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Lumia 1020 from inside to outside With a clear Nokia style, this camera-like phone is awesome after the debut, but perhaps it is not good luck, it did not let Nokia usher in its own turning point.

No era like this, the mobile phone and the camera are so closely linked, and no one year like this year, it will make mobile phone manufacturers have a headache for the camera array.

When the Yuba and Mahjong lens combination came out, the mobile phone manufacturers began to frame the camera module in a round shape. The vivo NEX 3, Huawei Mate 30 series and one plus 7T all tried this “Oreo”. design. But if we look back 6 years ago, you will be surprised to find that today’s story has already begun because of the existence of Lumia 1020.

Make your phone into a camera

No matter how many years ago or now, as long as you pick up the Lumia 1020, everyone’s eyes will be locked on the huge round lens behind it, like a camera, like Oreo, but it Behind it is the swan song of the Nokia Saipan era – Nokia 808 PureView.

The Nokia 808 PureView, released in 2012, is a special product. It was born in the end of Saipan, but it relied on a 1/1.2-inch 41-megapixel camera. It was the brightest star at the MWC conference, but at the time Nokia did not use a circular design, and the experience was not perfect until the Lumia 1020 one year later.

The same 41 million pixel lens. By 2013, the Lumia 1020 was a lot less slim than its predecessors. Although it was still awkward, it was not a problem for everyday use. This post was 1/1.5 inch and 41 million pixels. The ZEISS-certified lens features a second-generation OIS optical image stabilization and is also equipped with a xenon flash + LED fill light combination. This powerful hardware design brings digital 3x lossless zoom and long exposure of 4 seconds, which was only possible with Nokia at the time. It’s no wonder that confident Finns call their internal codename Nokia EOS.

In addition to the unique camera hardware, just the right Lumia designThe language has also added a lot of color. As the last Lumia mobile phone before Microsoft’s acquisition, the Lumia 1020 and Lumia 920 are similar in style. They are still polycarbonate materials, and they are still bright colors (but changed from bright to skin-like). The exquisitely curved glass is excessive, which makes it full of vitality, and also washes away the heavy sense of the lens. In 2013, when the glass and metal materials began to heat up, the design of this machine is still excellent, and the feel is quite smooth. slip.

However, on the screen material, the Lumia 1020 changed the Lumia 920’s LCD to a Samsung AMOLED screen, although the 4.5-inch + 1280*768 resolution configuration was not low at the time, but unlike what we are used to today. AMOLED screen, this screen has low brightness, high saturation and inaccurate color. Although the daily use problem is not big, it also brings a lot of controversy.

Even so, the Lumia 1020 still has a distinct Nokia style from the inside out, combining the camera technology of the Nokia 808PureView with the classic Lumia look, making this camera-like phone stand out after the show, but maybe The fortunes were not good enough, it did not allow Nokia to usher in its own turning point.

Unfortunately a partial student

The “Super Sampling Technology” solution is a new technology that the Lumia 1020 tries on the camera. Based on the 41 million ultra-high resolution camera, this phone compresses 7 pixels into one super pixel. When you take a photo with a 41 megapixel lens, the system will combine the pixels into a 5 megapixel photo for output, making the photo look sharper and more expressive.

It’s not hard to see that Nokia is trying to get out of this direction in this way when the optical zoom of the phone is not going well. On this road, Nokia is very serious. One detail is that when you take pictures every day, the camera lens cover will open, and when you quit, the lens cover will automatically close. At that time, the head of the imaging department, Sami Niemi, mentioned the purpose of doing this. It is to protect the camera lens. In order to enhance the camera experience, the official even prepared a camera Grip phone case that can be turned into a camera, which is still cool even today.

Not only that, the Lumia 1020 also uses a combination of Xenon flash + LED fill light that is very powerful today, the former can provide brighter and softer light, while the latter compensates for the problem that Xenon flash can’t always be bright. Therefore, in the dark environment, the Lumia 1020 is much stronger than the iPhone 5S and Samsung Galaxy S4, which is another reason why this phone attracts many people.

With hardware blessing, the Lumia 1020 also has a Nokia professional shooting feature that is rare on other mobile phones at the time. After turning it on, it allows the user to adjust the camera exposure, shutter speed, white balance, focal length and other parameters, all of which increase. The camera’s playability also allows it to catch up with even more than the digital card machine, becoming the choice of many photo enthusiasts, and the photo that faithfully restores the scenery has become its unique.

Despite this, the Lumia 1020 camera part is still not perfect, white balance drift, night color is not enough to restore, camera start slower and other issues gradually become the slot in use, these problems are related to the Windows Phone system itself, Because Microsoft’s mobile platform is slow, compared to the Android and iOS platform is not perfect enough, the hardware part of the very powerful Lumia 1020 has a good skill, there is no better way to play its powerful hardware camera capabilities.

On the other hand, Nokia’s flaws in the Lumia 1020 design itself are regrettable today. Using the best camera at the time, it was possible to restore the beauty of the scene to the greatest extent, but because the color of the AMOLED screen is not accurate. The elbow has invisibly increased the difficulty of modifying the edited picture on the mobile phone. In addition, the combination of the WP system and the powerful camera software and hardware is not enough, so that the mobile phone is not taken quickly, and the overall performance is also good or bad, considering its price at that time. Buying the iPhone 5S is more than enough, and these performances are regrettable.

The era continues

I don’t know whether it’s a trick of fate or a coincidence. In the Saipan era and the WP era, Nokia went to the industry with its camera technology twice, but twice because of the system dragging down the feedback. Whether it’s Nokia 808 PureView or Lumia 1020, these two mobile phones with unprecedented ideas can’t be turned around, and this biased student can’t grow up and end up on their own short board.

But looking back at the Lumia 1020, this machine is still warm, not only because it tried the limit of mobile phone photography in the iPhone or 8 megapixel era, but also because it combines the strongest camera technology of the Saipan era. The best design language in the WP era, even today, is still so unique.

In the past six years, when more and more mobile phone manufacturers care about camera performance and care about the picture advantages brought by high pixel and high resolution, we should not forget the former pioneer, Lumia 1020. Let the story go on this track, and this may be the reason why the powder is still proud.