Since Nokia joined the Microsoft formation, the Lumia series has begun to radiate its own light alone, and the Lumia920 equipped with the new generation of PureView photography technology has been praised by Nokia. Now let's see whether the Lumia920's imaging ability is really so powerful.
Coincidentally, during the Spring Festival, Xiao Bian took the Nokia Lumia920 with him to the countryside to take photos. There are no high-rise buildings in the countryside, so the sky is always pure. If you can see a very open sky, it is naturally easy to film.
First, let's look at the daytime imaging of Lumia920:
prospect
The environment in the countryside is good, and the air is fresh. There is a large field nearby, and mountains in the distance. What surprised me was that although the 920 has no HDR mode, the actual shooting effect is very good. When I was shooting, the sun was fierce, and I was still worried about the difficulty of making a film. Who knows that the sky, fields, and mountains were all well represented when I took the picture.
Maybe you have no idea about the "fierce sun" mentioned by the above editor, so I use HTC One X+to make a comparison, and you will clearly see how good Lumia is at controlling the color of photos.
In the above photo taken with HTC One X+, HDR is not turned on. It can be seen that the range of the sun on the upper right of the picture has become white, and the details of the sky and white clouds are completely covered by the sun.
One X+must enable HDR to show the details of the sky, but here I have to complain about HTC's HDR effect... PS marks are too serious.
Almost even if it is facing the sun, it has a good performance. The high light source at the top of the picture is the sun.
Lumia920 will perform well even when shooting in dark weather, because 920 will automatically brighten and process the photos after shooting, making the pictures taken more pure and transparent, and the color performance is also very pleasing.
In the picture above, the two houses in the middle are very interesting. The design is symmetrical. They should be the houses built by brothers themselves.
Here we have to compare the 100% screenshots of One X+and 920. Although their pixels are different, they can also be used as a detailed reference: 920 on the left and One X+on the right. 920 is more pleasing in terms of color performance, but it is only slightly better than One X+in terms of details, which makes me a little disappointed.
Macro
In terms of macro, 920's performance is worthy of recognition, and the background is very soft, not stiff at all, very good!
Sunset&night view
In terms of sunset glow, 920 has good color performance, so the colorful sky can also get good performance, except that the ISO should be limited to 100. If the ISO is high, in such a dark environment, large areas of noise will increase.
The above figure is the same place. Only increase the ISO value. You can clearly see that ugly noise has appeared in the dark parts of the upper two corners of the picture. So when shooting sunset clouds, you should not shake your hands, but also control the ISO. Xiaobian believes that there is no need to raise ISO for 920.
The night scene has always been the focus of Nokia, so I will also analyze more about the night scene:
With a shutter speed of 1/3 second and an ISO limit of 100, as long as your hand is stable enough, you can still take clear pictures. In addition, 920 will brighten the picture to a certain extent. The overall feeling of the picture is still quite pure.
If the ISO of Lumia920 is set to automatic, what will be the picture performance?
I have to say that the above picture was taken at the same place and time when the flash was turned off, but the left picture is automatic ISO, and the right picture is ISO limited to 100. From the perspective of the naked eye, the ambient light at that time should be as dim as the right picture. It can only be said that Lumia920's pure scene technology has really shocked the brightness of the picture, but this high ISO can only be applied when there is no direct light source. If there is direct light source, improving ISO will seriously damage the picture, for example:
Automatic ISO, the distant archway lighting has completely become a "light door".
Limited to low ISO, the distant archway lights can show details. Therefore, for 920, improving ISO only needs to be improved at certain times. For daily use, even shooting some ordinary night scenes, please adjust the ISO to the minimum.
Based on Lumia920's ability to control the shutter speed to a very slow condition in the night scene, there are many things to play in the night scene, such as:
Play with some drag effects.
Or by light graffiti, the whole picture is a pattern of notes.
The slowest shutter speed of Lumia920 can reach 1 second, and it is much easier to play graffiti with 1 second shutter speed! You can go to《 Sharing of interesting photography light graffiti skills 》A crowd gathered to watch.
Slow shutter speed can also capture the most brilliant moment of fireworks.
It is rare that Lumia920 has a shutter speed of 1 second at the slowest speed. It is a waste of time not to shoot stars.
In this photo, when Xiaobian put it on Weibo, his friends were laughing at Xiaobian: "Let's watch a ball". Yes, Xiaobian is to show you a ball (planet).
This is a 100% screenshot of the above picture. I dare say that 920 captured more stars than we can see with our naked eyes! There are not many mobile phones that can capture so many stars in such a scene. The One X+that Xiao Bian took with him was totally black, because the slowest shutter speed of One X+was only 1/14 second, so it could not shoot stars at all.
focusing
In terms of focusing, the small editor used to take it easy. To be specific, the focus ability of Lumia920 is relatively poor. Sometimes they are out of focus, even when the environment is bright enough. This is very disappointing for Xiao Bian. In addition, the WP system does not have a photo virtual key. When you click the focus on the screen, you will take a photo immediately. This also makes the editor very unaccustomed. Fortunately, there is an entity shooting button, which can be used to control the focus after half pressing, and then consider composition shooting. However, this shooting key is relatively hard, and you need to use a little force when pressing it, but it is easy to shake your hand and affect the imaging... I don't know whether it is good or bad. If you don't mind turning on the auxiliary focusing light, I suggest you turn it on, so that the chance of successful focusing is greater.
summary
The Lumia920 can't be said to be the best mobile phone for shooting, but the 920 equipped with the second-generation pure scene technology is still quite powerful, especially in the performance of night scenes, which is qualitatively improved compared with the Lumia900. But generally speaking, it is not as powerful as Xiao Bian imagined. Maybe the expectation is too high. If you really get it, you will feel more disappointed when you find that your expectation is not as good as your own. Here, the editor also advises readers not to believe the praise of any manufacturer. You must try the machine yourself to know whether it is good or not.
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