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xRobby 2012-02-27 17:33

41 MP Camera for Symbian Belle
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17178014

'A 41-megapixel Nokia smartphone was among the new technology on show during the opening day of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The Nokia 808 Pureview offers enhanced low-light performance as well as sophisticated image compression designed to help users share pictures.'

Not bad for day 1 of the opening day of Mobile World Congress.

Shame it doesn't look as sexy as the N9/lumia 800 sisters. Hopefully it won't drain the battery too much as well. + It's on symbian which doesn't make much sense since they said they were going to phase that out didn't they?

Thoughts?

celebrant 2012-02-27 17:44

Re: 41 MP Camera for Symbian Belle
 
I think it's gonna be some kind of a 3D stacked sensor where each layer has 1/3 of the total 41 MPixels. Sample pictures look really good though.
As to the symbian coming to an end thing.. it's better to go out with a bang.

Aonsaithya 2012-02-27 17:55

Re: 41 MP Camera for Symbian Belle
 
As far as I know, it creates a 5 megapixel file. Uses 7 pixels for each pixel etc, 41 megapixels would obviously be ******ed with cell phone camera optics.

Oblomow 2012-02-27 17:58

Re: 41 MP Camera for Symbian Belle
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by celebrant (Post 1170743)
I think it's gonna be some kind of a 3D stacked sensor where each layer has 1/3 of the total 41 MPixels. Sample pictures look really good though.
As to the symbian coming to an end thing.. it's better to go out with a bang.

No, the sensor has a traditional Bayer layout.. it is just huge for a smartphone -1/1.2", so quite a lot bigger than 1/1.7" enthusiast compact cameras, and a bit smaller than the Nikon J1 (1"). Pixel spacing is comparable to superzoom compacts with 1/2.3" sensor. White paper is here: http://europe.nokia.com/PRODUCT_META...Whitepaper.pdf

some full-res pics here:
http://cdn.conversations.nokia.com.s...2/Archive2.zip

quite impressive to me.

slarti 2012-02-27 18:03

Re: 41 MP Camera for Symbian Belle
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Aonsaithya (Post 1170749)
As far as I know, it creates a 5 megapixel file. Uses 7 pixels for each pixel etc, 41 megapixels would obviously be ******ed with cell phone camera optics.

It can take even 38Mpix pictures but they don't look anywhere near as good as the 5 or 8Mpix pictures "pixel oversampled" from that huge 41Mpix sensor.

Example:

http://imgon.net/di-A58K.jpg

Joseph9560 2012-02-27 18:05

Re: 41 MP Camera for Symbian Belle
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by xRobby (Post 1170732)
It's on symbian which doesn't make much sense since they said they were going to phase that out didn't they?

Thoughts?

Maybe they can't make it work in their new Win platform. :)

Oblomow 2012-02-27 18:08

Re: 41 MP Camera for Symbian Belle
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Aonsaithya (Post 1170749)
As far as I know, it creates a 5 megapixel file. Uses 7 pixels for each pixel etc, 41 megapixels would obviously be ******ed with cell phone camera optics.

You will have also the option to take pictures at full res, and if you look at the second link in my previous post, the turn out surprisingly good (at least in those bright conditions), even at 100% magnification. You see some grain, but almost no noise reduction or sharpening artifacts (take a look at the hair on the arms and legs of the climbers). Lens seems to be quite sharp also. I guess it looks a bit different in low light, but then you can lower resolution to average out noise.

The main point however is that it gives you a digital, but lossless zoom at lower resolutions, around 3x at 5Mpx, 4x at 1080p, 6x at 720p, 12x at nHD.

leomax 2012-02-27 18:10

Re: 41 MP Camera for Symbian Belle
 
This is remarkable.
Bye bye cheap P & S.


Now where is meltemi with this :)

mrwormp 2012-02-27 18:14

Re: 41 MP Camera for Symbian Belle
 
Do not see a front facing camera.

skykooler 2012-02-27 18:15

Re: 41 MP Camera for Symbian Belle
 
I really want this with Maemo. How many times must we say to ourselves "If only we ran Nokia..."?


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