With or without camera?
Jaro 4. December 2006 :: camera, e50, flickr, nokia, photo
A few people asked me which model I recommend – with or without camera. When I was buying my E50 I was struggling with the same problem. I just couldn’t decide. In the end I went for the model with camera. A few things to consider:
- price difference is small; comfort of having a camera all the time with you ready to shoot will cost you around €30/$40 extra
- you won’t notice you have a camera; it’s completely build in and the back of your phone is nicely sleek
- quality of the photos is relatively low (1.3 Megapixel camera); if you want high resolution photos then look for the Nseries models which are equipped with Carl Zeiss lenses
- despite low megapixels the camera has quite many options to tune up your end result; night mode, sequence mode, self-time and adjusting white balance and colour tone are all useful features
- basic digital zoom; you won’t get any great results with it but it’s a plus
- you can shoot a video up to 1 hour long depending on size of a memory card; again, no high-res videos but still better than no video
If you want to see what kind of photos you can make with E50, check out Flickr. My final verdict is: get the model with a camera if you can afford paying a few bucks more.
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Nokia E50 on Flickr
Jaro 29. November 2006 :: camera, e50, flickr, nokia, photo
There has been lots of discussion about the Flickr Camera graphs which show the most popular cameras and camera phones used on Flickr. First place belongs to Sony Ericsson followed by two Nokia Nseries phones.
But where is our E50? Can it compete with the entertainment series? Not really but you will be surprised that it’s doing pretty well considering it’s a new phone, has only 1.3 megapixel camera and it’s intended to be used mainly for business. So let’s have a look how it’s doing among all the Nokia phones:
- ranking at number 17 out of 26 Nokia phones
- total amount of 1,110 photos have been posted
- approximately 3 people upload a photo from their E50 every day
I was pleasently surprised when I saw these statistics. I didn’t think I would find so many photos on Flickr made on the E50. And some of them even look good! Have a look yourself:
It’s no Digital Rebel but hey, these photos look pretty good, don’t they? You can see a list of all photos at flickr.com/cameras/nokia/e50. We can’t compete with the Nseries guys, they have Carl Zeiss lenses which produce much better pictures but we still can make nice pics with our tiny E50 camera. Come on, take more pictures and post them on Flickr or any other place. I’ll link to the best ones.
