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LG KE850 Prada review | Camera

Published on: Thursday, August 16th 2007                   Written by: Nic Rossmüller - Photography by: Dennis Hissink

LG Prada - Camera

O f course, the LG Prada also possesses a digital camera. The digital camera of the LG Prada offers only 2 Megapixels, focuses automatically and is equipped with a Schneider Kreuznach lens. If you want to use the camera, all you have to do is just press the release button to activate the camera. The LG Prada also has a small LED flash; you can turn this on or off. In the on-mode, the light will burn constantly. Unfortunately, LG did not choose for an automatic flash. Fortunately, the LG Prada has a quick button to turn the flash on or off quickly. Therefore, the chance to miss the right photography moment has been reduced.

LG KE850 Prada review

 

LG KE850 Prada - Delay

When activating the camera, it takes a little while before the camera is ready for use. When pressing the release button completely, it takes some time for the camera to focus, take the picture and transfer it to the memory card. This delay gives irritations on regular bases whenever you want to take a new picture quickly. Although the camera in a mobile phone increases in quality quickly, this is not the case with the LG Prada. The camera clearly is not a very important component of the total. In bad lighting situations, you will have movement blurring quickly, it’s a pity that an electronic stabilization is not present. You can turn the flash on, but the effective range is limited., the subject has to be completely inside the effective range to get the right exposure.

LG KE850 Prada - Image quality

Whenever the camera in the LG Prada is used in good lighting conditions, the overall quality can be called good. If you don’t have to take any very spectacular photos, you will find that the camera in the LG Prada will usually perform just fine. Because of the limited dynamic range, the LG Prada has a few problems with subjects that contain high contrast. In bad lighting situations, the noise values are unpleasantly high. Besides this, the automatic white balance can lose control at times and you will need to intervene manually to prevent color cast.

 

LG Prada - Settings

LG Prada - Settings

LG KE850 Prada - Settings

The LG Prada’s camera offers many setting possibilities. Besides the quality setting, you also have the possibility to set a macro function, exposure metering values and a self timer, set a multi shot mode, as well as change the color settings. The multi shot mode is very handy if you want to photograph somewhat faster objects. It will not solve all problems, like the shutter lag, but it will make sure that you will not miss the object you want to photograph if you press the release button on time. In practice this means that you have just a little less chance to get a bad picture. Action photography is and will, for the time being, remain a difficult task. For color effects you can choose from black and white, sepia, negative and regular.

LG Prada - microSD

LG Prada - microSD

LG KE850 Prada - microSD

You have the possibility to extend the LG Prada’s memory with a microSD memory card. There is a choice from cards with different capacities and speeds. We chose to use the SanDisk 2GB microSD memory card because of the stability and speed of the SanDisk cards. You could also choose the 2GB microSD Memory Kit. With this, you will not only have a microSD, but also a miniSD and SD card. There are various possibilities to transfer files from the microSD memory card to a computer. A good choice for this would be the SanDisk Mobilemate SD + 5 in 1 card reader; it is very small and therefore easy to bring along.

 
 
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