Can changing the aspect ratio on the Nokia Lumia 920 sharpen images?

Nokia Lumia 920's Camera

While we all think the Nokia Lumia 920'due south camera is a quality camera, we also note that image quality from the Windows Phone camera tin be slightly on the soft side. The softness isn't something to send you running from the room in a panic only evident.

Until Nokia updates the firmware on the Lumia 920 to crash-land the in-camera sharpening you tin easily fix things with Nokia's Creative Studio or even the auto-set up in Windows Phone 8 can help.

There also may be some other set up available. WPCentral Reader Atif sent in a tip where he's found changing the aspect ratio on the Lumia 920 from 16:9 to 4:3 produces sharper images from the get go.

The aspect ratio is merely the proportional relationship between an image's width and height. The iv:iii ratio is more square like while the xvi:9 has more of a wider, mural experience to information technology. Here'south what Atif discovered in the sample shots he submitted. The 4:3 samples are posted higher up the 16:9 samples. Images take been resized for publication purposes.

Photos by Atif

While the iv:3 image does announced sharper in the in a higher place samples, nosotros tried to replicate Atif'due south results only couldn't. Here's our sample.

Nokia Lumia 920 4:3 and 16:9 samples

So to answer the original question: Does changing the attribute ratio improve sharpness? We don't think so. Rather, we surmise users are getting unlike, sometimes meliorate results due to the camera re-focusing (and how y'all focus comes into play to due east.grand. tap-to-focus versus shutter push). In conferring with other Windows Phone Primal staff writers who ain the Lumia 920, none were able to verify that switching to 4:3 yielded better results.

Nosotros still believe the solution is a simple firmware update to boost the in-camera sharpening. As is, the images the Lumia 920 produce are quality images and the slight softness may not exist an issue to most. We aren't existence picky almost things, we just would like to run into a bully camera reach its full potential.

Thank you, Atif, for the tip and sample photos!

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