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Others have mentioned the different "zoom" levels already. Please correct me if I am wrong but doesn't the zoom level have a direct impact on the differential c

Others have mentioned the different "zoom" levels already. Please correct me if I am wrong but doesn't the zoom level have a direct impact on the differential caused by movement of the camera? Imagine the following: You have two microscopes mounted on a similar device like seen in the video. The first microscope shows everything two times larger than the second one. If you move "shake" both microscopes the same way you will see more "shakes" when looking through the first one. Isn't that correct and can't this be applied to what is shown in the video?

mtgx 14y ago
Engadget has been suspiciously friendly to Nokia lately (I haven't seen them take so many interviews with so many employees from one company before), but I still find it hard to believe that they would increase the zoom level themselves for the other smartphones to make them look worse on purpose. Surely there has to be another explanation for why all the other smartphones look zoomed in.
- vaultboy21 14y ago
  re: engadget being suspiciously friendly to Nokia.. i think that if you're willing to actually send a reporter to Espoo, Finland (of all places), Nokia would likely be happy to provide access. especially so, given what now appears to have been a significantly overblown reaction to their introduction of the technology (as the actual usage results appear to validate what was demoed, even if not shot with the Lumia at the time).. and the Lumia 920 camera apparently has a narrower focal length (which results in a wider field of view), so it can capture more on-screen than than the iPhone; hence it looking particularly 'zoomed-in' when compared side-by-side. additionally, and i'm not entirely sure about this, but the digital image stabilization software (in contrast to Nokia's actual/mechanical OIS) found on the other phones may have some cropping involved to help smooth-out shaking which would be typically most noticible around the edges..

mtgx 14y ago

Engadget has been suspiciously friendly to Nokia lately (I haven't seen them take so many interviews with so many employees from one company before), but I still find it hard to believe that they would increase the zoom level themselves for the other smartphones to make them look worse on purpose. Surely there has to be another explanation for why all the other smartphones look zoomed in.

vaultboy21 14y ago
re: engadget being suspiciously friendly to Nokia.. i think that if you're willing to actually send a reporter to Espoo, Finland (of all places), Nokia would likely be happy to provide access. especially so, given what now appears to have been a significantly overblown reaction to their introduction of the technology (as the actual usage results appear to validate what was demoed, even if not shot with the Lumia at the time).. and the Lumia 920 camera apparently has a narrower focal length (which results in a wider field of view), so it can capture more on-screen than than the iPhone; hence it looking particularly 'zoomed-in' when compared side-by-side. additionally, and i'm not entirely sure about this, but the digital image stabilization software (in contrast to Nokia's actual/mechanical OIS) found on the other phones may have some cropping involved to help smooth-out shaking which would be typically most noticible around the edges..