The Real Photography Phone! Lumia 1020

Yes, this is the real photography phone ever existed up until today. I have been using several "photography phones" before like Pixels, Xiaomis. Xiaomi 14 Ultra is the last of em I bought before jumping to the real camera (Sony a7C II).

Xiaomi 14 Ultra with 1-inch type sensor sounds very interesting but in reality, the photo quality is not quite good if not bad for pixel peepers like me. What's the problem? The image processing and the AI. Bad denoiser, bad AI generation, over sharpened everything. (I know you can get better photos out of the sensor with modded Gcam xmls + root but that's different story).

Lumia 1020, it's photo quality is comparable with my Sony a7C II's RAW. Jpeg isn't that good but the RAW is chef kiss. The details like sharpening is perfect, noise pattern is so good like film grain. Don't quite remember how good it is when I used it back in 2013 since I didn't shoot Raw.

The negative side : slow shutter speed but still fun to play around, and dynamic range isn't on par with current gen sensors. Imagine new Lumia 1020 with latest 1-inch sensor with the same/perfected image processing algorithm? Glad I bought this back 😎