The camera of the Nokia N81
Posted by Christian Titze in N-Series, N81, Nokia, WOM-World
The Nokia N81 is a device which especially is designed for gaming with the N-Gage platform. Since this is the main-feature of the N81 it isn’t an “all-in-one device” like the Nokia N95 or similar. Its worst feature is the camera. The device has a 2 megapixel camera without autofocus. The camera is supported by a LED-flash.
2 megapixel, LED-flash and no autofocus - you think that’s not too bad and it can compete with a three year old device like the N70? Far from it! The pictures are extremely noisy and only a few are really sharp. In bad lighting conditions the pictures are almost unusable. To show you what I mean I have made a little picture-gallery…
Normal images:
Images with flash:
Close-up images:
As you can see in the pictures above, only the one with the candle hasn’t too much noise. All of the other pictures are either very noisy or blurred.
It is just true, the camera of the N81 is plain junk. A friend of mine gave it away in favour of a 6220, which is the only other one with the Xenon flash (next to N82) …