- dirty lenses (please clean both. The slightest smudge adversely affects images – hence why I miss camera cover for N8)
- half pressed false locked images (trying to take a shot but not letting autofocus lock properly -why?)
- Subjects focused on different objects. This makes it terribly hard to compare because both might be clear, but just at different part of the photo (due to human error and not the devices)
- Removing automode for flash (or tampering with any setting other than auto – just let the cameras do by default what they’re supposed to do)
- Distinct motion blurs (to an extent, a cam should have some sort of antiblur – or be fast enough not to register movement, but an obvious movement on one handset but not the other is distracting. Perhaps for a few shots, set it on a tripod?)
- overly compressing images which lessens the differences – having 12MP and 5mp images and then shrinking them down to obscurity will obviously minimise the differences between the two photos.
- Not providing full size images from both devices (if you’re doing a bloody comparison, despite the incompetences and failures above, still provide the image samples from both devices as it’s extremely difficult to tell differences between any camera when your viewing window is VGA)
- not showing pixel for pixel comparison. This would show if at all the extra 7MP from the 12vs5mp makes a difference. Are those pixel for pixel shots still clear?
Not to mention the lack of night mode, extreme low light which any xenon phone would crush a LED counterpart.
- The reason we say this is that Engadget isn’t the only source of N8 samples