were you half pressing the shutter button to allow a focus, waiting for the green target, and shooting the shot?

My N95 takes ok pictures (highres for sure), but the whole process of calling up the app, waiting it to be ready, waiting it to focus, taking the picture is much longer than any other smarthphones i have with cameras.

check this

if 007 001 in tag means that the picture is taken with n900 then:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...h+a+007+001%22

They're using prototypes, if those are N900 photos, and prototypes usually have bad photo quality. expect similar performance to the N95/N97 since its the same camera hardware.

Check out this one, also done with the 007 001:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdamt/3806740161/

Color and focus could be better, but it looks close to ready to ship firmware in that one. Which means the shipping one should be phenomenal. NIT users unaccustomed to good cameras are in for a treat.

I dont know how you say that, but I specifically bought a N95 to take good photos and haven't been dissapointed.

That said, of course any cameraphone will be behind in photo quality in low light situations. But in bright day light there nothing to beat an N95 as a cameraphone (at least not an iPhone).
en example in bright daylight ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76248248@N00/3673550835/
and one is lesser daylight light
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7624824...n/photostream/

FWIW, the 3.2MP Zeiss lens in my Nokia phone takes acceptable snaps in broad daylight, but the problem that it has - and which I hope Nokia has addressed - is the lack of "pan focus" (fixed close to medium distance focus; also faster than autofocus) mode.

In low light the camera isn't able to focus, even with assistance, farther than ~1m which is pretty useless in social occasions and generally.

Obviously this is historically total black magic firmware territory, so it'll be interesting to see if Nokia has added the fixed quickie "pan focus mode" or whether such intimate hardware features are also open for post-sales tinkering. (doubtful, but hey...)

I'm an old fan of tigert's pictures. He is having fun lately!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tigert/3878934526/

...also with videos. In this one you can see he is a guy that takes risks for a good shot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tigert/3880838082/

I try to learn from him and other great hobbyist photographers in the Maemo team. All of them quite happy and inspired these days for _some_ reason...

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1184299@N24/pool/

Hey all, we created a Flickr group for these photos.

I'm also a hobbyist photographer. I'm pretty happy with my pre-production (please remember that when considering the images) quality I'm getting with the N900 device. It's far better than any other mobile phone/device camera I have personally used. (Although yes, there probably certainly are better quality smartphones with 8mpix cameras out there already.)

I put my images at least without post-processing, you could easily refine them up a bit more if you would like. Yes, N900 is only 5 megapixels, but as has been stated to death, that isn't really the defining factor. Yes, you can also take really bad looking photos if you don't know what you're doing.

Anyway, for instance to be able to get rather nice looking depth of field shots with my mobile computer camera is seriously a cool thing.