{"id":3008,"date":"2014-06-14T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2014-06-14T16:30:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T16:30:01","slug":"a-tale-of-two-lumias-snaps-on-a-lumia-630-versus-a-lumia-1020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3008-a-tale-of-two-lumias-snaps-on-a-lumia-630-versus-a-lumia-1020.html","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two Lumias: snaps on a Lumia 630 versus a Lumia 1020"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent a morning in Oxford taking some snaps and thought it would be fun to compare what a budget Windows Smartphone \u2013 the new Nokia Lumia 630 \u2013 can do versus the king of photography smartphones, the Nokia Lumia 1020.<\/p>\n

Note this is not intended as a fair comparison; the 1020 costs around four times as much as the 630. It does show what you are giving up if you use a budget smartphone for all your snaps. In each case, you can click the image to see the full resolution.<\/p>\n

Here is the Bodleian Library on the 630:<\/p>\n

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and on the 1020, using the 5MP version (the 1020 also stores a high res version of each image):<\/p>\n

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Next, Pembroke College on the 630:<\/p>\n

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and on the 1020:<\/p>\n

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Some flowers at the corner of Pembroke\u2019s Chapel Quad, on the 630:<\/p>\n

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and on the 1020:<\/p>\n

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The difference is more telling if you zoom in. Here is a detail taken from a picture of Broad Street on the 630:<\/p>\n

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and on the 1020:<\/p>\n

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What about the high-res versions of the Lumia 1020 snaps? Here is a picture of Oxford\u2019s \u201cBridge of Sighs\u201d:<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s zoom in to look at the sculpture on the bridge. This is from the 5MP version, which I\u2019ve enlarged slightly:<\/p>\n

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Here is the same section taken from the high-res 34MP image:<\/p>\n

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I consider the improvement well worthwhile; it does pay to hang on to those high-res images for the pictures you most value.<\/p>\n

I snapped this on the 630 too; here is the same zoomed-in and enlarged section:<\/p>\n

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Ouch!<\/p>\n

Conclusion? The camera on the Lumia 630 is not too bad \u2013 for a cheap smartphone. The Lumia 1020 is something special and I am grateful to Nokia for delivering a smartphone with a camera good enough that I can leave a standalone camera out of my bag \u2013 noting that I am not a photographer, just a traveller who takes pictures. I have not used a tripod on any of the above; from my perspective, coping with camera shake is one of the characteristics I need in whatever camera I use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent a morning in Oxford taking some snaps and thought it would be fun to compare what a budget Windows Smartphone \u2013 the new Nokia Lumia 630 \u2013 can do versus the king of photography smartphones, the Nokia Lumia 1020. Note this is not intended as a fair comparison; the 1020 costs around four … Continue reading A tale of two Lumias: snaps on a Lumia 630 versus a Lumia 1020<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1146,55,56,1152],"tags":[1329,1330,586,642,1011],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imaging","category-microsoft","category-mobile","category-smartphones","tag-luma-630","tag-lumia-1020","tag-microsoft","tag-nokia","tag-windows-phone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}