Originally Posted by The Lord Lucan:
“Fad.. no way a tiny sensor can reproduce a that, no way a tiny lens even being CZ can try to resolve that and no way can it be processing that size of file raw at any speed. Using the large number of pixels to reduce noise but output the detail of a 41Mp picture it can't.
It will however have better quality than the average 8mp camera phone which people will think is because it's 41mp and believe the hype, helped greatly by the true xeon flash.
it's also ugly & it's symbian... only a fool would buy it.
Also it doesn't matter how high your resolution is optical zoom always beats digital zoom,especially when your using crappy minuscule lenses like this.
-A photographer”
Did you even read any article properly or just saw the headline and had a knee-jerk reaction?
1) The sensor and lens are actually significantly larger than your average smartphone sensor.
2) The camera's main purpose is to take 5MP or 8MP photos but "hypersampling" all 41MP of the sensor to reduce noise to basically nil. Nokia lets the phone take stills of upto 38MP but acknowledges those will be noisy and are just for messing around with.
3) Nokia acknolwedge optical zoom is awesome but there's physically no way to fit it into a a device with phone size dimensions. On traditional sensors digital zoom is useless due to the small MP of the sensors. On this you get a useful digital zoom because it isn't using fewer pixels to do it, just changing the ones used so you get lossless digital zoom. A 1080p30 video can have 4x lossless digital zoom and this is silent too as no moving parts unlike in optical zoom.
4) Go look at the actual untouched pictures put out. They look amazing, the actual detail you can see is awesome and the videos look great too including low-light performance.