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Nokia 9 PureView Now Available: A Flagship with a 5+1-Camera Array

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Re: Nokia 9 PureView Now Available: A Flagship with a 5+1-Camera Array

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Post by jplayer01 »

a012 wrote: post #7
jplayer01 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people don't always want to carry around their DSLR. Having a decent back-up with great image quality in their phone that they always have with them is convenient. And not everybody is willing to buy a DSLR, but cares just enough about picture quality that they might get this. Apple and Samsung don't fill their advertising with how great their cameras are just for fun.

A compact camera like Sony RX100 or Ricoh GR II would give you better quality than phones camera yet smaller than a DSLR

And yet it's still an extra device that you'd need to plan for using. I have this Sansa MP3 player with great quality audio that is 1/10th the size of your average digital camera. I still don't bring it with me anywhere anymore.

Re: Nokia 9 PureView Now Available: A Flagship with a 5+1-Camera Array

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Post by lucasverra »

dagw wrote: post #14
a012 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A compact camera like Sony RX100 or Ricoh GR II would give you better quality than phones camera yet smaller than a DSLR

Yes and no. Phones these days have a lot of very smart built in software that makes it very easy to take good looking pictures in most situations by just pointing and clicking. Could a skilled photographer using an RX100 in manual mode and then spending 30 minutes in Lightroom produces better results? Absolutely. Would a picture taken with an RX100 in full auto mode using the default jpeg settings look better when vi…

this comment right there will be useful for years to come. /Saving

Re: Nokia 9 PureView Now Available: A Flagship with a 5+1-Camera Array

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Post by kmlx »

am i the only one that is reminded by the "multi-blade razor wars", when gillette and wilkinson got into a "mine has more blades" competition? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-knive...

>> Gillette has historically called the shots in this razor war. It enjoys a huge worldwide sales advantage over Schick/Wilkinson Sword, which is now based in St Louis. With several lawsuits and countersuits constantly on the go, the companies can fairly be said truly to hate one another - especially since Gillette was unnerved in 2003 by Wilkinson Sword's brilliant and somewhat insolent introduction of the Quattro, a four-blade beast of a razor, which captured Gillette's jealously-guarded "most blades" title and has held on to it for the past three years.

Re: Nokia 9 PureView Now Available: A Flagship with a 5+1-Camera Array

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Post by fsloth »

kmlx wrote: post #25

am i the only one that is reminded by the "multi-blade razor wars", when gillette and wilkinson got into a "mine has more blades" competition? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-knive... >> Gillette has historically called the shots in this razor war. It enjoys a huge worldwide sales advantage over Schick/Wilkinson Sword, which is now based in St Louis. With several lawsuits and countersuits const…

With cameras more physical lense area and more sensor area should actually be beneficial.

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Post by 4thaccount »

kmlx wrote: post #25

am i the only one that is reminded by the "multi-blade razor wars", when gillette and wilkinson got into a "mine has more blades" competition? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-knive... >> Gillette has historically called the shots in this razor war. It enjoys a huge worldwide sales advantage over Schick/Wilkinson Sword, which is now based in St Louis. With several lawsuits and countersuits const…

If you think that is crazy look back to the Nokia 1020 that had a 41 MP camera and PureView back when most phones had like 8 MP. It took some awesome photos and several of my friends were very satisfied with the phone.

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Post by fsloth »

swarnie_ wrote: post #2

2 × 12 MP RGB, f/1.8, 1/2.9", 1.25µm 3 × 12 MP BW, f/1.8, 1/2.9", 1.25µm 1 × TOF depth sensor 1 × dual-LED/dual-tone flash Zeiss Optics Who is this phone even for? If you're that into cameras wouldn't you go buy... a camera?

It's not people who care about cameras, it's for people who enjoy photography. Those are not completely related, since a camera junkie might enjoy collecting hardware for the thrill of it.
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