The much hyped Smartphone – Nokia Lumia 1020 has finally hit the market. It is the debut Windows based Smartphone device, which carries a 41 million pixels over a sensor. In the history of Nokia producing so many phones and smart phones such camera was never used by the company. This camera is bound to rule the Smartphone world with high end features and powerful picture and video capturing quality.
The camera is backed by Xenon flash egads along with recognizable specifications that happens to be a more tangible camera feature, which will certainly going to impress even the seasoned photographers all over the world. One of the striking features, which can lure both skilled and novice photo professional is the manual focus. It gives you a better control over the focus along with unleashing some of the most incredible features to the user who is clicking photos or making videos. Let’s check how you can enjoy with the manual focus in this newly introduced phone of Nokia in the following paragraphs.
The manual focus in Lumia 1020 gives you better control
Every photographer or photo enthusiast loves to avail better and smarter control. In other Smartphone’s, the users are forced to deal with the number of traditional and basic manual controls or can also find Smartphone devices, which doesn’t give any control at all. Even though when you saw the manufacturers giving the users the liberty to fix their own aperture, ISO and shutter speed, the focus still remained a big issue to address as it never came into the control of their fingers. The best what the users were able to do was to touch at any specific part of the display area and simply rely over the auto focus to get things right. Despite trying all hard and features, the manufacturers simply failed to give quality to the cameras of their Smartphone’s.
However, with Lumia 1020 the story is simply very much different, which is loved a lot by the Smartphone users. Here you get the on screen virtual dial option, which enables you to gradually shift the focus from foreground to the background and all the other things in between. It simply appears to be a cool breeze and stock of fresh air to the users. So, when you start using the manual focus, it simply appears to be incredible smooth. People who had their hands on experience claim that the camera is extremely responsive.
Set an infinite focus
As per Nokia, the users have the option of setting the focal plane of Lumia 1020’s camera from 15 cm to infinite level. The camera is very much useful when you see the autofocus unable to finding or while shooting different objects from a close angle. You have the option of shooting clearly in a dim lit space. If you are shooting via any window of your home the AF element in other Smartphone cameras is simply unable to find out the important thing in it, however, in Lumia 2010 with manual focus feature, you will be able to get a good control over such conditions. However, the only flaw found in this camera is that you will not be able to avail this feature while making a video otherwise this camera could had turned out to be an eternal one for the users. But looking in the perspective of a Smartphone, you hardly require this feature in video recording as it is only found in the bigger cameras backed by big size sensors. The depth of field of any mobile image is generally adequately deep for the auto focus for making things the right way. However, having this choice in such cases wherein it simply will not stop messing up the things it will certainly going to make a good difference.
What is inside Lumia 1020’s camera?
As per the reports from Verge (a reputed media site reporting technology), Lumia 1020 is one of the best cameras so far in Smartphone. The device is backed with has a 41 MP camera with the element called Pure View branding having a 4.5 inch AMOLED display having 2GB RAM and storage of 32GB and a number of wide angle lens over the front facing camera that carries a Xenon flash and the F/2.2 lens. This camera also comes up with a new Pro Camera application, which offers a high quality image stabilization along with effective adjustable white balance, focus, ISO, competent shutter speed and many more things, which makes the difference in the image quality.
Final word
The Nokia obsession for giving its users some of the finest imaging optics has proved paramount with cameras introduced in the newly introduced smartphone -Lumia 1020. The whopping 41 MP cameras backed by manual focus simply unleashes some of the most incredible features to the users, which other players never thought of bringing out.
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