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Nexus 5 in the Hands of a Photographer

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What is mobile photography? Most people would nod their head with confusion as if you were asking a rhetorical question, but the truth is it’s more than just taking pictures with your phone.  Not every phone comes with a high end camera, some mid-range phones come with 5-8 MPs cameras while the other more expensive higher-end ones come with 13 MPs and up.

As many may know the Nexus 5 is the one device that a lot of people were eager to finally have make its debut. Now that it’s been out we have had the time to see the merits and flaws. The Nexus 5 isn’t equipt with a high end camera but it counters that by having 8MP with Optical Image Stabilization. OIS, optical image stabilization can prevent blurred images associated with the motion of a moving camera in this case your phone. Don’t get this mixed up with the handsets alternative feature, HDR+ mode.  HDR+ is essentially an upscale to optical image stabilization, which when used properly, it will capture sharper photos containing both bright and dark areas more vibrantly. A good tip to keep on hand is that HDR and Image Stabilization can’t be turned on simultaneously. The Nexus 5 is unexceptional in everyday use of taking photos. It is not the best of the best but performs quite well as compared to other lower end devices with 8MP cameras.

Moving along, thanks to OIS/HDR+ mode and by having the latest update of Android 4.4.2,  the Google Nexus 5 allows many enthusiast and regular users to shoot some quite pleasant videos at 1080p and still enjoy taking some more than satisfactory photos on your journey with it. Many thanks go out to XDA member cisoprogressivo, he shared with us one of his friends amazing galleries created using the Nexus 5 camera as the physical hardware vs a traditional DSLR.   Below is a video gallery of some awesome photos from a photographers hands!

It is fairly interesting to also note that he shot and edited the whole video above on the Nexus 5. He also gives credit to Google’s Auto Awesome abilities for doing a large chunk of it all on its own without his help. You go Google.

Alessandro Michelazzi

Well, is kind of embarrassing saying that all the base of the video was prepared automatic by Auto Awesome feature. It make me think if there are maybe some people working at #Google to edit the video. I can not belive that automatic algorithm can create sometimes so good with timing and choose in music and mood. About stabilization i haven’t used any special feature, just trying to not shake so much my hand during the shoot, the rest is the optical stabilizer of#Nexus5 that is doing a good job!

Also check out the main gallery at the source down below.

Source: GalleryÂ