Colors are off on the Nokia N95? Tests show the answer is undoubtedly yes

James recently saw that Paul posted a few pictures with his Nokia N95 from his recent trip to the beach.

He noted that Paul’s pictures had a red tint to them; going so far as to say that the images are "from mars." He posted a color corrected version and proved his point rather well.

Since he is using a Mac I’m assuming the color correction was done with iPhoto or Photoshop. Let us know James!

Being a Windows user, I downloaded Google’s Picasa (freeware) to see if I could get similar results.

Are you familiar with Google’s "I’m feeling lucky" button? It automatically takes you the first result of your search. They have the same thing in Picasa:

All I did was take a few pictures from around the net, all taken on a Nokia N95, imported them in to Picasa, hit "I’m feeling lucky," and the results speak for themselves.

Let’s start with Paul’s picture of the beach:

Picasa’s magic:

Symbian Freak’s VW:

Picasafied:

Symbian Freak’s Mercedes:

I’m Feeling Lucky Version:

Rafe’s Cat:

Google’s Voodoo:

Darla Mack spotted a fish tank while dining out:

Picasa Micasa Su Casa:

What can we conclude?

The Nokia N95 needs better onboard post processing.

If you have a Nokia camera phone, then do yourself a favor and use a post processing tool to correct your colors.

Can the N Series team comment on this? Can you explain the distorted colors? Can it be fixed with firmware?

UPDATE: One more image. This is the second picture Paul took:

Original:

The power of a single mouse click:

Huge difference.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

Ozair khan

hey thanx for the info,, hope this red tint is fixed in the final n95 firmware retail one,, or some third party soft for s60 3rd edition comes out so we don;t have to do this everytime when take a pic ,, thanx for the info,, and nokia have to llook at this for sure
geek

Cute kitty!
James @ The Creative Life

Very nicely done, I’m sure it’s just a pre production model issue . . . It had better be!!

For the record – I used iPhoto.