E90 stills camera vindicated… albeit after much tweaking.

Following on from my last post about the E90 camera’s photo reproduction, I seem to have found a decent mix of settings adjustments for indoor shots. The video camera is amazing for a phone device. But the stills camera has been bugging me till now.

I happened to be in the bathroom when I realized the tubelit uneven low-light conditions would be a nice challenge for taking some close up shots especially where flash was needed. So I took a few pictures of the drain cover on the floor:

All settings on default (Beware Ye Ole Nasty Blue Hue!):

White Balance set to Flourescent (Much better colour, but still looking a little washed out):

Decreased  Exposure Compensation by -1.0, and increased Contrast (Much better definition and colours actually match my bathroom tiles):

Then I took this shot of my thumb in the same conditions.

The colours came out really well. And thats the same drain cover you can see in the background. The E90, with ideal settings, picked up those 5 or 6 extremely fine hairs just below my knuckle, which I would have to strain to see with the naked eye. It also caught the contrast and ridges of the skin structure really well. You can also see various shades of pink on my thumbnail, and the bluish veins on the index finger standing out from the colour of the skin. Not bad at all for a camera in what is essentially a business communicator device 🙂