Originally Posted by s2kver02 (Post 472161)

Originally Posted by JD2010 (Post 495314)

Taken with my N900 Eastern Township Canada. The picture is lake Stukely in Orford national Park in front of my cottage

Originally Posted by quangmach (Post 495975)

Melbourne Central:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/...b96196ff_b.jpg

Originally Posted by woodyear99 (Post 495984)

Nice pics liked the pic of the shot tower, ended up googling it. Learnt something new today :p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_tower

Originally Posted by anidel (Post 495280)

Sorry for the poor subject, however notice the difference in noise between the two.
Also the N900 looks like is capable of getting more details (SKY logo on the decoder)?

This is taken with the Nokia N900:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/...fa5aa76e_o.jpg

and this is taken with a Sony Ericsson K850i:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2698/...38488e84_o.jpg

Originally Posted by quangmach (Post 496000)

haha,it just random shot,i dun have any skill about photograph at all :o

Originally Posted by rm42 (Post 496019)

The N900 shot has much better white balance, but yes the noise is bad. Even worst, that picture shows banding which means that the sensor is not good in high ISO situations. Try the same shot setting the ISO manually (100, 200, and 400) instead of leaving it in Auto. Also, just for the sake of experiment, try taking the shots with and without a back cover. Let us know what you find.

Originally Posted by JD2010 (Post 495314)

Taken with my N900 Eastern Township Canada. The picture is lake Stukely in Orford national Park in front of my cottage

Originally Posted by roger_27 (Post 496311)

RevdKathy -

I'm pretty sure that is shrivelled up mistletoe.

Originally Posted by anidel (Post 496248)

Woah I am moving to Canada in less than a month (Moncton, NB)... is that what's awaiting me??!?

COOOOOOLL :)

Originally Posted by JD2010 (Post 496428)

Yes you are going to like it. Every National park in Canada are very quit and nice I am sure there is one near Moncton. This place is my complete get away from the city in the week end it's like paradise even in summer.

Originally Posted by qole (Post 496510)

anidel: Don't stop at Toronto! Come all the way to Vancouver! :D

Originally Posted by maluka (Post 496626)

Singapore Lunch
http://posterous.com/getfile/files.p...caled.1000.jpg

Originally Posted by anidel (Post 496118)

Cool, I will try that in a bit...

Here we are:

K850i set of photos at ISO 100,200,400

N900 set of photos at ISO 100,200,400

Originally Posted by jrox (Post 496768)

Kind of grainy in low light:.

Originally Posted by rm42 (Post 496019)

The N900 shot has much better white balance, but yes the noise is bad. Even worst, that picture shows banding which means that the sensor is not good in high ISO situations. Try the same shot setting the ISO manually (100, 200, and 400) instead of leaving it in Auto. Also, just for the sake of experiment, try taking the shots with and without a back cover. Let us know what you find.

Originally Posted by Alexander

There is a possiblity to experiment yourself by doing your own IPP (image post-processing element) and hooking it into camera application pipelines through /etc/gdigicam/*.conf -- see gdigicam source code for expected semantics of the element (and there is a need to switch off noise filtering in the omap3camd). There is also some additional work on documentation from our side but generally speaking, if someone wants to experiment with noise filters, it is possible

Originally Posted by Internal Developer

Interesting comparison. There are a couple of things that are made visible in these two images:

- The biggest difference in the noise levels is caused by the very different autoexposure settings in the two devices: the N900 has used an exposure time of 1/15s and an ISO speed of 800; while the SE device used 1/4s and ISO 250. Higher ISO means a higher analog gain in the camera sensor, which is the main reason for the noise.

The reason N900 uses those settings, is that using 1/4s exposure time when the device is held in the hand is almost certain to cause blur into the image due to either hand shake, or simply that the subject is moving (take an image of people, they won't hold still for 1/4s unless you really ask them to). With the exposure time of 1/15s there are much better chances of getting a sharp image (or at least significantly less blur).

The settings on N900 can be changed so that it will use exposure settings more similar to the SE device: If you can rest N900 e.g. on a table so that you know it will not move during exposure, you can set it to the night scene mode (which allows the camera to use long exposure times), and maybe even also set ISO manually to a low value.

- The horizontal banding is a hardware limitation in the camera sensor in N900. It's known from other products using the same sensor, and as far as I know, there are no hardware updates coming to this sensor. And we don't have a noise filter for filtering out such structured noise.