i get a lot of questions about which camera phone to buy these days, so i decided to take a few we had laying around here and put them to the test... here's a snapshot of the lovely chicago river, across the street from chez burning door. these pictures were all taken within seconds of each other. you be the judge. the pictures themselves are just one dimension of buying a cameraphone, and there well may be some valid reasons for buying a phone that doesn't have the best picture quality, because you won't really be able to print these pictures anyway.
clearly all cameras are not created equal. all pictures were taken on the phone's highest quality setting it had. some of these pictures were resized to fit on the page. i am always amazed how the exact same picture can look so different through different lenses. there's a proverb in there somewhere.
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nokia 3650 takes a pretty clear picture, but a bit orangish |
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nokia 7250 brighter. a little blurry, a bit of fish eye. doesn't do well with the glare |
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sony ericsson P800 clear, color is on, dimensions look good. |
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sony ericsson T610 a little blurry, a little fisheyed |
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LG VX 6000 sharp picture, a little dark |
i've been shooting with the p800 since august and i generally think it's the best thing going in the current crop of camphones. it's probably the first of the current device generation to make you really see the potential that this functional combination -- mobile voice/text/photos -- has for explosive growth in the coming years. if i had a p800-sized device that offered equivalent photo quality/size to my canon elph powershot s110 (around 2MB, 1600x1200), i'd have little need to own another digital camera. plus, i'm far more likely to shoot more photos since i always have this thing with me. the cultural impact of picture messaging has yet to be even fractionally realized, i think.
Posted by: matt at October 16, 2003 09:31 AM
wow. thanks for the side by side comparison. I think the best looking one is the P800 but perhaps with some image tweaking the Lg would be OK.
Perhaps you could do a portrait series next?
Posted by: Kenneth at October 19, 2003 09:42 AM
yes. we'll continue to do more of these. the phone that i know is also very good but we don't currently have is the sharp gx20.
i've also gotten some requests to post the full size images, so i'll try to format this with links to the full size images. these are full size for each of the cameras, but i put HTML image height and width tags to make page loading bearable.
Posted by: steve at October 19, 2003 11:04 AM
-- shameless plug alert --
Thought I'd add that I've got a whole pile of P800 shots in my moblog in case you want to see how the p800 does in a variety of (mostly) outdoor settings.
Posted by: matt at October 22, 2003 02:36 PM
SonyEricsson T610 take the best pictures!! Niewiem czy dobrze napisałem ale cóż... :)))) I LOVE NYC:)
Posted by: wojtek at August 22, 2004 02:40 PM