![]() ![]() ![]() Here's the overall scene:Īlthough the 1020's colouration of its photos is undoubtedly too yellow at times, the Nexus 5's results, are just as grey or even, as here, slightly red. Taking things down to the wire, light-wise, here's a shot with bricks, which are great for showing up artefacts and defects in image processing. Test 6: Ultra low light, windows and bricks Here's the overall scene:Īs the light levels drop, it's very plain how dramatically better the Lumia 1020's results become in terms of lack of digital noise and improved detail, with the above crop comparison being very telling indeed. Lovely colours and composition on many of Felix's shots. The colouration is interesting, with the Lumia consistently putting a slight yellow cast on evening/night shots (trying to emphasise the warmth of ambient lighting?) and with the Nexus 5 consistently producing a grey cast (perhaps trying to compensate for the aforementioned warmth?) - the true colours, as seen by the eye, are no doubt somewhere in between! Test 5: Night, atmospheric ambient lighting It's impressive how the Nokia's optics manage to pull out more detail in a 5MP shot than the Nexus 5 camera does in its 8MP photo. Rembrandt and soldiers, it seems, with masses of detail to examine. Test 4: Night time, decent ambient lighting ![]() It's worth noting that the Nexus 5 also has optical image stabilisation, so as the light levels drop in these tests, even with photos being taken handheld, everything remains as crisp on the Nexus as it does on the Lumia. There's really not much to choose between the two smartphone cameras here, with the 1020's output being its usual saturated and sharpened self - and thus drawing the eye? Here's the overall scene, with a flower shot against a relatively strong backlight: Starting to crank the light levels down now, an indoor macro shot. but that's another test for another day! Test 3: Indoors, good lighting, red flower Mind you, if we were just interested in this detail, the PureView zoom could have been used on the Lumia 1020. The Nexus 5 camera does much better here, with its native 8 megapixel resolution producing more natural detail in this number plate crop. Test 2: Daylight, car detailĪgain, no sun (boo!), but some nice detail on a white car. The Nokia pulls an impressive amount of colour and detail from the tree, while the Nexus 5 camera produces dull and uninteresting detail - the difference is quite dramatic. Here are the raw photos from the Lumia 1020 and Nexus 5 (click each to download the JPG).Īnd here's a crop comparison of some relevant central detail (1020 on top, then Nexus 5 beneath): In each case the crop from the Windows Phone 8-powered Nokia Lumia 1020 is on top and that from the Android 4.4-powered Nexus 5 is below.Īlthough sunshine wasn't available, we have daylight at least, with the rich Autumnal colours of a tree as the main subject. ![]() The Lumia 1020 spits out 5 megapixel photos, whereas the Nexus 5 outputs 8 megapixels, by default, plus there are differences in the field of view of the optics, so the crop comparisons below won't match up exactly.My own Nexus 5 32GB arrives in a couple of days and I'll be doing some more tests, across a much wider range of subjects and conditions. by eliminating the 1020's zoom and Xenon flash), but as you'll see below, the Nexus is still some way behind the Nokia. These circumstances favor the Nexus 5 as much as possible (i.e. The photos here were taken by Felix Hamer (check out his Storm in Amsterdam photos), in The Netherlands, on a 16GB Nexus 5, and all on auto, with flash disabled. ![]()
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