Jan 04, 2008 06:46 PM
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Nokia N95 is among the first mobile phones on the European market to ever offer a 5-megapixel resolution. What's more, its camera features a Carl Zeiss lens, automatic focus, and detailed user-configurable settings. Nevertheless, our experience tells us that on paper specs usually sound a lot more exciting than they are in reality. That is why we will put Nokia N95 to a detailed and extremely rigorous test.
The camera is located on the rear side of the device; the lens is protected by a mechanical cover opened with an easy slide. Fortunately it's not that easy to let the cover open spontaneously, for example in case of pulling the phone out of one's pocket. The cover is active, that is, its opening activates the camera application. When you closed it, the keypad lock is activated automatically and vice versa - opening it unlocks the keypad.
On the front there is another camera for video calls, which can also be used for taking pictures. It creates images of up to 640 × 480 pixels and might be quite useful for portraits to go into the phonebook.
Inside the frame of the lens you will also see a powerful LED flash (not as powerful as a xenon flash, of course). Unfortunately, there is no setup option in the menu that would allow permanent activation of the flash so that this can be used as a torch, as seen in other Nokia phones. A special program providing such an option could probably be downloaded additionally, though.
Picture quality is very good. As you'd probably expect, we are working on a comparative review between Nokia N95 and the best current photo mobile Sony Ericsson K800, which we are going to publish soon. We can guess that Nokia N95 will come out as a winner of such a competition. The images it creates maintain their sharpness throughout the entire frame. Higher resolution allow for printing on bigger formats as well as for creating crops.
There is no doubt that any direct comparison between Nokia N95 and other mobiles situates the former on the very top of the chart. Its drawbacks only become obvious in confrontation with a standard digital camera. And that is exactly what we did: we picked up a Sony DSC-H1 camera and took a number of comparative photos.
