Monday, May 28, 2007

Camera - introduction

I'm preparing a full review of the N95 camera functionality and image quality. Here's just some first impressions.
The N95 has a main camera with a 5 Megapixel sensor and Carl Zeiss Optics. The main camera is capable of capturing stills as well as videos. There's also a second, lower resolution camera for video calls. So in paper it looks really good. How does it perform in reality?
Below is an image taken with N95 using the best image quality settings. Click on the image to view a slightly larger version. The image has not been processed in any way. It has just been scaled down to reduce resolution. It was a clear and sunny day so the lighting conditions were good. If you don't look at the image at full resolution (100% magnification) it looks good. The color balance is good (with the latest firmware).
If you look at 100% magnification, then you start seeing the true image quality. The second image is a detail taken from the original 5 Megapixel image. There you can see the biggest problem with the N95 camera. It seems like the noise reduction algorithm is too aggressive. It blurs the details too much (look at the leaves). It would be interesting to know how noisy the original image is. It would be great to be able to control the amount of noise reduction.
Other than that, the first impression of the image quality is good. Not bad for a cell phone.


1 comment:

sunnyrains show said...

your bolgger is so cool n95??