Camera, video
i8910 HD has its essence in its name, we have the chance for HD movies. But the box misses the point, as there is no video cable included in the package, we have to obtain this separately, so we have to stick to watching movies on the phone by default. The handset supports DivX and XviD files as well, I’ve been playing around a bit with this feature, and it impressed me. It played back a 980 MB XviD movie (640 x 360 pixels resolution) without any lagging, it had no problems with any of our own DivX video reviews that I’ve edited. Movies are great on such a screen, so it really has some meaning.
The other side of the story is the question of what can we record with the phone, and the handset is again shockingly good. The highest available resolution is 1280 x 720 pixels, which is currently a unique feat. This is where the 8 GB of storage capacity comes into picture, as such a high-res movie needs a considerable amount of disk space. During playback we can use digital zoom, but we have to get used to the fact that the zoom keys (the volume control keys by default) are on the opposite side of the camera button. Here you can see a test video, which is intentionally short, so it’s just 50 MB large… According to the official specs the recorded material has 24 fps, but in practice we don’t get such a stable value. Those with a sharp eye can notice some lagging sometimes, but I don’t think that everyone will notice that. There aren’t many settings related to video recording, we can tamper with the resolution, quality and white balance and we can turn on or off the increased dynamics range and the software image stabilizer.
Of course the 8 megapixel camera can be used for taking photos as well, there are tons of options, the stabilizer, image shooting, face recognition, different modes (including fireworks), image sequencing, panorama image or an ISO value up to 1600 are just the tip of the iceberg. There’s blink detection, wide dynamics range and we can tamper with saturation and contrast as well.
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Taking a look at the pictures we can say that they aren’t noisy, quite sharp and quite good for a mobile phone, but they don’t have very much dynamics, the sky and other bright parts are burnt in frequently. Anyway, this 8 megapixel lens is at least as good as the one in Pixon (it might be the same), it won’t disappoint us, but we won’t be euphoric either.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
