Nokia N93 - 3.2 MP camera possibilities

Nokia N93 - 3.2 MP camera possibilities

Carl Zeiss Optics: Vario-Tessar glass lens
Matrix, 4.5х5.5 мм, CMOS, 3.2 megapixel (2048x1536)

Shutter speed: Mechanical shutter: 1/2400~1/3 s
Macro focus distance 30 cm (macro @ Wide) 10 cm (macro @ Middle to Tele)
Focus range 10 cm ~ infinity
Focal length 4.5 mm (Wide) /12.4 mm (Tele) 34.25 - 94.1 mm(35mm equiv.)
Still image file format: JPEG/EXIF
Auto focus

White balance: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
Exposure compensation: +1 ~ -1EV at 0.5 step

Scene: automatic, user, close-up, landscape, night, night portray

Color tone: normal, sepia, black & white, negative
Zoom (optical/digital) 3x / up to 20x

Optical Zoom. During shooting you can easily rotate ring around shutter, it can be easily done with your thumb. Zoom works similarly to digital cameras, you can see green line, it displays how optical zoom is used right now. Zoom itself is very good, picture remains sharp, there are no artifacts like ones you get when you are using digital zoom, this is a great advantage for this handset.

Video

Handset is capable of recording video in several quality modes, maximal one assumes 30 fps @ 640x480 (VGA) resolution. You can downgrade frame rate to 15 or decrease resolution. Format in which video is recorded – mpeg4, simultaneous sound recording is supported too (two channels, AAC, 48khz). There are two mics on case, each has index (R or L, which stands for Right and Left). By default video is saved on memory card; however you can use internal memory too, but it’s enough only for one minute and some seconds. Maximal length is 60 minutes. During shooting you can use optical or digital zoom (x8 in this mode). Optical stabilizer is used during shooting, this allows preventing small shaking of handset. I got the impression that this feature works fine, you do not feel shaking feeling that you might get when you shoot the video for quite a while. You can disable sound in case you do not need it.

There’s also White Balance settings, as well as various color effects, just like in camera. Scene selection is limited by two: Auto and Night Mode.
Impressive? I believe that this is maximum what mobile phones will be capable of today and in nearest future, there won’t be any more settings. Before moving on to sample photos, I’d like to tell you that viewfinder is displaying picture correctly, as is, without any artifacts or any disturbances caused by rapid movements. Buttons located on left side are used for accessing additional shooting settings

Conclusion
It’s not hard to see that Nokia N93 camera quality is a lot better than one installed in Nokia N80, and by some aspects better than in Sony Ericsson K790i. More details, brighter photos, sharpness. All this became possible with help of standard camera module, instead of mobile one. Camera in Nokia N93 overcomes any existing camera installed in mobile phone to date.
We can’t really say that Nokia N93 is a mobile device, since it’s quite big after all. It can try being competitive with small digital cameras, but here it loses battle in terms of price and size. You should remember that this is a hybrid device and give some discount on that. Let me remind you that main idea told in first part of our review. This device is targeted for people who are in need of such features, this is not a mass product. This product is used by Nokia to test out new technologies and solutions. Used components allow creating similar phones with smaller case size which is proven by Nokia N73, Nokia N83. Raise of devices with increasing camera possibilities raises challenge for inexpensive small digital cameras, competition gets tougher and things are getting more and more interesting.