New phone. Finally got my hands on a Cybershot Phone.. I hear reviews that the Cybershot phones have a decent camera function so I gotta check it out. No doubt its decent for the average user but guess there is much room for improvement. Here's some shots and short explanation why. (I wish I have more time to blog about it man)
Shot with the Xenon flash, ISO 400, f2.8, 1/250 shutter speed, focal length unknown, exif info blank, crop
The flash seems to push up the ISO, and the pictures will turn up with a characteristic Sony water colour effect due to aggressive noise reduction on what definitely is a tiny sensor. This is to maintain the 1/250 s shutter speed I guess but image quality will be affected by it nonetheless. But 3mp means that I get the real estate to crop in a camera phone for the first time.
Outdoor shots, shutter speed can go as fast as 1/1250 s, still f2.8 but ISO 80 only
In bright lights, the image quality is more than decent. The trees are sharp and I could see that it may be sharper than my Alpha with the telephoto lens. But of course I'm looking at 3mp against 10mp and a whole lot of difference in focal length. Just for sake of comparison.
Digital zoom till max on one of the HDB flats.. Real ugly... yikes.. wonder why will they uprez a crop pic by so much that it is practically useless by this size. Zoom ratio - 16x (My H1 only offers 12 x optical)
For some fun, here's some pics of my year 4 class doing examinations... hehehe... but the amount of chromatic aberration will make me faint especially in that 16x digital zoom version.. purple monster rule here.
In short... this is more a phone than a cybershot. Why? I don't even know the focal length in 35mm format and other nitty gritty details of a camera. Little to no photographic controls over ISO and stuff. No exif information recorded in jpg. Simply put.. too many cybershot features are missing to truly let me consider it as a camera first, phone second. Plus, image stabilization is a must given the difficulty in holding the phone steady.
anyway.. here's my guess on those nitty gritty stuff
Aperture is fixed at f2.8
Shutter speed ranges at least from 1/8s to 1/1250s based on my 20 shots or so, need more testing to confirm
ISO from 80 to 400
focal length still not known but seems like >35mm
Plus
Interesting package of a camera in the size of a phone
Proper flash instead of LED light
Lens cover (finally)
Good quality images in good light
Minus
Purple monster
Over compression
Lack of photographic controls (That I use)
Not so accurate white balance indoors
Limited dynamic range (based on my snapshot judgement)
More gimmick than a real camera. Think my old almost 6 years ago Sony P3 did better even though it has less pixels!
Ah... that's all folks... 1 more day and year 4 will celebrate.. Good luck! Though I doubt anyone of them will see this tonight.
The flash seems to push up the ISO, and the pictures will turn up with a characteristic Sony water colour effect due to aggressive noise reduction on what definitely is a tiny sensor. This is to maintain the 1/250 s shutter speed I guess but image quality will be affected by it nonetheless. But 3mp means that I get the real estate to crop in a camera phone for the first time.
Outdoor shots, shutter speed can go as fast as 1/1250 s, still f2.8 but ISO 80 only
In bright lights, the image quality is more than decent. The trees are sharp and I could see that it may be sharper than my Alpha with the telephoto lens. But of course I'm looking at 3mp against 10mp and a whole lot of difference in focal length. Just for sake of comparison.
Digital zoom till max on one of the HDB flats.. Real ugly... yikes.. wonder why will they uprez a crop pic by so much that it is practically useless by this size. Zoom ratio - 16x (My H1 only offers 12 x optical)
For some fun, here's some pics of my year 4 class doing examinations... hehehe... but the amount of chromatic aberration will make me faint especially in that 16x digital zoom version.. purple monster rule here.
In short... this is more a phone than a cybershot. Why? I don't even know the focal length in 35mm format and other nitty gritty details of a camera. Little to no photographic controls over ISO and stuff. No exif information recorded in jpg. Simply put.. too many cybershot features are missing to truly let me consider it as a camera first, phone second. Plus, image stabilization is a must given the difficulty in holding the phone steady.
anyway.. here's my guess on those nitty gritty stuff
Aperture is fixed at f2.8
Shutter speed ranges at least from 1/8s to 1/1250s based on my 20 shots or so, need more testing to confirm
ISO from 80 to 400
focal length still not known but seems like >35mm
Plus
Interesting package of a camera in the size of a phone
Proper flash instead of LED light
Lens cover (finally)
Good quality images in good light
Minus
Purple monster
Over compression
Lack of photographic controls (That I use)
Not so accurate white balance indoors
Limited dynamic range (based on my snapshot judgement)
More gimmick than a real camera. Think my old almost 6 years ago Sony P3 did better even though it has less pixels!
Ah... that's all folks... 1 more day and year 4 will celebrate.. Good luck! Though I doubt anyone of them will see this tonight.
0 comments:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
