Nokia 7610
Today I got a Nokia 7610, the latest S60 camera phone. It’s the first megapixel S60 phone, making images of 1152×864 pixels (previous ones were 640×480). Here are the first shots I did:
The image is a lot bigger. It’s also not distorted in the corners, but it’s very soft and the colours are a bit like “glowing”. Maybe fingerprints in the “lens” of this bigger resolution camera result in this effect? Must test this theory.
Anyway, there’s still no reason not to proudly describe this site having “lo-fi photos”. Especially after I tried the digital zoom feature of the camera… (be careful, the following photos are not pretty):
Oh, what a wonderful zoom this phone has! It’s almost possible to guess that there might be something building-like in the zoomed-in photo. The next one isn’t quite that ugly:
.. but it still looks like a bad joke at that resolution ;-) The zoom might be usable if it just cut a piece from the center of the image, saving it in lower resolution, and not scaling it up to Mpix.
Maybe I should scale all of the images down to 800×600 or so, it might improve the quality a bit and make viewing them in browser more pleasant.