GSM Cameraphone Comparison Q4 2008

Test 3: Night pictures

This test is not that important, because night photography is rarely practiced. Nevertheless, if you are passionate about shooting the city lights for example, look below. These type of pictures are taken with longer exposure (the object is better projected on the sensor), which allows the illuminated objects to visualize on the dark background.

The night mode is intended for such occasions, but we tested each phone to see in which mode it performs best. It came out that INNOV8 gets slightly better results when in auto mode with the image stabilizer turned on.

The quality varies just a little bit between models, and considering how rare such pictures are, the results are a virtual draw. The pictures are ОК, but none of them comes even close to the SD870’s performance in terms of detail.  However, the picture by any of them looks fine if it is resized to smaller resolution. In the end, they are suitable for sharing between friends, but not something that would ever pass for professional photography.



Test 4: Macro (close-ups)

People don’t often use their phones for close-ups, but it is still an indicator of the camera’s capabilities. The large resolution should allow finer details which would otherwise go unnoticed  at a casual glance.

For this test we captured a page of a book, and we wanted to see if reading software would manage to process the pictures and convert them into text   All of the phones passed this test quite well, and there was little differentiation between the models.

The other images were taken at the closest possible distance at which the phones were able to focus correctly. We observed no big differences in the results here either.