then though. The level of detail on the images is ****in phenomenal. You can easily ditch a point n shoot for this.. no two thoughts about it.
Also.. white model looks better than the black
You've seen the images from Nokia , i'm not allowed to put up any of my own so sorry about that :/
Keep in mind , you can ALSO shoot full 38MP images if you want. You will not have the zoom function available then though. The level of detail on the images is ****in phenomenal. You can easily ditch a point n shoot for this.. no two thoughts about it.
Also.. white model looks better than the black
You've seen the images from Nokia , i'm not allowed to put up any of my own so sorry about that :/
dissel
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According to Nokia there is a dedicated GPU installed besides the Camera module which take care of every camera related task (only) for image processing.
and also separate/regular GPU present which use for phone display and preform other regular task for the phone
So no Slow Down.
7782px x 4354px ~~ 33MP image.
i downloaded the sunset image, and to be honest its better than the regular point and shoot cams available. the amount of noise is almost minimum in the sky. a bit of red shift and a few hot pixels i think, but overall, the image quality rocks
more sample pics here: http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/27/nokia-808-pureview-first-sample-shots-feast-your-eyes/
i downloaded the sunset image, and to be honest its better than the regular point and shoot cams available. the amount of noise is almost minimum in the sky. a bit of red shift and a few hot pixels i think, but overall, the image quality rocks
more sample pics here: http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/27/nokia-808-pureview-first-sample-shots-feast-your-eyes/
Its called oversampling and is a pretty common technique in DSP. And yeah, Megapixels by itself is just a number and doesn't mean anything once you go over a limit like 4~5MP. Oversampling is a much better use of higher sampling capacity
From what I heard, Only the symbian camera stack is mature enough to handle this properly at the moment which may be the reason why they have demo'ed it on a symbain phone rather than a WP7 phone.
Gryph0n
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Not like they had a choice. The Nokia Press Release says that this was under development for ~4 years. So, when they started off, there was no WP7.
BTW, I don't understand all the hate here for Symbian. Sure, it's not going to be around sometime in the future, but it's not dead yet. More importantly, it's a very mature platform and has sufficient apps. I guess the apps' numbers may not be in the numbers that iOS or Android have reached, but if you search usually you'll usually find an app for the functionality you want.
Of course, if you're a developer, the Symbian platform isn't that friendly ("Enter/Leaves", no templates, no exceptions, etc). But then again, most here are users, not developers.
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