It is probably the first entry on my blog about technology things that has nothing to do with Ireland itself. However it describes a thing vital for my blog and pictures of Ireland.
Couple of days ago my camera - Konica Minolta DiMage A1 - has died. Actually not the whole camera, but CCD. It doesn’t take pictures of real life anymore, instead of it it takes pictures of something which is simillar to Northern Lights or kinda weird ghost pictures. I was deeply depressed because my Konica Minolta A1 was my main tool and now it is dead. Luckily, I have found official manufacturer statement, that all Konica Minolta cameras (including DiMage A1) manufactured between 2002 and 2004 have a bad CCD construction failure so they are going to be removed even the guarantee period is over. However I have to go to Poland and to my Sony (former Konica Minolta) service. Thus I am without a proper camera for next month or so.
The only thing I got now is a 3 megapixel so called camera in my Nokia N73. To be honest, I don’t understand people who are creazy about megapixels in their mobile phones. Doesn’t matter if your mobile has 2 megapixels or 5 megapixels. Camera in the mobile is just a toy and the quality of the photos won’t be as good as from the regular camera even with CCD with less megapixels. Despite those facts I have to use my mobile as a camera for at least couple of weeks.
Anyway, how does that Nokia N73 3 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lenses work? First of all - it is hard to set up everything and manual mode (the only one I accept) is limited to the minimum (ISO - low, medium, high; Light conditions - automatic, sunny, cloudy, fluorescent; Aperture from 1 to 10 and that is all) and the quality of the photos is rather low. It doesn’t matter that the pictures have resolution 2048 x 1536 when you can see pixelisation and high compression on them, despite the camera is set up for best quality photos. There is no proper white balance, so all of the photos are reddish.
So, my conclusion is, so called “cameras” in mobile phones sucks, but now it is my only option. Maybe next month I am going to by a proper big digital reflex camera with some replaceable lenses.
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