Camera - functioning
After all this gibberish it’s time to try what the system knows in practice. To start the camera we only need to slide the back cover and we can see the image of the viewfinder in a second. All the preliminary news were about that the user interface connected to photography has been renewed, but the changes are not that numerous, we won’t get lost in the menus.
Of course we have to hold the handset horizontally, so the volume buttons become zoom buttons, the round-shaped red thingy is then used for taking the picture. The GUI can be broken down into three parts. The center button of the navigational ring brings up a quick-setup graphic, where we can turn the flashlight, the macro, the timer and the aiding lines on and off. The upper function button makes the setup bar slide in, which appears on the top part of the screen. This has the following possibilities: changing between the front and rear cameras, changing between photo, portrait and video modes, and then there is the icon for choosing from image sequence, mosaic, panorama and framed modes, then comes the changing of the resolution (the highest being 2560x1920), then the switches of the macro, the self-timer and the flashlight. And now for an interesting part, the face recognition, which is used to recognize if there is a head of a person on the picture (of course there are some interesting pictures, like if the software would have been bothered by the old hairstyle of Müller Péter Sziámi) and if it thinks there is definitely a face there, then it sets the light intensity, contrast and focus accordingly. We can also vary some other settings like the white balance (sunlight, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent, automatic) and there are some effects too.
Hirdetés
The last menu of the setup bar detailed above takes us into deeper waters. This is where we can turn on the picture stabilizer, enable digital zoom, the shutter sound, set the contrast, color saturation and sharpness in multiple levels. The ISO setting found its place here too (50, 100, 200, 400) along with the picture quality and exposition time setup. That’s all.
Well, there’s nothing left but taking some pictures. The handset has been mostly set to automatic, let’s see a bunch of pictures taken this way (I’ve been waiting for sunshine in vain):
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I have re-taken the last picture with full optical zoom, this is the first piece of the following series, the next one is an interior one (lamp light + flash), than there is some macro and finally two pictures taken at night, first with automatic setup, the second with ISO 400 setting.
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As a bonus, here is a panorama photo. This is taken in the following way: you take the first picture, than start to rotate (a little arrow shows the direction) and as the software recognizes that you have rotated enough, it draws an orange frame, takes the next picture and we can continue turning. It’s really cool, practically everything’s automatic we only have to rotate. The result is here:
Rating. I don’t know, but the G600 was somehow more convincing. I think there is more picture noise here; the colors are less saturated, although the pictures are usually over 1.5 MB in size. Of the course the gadget is not bad, but its knowledge related to its concurrence can be appreciated in a comparative test, which is expectable in the near future. Of course after a long series of experiments we can achieve better results than in these pictures in every situation, but I hardly think that a simple user will start to alter the ISO values, contrast and white balance, when he just simply wants to take a picture.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
