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Nokia made two cameras, the Lumia 1020 and Lumia 808, that featured a 41MP camera. For the most part, the use case was pretty much to immediately downsample or
by andrewla 9y ago
Nokia made two cameras, the Lumia 1020 and Lumia 808, that featured a 41MP camera. For the most part, the use case was pretty much to immediately downsample or use the high resolution as a way to create a synthetic high-quality digital zoom. The low-light quality was excellent as well.
The sensor was 8.80×6.60 mm (as opposed to the APS-H sensor here, at 29.22×20.20mm), which means 3x the sensor density. I've been waiting for a while for this "Pureview" technology to show up anywhere else; it's surprising to me that it has not.
- Joeri 9y agoI had a lumia 950 which had “only” a 20 MP sensor and the low light photography was stunning, better than what I saw with my own eyes in some cases. It was very slow though (even in daylight), which made it useless at action shots, so I guess other phones optimize for speed over image quality. I did make some absolutely breathtaking landscape shots with that 950, and I’ve never made pictures that nice since switching to an iphone.
- z3t4 9y agopic or it never happened :P
- ganzuul 9y agoThe 1020 still wipes the floor with any of the current smartphone cameras, though the new dual-camera phones are a very interesting development. You can stand to lose a lot of chroma resolution if you still have lumina resolution. Just try chroma noise reduction while retaining lumina noise in your favorite image editor.
- slantyyz 9y ago>> The sensor was 8.80×6.60 mm FWIW, this sensor is more commonly known as a 2/3" sensor, which was used in some recent Fujifilm compact cameras (X10-X30, XF1 etc) and is also commonly used for broadcast television cameras. I had an X10/X20, and that smallish sensor could produce some really nice results in spite of its size.