Camera

Well, this is the most important, the 8 megapixel camera, everyone has been admiring it. After pulling the cover above the camera the application is launched: the lens is lit up in blue for a short time and the exposure key gets a constant backlight. We tilt the phone on its side and we already have the chance to take some nice pictures.

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The menu is nice, we don’t have tons of settings, but there are still quite a lot of them. Beginning with the preset modes there is the standard one, panorama and framed, but there is a new thing called “Smart contrast”. When enabling this, the software tries to balance light in crazy lighting conditions, so it might come in handy in counterlight. I would rather choose the option of not taking pictures face to face with the sun, but anyway, we now have “Smart contrast” too. There are lots of preset modes, we can set resolution in four steps (VGA, 3, 5 and 8 megapixels), automatic, infinite, macro or face recognition focus, red-eye reduction flash mode, timer, normal or spot light metering, predefined light conditions (lamp, cloudy etc.), effects.

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At fine-tune settings we can set JPEG compression amount (normal or fine), enable/disable AF light, we can calibrate BestPic, turn image stabilizer on/off (of course this is software based) or set GPS coordinate imprinting on the images. We can set where to store the pictures, activate automatic rotation, set exposure sound (or turn it off) and we can set all options to default and reset the image counter to zero. Well, there are lots of things to play with, but I would still have been happy about ISO settings.

The phone takes pictures very fast, the images have a size of about 2 megabytes. Now comes the most exciting part: how do the pictures look like. Well, they are clearly as good as the ones of Innov8 if light conditions are good. Still, when darkness sets in, image quality decreases drastically, faster than on the 8 megapixel model from Samsung, image noise appears and covers the whole photo. The small details on the Sony Ericsson pictures are more blurred than on the competitor’s phone. I don’t write this randomly: we went to take some pictures with Bocha, he brought the Samsung and I had C905, we took the same pictures from the same place and then compared them. We’ll have a short little article about this in the near future, but for now let’s stick to the conclusion that C905 is also brutally good for a mobile, but Innov8 is even more brutally better. Let’s see the test images, 12 of them for now and we’ll have at least this much in the comparative review:

The xenon flash is still great, although on some night pictures it looks as if there’s some thick fog in the area, you might think that the flash is too powerful and the lens can’t process it. One might argue about image quality, but C905 is nowhere in video recording. It’s a shame that Sony Ericsson’s top camera phone can record videos at 240 x 320 pixels at most, even a Samsung E530 has been better than this years ago.

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