I do like the quicker shooting of some phones but then when you look back at the quality its terrible compared to the 1020 and 808 ..... yeah some phones take ok shots in daylight but when you compare them again to the 1020 and 808 the detail is so much better in the nokias ..... then when the light is anything but perfect the 1020 really shows its big sensor and high quality optics .... it literally produces an image that will be 10-20x better to my eyes
also using the z3 in iso 1280 or whatever it is will only result in images with loads of noise compared to shooting the same thing on the 1020 with some manual adjustments and a much better iso from 100-400
nokia have worked miracles in phones like the 1020 and 808 .... the oversampling , the sensors and optics in such a small space .... I don't carry a point and shoot with me any more because the 808 and 1020 are better , lighter , offer more like raw and full manual controls then ?300 point and shoot cameras ;-)
I bought an s5 and I just cant use it because the camera is useless compared to nokias offerings in the 1020 , 1520 , 930 etc ...... id even go as far as to say that the 920s and 925s camera is better then the s5 and that's down to nokia offering quality optics via carl zeis (they are proper pros at what they do with lenses especially tiny ones in laboratory's) great hardware like their ois which trounces others ois and coupling it with awesome jprg processing or the ability to shoot raw and change all your settings via a great ui in the camera app ;-)
when I show people a pic with my 1020 they ask if I took it because it looks so good , when I take a pic with the s5 people ask whats happened to my camera or if I was having a bad day ..... yes the s5 focuses fast , takes ok pics in the day , can take loads of pics quick , but it isn't versatile as a camera and the quality of the images are pretty bad compared to lumias of varying spec and price range I even saw a 720 out shooting my s5
what we need is Microsoft to make the 1020 successor a reality , keep the basics of the 1020 and 808 but pimp it up with waterproofing , micro sd slot , bigger battery , mhl connection for usb in and tv out , ir for modern tvs , faster cpu , better gpu , maybe a dedicated camera chip , better speakers , maybe a dedicated sound chip for audio heads
lets face it nokia/Microsoft Lumia could have the best phone out there right now , the tech is there , put it all in one phone and ship it to all markets , who else can make a phone like the 1030 right now?? nokia/Microsoft could kill the market with the best phone ever , if they don't and sales are still slow , its their own doing and it winds me up a bit
all I want is a faster 1020 with expandable memory and some other little bells and whistles ive tried others and come running back to my 1020 for the main reason I don't want to look back at my pics in 10 years time and think jeeeeese if id used the 1020 which was knocking about instead of the s5 because it wa a bit faster that pic would of been so much better ..... I want to look at my pics and think wow ;-)