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March 26, 2007 Protos vs. production units: improved N95 camera quality Posted by Tommi at 09:12 AM | Categories: Devices

About a month ago, Stefan posted a provocative rant in Ring Nokia: Colors are off on the Nokia N95? Tests show the answer is undoubtedly yes. I looked at the pictures and agreed whole-heartedly. So I forwarded the link to the N95 team, and asked them to check it out. After listening the feedback carefully, they answered confidently that I shouldn't worry; it's just precommercial stuff.

Now, Nokia has started shipping the final products, and there has been a huge improvement in colors. Check the comparison and some example pictures that James Burland has posted in his The Creative Life Blog.

Moral of the story: let's remember that protos are, well, just protos.

Via Ring Nokia

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Even know that's true, protos, are protos, it's good to know that you informed the right people about something in the blogosphere that caught your atention.

I think it's that kind of things that we nokia consumers/fans want from you. Bigger interaction!

Thanks Tommi.

Alexandre

Yep, I agree, Alexandre.

I don't know did Stefan's feedback make a direct impact on N95 camera quality or not (e.g. by raising urgency inside Nokia to improve the color quality). But at least they listened, and took it under discussion.

In any case: big thanks, Stefan, for your post(s).

I guess sending out Prototypes always has hidden dangers, but in many ways the onus is on us, the bloggers and testers, to make it very clear that we are dealing with preproduction models. Personally, I fell into that nasty trap with the whole N93i continuous auto-focus debacle, in my defence I was under the impression that the 93i unit that I had was a trial of the production version.

Anyway, great blog, and thanks for the mention!

Except resolution of camera Nokia N95 is not better than Nokia N73, in some conditions even worse (red and violet blur sometimes).
I'm not going to publish photo from prototype because they are bad. But in commercial version N95 is not so good unfortunately.

I do not understand why Nokia developers used algorithms which make more colours but less details on pictures. Check SE feature FixIt - the same result for picture but you original photo is saved on you mobile (with all details). Different philosophy but end user have alternative...

Eldar: I'm not convinced that the N73 has a better camera than the N95. But I do agree that some of the N95's post processing is a bit harsh.

Right, bigger resolution doesn't directly translate to better quality. There is so many factors involved: pre-processing, post-processing, camera mechanics, camera sensor etc.

That's a good point to raise again Tommi. Also we cannot always know which "proto features" are actually HW and which SW related. So professional sites that do photo comparison etc. features should patiently wait until sales HW _and_ SW.

That said, it's great that those comparison reviews etc. are available to conscious customers. Because more megapixels is not always better :)

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