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Started Apr 19, 2014 | Discussions thread
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Re: The perils of noise reduction

The thing that is really confusing the hell out of me at the moment is why my Nokia Lumia 1020 phone with its truly ridiculous 40mp on a 1/1.5" sensor does not suffer from all the IQ and dynamic range problems my compacts have with much lower pixel density. There is no mush and it digital crops to 7x with no problem. Noise is just a light grain when it appears.

I am not trying to sell the phone as Windows mobile is OK for an apps resistant luddite like me but probably not for the majority. As an old Windows/DOS man in from the very start android is a bit like joining a hippy colony. It is just leaving me with a sense of unreality over why compacts are struggling so much to create mush free detail.

Edit: It is almost as though my 1020 and the compacts come from parallel universes where different rules apply to sensor performance..

Darlene Goff wrote:

Nice shots, but as you mentioned the mushy detail in landscapes. And blow those two up to 100% and you will cry. This is my complaint about the SH-50 and the newer cameras in this field, even this $400 one, which obviously takes some great photos. Is there an NR setting? If there is, I would be very interested. Otherwise, I have to pass. It is not just Olympus, it is all cameras of this type in doing distant and not so distant landscape. Why do reviewers force camera companies to be so stringent on lack of noise at higher iso? And even at baseline iso. There are choices for indoor and low light photos, use flash, or buy a camera like the xz-2, LX7, or Coolpix 330 or 340. And Canon has one also. Cameras with a wide aperture below f/2 or brighter. The cameras like this one take great pictures if you don't want to crop much and don't manage to catch grass and trees at a certain angle. I can deal with noise. A little noise showing does not bother me. But smeary detail ruins too many photos I buy this type of camera for. I know a lot of people blame the size of the sensor. That certainly plays a part, but just leaving off so much noise reduction would be much better. Or giving a choice. But unfortunately almost every major reviewer counts off heavily for noise and makes this a big part of the review. Years ago, it was slowness. When did I ever meet a non-DSLR Nikon that was speedy back then but it was my camera of choice.

But you took some great photos there, great composition. And it seems otherwise to be a very good camera.

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