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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jayanga" data-source="post: 2017762" data-attributes="member: 3719">NOKIA N82(PART 2)The N82's camera software will be familiar to most Nseries users. It allows access to a number of settings, including mode, flash, self timer, color tone, viewfinder grid, white balance, exposure, sharpness, contrast and ISO speed. Viewfinder grid is the only addition, it places gridlines on the screen horizontally and vertically, dividing the screen into thirds. This helps you compose photos according to the rule of thirds principle. The N82 works well in fully automatic mode (which I imagine most people will use 90% of the time), but with practice you can get better results by changing these settings. The most obvious ones to use are the mode functions (e.g. using night mode to take a night photo without the flash), but the others are worth exploring too, especially exposure. In order to get the most out of these,  you probably need to have a decent understanding of the fundamentals of photography. There are also a number of options after you capture an image: Send (MMS, Bluetooth, Web), Add to print basket, Web upload and Delete. Web upload allows you to upload pictures to Flickr with a single click, a form of instantaneous sharing which is hard to beat.Video capture is also supported, with a VGA resolution at around 30 frames per second and offers very similar performance to the N95 models. The quality is easily watchable on a TV and with practice you can get some really good results. With video capture, more so than still image capture, the results are dependent on the expertise of the user in terms of assessing lighting, framing the video, holding the phone steady and so on.The Gallery application, used for viewing and accessing multimedia, remains the same as on previous Nseries. It does a reasonable job of basic media viewing, although album functionality is a little inaccessible and combining images and videos together in one big list is not ideal (agreed - Ed). More impressive are the companion functions and services, including Slide show, Image editor and Printing. Being able to run a slide show on your TV (via TV Out) with background music or order hard print copies of your photos from your phone (via the XpressPrint service) or upload pictures directly to Flickr is a user experience that no ordinary digital camera can meet. It is this sort of area that really shows of the power of Nokia's multimedia computers. However, Gallery has room for improvement; finding an image once you have more than 50 or more images is cumbersome. If you try to solve this by regularly taking photos off the phone then there is no easy way of keeping your favourite photos on the phone and little incentive to properly categorise photos into albums on the phone. An option to view media in hierarchies or smart albums which took advantage of the available meta data (by date, by location, etc.) might help. Nokia Photos, a PC application currently in beta (and available from the Nseries web site) does solve some of these issues. It provides easy to use sync and an option to sync photos back to the phone from the PC. However, given its beta status, made obvious by clashes between the Lifeblog, Gallery and Nokia Photo applications in both process and nomenclature, it cannot be considered in an assessment of the N82.There is no doubting that the N82's camera functionality is very impressive and gives excellent all round results. It is easily capable of replacing mid range standalone cameras in almost all situations. The addition of the Xenon flash means decent images can be captured even in very low light conditions; this was a stumbling for all previous Nseries devices. Overall start up and auto focus times have been improved, making it easier to capture that passing moment. Of course camera performance and image quality is only one half of the picture (no pun intended). The lens shutter mechanism, sensible positioning of the capture key and decent camera software create a very intuitive camera experience. The only thing that doesn't really measure up to these high standards is viewing photos after they have been taken and that is down to the Gallery issues we discussed above. Despite this, the camera performance and user experience taken together mean that there is no question that the N82 is the best cameraphone that Nokia have ever produced.</blockquote>

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