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Equipment & Techniques => Digital Cameras & Shooting Techniques => Topic started by: Gemmtech on February 27, 2012, 10:03:58 am

Title: Nokia 41MP Cameraphone
Post by: Gemmtech on February 27, 2012, 10:03:58 am

You read it correctly, 41MP is how it is being advertised....

Well, I love marketing as much as the next guy.  So much for my Nikon D800, should I cancel the order? :-)

http://www.t3.com/news/nokia-808-pureview-4-inch-41mp-cameraphone-announced

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/02/27/technology-nokia-windows.html

Title: Nokia 41MP Cameraphone ... and 1/1.2" sensor, f/2.4 prime lens
Post by: BJL on February 27, 2012, 11:02:02 am

Nokia is fairly good about explaining that this is for oversampling/downsampling and in-camera cropping to a more reasonable final output pixel count:


"It’s not about the amount of the pixels, it’s what you do with them. ... It takes every bit of image goodness captured by a 41 MP sensor and Carl Zeiss lens and turns it into beautifully detailed 5 MP photos and Full HD videos."  --- http://europe.nokia.com/pureview

"At standard resolutions (2/3, 5 and 8 megapixels) this means the ability to zoom without loss of clarity and capture seven pixels of information, condensing into one pixel for the sharpest images imaginable.  At high-resolution (38 megapixel maximum) it means the ability to capture an image, then zoom, reframe, crop and resize afterwards to expose previously unseen levels of details." --- http://press.nokia.com/2012/02/27/nokia-808-pureview-ushers-in-a-revolution-in-smartphone-imaging/

"The large sensor enables pixel oversampling, which will be explained in detail in this paper but in a nutshell it means the combination of many pixels into one perfect pixel." --- http://europe.nokia.com/PRODUCT_METADATA_0/Products/Phones/8000-series/808/Nokia808PureView_Whitepaper.pdf


But as usual, the marketing people can say some things that make the engineers cringe.

Title: Re: Nokia 41MP Cameraphone
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 27, 2012, 01:50:21 pm

Ah! Nirvana for all! Nokia has the secret of "one perfect pixel."   ;D

Title: Re: Nokia 41MP Cameraphone
Post by: Pantoned on February 27, 2012, 03:56:56 pm

Sample Photos look nice, knowing we are talking about a phone camera. How much actual resolution is there? 15 mp? I don't know, but anyway the specs claim to have better behaviour in low light etc, and the ability to crop. We all love to have this kind of "allways-on-me" cameras, and the better the specs, the better for all.
 
http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/27/nokia-808-pureview-first-sample-shots-feast-your-eyes/

Arnau-