Nokia gave us no little surprise when it launched the Nokia 808 PureView and its new camera-phone technology. Promising a headline-grabbing 41-megapixel sensor, paired with image processing systems a lot of love what you’d realize in spy satellites than smartphones, it’s the primary fruit of a project 5 years within the creating. Until now, though, all the sample pictures we have seen are created by Nokia’s own hand, therefore we have a tendency to understandably jumped at the prospect to hitch the Pure View team at the headquarters of lens provider and imaging specialist Carl Zeiss in Southern Germany to require some shots of our own. browse on for the complete sample gallery in conjunction with thereforeme comparison shots with the Nokia Lumia 900 – beside the complete story on why PureView is so special.
In a sense, the 808 PureView is 2 completely different camera-phones. On the one hand, there’s the raw resolution of the sensor itself: 41-megapixels on paper, but, as a result of Nokia opted to deliver true 4:3 and 16:9 while not cropping the previous for the latter, as different cameras typically do, truly delivering 38-megapixel 4:3 shots and 34-megapixel 16:9. There’s no zooming during this mode, the PureView team not permitting any interpolation anywhere close to the phone
Arguably the method Nokia expects the 808 PureView to be used,however, is within the dedicated PureView mode. There’s a full-auto possibility, that leaves the camera to its own devices and outputs roughly 5-megapixel frames, or the selection of manually setting it to deliver either 2-megapixel, 5-megapixel or 8-megapixel PureView pictures. At 5-megapixels, there are roughly seven pixels for every final pixel within the frame, which means Nokia will use the most effective image knowledge from every, and drop out any surprising glitches(without a loss in end-picture quality), in an exceedingly method it refers to as oversampling to form “superpixels.”
Nokia told us that it thought-about employing a huge 5-megapixel sensor that will match the 41-megapixel chip within the 808 PureView for physical size, however it suddenly met aliasing problems. it'd conjointly lack the oversampling support, at the side of the power to use those further pixels for the 808 PureView’s different trick: a lossless digital zoom.
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