Re: Don't count on N900 as your primary camera for Xmas
 

N900 is pretty good if lighting is sufficient. Greatly improved interface over previous Nseries (though lacking in certain camera feature options).

For taking photos of people (which I guess most general camera phone persons do) Xenon flash (like on the N82) would have greatly helped.

If you are familiar with the N82, (over two years old now, right?) you'd know that that's pretty much good enough to replace point and shoot cameras.

But N900 is the interim geek phone which Nokia aren't plowing too much resources into. I really hope they put Xenon into its successor.

Re: Don't count on N900 as your primary camera for Xmas
 

I guess its just me, but I'm not able to see any photos that I take with my N900 using the Photos app. I'm able to see them when I go to File Manager. Anyone have any idea of some settings that I'm supposed to do? I've chosen All Images as the folder to view.

Re: Don't count on N900 as your primary camera for Xmas
 

Try viewing "default camera folder".

Re: Don't count on N900 as your primary camera for Xmas
 

Having taken some indoor photos of my brother and his son yesterday, I agree that indoor photos are not good. They are obviously grainy. My N82 is much better as a camera. Why couldn't they have just used those settings/hardware/compression factors etc? And that's even before we take into account the battery-sapping xenon flash...

Outdoor photos in good light have been great so far though.

I've also found a problem of the flash firing even when I select no flash.

Re: Don't count on N900 as your primary camera for Xmas
 

Tried doing that but to no avail. When I try to view the pictures; it takes me to All Images and I get a message saying "Retrieving information on the new media files. Estimated time remaining: xx:xx"
The estimated time goes anywhere from less than a minute to close to an hour; fluctuating in an absolutely random (for me) fashion. Anyone else face the same issue?:confused:

Re: Don't count on N900 as your primary camera for Xmas
 

Play with the ISO level and exposure - for some reason the auto iso always goes very high in lower light levels - setting it manually to 100 for me results in much less grain and acceptable lighting - tweak the exposure a little and you can get very acceptable low light shots

Re: Don't count on N900 as your primary camera for Xmas
 

Yeah, my initial impression of the camera is mixed. I tried taking shots, but there were too much delays between fully depressing the shutter and it actually taking the picture. I also got some motion blur because of that.

That being said, the video function actually worked quite well in capturing my nephew's skit.

That being said, my wife's Moto Zine still wins out as far as camera phones go.

Re: Don't count on N900 as your primary camera for Xmas
 

Not quite feasible. The moment you change one component, the changes domino through the whole image processing chain. For starters, the video processing hardware is certainly different as it is part of the OMAP3 package.

Make sure you're not confusing exposure flash with focus-assist.

Re: Don't count on N900 as your primary camera for Xmas
 

you can tweak and tweak all week till you cant speak and your n900 photos will stil be weak!!!!
this camera is trash and nokia wont lift a finger to change it cause it would be too expensive to come up with some kinda hardware change for every one who brought one

Re: Don't count on N900 as your primary camera for Xmas
 

You do know that there is a photo thread documenting photos taken by the N900, many of them are of acceptable quality. I don't quite agree that the camera is trash but to each is own.