Being an avid photographer myself, I was particularily interested to see how the N82’s camera fares - after all, the device managed to take home a CIPA award. But can it stack up(click the images for native versions)?
Hardware-wise, the camera is excellently equipped. A Carl Zeiss lense provides the focussing, a 5MP sensor does the actual imaging. Last but not least, a real flash and a focus assist LED are thrown in to simplify working in low-light conditions.
The first test image was an indoor shot of the ficus in my main office(shared with abc texte) - the leaves are somewhat sharp, but pretty noisy:
After that, I went on to make a few shots with the macro mode(must be activated manually). Both of them turned out well focussed, although the Treo’s keys are a bit noisy:
Moving on to flash: my classic test bookshelf has turned out pretty well. Of course, a digital camera manages a better picture(where the book covers can actually be read) - but for a camera phone, the N82’s performance is superb:
A completely dark bedroom(6m long) was lit up well, although noise levels got out of control:
Finally, an image of a brightly lit house made with night mode. The capture time is pretty long - getting a sharp image is easiest via burst mode. Nevertheless, the images aren’t as crisp as the ones from a digital camera:
The burst mode of the camera is excellent(even though a bit slow at approx 0.5FPS/sec when saving 5MP pics to RAM) - it allows you to fill up the available memory completely..