Nokia Lumia 1020 vs Sony Xperia Z1 - Camera Comparison

Check out this detailed camera comparison between the Nokia Lumia 1020 and the Sony Xperia Z1. Both devices come with amazing camera technology inside - The Lumia 1020 is sports a massive 41MP camera PureView imaging, while the newly announced flagship Android smartphone Xperia Z1 packs a 20.7MP Exmor RS sensor have its own G lens technology.

The detailed specs of the two cameras follow:

	Lumia 1020	Xperia Z1
Optics/Sensor	1/1.5-inch, 41 MP Carl Zeiss	1/2.3-inch, 20.7MP Exmor RS sensor
Lens	advanced six lens ZEISS optics	G lens
Aperture Size	f2.2	f2.0
Processing	main SoC	dedicated Bionz image processor
Image Stabilization	Optical Image Stabilization	Digital Image Stabilization
Others	imaging algorithms

Now lets look at some of the photo samples from the Lumia 1020 and Xperia Z1 cameras.

Sunny Scene

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Bright overcast, shady park scene

[NOTES FROM PUBLISHER] The output resolutions of the two phone cameras are different (5MP versus 8MP), plus they have different fields of view, so it’s not possible to match the shots/crops exactly (or do one of our famous interactive comparators). All settings were on auto, except where noted below. The Z1 was on the August 8th OS kernel, with firmware build 14.1.6.1.518 – my initial tests with it showed a marked difference between ‘auto’ mode results and ‘manual’, but after a round of app updates and a reboot the phone settled down and there were marginal differences between the two modes. Sony is expected to tweak ‘auto’ mode in an upcoming firmware update, but the modes can be discounted for these tests. In the one or two cases where the ‘auto’ photo looked worse, I switched in the ‘manual’ one instead. I initially planned to show both here, but they were in most cases so similar that casual readers wouldn’t be able to spot differences and would have got confused. On the Lumia 1020, I used Nokia Pro Camera to take the shots, for maximum oversampling benefit. Note that, as per my recent exclusive editorial, I only used the initial 5MP photos, so that quality wasn’t lost, i.e. there was no ‘reframing’ at any stage. In each case, I’ve included the original JPG files, in case you want to take the time to download them and examine them for yourself. Just for fun, I’ve scored the results as I’ve gone along. Ten test scenes, ten points available for each. See the verdict at the end for a final summation.

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Sunny Zoomed detail

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Low Light after dusk

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Dark Room with flash

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source - All About Windows Phone