i8910 HD photo samples through various ISO settings
Posted by soHD in Imaging, tags: ISO
The Samsung i8910 Omnia HD’s 8MP camera has largely been overshadowed by the HD video recording. It uses the same sensor found in the Samsung i8510, regarded by some as one of the best camera phones on the market. As with other Samsung camera-phones, there are a whole range of camera application settings and features. This includes manual camera controls and being able to adjust ISO settings.
The final retail version of the Samsung i8910 Omnia HD differs from the prototype in that the maximum ISO setting for the camera was reduced from 3200 to 1600. To be honest, I’m not so sure how useful a 3200 ISO setting would have been anyway, given the amount of noise it would exhibit.
Anyway, the first photo samples through the 50-1600 ISO range have appeared courtesy of Raikiri from the OCUK Forums. Looking through the photos, there is distinctly more noise on the ISO 1600 setting compared to ISO 800 (look at the wall on the left-hand side for an idea). It will be interesting to see how these noise levels compare to other camera phones. Check out all of the photos after the jump.
Camera menu
ISO 1600
ISO 800
ISO 400
ISO 200
ISO 100
ISO Auto (50)
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Twitter
Not much of a camera buff, so what’s the advantages of being able to change the ISO?
Does’t look like there’s an improvement there @ all, but there’s gotta be somethin’ more to it? :/
Wow. For Facebook photos, the 1600 shot is acceptably noise free. I’m impressed up to 400. Good work on the part of Samsung, considering it’s all in the post processing. I think giving the option for some kind of raw shooting would be ideal.
@ Chappas
The higher the ISO the more sensitive the camera is to light, meanings you can use a faster shutter speed in low light thus avoiding motion blur