The Ultimate PureView Camera? Nokia 808 vs Nokia 9 vs Lumia 950 vs Lumia 1020 By TheMrNokia [Abdulla Zaki]

Hey guys so I'm. Finally, back I know it's been about eight years since my last video, but I really appreciate your patience. I'm a huge Nokia fan and I wanted to create this video as a tribute to all the people that worked on the amazing Preview technology that we all got to experience and love on different products and also find out which phone is the most worthy holder of the few of you title, so I'll be giving you a quick brief about the different implementations of the technology, and I'm going to be doing a comparison between four that I've chosen. Specifically, if all you care about is the image comparison you can skip down to the link I'll be providing down below. So, let's get straight into it. Nokia brought a lot of camera innovations into the smartphone world.

Let's see if you can keep up the n8 had a huge 12 megapixel sensor with xenon flash, the n9 had a sensor capable of capturing 4 by 3 or 16 billion, with minimal resolution loss. The 808 Preview brought pixel over sampling, combining the details from a huge 41 megapixel sensor into a super detailed 5 megapixel image with lossless to the 920. Had the first optical image stabilization module in a smartphone. The 925 had the first six elements: camera lens, the 1020 used pixel over sampling and shot over sampled and huge full resolution. Raw images simultaneously for future reframing, the 930 further refined the pixel over sampling technology with no camera bomb.

The 1520 had four microphones for superior audio, recording the 950 XL combined pixel over sampling, with the ability to adjust HDR tuning and flash effects after the image is taken. And finally, the Nokia 9 combined images captured with five cameras for ultra detailed RAW images and excellent dynamic range, as well as very advanced. Ok effects. I decided to go with these four because they were the most groundbreaking for their time and to see how the modern Nokia n9 compares with its ultimate predecessors from different eras. I'll start with the oldest from 2012, the first Nokia Preview smartphone, the Nokia 808.

It had a 41 megapixel sensor with an aperture of f28 for xenon flash and a neutral density filter, which is a rarity in smartphones. The sensor size was 1 over 1.2 inches. It uses this massive sensor to capture over sampled, 5 or 8 megapixel images combining up to 8 pixels into a super pixel. In theory, it should mean noise, free images with colors that are true to life. Thanks to the massive sensor, the phone also has lossless three times: zoom, essentially cropping five megapixel images from the 41 megapixel sensor, I, really like the camera interface, as it allows plenty of customization options such as adjusting saturation sharpness and contrast levels.

You can also shoot full resolution images if you want the phone also can shoot 1080p videos in 30 frames per second, the 808 Preview was so ahead of its time and for the first time ever, its images could rival professional cameras in some limited situations. Moving on to its spiritual successor, the Lucia 1020 released in 2013. This phone also had a huge 41 megapixel sensor, but this time it's slightly smaller at 1 over 1.5 inches. It also had optical image. Stabilization and xenon flash the 1020 also has a larger aperture at F 2.2, and that combined with the IS meant that it was a much more capable smartphone for capturing low-light images. It still retained the same concept of capturing over sampled, 5 megapixel images combining 8 pixels into one.

However, the phone also shot for resolution, raw 38, megapixel images simultaneously. The benefit of this was allowing you to reframe the same shot even after capturing the image, as well as giving you the option to edit the RAW images to your liking. The camera interface on the 1020 was a pioneer in giving you manual settings even the recently released. Nokia's phones have the same interface for other pro mode, despite the huge Oreo plate on the back, the design was very sleek and still one of my favorite Nazi designs, the last of the old Preview legacy, the Lucia 950xl was released by Microsoft in 2000 fifteen after they acquired the Nokia phones division. It was fitted with a big 20 megapixel sensor, with the size of one over two point: four inches optical image: stabilization triple LED flash and a large F 1.9 aperture. The 950 XL can capture eight megapixel images that benefit from two times lossless zoom, or you could capture full resolution images in JPG or row format.

This was the first Lucia have benefited from modern software Isidora found on recent phones such as advanced HDR and nine. It took things a step further by offering rich capture which stacks multiple images to create the perfect image or allowing you to adjust the level of high dynamic range after capturing the images you can also capture images with flash on then adjust how much flash effect you want in the image which worked really well for balancing between dark backgrounds and bright subjects. For many fans, the 950 represents the best of Preview technology, despite the phone having a boring design and cheap feel compared to its legendary predecessors and, finally, back to our present time with the Nokia 9 Preview co-developed. With light, the phone is equipped with five 12 megapixel one over two point: nine inch, sensors with an aperture of f-18, dual LED flash and the time-of-flight sensor for measuring depth, three of the five sensors or monochrome sensors. That can capture more light and two can capture color.

The phone combines all five sensors to capture a single image, with details from all five allowing the phone to capture up to 1200 focal planes for depth, mapping for superior both effect and the ability to refocus. After taking the image. The cameras are also capable of capturing up to 12 stops of dynamic range. The other advantage of using this many sensors is capturing massive RAW images with plenty of details which you can extract later using Lightroom. So how do these cameras stack uptime for the photo comparison for the photo comparison? I used, auto mode on all phones except the Nokia 808 Preview, which required me to use night modes for certain situations to get the most comparable results.

You, the 808 Preview, still captures the cleanest most realistic. Looking images in good light, thanks to having the largest sensor and very natural processing and the bouquet effect, is real and beautiful. However, when it comes to dynamic range in low light, it falls short mainly due to lacking intelligent software that most modern smartphones use. The interface has good options, but doesn't give the same granular controls such as shutter speed to get the best out of it. Unfortunately, the 1020 captures excellent images with processing that is more widely accepted by consumers when it comes to contrast and saturation.

However, its weak point is in lacking HDR features and the white balance is almost always adding and unwanted, yellow tint to images its manual mode, on the other hand, is still excellent today and allow us to take nice images in a much wider spectrum of situations compared to the 808. The Nokia 9 offers the unique solution to bouquet and produces excellent images. If you know how to use it, its raw images have so much hidden detail, and you can get the best dynamic rage out of any given situation. If you know what you're doing, unfortunately, it's massively letdown in auto mode, specifically in low-light or the phone, simply chooses the worst possible settings and the low-light images look terrible most of the time. This is very strange.

Considering a simple software tweak or using manual mode can easily fix this, making it competitive with modern day smartphones in low-light. Its other major drawback is reliability. The camera software is one of the most unreliable buggy software's I've used on a phone and that's without taking into consideration the processing times simply unacceptable in this time and age. I wouldn't recommend this phone unless you want to tweak RAW images, otherwise the phone's potential is almost completely wasted. Those who want to tweak RAW images will, however, be very happy with what it can do, and I fall into that camp when it comes to just point-and-shoot potential.

The Lucia 950xl is still the best viewing of smartphone in most situations when it comes to speed exposure, reliability and image quality in low-light I am so impressed with how well it holds up even against much newer hardware, the ability to adjust HDR and flash effects after the image is taken. I was also fun and useful. The only weak point I can find is that newer phones have much easier to use night modes and more advanced HDR, but when it comes to image quality, the camera is easily at least 3 to 4 years ahead of its time, and it's a shame that we might never get a true successor. Every single one of these phones is, to this day extremely capable of taking excellent images in the right hands. Each phone has a much higher potential than what is shown here, and I would highly recommend learning how to use manual settings to get the best out of them.

So that's it for me if you've liked this video, please share like and subscribe I'll be doing a lot more retro Nokia reviews and comparisons. So stay tuned. Thank you for watching.

Source : TheMrNokia [Abdulla Zaki]