June 11th, 2008
By Michell
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Sony Ericsson C905 full size camera samples!

Press the photos below for the full size ones. This is still prototype software, and the colours have not yet been dealt with, but the quality KICKS ASS, DUDES! I can feel Nokia, LG & Samsung shaking their pants right now. Sony Ericsson is on top, long live the king of mobile photography!

[thanks point0 and Phoner]

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56 Responses to “Sony Ericsson C905 full size camera samples!”

  1. Pop lover says:

    I think the car looks cool :P

  2. Chris S says:

    A G37?? must be my mine haha anyway WOW so this person is testing is state side interesting….

  3. Chris S says:

    hmmmm Cali plate ding ding ding!! i was right

  4. Modjo says:

    HOLY SHIT

    DO WANT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

  5. Do I see an Apple logo at Infiniti? :P

  6. What is C905 in California “doing” lol?

  7. Am I the only one who thinks that is poor image quality?

    Compare that to these: http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/04/18/photoblog-and-paradise-was-nice/

    Disclosure: I work for Nokia

  8. JJa says:

    “I can feel Nokia, LG & Samsung shaking their pants right now. Sony Ericsson is on top, long live the king of mobile photography!”-YEAH,RIGHT!

  9. Michell Bak says:

    Yeah, Stefan, looks like you are. As a Nokia user, you’re left with details fading into each other in a large flood, and over-saturated - sometimes - unrealistic colours. The photos you linking to are excellent examples of just that, when viewed in full size.

    Keep in mind that this is prototype software, regarding the C905 photos. The sharpness is there, now they’ll need to work on the colours.

    Thanks for the post on Intomobile, by the way :)

  10. Hey stefan, Have you heard that the Nokia would be from now on doing all the ECam related development in-house? Seems nokia is not satisfied with the way its cameras are performing!!

  11. jjjjajjj says:

    The photo Quality are AMAZING !!!

  12. famous12 says:

    any chance of the color being fixed in the retail version ? ?…dont tell me the color looks alright

  13. Michell Bak says:

    Didn’t I just say that a few times? It’ll be fixed.

  14. Sony Forever says:

    please there’s no way comparing Nokia and Sony Ericsson

    this phone is just a prototype software , wail till u see the last software when the phone gets released ;) this phone is True KILLER!!! besides even though the colors aren’t well right now so thats ok cuz it’ll improve later , i trust sony better than nokia…..

    The pics are amazing though ;)

  15. brewcaster says:

    I am a huge SE fan, love my K850, but those pictures are trash. I assume they will improve.

  16. famous12 says:

    im with you brewcaster :)

  17. Eroda says:

    The pic quality is ugly, far away to be average, i knew it, 8MP is to much for nothing, SE just want to impress, but they fail. i think!

  18. I can’t wait for this to come out, would love to see SE set a bar that the rest of the industry has to pass. I was wrong to comment on proto software and hardware, for that I apologize, but here is hoping the retail units blow us all away!

  19. NightBlade says:

    @Eroda:
    There’s a difference between pic quality and colour accuracy.
    Pic quality is more related to the level of detail and sharpness of the photo, with which the C905 deals brillianly.
    The colours can be fixed by just tweaking the software.

  20. Kevin says:

    I just compared these to a full-size shot from my N95, and this blows it out of the water. Glad to hear the colors are being dealt with as we speak, because that will make this perfect. I’m impressed.

  21. cliosguy says:

    very interesting in deed :-)

  22. kewsvnet says:

    hmm…considering this is a proto..not sure what to think..the colours do seem off…but i m sure that will be fixed in the final…altho am i the only one thinking there a little too much noise…even though most of the shots are taking in bright daylight at ISO 80. Not sure how much the software alone can improve that coz it would lead to a loss of detail and they would end up looking like Nokia-like images!!

  23. delanz says:

    Judging from previous SE Cybershot cameraphone, I dont think the colours will improve that much. SE cameraphone colours always a bit lighter than the real thing.

  24. arjay says:

    yeah baby!!! i want this phone

  25. razec says:

    Wow :o nice sharpness, very very detailed, no more purple fringing except the red cast which is also seen on K800 proto pics before - but that can be fixed with right color calibration at least compared to the former(i refer to purple fringing) which is casued by lens and sensor error.

    Details kill the best european camera phone Nokia N82 so far ;)

  26. karun says:

    Pretty detailed images. SE’s on top of the camera phone segment again! :)

  27. MiGs says:

    I’m not quite sure on the pictures. When i checked the picture properties the first pic says camera model = Q440i which i would believe belongs to the upcoming C905. The last pic however says Camera Model = DSC-P8 which is belongs to a 3.2 megapixel sony cybershot camera.

    Also, if that’s how the pictures of an 8.1 megapixel prototype looks like now.. then i guess we will have to wait until next year to see it in “full color”?

    I’m just asking ok.

    As i’ve said in my blog.. i think this baby will be the reason why i’ll get an SE phone!

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  30. Shinigami says:

    Crappy photos.

    Take OmniVision 8 megapixel OmniBSI sensor
    Take DECENT lens, not the crap used in C902 (camera comparison between Nokia 6220 classic and SonyEricsson C902 can be found here: http://smape.com/en/reviews/sony_ericsson/Sony_Ericsson_C902_cam-rev.html )
    Take image processing from good old Sony digital photo cameras
    Make a good advertising campaign

    And you have the best-selling camera phone EVER :)

    The current C905 I can see won’t make any revolution, Samsung promised we’ll see 8mp camera phones before the year ends and they intend to keep their promise about crappy picture quality. Yeah, crappy. Its super-noisy, even though its super-bright conditions, should have been better. Its going to be a disaster in low-light conditions.
    But I can’t argue with the fact that the shots are pretty sharp. Its just that the sharpness is not the only factor…

  31. Muhammad-Oli says:

    MiGs - “The last pic however says Camera Model = DSC-P8 which is belongs to a 3.2 megapixel sony cybershot camera.”

    Huh? All three images said Q440i when I looked just then, and I know thats the C905 from the leaked pictures which showed that codename on screen.

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  33. mmm says:

    I don’t see how these are great pictures.

    The colour is awful, the contrast is awful, and the so-called ‘detail’ is just oversharpening of smudged up ‘noise-reduced’ colour. Some of you must be delusional.

  34. Michell Bak says:

    Look, there’s a huge difference between colours and quality.

    The colours and contrast is far from good, but the level of details is simply amazing. There’s not a simply phone on the market that can compete with this level of details.

  35. mlvn says:

    stop judging the retail version as crap.
    is this phone going to be announced on june 17?

  36. pride says:

    yeah. like the editor said, its a PROTOTYPE. nothing is certain for now. so i guess we should reserve our comments for the picture quality for the final RETAIL version. though i admit the colour is awful in this prototype sample, but keep in mind it is A PROTOTYPE. =)

  37. Gee says:

    How about a C905 Video Sample? That would be nicer

  38. karun says:

    Am sure SE will be addressing the issues we’ve all noticed here. So let’s all just stop criticising and continue admiring this beauty! :D

  39. Crimi says:

    My k850 makes much better pictures in these light conditions, WAY to much noise

  40. plwh888 says:

    i think the photos are horrible, well, to be fair, they probably havent tweak the firmware yet. I dont like the photo quality of the C902 either, which I’m currently using. Why cant Sony Ericsson Cybershot perform as well as SONY Cybershot ???

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  42. sorry, but this doesn’t look good at all. the image is very flat and I see lots of compression in the images. you would expect much higher quality from 8 mega. my 5 mega can make better pictures than this. this looks dull to me.

  43. GaRadja says:

    Hello to all.

    I just want to add that I have been using the phone for some days now and it is really impressing.
    The photos uploaded are with an old sensor which is used in prototypes for show off purposes.
    These photos are not representative photos of the phone at all!
    The photos I have taken with the lastest hardware are just amazing and with minimum noise.
    Please the administrator can contact me and I can share with all of you.
    I can tell you that this is the most amazing Sony Ericsson phone.. (Like all the rest!)

  44. Lo says:

    These pictures is horrible…
    Why 8Mp for that? Big Big Big noise (no comment on the treatment), lot of purple fringing, poor contrast… Reduce to the pc screen size(it’s still a big size for a foto), the k810’s picture looks better.
    A 8Mp camera is just need for printing poster…you print this picture in poster format?? Not me ;)

    A mobile have big limitation on the lens, perhaps it’s a better choice to improve that! But the 8Mp write in big on the mobile is most impressive for the marketing…don’t trusted by that!

  45. NickG says:

    > Why cant Sony Ericsson Cybershot perform as well as SONY Cybershot ???

    It could -but nobody would buy a phone which is as big as a mobile phone combined with a sony cybershot - it would be 3 times the volume of any current phone.   You can’t defy the laws of physics - good pictures require a good lens and a good lens HAS to be big - it’s not a limitation of technology, it’s a limitation of the laws of physics. You will NEVER EVER be able to take decent photos with something which has a 3mm lens. If you want to take decent photos, buy a proper big camera with a physically large lens. They increase the megapixels for marketing reasons, but you’ can probably see yourself that the picture quality isn’t really better than a 2 or 3MP camera - it just produces larger files which take up more storage.

    Those pictures are NOTHING LIKE as good as the 2MP images from a cheap compact digital camera I bought 5 years ago. They don’t even vaguely come close - yet they are 8MP.  Megapixels above 3 are meaningless anyway unless you intend to print out your camera phone pics at sizes larger than A3 (unlikely).

  46. simon says:

    these are the sharpest photos ever to come out of a phone! with GPS, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, (hopefully) support for 16GB M2, and 8MP, I HAVE TO GET THIS PHONE :))

    my only concern is the speed. My K850 takes around 6-7 seconds from when I click the camera button until the picture is taken. And often when you are eager to get the the photo taken, the flash won’t go off… My Canon IXUS 70 takes 2-3 seconds to do the same.

  47. NRG says:

    K800 makes better pictures…

  48. EN-IS says:

    Did you guys see this?

    http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs128&d=08245&f=dsc00010_bw_272.jpg

    (Color balance, levels, , contrast, shadow en highlighting, unsharp masking en noise filtering) :)

  49. c905 says:

    I’m dissapointed by these pictures. Hopefully these were taken when the phone was in development because for an 8 megapixel, I thought they would be much much better. If they don’t improve, I don’t think I’ll be getting this.

  50. master of puppets says:

    trust me motorola alexander will be the best, c905 pictures are really pool .

  51. unknown says:

    In my opinion my n82 do a lot better pictures than c905, colors ale better and in this samples you can see sand effect, n82 pictures are sharpness.This 8Mpix camera photos are doesn’t better than 5Mpix. I’ll be waiting for any macros

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  53. Ceyhan says:

    abit over exposure, the cars at the back are dark, and got those purple colour when zoom in abit. Colours are not vivid, too much noise. thanks and i know its a phone but 8mp should be more kick *** than this.

  54. kennith says:

    i am contemplating between the samsun innov8 and c905
    but i guess i will zero in on the SE

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