Camera
The greatest hit of the 5 megapixel camera is the touch focus. This works in the following manner: when the user sees the picture on the display, he only has to touch the spot where he would like to focus. G900 thinks for a short time, focuses, than beeps and we can take the picture. It’s a really fun feature, everyone liked it very much, I’d just like to question its meaning. That’s because when one holds the phone in the hands – horizontally –, than it’s quite hard to take a free finger to tap the screen, as the picture will surely move and the focus still won’t be where would have liked it to. Moreover, we should admit that in case of pictures taken with a phone there rarely are extraordinary cases of perspectives, when autofocus is not enough. That’s because more experienced users use autofocus phones that they position the spot where they want the focus to be in the middle of the picture, than press the exposure button halfway down, after that they set up the composition and then take the picture with the existing focus; it’s no big deal at all.
Besides this feature we have a software with a pleasantly long list of features. Menu items are now on the left side of the screen, we can see here settings for four major functions. The topmost menu item sets the environmental preset (portrait, scene, cloud, sunlight, document, automatic), the second switches between normal, panoramic and images sequence modes. The third item turns the flash on or off, while the fourth one is used for setting the focus.
Other settings can be accessed by tapping the tool case icon. Here we can set picture size (5MP, 3MP, 1MP, VGA), white balance, picture quality, self timer, saving location and exposure sound. Settings are a bit different in video recording mode, but the picture stabilizer can be turned on in both cases. G900 records videos at 240 x 320 resolution, which cannot be changed, we can only switch to MMS mode, which limits recording duration. We can use the flashlight also when recording videos; this is surprisingly strong, but of course it’s not as powerful as a real flash on a camera.
Let’s see some test pictures below. They can be enlarged by clicking on them.
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Let’s see what touch focusing is good for: here are two pictures, shot from approximately the same distance, only the focus is at a different place.
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It looks like the camera makes somewhat pale pictures and it’s also capable of taking both noisy and blurry pictures at the appearance of the first cloud. Anyway these 5 megapixel pictures look like as if they were zoomed in with digital zoom. They are quite good when scaled to display, but in original size they unfortunately have a much lower quality than other similar models, although there is nothing to suggest that G900 were a member of the Cyber-Shot family.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
