As if to prove that megapixels is not everything, the Spanish website Quesabesde did a camera shoot out between one of my favorite cameras, the $9,995 medium format Pentax 645D camera and the $655 Nokia 808 PureView smartphone. Other than having a 40 megapixel sensor, they really don’t have anything else in common.

Pentax 645D vs Nokia 808 PureView. Image courtesy of Quesabesde

If you see the comparison in the article, Nokia’s small 13.33 x 10.67 mm CMOS sensor and Carl Zeiss lens are clearly outmatched by the much larger 55 x 44 mm CCD sensor and superior optics of the Pentax 645D. So what is the point of all of this? It may be severely one-sided, but hey, judging from DPReview’s review of the 808 Pureview, the Nokia’s image quality is still pretty good for a smartphone and you can upload it to the internet within minutes. And given the physical size difference, you’re more likely to have it on you more so than a medium format camera or even a full frame dSLR.

All I can say is, if that’s where the smartphone camera technology is going, image quality-wise, than that’s a good thing.

To read more of the article and see the sample comparison, check out the Google-translated article on Quesabesde.com


You can go to Amazon.com to purchase either the Pentax 645D camera or the Nokia 808 PureView.

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