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numb
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#Bakayo
im not doubting that is your experience, and it may possibly have been optimized to have less noise in low light conditions through firmware
But never the less
Compare the photos in this test between the W900 and the K750
http://www.mobile-review.com/review/sonyericsson-w900-en.shtml
and you will see very litle difference.
I had the W900 for half a day for testing, and had the same conclusion when testing directly against my K750, very small differences.
The new firmware give more options with spot photometry and being able to turn off autofocus. This itself gives more possibilities to optimise for better pics. And yes low light noise may be a litle improved because of firmware. But there are no revolutionairy differences, and you certainly cant make assumptions that its much better based on 5-6 non raw pictures, where for instance the pic of the Alfa obviously and clearly has been through a noiseremover.
I can show off lots of incredible photos from my K750 that are just as good as those shown in this thread. So if you want to honestly show how good the W900 pictures are, then post the original raw unedited pictures instead and let us judge based on those.
I think its remarkle how few pictures are actually being posted in this thread. If its really much better than K750, then fire away, post the pictures to back it up. The full size raw unedited pictures and leave the datestamp on cause that shows very clearly if the picture has been edited or not.
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jmcomms
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I've been sick with food poisoning, but intend to do some proper comparison photography with the K750i/W800i and the W900i for our magazine review.
I have however taken a variety of pictures, in similar situations to where I usually used my W800i, and can confirm the W900i takes far superior photos in low light. You can't obviously remove noise, but this can be filtered if needbe at a later date. What you can't 'fix' is the blue streak lines that afflict the K750 and W800 (at least up to R1N that our models run). It leads me to believe that there are some hardware differences on the W900, either with the sensor itself or elsewhere. Take a photo in low light, and you get solid blacks - with no streaks or artefacts. The difference is immeasurable!
Believe me, that makes ALL the difference! Spot photometry also works wonders, and allowed me to take some wonderful photographs on a recent holiday to Brugge (sadly where I ate some dodgy food).
The jury is still out on whether the W900i is much better than the W800i though!
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michka
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On 2005-12-11 14:00:06, jmcomms wrote:
I've been sick with food poisoning, but intend to do some proper comparison photography with the K750i/W800i and the W900i for our magazine review.
I have however taken a variety of pictures, in similar situations to where I usually used my W800i, and can confirm the W900i takes far superior photos in low light. You can't obviously remove noise, but this can be filtered if needbe at a later date. What you can't 'fix' is the blue streak lines that afflict the K750 and W800 (at least up to R1N that our models run). It leads me to believe that there are some hardware differences on the W900, either with the sensor itself or elsewhere. Take a photo in low light, and you get solid blacks - with no streaks or artefacts. The difference is immeasurable!
Believe me, that makes ALL the difference! Spot photometry also works wonders, and allowed me to take some wonderful photographs on a recent holiday to Brugge (sadly where I ate some dodgy food).
The jury is still out on whether the W900i is much better than the W800i though!
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isiahma
Joined: Oct 29, 2004
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this is my friend KK & his wife YoYo...the photo is taken by my W900i (midnight 11 Dec)..
We had a gathering in a place of GuangDoug of China... red wine, some snack.... very enjoy la..
http://www.esato.com/board/img.php?id=42725
http://www.esato.com/board/img.php?id=42726
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Amras
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umm..... the pics quality looks like the same to my SE K750i pics quality..
i have hundreds of my K750i pics that can compete them. you just need steady hands...
the white balance doesn't really do much for me either... it's still yellowish. Sony Ericsson loves yellow.  i was hoping that W900 cam would have better white balance...
the videos is good but isn't that good anyway.. Samsung D600 records better videos at maximum bitrate 900kbps or higher! in larger resolution, too.. and it's MP4 not 3GP....
even my 1MP Samsung E530 records averagely at 750kbps.. at MP4.
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Bitrate is to low for a 320x240 video, it should be atleast
500-600kbit/s, even just to match bits pr. pixel the 200kbit/s of the K750 at 176x144 resolution, but is only 200kbit/s in this video (though Ive seen it go up to 400kbit/s in other videos). With more rapid movement of the camera lots of blocks and artifacts will occur at that bitrate and that resolution.
Audio still use the extremely poor AMR codec at 8000hz/12kbit/s like K700/K750, it sounds terrible, it should be AAC codec at 11025hz/64kbit/s to give reasonably good sound.
All the newer samsungs for instance records 352x288 at 650kbit/s video with 11025hz/64kbit/s AAC audio, much better quality even if fps is less at 20fps. W900 cant even play files of this combined datarate of 714 kbit/s without stuttering if it will even play them at all.
To me its rather dissapointing that the W900 doesnt do better than this, especially considering what others like samsungs that were released before the W900 can do, and considering the W900 has an nvidia accellerator. Its not that big improvement over the K750. Only an increase in resolution and fps. No real increase in videobitrate and no change in sound. |
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only 3GP and sound is still AMR.. disappointing, huh?
i prefer the AAC sound in those Nokia 2MPs and Samsung D600..
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davidsic
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Absolutely not ! I've just resized the picture in 800x600 for not deform the pages of many forums 
It depend of the light conditions. the W900i's pictures have also less noise than K750i/W800i and make a little bit better contrast.
This one without noise remover and without auto focus (night mode on)
Cloudy day (white balance on cloudy)
End of day, low light (night mode, wb on cloudy and i took the pic very still)
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bakayo
Joined: Oct 29, 2005
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love the pics davidsic |
hongsta299
Joined: Dec 07, 2005
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great pics. I find the bigger screen on the w900i helps alot in taking better pictures, its soooo much easier to see if a shot is in perfect focus or not. |
numb
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On 2005-12-17 03:03:19, davidsic wrote:
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Absolutely not ! I've just resized the picture in 800x600 for not deform the pages of many forums
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ok, then please post the original full size picture
Otherwise great pics though, love the Lara Croft picture |
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bakayo
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bump, come on w900 peeps |
davidsic
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SpYder
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beautiful photos davidsic!
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datx
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w900's night photos are simply amazing! |
Arne Anka
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I just can agree with all others. Simply fantastic shots. |
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Posted: 2005-12-11 12:54
