Wasn't the Nokia 8 set to receive a camera update after Android Pie? This phone has amazing camera hardware that can easily outperform other devices at the same price point but it has been undermined by not-so-good software (try using the Google Camera app for a few days and you'll get my point)
This thing is a flagship, and HMD should treat it like one, even the Nokia 5 got a camera update after Android Pie, which is even more staggering.
Hope to soon receive a proper update.
A loyal Nokia fan.
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</span><span>Unsatisfied consumers will say the brand bad, which will hurt sales not only of Nokia 8, but of all versions of Nokia. Not to mention the poor results obtained by the tests of bloggers, youtubers, and entities such as dxomark.</span>
Nokia video does not allow manual mode, among other problems related to focusing. Nokia should be at the level of the best such as Huawei, Apple and Samsung; even Asus has more interesting camera functions than nokia 8. Wake up and pressure the developer team or get another team.</span>
https://community.phones.nokia.com/discussion/comment/80925/#Comment_80925
https://mijnnokia.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/taking-pictures-with-your-smartphone/
Or download and use Gcam.
5 photos taken with quite difficult light circumstances - a low sun and lots of shadow.
Taken with my standard settings:
Twin - HDR On - Focus (tap on screen)
Zoom and examine how sharp the photos really are.
(Nice to edit and zoom in to make better compositions afterwards.)
Many words, no facts. Especially for the camera- firmware.
It is "history" for me since 2 weeks.
Now I use a Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus and I can say, I' m happy.
Bye, Bye "Nokia" and the best wishes for all the users here in this community.
1 - https://mijnnokia.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/taking-pictures-with-your-smartphone/
A manual for the standard camera app based on comments in this and other forums.
2 - https://mijnnokia.wordpress.com/2019/06/04/using-a-gcam-on-nokia-8/
Download an excellent gcam and use it side by side with the standard camera.
I had this phone one and a half year and still no good camera update, I don't like the groped video with electronic video stabilisation and no way to turn it off. And irritating focus jumping with no way put to manual focus in video.
Alternative camera app have better manual controlls and no cropped video, but in cost of bad audio.
So in my opinion I need shoose between good video or audio.
And in picture mode you can not lock focus and exposure for more then 5 seconds before go to default.
Come on how hard can it be to get a good camera app for a so called flagship phone.
Otherwise I like the phone.