Nokia prepping 12Mp cameraphone with optical zoom?
Nokia is secretly working on a device that could propel it to the forefront of cameraphone technology: 12Mp phones with an optical zoom.
Sources inside both Nokia and optics firm Carl Zeiss revealed the Finnish phone giant’s plans for the high-end cameraphone, according to a story by website Phone Report, and hinted that the …
...until they realise that serious photographers want DSLRs and serious nerds want decent phones with only a camera to take furtive upskirt pics of women they can never have.
Absolutely. My Nikon D1 took very nice pictures, with only 2.3 megapixels. Better pixels please, not more - 3MP is the most any cellphone needs with current technology. (12MP is only twice that resolution)
There's no chance Nokia will include a decent wide angle either but it will have a useless flash, because it'll be specced by bean counters, marketers and corporate politicians, not engineers or photographers.
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Nokia prepping 12Mp cameraphone with optical zoom?
Nokia is secretly working on a device that could propel it to the forefront of cameraphone technology: 12Mp phones with an optical zoom. Sources inside both Nokia and optics firm Carl Zeiss revealed the Finnish phone giant’s plans for the high-end cameraphone, according to a story by website Phone Report, and hinted that the …
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Posted Tuesday 30th June 2009 13:40 GMT
Neur0mancer
Sounds sweet.... #
...until they realise that serious photographers want DSLRs and serious nerds want decent phones with only a camera to take furtive upskirt pics of women they can never have.
Ahem.
Posted Tuesday 30th June 2009 17:01 GMT
Tom
Um... the N93 had optical zoom #
so it wont even be the first phone with optical zoom for Nokia.
Posted Wednesday 1st July 2009 12:34 GMT
S 10
What a joke #
What's the point? Huge file sizes mainly storing the pattern of noise that the tiny sensor was chucking out at the time...
Why not work on a camera phone that takes decent pictures with a normal resolution? I haven't seen one yet.
Posted Wednesday 1st July 2009 13:38 GMT
sleepy
@S 10 #
Absolutely. My Nikon D1 took very nice pictures, with only 2.3 megapixels. Better pixels please, not more - 3MP is the most any cellphone needs with current technology. (12MP is only twice that resolution)
There's no chance Nokia will include a decent wide angle either but it will have a useless flash, because it'll be specced by bean counters, marketers and corporate politicians, not engineers or photographers.
Posted Wednesday 1st July 2009 18:40 GMT
Anonymous Coward
I want one so much... #
that I will willingly sell my house and all its contents to buy one, except for my real camera of course.
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