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• user1514619665383

  ✭✭  /  September 2019

  They have made a mockery of such an outstanding phone. Others paid and got good reviews. HMD sat back and thought word of mouth will be good enough for the promotion. But with this lackluster community it's not going to happen

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• user1514619665383

  ✭✭  /  September 2019

  See. Nobody is even discussing about dxo. Such a worse community. Is your N9PV really deserve 85 or is only my unit is on par with top ranked phones?. We are trying our best to prove Dxo wrong at platforms like Twitter but are falling short of support

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• stetre76

  ✭✭  /  September 2019

  user1514619665383 said:

  See. Nobody is even discussing about dxo. Such a worse community. Is your N9PV really deserve 85 or is only my unit is on par with top ranked phones?. We are trying our best to prove Dxo wrong at platforms like Twitter but are falling short of support

  My humble opinion - the cameras of the N9PV can do an excellent job, especially if you know how to work with the Pro mode.
  
  So yeah, the quality of the photos taken can be very good.
  
  But what's ruining it is the software...
  It takes ages to the camera app is ready. Then it takes another eternity to switch between the modes
  And processing  is the photosalso pretty slow
  
  That manual focus is missing is not even worth mentioning any more.
  
  Consequently, the N9PV had a good camera, but it's the software that really ruins it and is, in my opinion, not worthy of a high end flagship
  

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• Tim9

  ✭✭  /  September 2019 edited September 2019

  @stetre76 There is a fundamental issue with the cameras in low light. Small cameras and lenses mean the images are too dark for recombination. Essentially it is a good idea poorly executed. I agree that the software needs work.
  

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• user1514619665383

  ✭✭  /  September 2019

  HMD not providing a camera update is unforgivable. They did the same with Nokia 8. Now doing with Nokia 9. Though I get excellent pictures 75% of time. Problems are in extreme lowlight and moving subjects like kids. And no focus control in manual mode. Working with Raw makes the photos much better. 

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• petrus

  ✭✭✭✭  /  September 2019

  There is still something to improve on the camera application.  Perhaps the update will come with Android 10.
  

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• PRIMAL TECH

  ✭✭  /  September 2019

  Google is ruining Nokia

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• stetre76

  ✭✭  /  September 2019

  @PRIMAL TECH please explain!!!
  
  imho it's the other way round, especially when we are talking about the camera software - the camera software is the only app/software that's not coming from Google but was developed by HMD/Nokia
  
  It's the HMD/Nokia camera app/software that makes the N9PV camera so hard to use...very slow start up time, no manual focus, switching between modes very slow,...
  
  of course i do see the problem that the native google camera hasn't supported multi-lens cameras yet and that's probably why HMD/Nokia came up with their own software. 
  
  But I am quite sure that the google camera could have been modified to support multi-lens cameras and i am also quite sure that the result would have been way better than what HMD/Nokia came up with...

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• singhnsk

  Super User  /  September 2019

  @stetre76 Google Camera is probably one of the only selling points of Pixel and Google has not offered its Pixel camera app for licensing to others. If it was, HMD would not have spent into building their own app.
  
  

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• stetre76

  ✭✭  /  September 2019

  @singhnsk you've definitely got a point there!
  still, i think the multi lens camera was was also one of the reasons - so far google didn't really support multi lens cameras.
  
  This is (probably) going to change with the upcoming Pixel 4/XL although a direct comparison to the N9PV camera is still going to be difficult, as the Pixel 4/XL is not going to combine its lenses in the way the N9PV

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