DEViANT
06-07-2004, 05:28 AM
Firstly, just a quick congratulations on a great review. I find it's often worth waiting that little bit longer for a review to come out on Mobileburn before committing to a phone since the length and detail in the reviews is unmatched by any other site.
The photos taken with that phone are really quite impressive. I was wondering though about that 'concentric circles' artefacting on some photos, particularly the one of the tree leaves, it's quite obvious with the grass in the background (I suspect it's the macro mode out of focus).
Finally, I got to handle one of these last month and took some photos on my 6600's 256mb MMC card. I didn't get the right-side blurring you had so thankfully it's probably just a bad model you got there (misaligned lens?). I have attached a full-resolution photo (unscaled) but has been cropped and resaved at full-quality, this is a crop of the far right hand side and it's in perfect focus, just as the left side was (i.e. I used Photoshop to anchor the right hand side down). So this ought to put prospective buyers at ease.
In the end anyway I got my 6230, the GX-30 had too many shortfalls for me to choose it and the 6230 is infinitely more flexible even if it's technically inferior in areas.
Out of interest, Michael, how did you get the phone, do they submit them to you for reviewing?
The photos taken with that phone are really quite impressive. I was wondering though about that 'concentric circles' artefacting on some photos, particularly the one of the tree leaves, it's quite obvious with the grass in the background (I suspect it's the macro mode out of focus).
Finally, I got to handle one of these last month and took some photos on my 6600's 256mb MMC card. I didn't get the right-side blurring you had so thankfully it's probably just a bad model you got there (misaligned lens?). I have attached a full-resolution photo (unscaled) but has been cropped and resaved at full-quality, this is a crop of the far right hand side and it's in perfect focus, just as the left side was (i.e. I used Photoshop to anchor the right hand side down). So this ought to put prospective buyers at ease.
In the end anyway I got my 6230, the GX-30 had too many shortfalls for me to choose it and the 6230 is infinitely more flexible even if it's technically inferior in areas.
Out of interest, Michael, how did you get the phone, do they submit them to you for reviewing?