Nokia Lumia 1520 - Official Camera Samples

The Nokia Lumia 1520 debuted last week at Nokia World 2013, as the first 6 inch Windows Phone 8 device featuring a 20MP PureView camera with latest imaging innovation. It was also the first handset from the company to run a quad-core processor and to feature a full 1080p HD display

Now, the company has published handful of photo samples from the handset, detailing the PureView imaging tech in action

Here are some details regarding to the imaging technology on the Nokia Lumia 1520

• The Lumia 1520 features 20-megapixel PureView image sensor which is larger than the sensors in most other smartphones – this means it collects a lot more light.
• The high-resolution sensor is combined with top quality optics, 6-element Zeiss lens, to produce crystal clear images and HD videos, even under challenging conditions..
• The Lumia 1520 also has optical image stabilization (OIS) that dramatically improves the low light performance, removes hand-shake from photos, and makes videos really smooth, and professional-looking.
• The 20-megapixel camera also has one of the brightest dual LED flashes in the market, and we have also new technology to make the flash colors natural.
• It supports 1080p HD video recording at 30 frames per second (fps) and has a lossless zoom – 4x for 720p videos, 3x for 1080p videos and 2x for still photos.
• Like the Nokia Lumia 1020, the Lumia 1520 also uses Nokia proprietary oversampling technology, combining the pixels in the image to generate incredibly beautiful and sharp pictures.
• The Lumia 1520 uses similar oversampling technology as of Lumia 1020, although the oversampling ratio is higher in the Lumia 1020.

Nokia has also introduced option to save photos as uncompressed RAW files (in the “DNG” format) that you can then transfer to your computer or laptop and edit with your preferred software package such as Adobe Lightroom. (RAW support is also coming on Nokia Lumia 1020 very soon).

Click on the images below for the full high-resolution versions

Nokia also noted that “these new imaging innovations along with many other new features is coming to other Nokia Lumia smartphones running Windows Phone 8 as a part of the next software update, called Lumia Black. The update, including the Windows Phone Update 3 (GDR3) from Microsoft, is expected to begin rolling out in early 2014.