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• juholemmetyinen

  ✭✭  /  July 2019

  I have a lot to comment about this, but can't be bothered to write everything. I think the review takes a few shortcuts here and there though. I mean for example the front facing Pureview algorithm thing. The resulting output is 20.1 MP, shouldn't real pixel binning (4 pixels to 1 in this case) make for a lower MP photo? @madbilly
  

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• madbilly

  ✭✭✭✭  /  July 2019

  Hi @juholemmetyinen, you're right, I don't think the front-facing camera uses PureView algorithms, it's a quad-bayer device so whilst it's similar it's not as good.

  What were the other things you noticed? There were quite a few things that made me think "really?"!

  Cheers
  

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• juholemmetyinen

  ✭✭  /  July 2019

  I think the special version of the snapdragon is referring to to extra processor made by light. I don't recall any other info regarding the speciality of the 845, other than the tight integration work they did together with Qualcomm.
  

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  4K EIS is to my experience nonexistent or it's not that good. I've been shooting 1080p because the stabilization is better and I'm not too enthusiastic about video anyway. I think you can somewhat stabilize videos after the fact in google photos?

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  I don't know a lot about the audio capture, but it's quite good. I recently compared this to the rich recording of a Lumia 620 and the Lumia fared better that alright, I think it sounded even better.. Both filter out loud noises well, but the rich recording doesn't make the sound flat, but keeps the thumping bass etc. somewhat intact.

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  You can capture live photos, but then you can't do depth mode or RAW, so not a huge feature to have imo, honestly I never have liked that, neither in Lumias or iPhones.

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  Regarding performance, I never had any problem with the Nokia 8 and certainly I haven't had any with the Nokia 9 either. Shooting with all bells and whistles on the 9 heats up a lot around the cameras, but the heat quickly dissipates after a few moments. And this is only when you take ~tens of photos in quick succession.

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  Yeah I think Nokia was the exclusive partner for a little while, I think even Sony is developing something like this with Light, or do I have wrong/outdated info?
  

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  I read some rumours about a possible Nokia 9.1, I might be tempted to get that phone, but there's one thing putting me off - the naming. How am I supposed to hashtag 9.1 in twitter/instagram @madbilly
  

  
  

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• Xioness

  ✭✭  /  July 2019

  juholemmetyinen said:

  
  

  Yeah I think Nokia was the exclusive partner for a little while, I think even Sony is developing something like this with Light, or do I have wrong/outdated info?
  

  
  

  If i have it correctly in my mind then it is sony and xiaomi. I think LG also got something kinda like that but nokia is nothing special anymore with that 

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• madbilly

  ✭✭✭✭  /  July 2019

  Hi @juholemmetyinen,

  Thanks for your thoughts, much of it is what I was thinking myself.

  "Special version of the 845" - I agree, I thought it was just the additional Light co-processor.

  4K EIS, I agree it's non-existent, EIS only works at lower resolutions.

  Audio capture - that's interesting, especially your comparison with the Lumia 620! If you had said the 920, 925, 930 etc were better then I would not have been surprised, but the 620?! Wow, that really shows that HMD cut some corners (and why I'm right to say that the 9PV is still not a replacement for the old N-series).

  Live photos, I never used on Lumia, but I am interested to know this is possible on the 9PV. The absence of depth or RAW doesn't surprise me though, since this would make the size of the photos huge. I imagine that the overall detail in the live photos is poor compared to a still image as well.

  "Heating up" is how I would describe my only experience with the 9PV in Barcelona - I could feel my fingers getting hot as I took the photos, good to hear your feedback that this is only when you're really hammering the shutter button!
  

  I think you and @Xioness are right. LG showed some sort of array-camera on the back of a phone last year I think but it wasn't clear if it was related to Light. Sony are partnering with Light relating to sensors, there's no indication that this will appear on Sony smartphones. I don't recall anything about Xiaomi working with Light but I read recently that Xiaomi will open an office in Tampere where the old Nokia imaging team was based.

  You will have to write #Nokia9dot1!

  Cheers

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• Xioness

  ✭✭  /  July 2019 edited July 2019

  madbilly said:

  
  

  I think you and @Xioness are right. LG showed some sort of array-camera on the back of a phone last year I think but it wasn't clear if it was related to Light. Sony are partnering with Light relating to sensors, there's no indication that this will appear on Sony smartphones. I don't recall anything about Xiaomi working with Light but I read recently that Xiaomi will open an office in Tampere where the old Nokia imaging team was based.

  You will have to write #Nokia9dot1!

  Cheers

  If I'm not wrong then i was reading that the sony xperia 3? Will have a light setup with 6-8 cameras. 

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