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Comparing Carl Zeiss lenses: Nokia Lumina 900 vs. Sony Cybershot

April 11, 2012 Leave a comment Go to comments

I am now the proud owner of a new smartphone: The Nokia Lumina 900 running Windows Phone 7.5. The primary reason for the upgrade is the fact that it has a Carl Zeiss lens, which like my point & shoot camera does (a Sony Cybershot DCS-W350).

The Nokia has an 8 megapixel camera with a fixed 28mm Carl Zeiss lens.

The Sony is a 14.1 megapixel camera with a 26mm 4x optical zoom Carl Zeiss lens.

To compare the two cameras, today at 7:53am I took a photo outside, it was cloudy (as you can see), there was no flash and I had the cameras set to "auto" for everything. That’s roughly how I will take pictures most of the time, so for me, it’s a fair test. Here’s the results:

Nokia Lumina 900 running Windows Phone 7.5:
Dimensions: 3264 x 2448
Resolution: 72 dpi
Bit depth: 24
F-stop: f/2.2
Exposure time: 1/205 sec.
ISO Speed: ?
Focal length: ?
Max aperture: ?
Size: 1.46 MB

 Space Needle - Nokia Limina 900

Sony DCS-W350 point & shoot camera:
Dimensions: 4320 x 3240
Resolution: 72 dpi
Bit depth: 24
F-stop: f/2.7
Exposure time: 1/200 sec.
ISO Speed: ISO-80
Focal length: 5mm
Max aperture: 2.875
Size: 5.05 MB

 Space Needle - Sony DCS-W350

Nokia Lumina 900 after using the Windows Phone auto-fix feature:
The dimensions, resolution and everything else match the original, except the size:
Size: 995 KB

 Space Needle with WinPhone auto-fix - Nokia Limina 900
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