Why Do Nokia’s Desaturate?
Posted on 30 July 2008, at 6:34 pm, by Mitchell Oke
I’ve noticed quite a common theme between Nokia’s cameraphones: they all undersaturate. Take this image I took with my Nokia E71, which has a 3.2MP autofocus camera (alas no 5MP Carl Zeiss, oh well). It’s quite sharp but is decidedly undersaturated and washy.
Now look at it after a run through Photoshop, bringing out the blacks.
The Nokia N95 did a similar thing with it’s photos, though not quite as much. I’d love to see Nokia add a little more processing to the photo to bring them up nicer in-house, without having to do little tweaks later on.
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July 30th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Mitchell, aside from the camera how is the E71???
July 31st, 2008 at 8:25 am
probably in the metering algorithms. has to expose all that white as 18 percent gray and the shadows, etc. fall victim to the underlying calculations.
I use my n82 all the time now for shooting the vehicles I test and have had to learn to “trick” the metering system for perfect balance when shooting black blacks or white whites as dominant values in the image area.