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Comments on: Nokia prepping 12Mp cameraphone with optical zoom?

Sounds sweet.... 

Posted Tuesday 30th June 2009 13:30 GMT

Pint

...until they realise that serious photographers want DSLRs and serious nerds want decent phones with only a camera to take furtive upskirt pics of women they can never have.

Ahem.

Um... the N93 had optical zoom 

Posted Tuesday 30th June 2009 16:47 GMT

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so it wont even be the first phone with optical zoom for Nokia.

What a joke 

Posted Wednesday 1st July 2009 11:47 GMT

WTF?

What's the point? Huge file sizes mainly storing the pattern of noise that the tiny sensor was chucking out at the time...

Why not work on a camera phone that takes decent pictures with a normal resolution? I haven't seen one yet.

@S 10 

Posted Wednesday 1st July 2009 12:57 GMT

Absolutely. My Nikon D1 took very nice pictures, with only 2.3 megapixels. Better pixels please, not more - 3MP is the most any cellphone needs with current technology. (12MP is only twice that resolution)

There's no chance Nokia will include a decent wide angle either but it will have a useless flash, because it'll be specced by bean counters, marketers and corporate politicians, not engineers or photographers.

I want one so much... 

Posted Wednesday 1st July 2009 17:58 GMT

Go

that I will willingly sell my house and all its contents to buy one, except for my real camera of course.