Impressed by camera phone
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HankScorpio

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Saturday 17th September 2005
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Having a play with my new phone, I've been very impressed by the camera on it.
Not dslr but better than a number of digicams I've seen/used.

Resized to 750, one with cam phone, one with four figures worth of slr gear, both with distinct lack of artistic merit or talent...





Will certainly do for a walk around, catch the odd snapshot thingy..



Edited by Hankscorpio on Monday 12th June 21:46

V6GTO

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264 months

Saturday 17th September 2005
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Which one is it? I'm just about to get the new SonyErrikson 750i with a 2meg camera on it!

Martin.

HankScorpio

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Saturday 17th September 2005
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Ooops, should have said, SE W800i.
Same camera as the 750.

V6GTO

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Saturday 17th September 2005
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How much is it there, Hank? I can get one for about 250 Euros here.

Martin.

HankScorpio

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Saturday 17th September 2005
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Around 300 GBP sim free, some operators doing free with certain plans.
I got for 100 on a corporate scheme (but I do pay no line rental and only 3p/min for calls)

V6GTO

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Saturday 17th September 2005
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HankScorpio said:
Around 300 GBP sim free, some operators doing free with certain plans.
I got for 100 on a corporate scheme (but I do pay no line rental and only 3p/min for calls)


Can I join your corperate phone system please?

Martin.

HankScorpio

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Saturday 17th September 2005
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I also didn't say which pic was which - top one is cam.

V6GTO

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Saturday 17th September 2005
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HankScorpio said:


I also didn't say which pic was which - top one is cam.


The 'phone is good...but not that good!

Martin.

HankScorpio

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Saturday 17th September 2005
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Yes, it is.

HankScorpio

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Saturday 17th September 2005
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Re-saved the first one with exif.
Don't have the original fot the other one to do the same.

_dobbo_

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Saturday 17th September 2005
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I've got the K750i which I think is the same as you have but with the addition of autofocus.

Great phone, great camera, almost as good as a compact - certainly good enough that I wont bother with a compact again.

HankScorpio

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Sunday 18th September 2005
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It is the same, both have autofocus.

The led "flash" is pretty good too.

_dobbo_

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Sunday 18th September 2005
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HankScorpio said:
It is the same, both have autofocus.

The led "flash" is pretty good too.


It does? Bugger. I wanted the w800 but was told it didn't have AF.

That'll teach me to trust a call center monkey working for vodafone!

HankScorpio

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Monday 19th September 2005
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Got some prints today and was impressed again!

Just from the local Kodak Kiosk but 6x4's you wouldn't know it was digi, never mind phone.
I also found the pic posted wasn't at top quality so got a top one done at 10x8 and it's certainly passable, maybe not close scrutinty but everyone that saw them couldn't believe they came from a phone.

So, as I said, perfect for walkaround happy snaps.

YAHOO

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Monday 19th September 2005
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If you think thats good wait till this comes along ,no more compacts only SLR's and mobile phones www.dpreview.com/news/article_print.asp?date=0503&article=05030901samsung_schv770. I have printed prints of this little phone to 20x16 with better skin tone than d70 OR 20d saying that i use sony w800 in UK and it's fab.

dcw@pr

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265 months

Monday 19th September 2005
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very impressive

just to clarify, the top one is from the phone? only real differences i can see is a bit more noise and also the DOF is a bit of a giveaway (i think!)

HankScorpio

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Monday 19th September 2005
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That's right.

If I get round to doing another one, I'll close the lens down to try and match the DOF on the SLR and set the cam to the highest quality.

The thing that impressed me most was the colour, both were on auto but the rendition in the phone is much more accurate to my eyes.

Been playing more today and the phone has a night mode(!) and you can even play with the WB.
Zoom isn't that great but what do you expect - it's a phone!!

Add 500MB of storage and the ability to e-mail straight to people or into photobox or pop to a kiosk and it all makes a lot of sense.

In case you can't tell... I like my phone!!

dcw@pr

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Monday 19th September 2005
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the slr one looks slightly underexposed and a bit yellowy. in my experience cameras without shutters (phones, compacts ect) seem to have a lot better control of white balance, i guess the ability to continuously measure the wb helps, rather than the much smaller amount of time provided on an slr exposure?

_dobbo_

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Monday 19th September 2005
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YAHOO said:
If you think thats good wait till this comes along ,no more compacts only SLR's and mobile phones www.dpreview.com/news/article_print.asp?date=0503&article=05030901samsung_schv770. I have printed prints of this little phone to 20x16 with better skin tone than d70 OR 20d saying that i use sony w800 in UK and it's fab.



This is really into the realms of a camera with a phone built in, rather than a phone with a camera built in, if you see what I mean.

too big for me thanks, i want my phone to fit in my pocket without it looking like I'm too excited all the time.