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  • Camera Comparison: Nokia n86 vs. Samsung i8910(video)

    Posted on February 25th, 2010 anphase 21 comments
    Samsung i8910 vs Nokia n86

    Sam­sung i8910 vs Nokia n86

    The Sam­sung i8910 is one of Samsung’s best imag­ing phones on the mar­ket. The Nokia n86 is one of the best cam­era phones on the mar­ket period, famously used on Steven Litchfield’s Phones Show. So, how do they com­pare? Which is bet­ter? I just got a hold of a new Nokia n86 and I decided to com­pare it to my i8910. I’ve also uploaded the raw images I used in the video com­par­i­son for you to check out. In the video I also demon­strate the cam­era bug that enables torch func­tion­al­ity on the i8910 (thanks to every­one who sub­mit­ted this).

    Here are some thor­ough instruc­tions sub­mit­ted by Has­san Far­ran on how to get the torch going:

    When you go to cam­era inter­face, half press on the shut­ter key (when tak­ing a pic) when you half press, the flash will go on right? So as soon as the flash goes on you have to press on the set­tings key on the bot­tom left. Of course its gonna be a bit hard coz when the flash turns on the set­tings key is gonna dis­ap­pear, but try your best to hit it before it goes away. When you do that the phone will be on stand mode, and your flash will be on for about 4-5min. :-) You can turn it on by just get­ting out of the cam­era, oh and also when you do that the cam­era will be work­ing too.

    The demo for that starts around 8 min­utes into the video. You can watch the video after the break.

    The pho­tos used in the video are below you can click on the pho­tos for a closer look:

    Nokia n86 and Sam­sung i8910 Photos:

    n96 photo 1

    n86 photo 1

    i8910 photo 1

    i8910 photo 1

    n86 photo 2

    n86 photo 2

    i8910 photo 2

    i8910 photo 2

    n86 photo 3

    n86 photo 3

    i8910 photo 3

    i8910 photo 3

    n86 photo 4

    n86 photo 4(with flash)

    i8910 photo 4

    i8910 photo 4(with flash)












    Com­par­ing the two cam­era phones, it is appar­ent that the n86 is bet­ter. It pro­duces gen­er­ally bet­ter pictures(from numer­ous other test I per­formed) and it records video bet­ter with bet­ter sound. The images pro­duced though can be a mat­ter of per­sonal pref­er­ence. Col­ors are more vibrant on the i8910 and more “true” on the Nokia n86. The cam­era inter­face on the Sam­sung i8910 is also bet­ter. It’s eas­ier to use because of the touch­screen and more appeal­ing because of the visuals(transparency and look). The i8910 also has up to 720p video and more cam­era set­tings.
    To counter that, the n86 allows for access to the front fac­ing cam­era; you can record video (QVGA @15fps) and take pho­tos with it.

    These are both awe­some cam­era phones and you can not go wrong with either. They both have advan­tages and dis­ad­van­tages in some regards.
    This is only a com­par­i­son of the cam­eras, as mobile phones it’s another story altogether.

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    • shashankpandey1991

      What i feel is that the flash of i8910hd is not prop­erly sync wid the time it takes the pic.….. coz the the flash is strong but pics still comes lil bit darker…!

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    • http://n/a Shiva

      With all do respect Anphase,
      I think your lit­tle “com­par­i­son” isn’t worth a thing, in fact you show noth­ing here except the hate you feel to the i8910 camera.

      If you weren’t biased you would adjust the set­tings of the i8910 cam­era and take x2 bet­ter pics espe­cially in the sun, low­er­ing the expo­sure meter and adding +1 con­trast and +1 sharpness,white bal­ance etc etc…
      But you didn’t do that, in fact you just opened the cam­era and took a pic­ture! Which only shows the hate you acquire to Samsung/i8910.

      I have 2 good friends, one of the has the N86 and one of them has the N97.
      When I bought my i8910, the 3 of us did a REAL com­par­i­son, and when I say real I mean me, adjust­ing the set­tings of the i8910 cam­era for max quality.

      OUR i8910 has won in 90% of the com­par­i­son, except in NO LIGHT AT ALL which the N86 won because it has 2 flash led. (of course the N97 lost in every­thing), but beside that the almighty i8910 has won and I mean really won!

      We even did a macro shots in the dark and out­side, in this com­par­i­son the i8910 took it all 100%, and yes even in no light at all (it all has to do with the adjust­ing settings).

      No offense but I really respect you and your arti­cles and every­thing you have done for the i8910 com­mu­nity, but this arti­cle really pisses me off, I just couldn’t con­trol my anger.

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    • http://anphase.com anphase

      @Shiva I get your frus­tra­tion but as I said in the video, I used the default set­tings, the set­tings that any aver­age user would use on the fly-when you just pull out your cam­era to take a quick photo or quick video. I agree, set­tings can be tweaked to get bet­ter results.

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    • http://n/a Shiva

      anphase,

      You can’t com­pare the still cam­eras and just take pics “on the fly”.
      Of course you can do that with the N86 because it has no fea­tures AT ALL, you can’t change a thing there.
      and for the i8910 it’s like a dig­i­tal cam­era regard­ing the options you can do there (the set­tings), so doing that “on the fly” with the i8910 is just a bad idea and not a fair fight ;)
      You can do that with the N86 as I said above.

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    • nomi

      Okay I fig­ured that if you do not hold the cam­era but­ton, just half-press and release it. The flash stays on for lot longer and the set­tings icon remains vis­i­ble too.

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    • http://n/a Shiva

      Just a small exam­ple of what I am talk­ing about:

      That is how you (anphase) said you did, an “on the fly” pic­ture of the i8910:

      http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7551/photo231.jpg

      And this is NOT on the fly pic­ture but took me 15 sec more to adjust set­tings correct:

      http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/215/photo232q.jpg

      http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/6689/photo239.jpg

      This is what I call adjust­ing the set­tings.
      You need to under­stand that Sam­sung didn’t do like Nokia has done, open­ing the cam­era and tak­ing a pic­ture, no.
      Sam­sung gave you almost all the options avail­able (the tools) for Dig­i­tal Cam­era, which means YOU have to adjust set­tings (for every type of sit­u­a­tion) in order to get max results.
      If you want a “dumb” cam­era that takes pic­tures on the fly and bye bye, not for me, I want a cam­era that I can adjust set­tings and I mean expo­sure meter,ISO,white bal­ance and other things you would be amazed they put inside! :)

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    • OHDUser

      Omnia HD has one of the best 8MP cam­eras around. As men­tioned here before, Sam­sung took care to trans­form much of the dig­i­tal cameras’s options to this device. One thing they didn’t do, and it is to put an “auto” mode which lets you take pic­tures “on the fly” and gets the best out of them with­out using any other options.
      To use a cam­era with func­tion­al­i­ties like the Omnia HD, you need to be a real good pho­tog­ra­pher, because I’ve seen peo­ple take pic­tures with so many mis­takes they haven’t thought about.
      Infact, anphase in his lit­tle review (I haven’t seen the video yet) is right about every­thing, apart from the qual­ity — Omnia HD has a bet­ter qual­ity.
      Thanks for check­ing out things, Anphase rocks. :)

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    • vit12345

      hoho guys don’t believe this but the phone that i bought before using the omni­ahd is the n86. yes it is. and i sold it after 2 day of use, los­ing ~80$(at that time that’s mean i bought the omnia at the price of a satio). why? because n86 sucks hard imo.

      in terms of cam­era, yes n86 can pro­duce some nice pho­tos, but it can’t be bet­ter than omni­ahd. the out­door pics from omniahd(of course tweaked/tested many set­tings in many envi­ron­ments) afaik, come really close to my canon ixy dig­i­tal 910IS (one of the best com­pact cams out there). i’m not a pho­tog­ra­pher, i just like to play with the set­tings to see what’s the best for each sit­u­a­tion. that’s it.

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    • http://n/a Shiva

      alsvik, (N95 Vs. i8910)

      You were talk­ing about the N95, let me just laugh out loud and I mean really loud.
      and after that look at this, those are pic­tures taken “on the fly” by me, no adjust­ments were made for the i8910:

      1:(Normal Shot)
      –
      i8910:
      http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/5633/photo306q.jpg

      N95:
      http://www.freepicsupload.com/pics/php6Wuerj-N95-2.jpg

      2:(Macro Shot)
      –

      i8910:
      http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4836/photo174f.jpg

      N95:
      http://www.freepicsupload.com/pics/php7Wuerj-010120081555.jpg

      No need to be an expert to see that the i8910 is killing the N95 with 1 hand tied behind the back (and I am say­ing this because I didn’t do any adjust­ments at my i8910 when I took the pic­tures), as for the macro shot you can eas­ily see that the i8910 is x2 sharper and bet­ter, please zoom in into my eye and look at my eye­lash and the color of the eye.

      So please can we stop hear about the N95 is bet­ter then the i8910 ?

      P.s: I even took few pic­tures of my self and friends and the dif­fer­ences are AMAZING, the i8910 wins again. I just don’t want to upload pic­tures of my self ;)

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    • http://anphase.com anphase

      @Shiva I’m fail­ing to view the i8910 pic­tures, are they uploaded com­pletely? I can see the thumb­nail but not the whole image..

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    • http://n/a Shiva

      Work­ing for me on this com­puter.
      and even from my lap­top at the office.

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    • http://n/a Shiva

      darknight07,
      Adjust­ing set­tings for cur­rent sit­u­a­tion takes me some­thing like 15–30 secs and I am all set to take a pic­ture.
      Why it takes me 15–30 secs and it takes you 10 mins ? maybe because I am already famil­iar with all the set­tings and I can already adjust set­tings to every situation.

      Please stop the exag­ger­a­tion, 10 mins ? are kid­ding me ?

      Just try to under­stand the set­tings and which goes where and you will see it’s easy and really good.

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    • http://digitalcameras.mx/Nikon-493964-B002KFJMRU-Nikon_Coolpix_S70_121MP_Digital_Camera_with_35_inch_OLED_Touch_Screen_and_5x_Wide_Angle_Optical_Vibration_Reduction_VR_Zoom_Champagne_Light_Brown_Packa Else Bron­son

      It is my best esti­ma­tion Cam­era Com­par­i­son: Nokia n86 vs. Sam­sung i8910(video) | The Anphase Blog is cer­tainly a ide­ally con­structed edi­to­r­ial. Defi­nately a good idea men­tion­ing and also per­fectly worth talk­ing about http://anphase.com/2010/02/25/camera-comparison-nokia-n86-vs-samsung-i8910video in either case. Regards, Else Bronson

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    • http://cheaphdvideocamera.blogspot.com/ Bethanie Galyon

      appre­ci­ated lots, I must say your blog is amazing!

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