Multimedia
So the camera is a Kodak one with a resolution of 5 megapixels and autofocus. There is a Xenon flash to help it work in poor lighting conditions and it’s a great help indeed. After sliding the cover we have to wait about three seconds in order to take the first picture, which is not the fastest thing, but the image on the viewfinder compensates for everything, as it’s extremely fast. But really, even a mid-range compact camera could be envious of this speed, the live picture on-screen is fluent, doesn’t lag and it works in the same perfect way even if there isn’t much light. The software, however, is no big deal, at least it doesn’t have as many features as it would be “right and proper” for such a great image sensor: we can’t set sensitivity or light metering, there is just the basic stuff like white balance and exposure correction.
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Image quality is great, but no matter Kodak or not, ZN5 is by far not the best camera phone, it’s just much weaker than Samsung i8510. There is basically one problem with the pictures: noise level is quite high. Otherwise they would be okay, edge sharpness is great, colors are nice, rim obscuration level is minimal, there is no chromatic aberration, but noise is still more than it should. The highest available resolution for images is 2560 x 1920 pixels, while videos can be recorded at 176 x 144 pixels, I don’t even know if this is the shocking or the funny category. We might have again marketing as the reason, since the video phone is Z10, so we should be using ZN5 for photography only. I am absolutely sure that the sensor would be capable of recording QVGA videos at 30 frames/second.
The music player application is not bad, although it’s a bit slower than the handset itself. It can filter tracks by artist, album, genre and style, it can display album covers, although these are so small thumbnails that they cannot be really seen even with a magnifier. There is an equalizer with nine presets, we can’t create our owns. We can seek, seeking speed increases dynamically, but it’s a great problem that volume can be set in only seven steps. The program can run in the background, in this case it gets nicely built in the standby screen where we can access all important features. There is an FM radio, it works nicely. The handsfree speaker is medium quality while the headset is quite good and rather comfortable.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
