Everything is written in Japanese and the website is in flash (google translation doesn’t work here). Some japanese 43rumors friend can help us to translate the text? Thanks!
UPDATE_2: Akihabara has some real world pictures of the new Lumix-phone (and so Engadget)
UPDATE_1: There is a first hand-on at mobile.cz
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13.2 MP cell phone camera eh? Interesting… I’m not in the market, but interesting to see what happens nonetheless…
My Japanese isn’t great, but I’ll see what I can get.
From the first tab:
The first part with the baby photos is talking about it’s ability to properly reproduce skin tones. Basically good white balance that people who buy phones can understand.
The second page with the light and tree photos says it uses a multicoat filter to cut down on ‘ghosts’, or flare as we know it.
The last page with the two women talks about the phones ability to take decent flash photos.
The second tab:
It has a large easy to press shutter button.
The flash is located where you won’t cover it with your fingers.
Same thing for the lens (your fingers won’t cover it)
The strap location means it won’t get in the way of your photos either.
Third tab: New software? Picture snap?
It has a like button that is supposed to help you clean up your photos. Not sure if that means it will delete photos you don’t like or just display the ones you do.
Easy to copy your photos to your PC over wifi. (Probably requires some software on your PC, no comments on Macs)
Send through mail or to your blog. Guessing they worked Docomo to integrate it with some blog services here.
And you can delete photos.
I’m guessing snap means you flick the photos in different directions for the different functions based on the image. Yeah, they basically say it can be done in one step. Also DLNA compatible.
Your basic consumer camera stuff.
The iPhone 4 has gone over well here because of the camera and how easy it is to update blogs with them. Several sites have iPhone apps. Looks like they are trying to duplicate that functionality. Japanese love specs though, so I’m sure the MP rating will excite some. Sounds like overkill IMO.
Third Tab: Expand/Extend your fun with high speed network connection.
“Picture Jump” not Picture Snap, it is probably the name of the “OS” they are giving to the slide-out touchscreen menu.
Slide to the left to Select/Deselect as Favorite.
Slide to the top to transfer still photo to computer
Slide to bottom to erase.
Slide to right to email via “i-mode”
rewiev http://mobil.idnes.cz/podivejte-se-na-prvni-fotografie-fotoaparatu-lumix-krizeneho-s-mobilem-1nu-/telefony.asp?c=A101004_164507_telefony_kuz
Thanks Tomas!
If they implement “extra optical zoom”, then one could take 5mpx photos and have a 2.5x zoom. Good reason to have 13mpx in a phone …
its big!
Japanese phone are big by western standards. Size is not a huge concern since most people don’t pocket their phones. They are feature rich though, which is more important.
Disappointed! Just another phone with “more advanced” camera function
joseph, maybe you’re right, but i think its interesting that lumix made cameras first. so hopefully there’s a greater appreciation for cameras implemented with phones. As opposed to most companys are tacking on a camera to a phone, perhaps Lumix is tacking a phone to a Camera.
i like the idea of this phone opening up more possibilities, but it looks like such a hard sale. Not to mention, that girl in the video looked kinda silly talking on the phone that looks so much like a regular p&s camera.
i’d also worry how much that thing costs.
Andrew, Lumix is a brand name, not a company. Panasonic makes lots of devices including phones. All they are doing is adding the Lumix name as marketing to show off that they’ve improved the camera functionality. This isn’t any more of a camera than other phones.
Japan has had several phones that look like this. (More of a P&S camera than a phone) People here are used to how they look, so it’s not a big deal.
Looks like an expensive society girl toy. *Boring*
A new phone camera? Wow! This is the 123456789th.
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Who cares?
Well, I for one…
don’t!
That’s more megapixels than most m43 cameras, on a sensor that must be 1/5th or less as big! I hope they’ve fitted a liquid nitrogen cooling system to handle the noise.
Still, anything that is an alternative to the Church Of Appleology is welcome.
! ! It’s so sad ! !
darn. i won’t buy this phone
If you look at the pictures of the front of the phone, where the camera is, it becomes clear that you actually have a tiny, tiny standard cellphone camera lens behind a (relatively) large glass disk/filter. Essentially, they are faking the looks of this.
Had this been a “proper” compact camera lens and sensor, they would also have had problems with the thickness of the camera – since the two parts are sliding like this, you essentially only have half the camera thickness to work with, and that would not permit the required lens/sensor distance.
So I’m disappointed. But nice that they offer a 27mm equivalent FOV.
Soeren
Not really a breakthrough, isn’t it? Anyway, not interested. Bring the GF2!
Diluting the brand.,,but, just wait until you see the Leica!