Controversy to an end: Finally we can say, Lumia 920 camera is wow

Controversy to an end: Finally we can say, Lumia 920 camera is wow:

Nokia had high hopes with its event dated 5 September, but soon it turned out to be a nightmare for Nokia, with everyone trying hard to prove it wrong. First was video controversy where Nokia demonstrated OIS stabilization using professional cameras without adding disclaimer note to video, then came fake photo controversy where some images were proven to be captured using some professional camera instead of Lumia 920. Follow on to undue the damage done.
This all generated a lot of negative reviews among users and media. This forced Nokia to issue Formal Apology for its mistakes, and soon all this matter went into investigation. Nokia said it didn't do it deliberately for all this was unknown to Nokia executives and was commissioned by external ad agency. Whatever it was, left a negative mark on Nokia's reputation putting authenticity of each and every feature/tech explained there in press conference at stake.
To overcome Nokia did do a lot, from apology to twitter update of genuine photos by Lumia 920, statements by Nokia executives etc etc but then again once done is once done. To review this matter The Verge went on to do something for they had enough faith in Nokia's hardware, which Nokia should have done long before, instead of using those crappy ad videos. The Verge team went on to same place, with same Nokia engineer along with same device, and look Nokia agreed for this as they were already in grave danger and were to do something to come out of it. The team was allowed to snap some pictures out of that device along with Samsung Galaxy S III, iPhone 4S, HTC One X, Nokia Lumia 900, and Nokia 808 PureView to have direct comparison. They took it with and without flash and used night mode in some devices too for over all comparison.

The prototype Nokia Lumia 920 certainly features the kind of camera technology that deserves some hype. It's just too bad that Nokia decided to lie when it was hyping it. We're hoping that the Optical Image Stabilization on video will be equally impressive on production hardware — but it's much harder to take it on faith that it will be after all the recent drama. That's a pity, because everything we experienced last night makes us think that Nokia's hardware deserved much better than what Nokia's marketing team did to it. We won't have a definitive answer until the phone ships, and we still don't know when that is. - The Verge

Follow the links to have a look at untouched samples from each of the device, full 8 MP shots (by The Verge):

Lumia 920 | Galaxy SIII | HTC One X | Apple iPhone 4S | Lumia 900 | Nokia 808 PureView | Galaxy SIII night mode | HTC One X night mode

As expected the results were awesome for Lumia 920's awesome hardware and technology. We had awesome low light shots for OIS compensates for enough hand shake during shot allowing more and more light to enter by increasing shutter open duration and F/2.0 wide aperture.

Just a little disappointment was that, Nokia could only offer to demonstrate one of the controversial features but to surprise did offer full untouched jpegs out of the device to publish online for the first time. This further boosts up our confidence in this hardware and expect it to excel in every department it boasted on. Just a complaint, Nokia should have used original prototype for all its campaigns but to note it only had one of that ready and other software for video with OIS is under coding and optimization. Then a small question arises again, if its under coding and optimization, then how did they release an online video along with apology? May be Nokia didn't want them to have hands on with unfinished technology, which may have resulted in more controversies.
So with this all, i think everyone should give Nokia a break (as it appears like both Nokia and Microsoft have a lot to do on their part) and allow them to concentrate more on completing the unfinished product which is expected to arrive by November rather than solving this online trouble. Now we already have enough proofs for Lumia 920's capable hardware, be it a mini review/hands on by The Verge (above) or that YouTube video proof by WPcentral (video recorded during Nokia challenge, a shot from there below) or online images there at Nokia site (claimed to be original, himself by Camera Chief, Damian Dinning). There is also a video (below) posted by Nokia Innovation LLC recently over YouTube, which explains OIS and further compares imaging between Lumia 920 and HTC Vivid. ahh more than enough!!!


Source (for actual hands on and images), Source (for ad investigation part), Source (for OIS and HTC Vivid to Lumia 920 comparison video, new)