Last night, my wife (love the sound of that) and I had Thai for dinner at BKNY restaurant. I usually take pictures on automatic mode, but after previously playing with a dSLR, I know I can have better control by changing some of the settings before taking the pictures. Take a look at these sample Nokia N85 photos at the restaurant.

Noticing that the restaurant had bulbs pointing down the table, I didn’t want to use the flash. I also wanted to make sure to get the white balance correctly, so I set it to Incandescent. I also knew that since I was indoor without flash, I needed to increase the ISO light sensitivity. The Nokia N85 has 4 settings: Auto, Low, Medium, High. I set it to Medium because I know setting it to High will make the photo grainy and setting it to Low might result a darker underexposed photo. What’s left is to have steady hands while taking the photo. If you’re serious about this, then you can use one of the tripods we we wrote about.

Here’s the slideshow of the photos below. Click on a photo to enlarge. Head to the blog if it’s not visible in your RSS reader.

We’ve been to BKNY several times before, but last night’s dinner really impressed me. Everything we ordered blew my mind. I’m not sure if it was a new chef or just haven’t eaten there in a while. The calamari with the sweet chili sauce was heavenly and the red curry duck was not overwhelmingly spicy and very delicious. We finished it off with fried ice cream which can be described as ice cream covered with fried flour. It was puzzling how the ice cream inside wasn’t melted when it arrived on the table. Want to know where the restaurant is? Just click on any of the photos and see the map details. Yes… the Nokia N85 automatically geotagged these photos as well!

The photos aren’t as great as my Canon Rebel XSi dSLR, but I am still satisfied with the results. What do you think? Have you been experimenting with your cameraphone’s settings?