It has an 8 Megapixel sensor and cmos sensor which is pretty good for a camera the size of a pea until you look at the N8's picture Quality and then you go WOW. The N8 has a 12 megapixel Carl Zeiss lens and a Xenon-flash now these are manufacturers (Carl Zeiss and Xenon) that build one of the best lenses and flashes in the world so they aren't new to the market they know what they're doing infect they are the best at it right now.
Now they are both great camera-phones and they can replace the point and shoot cameras that you might buy but Nokia's camera-phone is far more better and till now retains it's crown as the best camera phone in the world and for a year and a half now.
Here are some pictures taken by the N8 not original size (go to links under the photos for original size):
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I've been a photographer for about 13 years, and to me the iPhone 4S images above look better. 8MP vs 12MP is a negligible difference, and the Carl Zeiss lenses on consumer equipment is Carl Zeiss by name only. It's not the same high quality glass that's used in their high dollar equipment. Same for the Leica lenses on the Panasonic digital cameras.
ReplyDeleteThe color, contrast, and bokeh of the iPhone 4S images above look better than the Nokia sample images, but since they're different subjects taken at different times under different lighting from different distances, it's hard to do a real assessment. The iPhone 4S images look almost Canon-like, and the Nokia colors remind me of the earlier Fuji DSLR cameras. You can't really go wrong with either option.
Either way, both would be a nice upgrade over what I'm using now.
Wish you compared them at same samples because there is no fair comparison.
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