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Regardless of zoom levels or other disadvantages, this is a honest comparison of true results you would get from each phone. It's a moot point to argue technicals you have no control over. Overall, the 920 just seems way clearer, and objects have much sharper edges.
Just another reason I will most likely get a WP when I'm due for another upgrade this winter.
If we're honest, this is hardly surprising. Before Nokia made it's commitment to Microsoft, they were a company at the forefront of phone technology, including their cameras. However, what this does actually do is beg the question of why they opted for Microsoft. I'm without a doubt in my mind that if they were making Androids right now, they'd be dominating.
1) It differentiates them from the sea of Android phones.
2) Nokia's CEO, Stephen Elop, was a former head of Microsoft's business division. So there was already a (presumably) favorable relationship in place.
All of the others seem "zoomed in". I've heard someone say it's because the others use digital stabilization, which means they have to crop the middle of the image to stabilize it against the edges, or something like that. Is that true? Because then OIS seems to significantly improve image quality in video recording as well.
To me it looks like the "others" have far lower bitrate than the Nokia. It'd be interesting to see the originals.
Imagine the following: You have two microscopes mounted on a similar device like seen in the video. The first microscope shows everything two times larger than the second one. If you move "shake" both microscopes the same way you will see more "shakes" when looking through the first one. Isn't that correct and can't this be applied to what is shown in the video?
Yikes, that is quite a large phone. Lumias look like great phones but must they be so large?
I wouldn't mind giving up a little thickness for comfort holding the device. I think in the race to make things thinner we might have gotten carried away. Imagine a phone as thin as box board...now imaging trying to hold it.
Others have mentioned the different "zoom" levels already. Please correct me if I am wrong but doesn't the zoom level have a direct impact on the differential caused by movement of the camera? Imagine the following: You have two microscopes mounted on a similar device like seen in the video. The first microscope shows everything two times larger than the second one. If you move "shake" both microscopes the same way y…
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>4. No, because post processing can only solve relative stabilisation between frames of video, it does not work within one frame. Apparently you haven't seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLLJBfRzXIQ#t=0m57s
try doing it in a mobile device with 30 full hd frames per second... Still, it's pretty amazing, pity it isn't actually in CS7
Others have mentioned the different "zoom" levels already. Please correct me if I am wrong but doesn't the zoom level have a direct impact on the differential caused by movement of the camera? Imagine the following: You have two microscopes mounted on a similar device like seen in the video. The first microscope shows everything two times larger than the second one. If you move "shake" both microscopes the same way y…
Engadget has been suspiciously friendly to Nokia lately (I haven't seen them take so many interviews with so many employees from one company before), but I still find it hard to believe that they would increase the zoom level themselves for the other smartphones to make them look worse on purpose. Surely there has to be another explanation for why all the other smartphones look zoomed in.
and the Lumia 920 camera apparently has a narrower focal length (which results in a wider field of view), so it can capture more on-screen than than the iPhone; hence it looking particularly 'zoomed-in' when compared side-by-side.
additionally, and i'm not entirely sure about this, but the digital image stabilization software (in contrast to Nokia's actual/mechanical OIS) found on the other phones may have some cropping involved to help smooth-out shaking which would be typically most noticible around the edges..
Depending where the camera is located on each phone, that foam holder will "amplify" movement on the outer sides. I hope they put the phones with the cameras near to the center inside it and switched them too. Otherwise this might be very wrong.