Camera Nitty Gritty Postscript: The Camera <s>Never</s>Always Lies

[slitchfield]

One great camera phone produces an image that's full of detail. Another great camera phone produces an image with similar detail but totally different colouring - but which is 'right'? In this postscript to my Camera Nitty Gritty series of features, I explain that 'right' is somewhat subjective and that what you see from a digital camera is always heavily influenced by what the manufacturer thinks you'll prefer to see.


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[snoyt]

If I see something that impresses me and I take a shot of it. I'd like the photo to capture what I am seeing. Then again when going into the artistique mode. Tweaking the camera settings should allow 'distorting' reality and making things artful. Looking at the shot I wonder if the N82 was properly focussed or that the INNOV8 actually has so much better resolution/jpeg compression?

steve, the firmware version of your innov8 is not the latest. Your innov8 runs HJ3 Software. Download the the latest firmware Hj4 through samsung PC Studio 7.It has fixed the lipsync bug and a lot of other issues.

[slitchfield]

@unregistered: I've been trying to, weekly, for the last 6 months. Are you saying that the PC Studio update works for you now? It has always said 'Device not supported' for me. I'll go try again.... mutter...... Nope, still 'not supported'. Samsung have even confirmed to me that firmware updates for their S60 devices is not SUPPOSED to be supported yet... it's been 'coming soon' for a long, long time.....

steve, i had similar problems but then i uninstalled my Pc studio and downloaded the latest from the samsung's official website. It already had the newer firmware Hj4 built in. I hated the lipsync bug but soon after installing the newer one, the lipsync bug had vanished,bluetooth aquired more stability and the artifical colouring of photos reduced to an extent. Anyway i have the 8Gb variant , whichone do you have?

[slitchfield]

16GB, and yes, I've tried a clean install on a new PC, the works. As I understand it, firmware updating of the S60 phones isn't supposed to work yet, the testers put it up prematurely a while back. Can't understand what's taking them so long, really!

[Tzer2]

If I see something that impresses me and I take a shot of it. I'd like the photo to capture what I am seeing.

But what ARE you seeing?

It's very difficult for a camera to capture what you're seeing, because what you're seeing is already artificially processed by your own brain.

Very little of what we see is totally real, which is why some patterns fool us as our own processing systems get screwed up by them.

The image below is not moving, but most people will think the circles are turning when they look at it.

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/illusion/illusions.htm