Nokia showcased it’s pureview camera technology on their Lumia920 conference a few days ago, but apparently parts of it were a bit misleading. First of all the image stabilization showcase featured someone apparently riding a bike, and shooting a girl that’s riding along. They just forgot to edit one place in which a reflection shows that the camera is most likely a DSLR (and NOT the Nokia Lumia 920) and the camera man is riding on the back of a truck – not on a bike. Nokia quickly apologized saying that they only showcased the OIS technology, not the device itself, but posted a video showing the stabilization on Lumia920 which actually works pretty good (if it’s not another “misleading video”). Why bother then? Maybe it’d just be better to show the real thing work and avoid bad PR?
Also some pictures from their “nightly” photo shoot surfaced, showing that apparently the Lumia920 doesn’t take those awesome bright pictures at night by itself and needs a bunch of lights on tripods around (and a DSLR camera as seen above, but that might be just for comparison shots). Still if you need to cary tripods and lighting equipment to beat other cameraphones in low light photography, then you might be doing something wrong ;)
Here’s the vid showing the real Lumia920 OIS:
And here are the shots from the fake misleading video:
