Another Gizmodo: Nokia Lumia 720 Hands On: Cheap Phones Can Have Good Cameras Too

Looks like Gizmodo has many good things to say about Nokia Windows Phones lately!! A few days ago it crowned the Lumia 920 as having the best camera on current smartphones, and today it has an article on Nokia 720’s flash-tuned camera which purposely turned down the flash power in order to properly expose the surrounding area with longer exposures. Interesting concept – certainly nothing new in the world of DSLRs (flash exposure compensation) but new especially in this low-priced Windows Phone.

Read the article on Gizmodo here.

Nokia Lumia 920 – best smartphone camera? According to Gizmodo – yes!

Gizmodo tested the Nokia Lumia 920’s (my primary cell phone at this moment) acclaimed camera against cameras on the iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3, Nexus 4, and the new Blackberry Z10. Guess who won!! 🙂

The 920 didn’t just win on its low-light capability alone, even though we all know that the 920 has a kick-butt BSI sensor (more on a separate article soon).

I took the night picture above during my last trip to Seattle.

(Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft which makes the Windows Phone 8 OS that 920 uses. About me.)

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Happy Chinese New Year!

For the two Chinese New Year celebration events, my team shot:

• 4,276 CR2 raw picture files with 97.4 GB from 5 cameras and 3 photographers
• 40 GB of MTS AVCHD video from 2 cameras / videographers

Shooting this type of stage performances is a workload that a smartphone can’t do well! 🙂

But I’ve seen some great candid shots on my Facebook feed from parents posting LIVE from these events. THAT is a great use of a smartphone!

Update:

2/20/2013 Finally I’ve finished the photos last week! Link here: http://bit.ly/DCAAChineseNewYear2013 and http://bit.ly/CACCChineseNewYear2013

My standard workflow: Canon CR2 raw files > Copy to 1TB working drive > Import into Lightroom 4.1 > Bulk Select > Edit > Export > Post

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Welcome. I love my Windows Phone, and I love photography. So it’s only natural that I started this blog to share photography ideas with other Windows Phone photographers. For more information about me and the equipment I use, see the About Me page.