The Sony Ericsson K850i is one of the best camera phones on the markettoday. Not only does it offer 5 megapixel resolution, it also offersauto-focus, all manner of automatic and manual aids for capturing theperfect picture, and comes complete with Sony's seal of approvalcourtesy of its highly-respected CyberShhot brand.
At the end of the day, though, it is still just a camera phone,which begs the question: just how well does a camera phone compare witha dedicated digital camera?
Comparing the Sony Ericsson K850i with a Nokion D40
Fortunately, the Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog (USEB) has a done asterling job in comparing and contrasting a Sony Ericsson K850 with aNikon D40, as well as describing in great detail the varioustechnicalities that prevent a camera phone from measuring up with adedicated digital camera.
However, as should hopefully be obvious from the picture above,it's not really a fair comparison. The Nikon D40 is hardly your averagepoint and shoot digital camera, and while it may have roughly the sameamount of megapixellage (6 megapixels for the D40 compared with 5megapixels for the K850), as you can see from the pic below, the D40'ssensor is 16 times bigger than the K850's!
What the review does show, though, is how far camera phones havecome. The shot below, for example, is better than anything my old pointand shoot Fuji could have come up with. Click on the thumbnailed picsover at USEB, and you'll see full size examples taken from the K850 inall manner of different locations and lighting. Not a patch on theNikon D40's photos, for sure, but would you have believed they'd comefrom a camera phone just a few years ago?