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More on the Nokia N9 Camera, It’s Super Fast

June 22nd, 2011 • Mark Guim • 4 comments

The camera is a very important factor to me when choosing smartphones. I’m glad Nokia Conversations sat down with Product Manager Jens Wilke to get more details on the Nokia N9 with an 8-megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss lens, and autofocus. Read on for some of the highlights.

Nokia N9 cam

The Nokia N9 specifications page says the device has a dedicated camera key, but the interview says otherwise. Product manager said the camera key is located on the screen. The Nokia N9 camera continuously auto focuses on subjects when it is on. You can also tap-to-focus.

The Nokia N9 has the fastest camera on any phone – from launch to focus to capture. It’s even faster than one of best point-n-shoot cameras out there, the Canon Powershot S95!

Nokia n9 latency

One thing that wasn’t mentioned on the interview was the wide-open F/2.2 lens on the Nokia N9. It’s the largest aperture on any mobile phone as far as I’m aware (let me know if you can find one with wider aperture). That means it should perform well in low-light conditions. In comparison, the Nokia N8 has F/2.8 and the Nokia N86 with F/2.4. The lower aperture number allows more light to reach the image sensor. Nokia’s imaging expert Damian Dinning can explain this better and I believe he has a post coming up soon at Nokia Conversations.

I’m geeking out on the Nokia N9′s camera. Are the photography lovers excited over this device?

Anonymous

Seems the people at Carl Zeiss were extremely pleased with the performance of the camera in the N9.
http://kairo.myopenid.com/ Robert Kaiser

Phone cameras are nice and all, but even the best phone camera will not have “photography lovers” in awe in the end. You just can’t stuff a lot of photons into a small hole like that, with natural lighting levels, that is. That’s just plain physics that make clear why cameras with a larger lens will always excite “photography lovers” more than phone cams.
That said, a good quality phone cam like this one seems to be is surely good for a lot of nice amateur pics and for the fast shot you need every now and then (and with that speed, it should excel at that).
http://twitter.com/lordofweed lordof weed

funny that my optimus 7 needs only 2.5 seconds with AF
Jimbo

Since having my N86 I have ditched my small snaps camera… then I went to the truly awful Nokia C7. What a mistake rubbish camera, so bit the bullet and upgraded to the N8. The N8 is a superb camera but I miss not being able to select a mid range megapixel setting such as 5meg.. The N8 only gives 3meg / 9meg / 12meg. I would like a 5meg mode..

The N8 camera is good but a little slow sometimes to start, depending how many apps you have running.. The N9 sounds great and will be right up my street… so I cant wait to see one / play with one and buy one.

A decent camera is a must in my phone as I use it for so many things, from taking snaps on holiday, sunsets / beeches etc,etc and for work to how document customer installations….

Rollon Nokia N9….. me wants and me wants it now!!!