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If you think that is crazy look back to the Nokia 1020 that had a 41 MP camera and PureView back when most phones had like 8 MP. It took some awesome photos and

If you think that is crazy look back to the Nokia 1020 that had a 41 MP camera and PureView back when most phones had like 8 MP. It took some awesome photos and several of my friends were very satisfied with the phone.

fraqed 8y ago
AAWP just did a PureView comparison, very interesting that the older Nokias actually beat the new Nokia 9 PureView http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/23435_Imaging_showdown_Nokia_808_Sym.php http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/23435_Imaging_...
- diggernet 8y ago
  Sounds like maybe I ought to pull the old 1020 out of my museum. One error in that article, though... it is possible to turn off the downsampling to 5MP.
wodenokoto 8y ago
I actually think 1 41MP is less crazy than 5 8MP cameras. 5 lenses, 5 chips and 5 angles, seems hard to use in unison, so you end up having 4 cameras you don't use.
- dagw 8y ago
  seems hard to use in unison Using the five lenses and five sensors in unison is kind of the whole point of this setup. The underlying technology is pretty clever and allows for some cool tricks not possible with a traditional camera. You can read more about the concept here https://light.co/technology https://light.co/technology edit: that being said, I have no idea how well this turns out to work in practice
rando444 8y ago
I had a Nokia 3650 for 4 years that had a 640x480 resolution, and it took amazing photos. I also recently had a Nokia with a 12MP camera that was essentially garbage. You can't really compare megapixels to megapixels, as the lens is more important. You could have a 200MP camera, but if you're using a pinhole lens, you're just going to have 200 megapixels of crap.
- 4thaccount 8y ago
  Agreed, but the 41 MP had Carl Zeiss lens (I hear that is good) and the PureView tech. Please correct me if that is just a good name on slapped on a crap lens (I'm not a photography enthusiast )
mikkom 8y ago
Or nokia camera designer light's own camera. https://light.co/camera https://light.co/camera

fraqed 8y ago

AAWP just did a PureView comparison, very interesting that the older Nokias actually beat the new Nokia 9 PureView http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/23435_Imaging_showdown_Nokia_808_Sym.php http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/23435_Imaging_...

diggernet 8y ago
Sounds like maybe I ought to pull the old 1020 out of my museum. One error in that article, though... it is possible to turn off the downsampling to 5MP.

wodenokoto 8y ago

I actually think 1 41MP is less crazy than 5 8MP cameras. 5 lenses, 5 chips and 5 angles, seems hard to use in unison, so you end up having 4 cameras you don't use.

dagw 8y ago
seems hard to use in unison Using the five lenses and five sensors in unison is kind of the whole point of this setup. The underlying technology is pretty clever and allows for some cool tricks not possible with a traditional camera. You can read more about the concept here https://light.co/technology https://light.co/technology edit: that being said, I have no idea how well this turns out to work in practice

rando444 8y ago

I had a Nokia 3650 for 4 years that had a 640x480 resolution, and it took amazing photos. I also recently had a Nokia with a 12MP camera that was essentially garbage. You can't really compare megapixels to megapixels, as the lens is more important. You could have a 200MP camera, but if you're using a pinhole lens, you're just going to have 200 megapixels of crap.

4thaccount 8y ago
Agreed, but the 41 MP had Carl Zeiss lens (I hear that is good) and the PureView tech. Please correct me if that is just a good name on slapped on a crap lens (I'm not a photography enthusiast )

mikkom 8y ago

Or nokia camera designer light's own camera. https://light.co/camera https://light.co/camera