Friday fun: the Nokia Lumia 1020 is still king for concert videos

Earlier this week I had the opportunity to see one of my favorite bands Rising Against. Not only did I have tickets, but also, I splurged for the pricey balcony seats to have an fantabulous view. For this show, I wanted to watch them unobstructed and but take it in, as opposed to the floor (y'all will see why).

Which phone to take to the show? Although the Lumia 1520 is even so my elevation telephone now, the Lumia 1020's 41 MP camera cannot be denied, especially for video. Y'all see, with the PureView cameras, not but tin can you record excellent video, just also with your finger on the display, you tin can zoom in and out like a real video camera. Effort that on the iPhone.

Curious as to the result? Here is a sample video.

Thoughts

From my experience, a device like the Lumia 1020 does very well for shooting video at a concert. Sure, the image quality when zoomed gets pixelated (the low-light does not help), but it is still impressive for a phone. Skip to effectually one:xl in the video and you tin see the photographic camera zoomed in on the lead singer Tim McIlrath, capturing what is a pretty amazing moment for many fans of Rise Confronting.

Same with the decent sound, which on the Lumia 1020 is due to the three loftier-aamplitude audio capture (HAAC) microphones. Those microphones are why despite how loud it was at the Boston Business firm of Blues you could still make out the audio without any distortion. You tin can read well-nigh Nokia's HAAC microphone technology hither in their PDF whitepaper.

Speaking of sound, the Lumia 1520 and Lumia 930/ Icon are fifty-fifty meliorate. The reasons are 2-fold. For one, both phones have four HAAC microphones (instead of three) with better placement (some are on the dorsum then that they directly face up your subject). The other is the optional power to record in Dolby Digital v.1. You tin can see an example of the Lumia 1520's recording from an Offspring concert earlier this year. Indeed, from my experience, the Lumia 1520/Lumia 930 get superior sounds from the concert.

What about photos? Unfortunately, unless you are shooting the subject right under a stage light, the slowness of the Lumia Camera app makes getting a good movie at a concert a difficult task. In fact, I had much better luck using the iPhone 6, with its super-fast camera for grabbing some excellent photos.

See 'Comparing the iPhone half dozen to the peak Windows Phones, including Lumia 1020, HTC 1 and Lumia 1520'

Nonetheless, if y'all can get a good photo with a Lumia 1020 or Lumia 1520 you can do more with information technology since in that location are many more megapixels, so information technology could exist a tradeoff. Regardless, Microsoft needs to make these cameras faster and easier to employ if they want mass adoption by the general public, something that Lumia Denim may finally address this fall.

What has been your experience with your Lumia at a concert? Any tips to share?

Heir-apparent's guide

Which XPS 15 display is best for you?

While the laptops look the same and have mostly the same features, there are some cardinal differences to know about when choosing betwixt the FHD+, three.5K OLED, and UHD+ XPS 15 9510 models.