Mar 23, 2012

Nokia Lumia 800 - Camera Review

As promised, the camera review of the Lumia 800,

Nothing special or innovative of the 8 MP camera, it takes pictures of resolution of 3264x2448 pixels, has auto focus and dual LED flash.

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Picture Capture

The Camera settings are some oddly in text format only, but its very simple, all settings to scene mode, white balance exposure, Contrast, Saturation,  ISO  are all available. Though I'd prefer settings to be on the screen at one touch, its much more feasible. The only bit which troubles me is, that the zoom in/out from the screen isn't smooth, the zoom progresses in parts, which is really annoying and no, the volume rocker keys don't double as zoom in/out function.

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The pictures come out normal in daylight but the colors look dull or bit faded. The night shots are excellent though. Some samples below via flickr

http://flic.kr/s/aHsjyFHXo1




Video Capture

The Lumia 800 can take videos at 720p@30fps. The video quality is real good and supports recording at Night with LED flash like the E7. While recording, the timer shows up on the screen, though its transparent, its bit annoying with those huge fonts, because the screen while recording pinches down from the original screen size as you can see below.

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