What? 41 Mega Pixels! I have to say, that when you get in to the 40 mega pixel range, those numbers are generally associated with Pro level Medium Format digital cameras the likes of Hasselblad. Well Nokia has broken all of the rules and have come out with their Nokia 808 Pure View camera-cell phone or is that cell phone-camera? We are talking about 41 Million Pixels and a sensor that is up to 8 times larger than the standard cell phone camera sensors.
An Imaging Revolution
The Nokia PureView Pro imaging technology is the combination of a large, super high resolution 41Mpix with high performance Carl Zeiss optics. The large sensor enables pixel oversampling, in a nutshell it means the combination of many pixels into one perfect pixel. PureView imaging technology is the result of many years of research and development and the tangible fruits of this work are amazing image quality, lossless zoom, and superior low light performance.
Nokia 808 Pure ViewPureView Pro imaging technology doesn’t represent a step change for camera smartphones performance, so much as a quantum leap forward. The first device to feature Nokia PureView Pro camera technology is the Nokia 808 PureView, which gives people the means to take better images and video footage than ever before.
Nokia PureView Pro turns conventional thinking on its head. It dispenses with the usual scaling/ interpolation model of digital zoom used in virtually all smartphones, as well as optical zoom used in most digital cameras, where a series of lens elements moves back and forth to vary the magnification and field of view.
Nokia 808 Pure View Sensor Size Comparrison
The excellent camera performance also extends to video. The camera allows for 1080p recording at 30fps, with 4X lossless zoom thanks to the big sensor and powerful image processing which handles over 1 billion pixels per second. At lower resolutions, the capabilities of the zoom increase, with 6X at 720p and up to 12X lossless zoom in nHD (640 x 360) recordings. Of course great video is nothing without great audio.
Below Nokia 808 PureView Apple iPhone 4s Comparison
Here the Nokia 808 PureView also sets a new standard. The Nokia 808 PureView is the world’s first video recording device to allow recording without distortion at audio levels beyond the capability of human hearing. This allows you to even in the harshest of environment capture stereo CD-like audio quality.
Nokia 808 Pure View
The result?
Unprecedented camera control and versatility, combined with truly spectacular-quality images and video. Nokia 808 PureView sets new industry standards — it will give you around 3x lossless zoom for stills, and 4x zoom in full HD 1080p. For 720p HD video, you’re looking at 6x lossless zoom. And for nHD (640×360) video, an amazing 12x zoom!
What do I think?
Once they come up with a way to synchronize my studio flash and give me a bit more manual creative control, the time will come for me to seriously consider my present gear. But until then, I am keeping my DSLR camera 😉
