In the market today less people are considering the old style, like choosing the best phone would be based on the hitech specs and innovative features and obviously almost latest phones have acquired it. Old ones were just forgotten because they can’t satisfy the necessity anymore. But hold on, I am still satisfied with N73 camera.Yes, I firmly believe N73 was one of the best camera phone that Nokia released back in old times.

It was a 3.2MP with a LED flash phone launched back on April 2006 and loaded with Carl Zeiss on its back. That was more than 3 years old but still alive and kicking!

I think the best way to explain more is to share some favorite N73 camera samples.

Flash Test
N73 has only 1 LED flash for video light and camera flash. Having an old LED compare to latest led we have just like N86 8MP do, I can proudly say N73 LED was powerful enough to compete with the DLEDs we have on the latest phones.

These two pictures was taken approx 1 meter and 2 meters using the LED flash of the N73. This setup was Auto Mode, so it depends most on N73′s LED. The illuminance of Xenon compare to LED is greater, but we have to consider the cons and the pros of these 2 flashes.

Effects of flash in low light, left picture shows how powerful the N73 LED was. Also, in the right picture that was the effect of no flash. Remember it is in the low light picture and the N73 sensor sensed to used a flash, but I setup a night mode so the effect on the right image is perfect. Both of them are acceptable in the gallery.

Digital Zoom

First is to take a normal shot with no digital zoom(left) and then take a photo using its maximum digital zoom. N73 has 3x(?) digital zoom and you can see the result on the right image. We can tell that even on the maximum zoom level the picture is still recognizable.

Camera features:

*Light Sensitivity

*White Balance

*Close Up Mode

*Color Tone

The ISO level has 4 configurations, auto, low, medium and high sensitivity. I tested N73′s Camera Features and sensors here. So in the left picture I setup the camera to High Sensitivity, close up mode  and leave the White Balance to cloud(the real condition). After that I shot a different picture that sets to AUTO only(right). Now tell me which picture gives exact color?

The thing here is that the the AUTO(right) picked the scene as sunny and results to more yellowish color. While the other picture that setup to close up, high ISO and cloudy delivers accurate color on the leaves(which are the target in the shootout). And I can proudly say that N73 has a hidden talent and you need some extra skills to adjust and find the perfect scene.

Another samples of N73 shots, left(adjusted the color tone to Vivid) and right (normal). N73 needs a good camera man and everybody does because of the friendly camera UI.

N73 gallery:

Conclusion:

Nokia made a legendary device and has a great talent in camera section and its undoubtedly one of the best 3.2MP over the past 3 years (almost 4). I think N73 should be a good role model to the upcoming Nokia devices that will featured a camera. Also its a great effort of Carl Zeiss to made a monstrous camera on the mobile phone.

If you have any doubts or realization don’t hesitate to comment below. I will be glad to know your personal thoughts and sharing.

For more pictures head over to my Flickr Page. Next camera review will be N97 vs N97 mini (hopefully).

Writer: Jade Bryan Jardinico

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