Thread: The N9 camera overexposed problem !
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lanwellon is offline lanwellon
2011-12-17 , 05:02
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Originally Posted by impact View Post
The camera itself (hardware) is fine, it's the camera app's inability to decently measure correct exposure that is the problem.

Fortunately there are lots of manual options in the menu including the ability to manually set exposure compensation. Use that and you'll get much better night photos.

I think your picture is not typical for the problem I said.
Because there is no strong light source in your photo.

I admit that N9 had and strong post editing functions,

And in many cases, we can get fair enough photos after editing,
like this one :

By setting the exposure compensation to +2.0EV, and enhance the Brightness and Contrast in post editing, I got this nice picture, for a smartphone.

But you must notice that there is no strong light source in these photos. When meeting the strong light source, the picture becomes unacceptable.

Here are some examples :

A fruit shop in night, the glare just cover the fruits :


On the street, the glare is very obvious :


This is a large LED screen on the wall of the mall, but you cannot even identify it from the photo :


I think we cannot use a standard of DSLR camera or even Nokia N8 to compare to N9, it is not fair. The N9 camera module is much smaller, or you can say compact in size.

But comparing to iPhone 4/4S or Samsung Galaxy S2, or N900, the glare problem is very obvious.

Many details get lost when meeting the strong light source, and these details cannot be find back even by strong post editing function of N9. So I am wonder is there any way to fix it through a software update ?