The Camera Differences on iPhone 5 and Nokia Lumia 920

Almost at the same as previous years, most smartphone manufactures are like to announce their new product in this period, and in this year, like Nokia Lumia 920 and iPhone 5 are just part of these new products. Nokia Lumia 920, the most expected Win 8 smartphone, iPhone 5, the most expected smartphone, they are all have been announced in this month, and iPhone 5 has already accepted pre-ordering. And in fact, except for other factors, pureview camera technology is the top thing people have concerned on Nokia Lumia 920, and for camera on iPhone 5, Apple stated it has been improved, though its main specs are almost as the same as camera on iPhone 4S. But for iPhone 5 and Nokia Lumia 920, which has better features on camera? and what's the differences on iPhone 5 camera and Nokia Lumia 920 camera? iPhone 5 camera better or Nokia Lumia 920 camera better? are just the questions people want to know.


Camera Difference On iPhone 5 and Nokia Lumia 920

However, the most first thing we need to know is get the camera specs differences between iPhone 5 and Nokia Lumia 920 to get the answer of which camera is better between iPhone 5 and Nokia Lumia 920.

Camera Specs Differences on iPhone 5 and Lumia 920

For iPhone 5 camera, which almost has the same specs of iPhone 4S camera, 8MP iSight camera, f/2.4 aperture with the ability to record 1080p@30fps video, and also the features Panorama, Digital Image Stabilization. The most different from iPhone 4S is iPhone 5 camera can take still photos while recording video.

For Nokia Lumia 920 camera, which is a 8.7MP main camera, f/2.0 aperture and 26mm focal length (35mm equivalent) with the ability to record 1080p@30fps video, the great features including PureView Technology, Optical Image Stabilization and Auto and Manual White Balance.

By the way, the front camera on iPhone 5 is a 1.2MP camera with the ability to record 720p@30fps video, and on Nokia Lumia 920 is a 1.3MP camera with the ability to record 720p@30fps video.

Which is Better, iPhone 5 Camera or Nokia Lumia 920 Camera

With the different camera specs, like camera aperture, f/2.0 is better than f/2.4, which means the f/2.0 camera can easily get more light amount, in other words , when we keep the same exposure speed, the f/2.0 camera will get more light amount, and then the photo will be more bright. On the contrary, the f/2.4 camera will be a little difficult to get more light amount.

Like camera focal length, Nokia Lumia 920 is 26mm, the value is less than 28mm, which means Nokia Lumia 920 has the wide-angle shot ability, but for iPhone 5 camera, the focal length has not been announced yet, so we are not able to get the answer which is better , iPhone 5 camera or Nokia Lumia 920, on focal length value.

We can find that the image stabilization technology on iPhone 5 is Digital Image Stabilization, and on Nokia Lumia 920 is Optical Image Stabilization, the obvious difference between Optical Image Stabilization and Digital Image Stabilization is Optical Image Stabilization is the most effective technology on image stabilization, that means Nokia Lumia 920 camera is better than iPhone 5 camera on image stabilization.

For other things like Nokia Lumia 920 camera resolution is 3264×2448 pixels, as to iPhone 5 camera, this value seems the same as camera focal length, haven't announced, but it probably be no more than 3264×2448 pixels, and also the camera digital zoom value, we have not yet known it on iPhone 5 camera, but on Nokia Lumia 920, the digital zoom value is 4×.

Nokia Lumia 920 low-light sample image

And Nokia Lumia 920 and iPhone 5 are all said that they are greatly improved on their low-light shooting performance. As we haven't got the low-light sample photos from iPhone 5, it may difficult to debate which has the better low-light performance. But according to Nokia Lumia 920's smaller aperture and Optical Image Stabilization technology, I believe, Nokia Lumia 920 has the better low-light performance than iPhone 5.

So depend on these differences between iPhone 5 camera and Nokia Lumia 920 camera, it's easy to know that the camera on Nokia Lumia 920 is better than the camera on iPhone 5.

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I am not sure the iPhone in this video is iPhone 5, but which can help you to know more about camera on Nokia Lumia 920.

Update 2012-9-25, the results of low-light shot on iPhone 5 and Lumia 920

The low-light shot results of iPhone 5 and Lumia 920

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