Canon Vs Nokia N93 Detail Test

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Originally uploaded by The Creative Life.

The Nokia N93 wins - just! I used the optical zoom on the N93 to try and get a similar framing to the Canon capture. Clearly there is more detail on the Nokia N93 video, just look at the texture of the boards on the walkway. The N93 is not without fault however, take a close look at the strange blurring on the boards to the left and on the water's surface in the right. This is a product of the MP4 compression. It would be nice if Nokia were to offer an uncompressed (or slight compressed) video option, MiniSD cards are now becoming very cheap indeed. Even if you could only capture about 30 minutes on a 2GB MiniSD it would, in my opinion, be worth the extra space used. When viewing N93 video on a standard CRT TV this compression artifacting is almost a non issue, but on a large LCD TV or computer display it becomes a problem. Perhaps there are bandwidth issues that prevent Nokia from allowing an uncompressed capture mode.