Camera / Video / Sound Recording

Camera:

The Nokia 7610 has a CMOS sensor, and outputs 1152 × 864 images.
The picture quality is far higher than the standard VGA fare, but actual quality is spotty, and it is by no means the best cameraphone available. That honour probably goes to the Sony Ericsson S700; it has exposure selection, white balancing options, flash, stores EXIF data, and a 1.3MP CCD sensor. The 5MP Samsung should probably also be better.

The Nokia has rather basic features in comparison; it has only Night mode, picture quality selection, 4× Digital Zoom, and a self-timer. The last function is actually quite difficult to use because, as noted previously, the 7610 is not very stable. There is no white balance, exposure control, or built-in flash, although there is a pop-port accessory which gives the phone flash capability.

Look at the sample images below for a better idea of picture quality, but generally it is good enough; it is capable of taking A4-sized scans under good lighting, and while it is atrocious at landscape shots, portrait shots are good. Bring able to hold the phone still is extremely important.

Pictures taken under Bright sunlight:

Pictures taken indoors:

Night-mode Images:

Video & Sound Recording:

Both these features are well implemented. Video resolution is 176 × 144, and up to 10 minutes of video can be saved. Sound clips of only 1 minute duration may be saved, but this restriction may be circumvented through the use of 3rd-party applications.

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Transfer to the PC is similarly trivial, and playback is via either Realplayer, or the multimedia player included in the Nokia PC Suite.