News · 4 Dec 2010 · MTW Editorial Team
Here’s a three-way comparison of the Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung Omnia 7 and HTC 7 Trophy cameras. It’s snowing outside so I thought that this would be a really great opportunity to test the camera’s video quality (falling snow = more details to encode = worst outdoors situation possible for a digital sensor = awesome benchmark). Anyway hit the break to first check out a video comparing the Omnia 7 vs the Trophy:
There’s no contest here: The Samsung Omnia 7 trashes the HTC 7 Trophy
Here you will notice that the Samsung Galaxy S is the best thanks to its higher encoding bit-rate (12Mbps compared to 6Mbps on the WP7 devices) and the 30fps (24fps on WP7). But the Samsung didn’t setup the Omnia 7′s camera the right way. As you can see the video looks choppier but this isn’t a frame-rate issue (it’s locked at 24fps) but a shutter speed problem. For some weird reason the Omnia 7 is shooting at a super high shutter speed in daylight and this results in less motion blur (you can clearly distinguish the snowflakes) so the video doesn’t look super smooth.Hopefully Samsung will correct that in an upcoming update. The HTC 7 Trophy also suffers from heavy shutter roll.
Here are 3 pictures I took at the same time:
The Omnia 7 comes out on top followed by the Galaxy S and the HTC 7 Trophy.
You can also check out some nice Omnia 7 video samples here or hit one of the related links below.
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