All About sites podcast special: Damian Dinning - smartphones and imaging

Apologies for the break in your normal run of podcasts with Rafe,
but the chance arose to sit down with Damian Dinning, ex-Nokia
and its head of imaging for years, the guy (with his team, of
course) behind classics like the Nokia N73, N90, N93, N95, N82,
N86, N8, 808 PureView and, of course, the Lumia 1020. The chat
was in a quietish pub and is hopefully very listenable - the
content is about 60% Windows Phone-related, 30% Symbian-related
and 10% generic, but there's plenty here of interest to all
readers/listeners, I think.


Subjects covered include:


The Samsung G810 (yes, really)

Lens covers and coatings

Durability

Refocus and Cinemagraph

Rich Capture and Dynamic Flash

Oversampling

Camera humps

LED versus Xenon

Multi-frame capture possibilities

Noise reduction algorithms

Processing requirements in modern camera phones

Lumia Camera and the 1020

Windows Phone stability

Damian's thoughts on Android and iOS

Musings on the N9

Musings looking back on Symbian 



Listeners might like to note that I recorded the chat on a Nokia
808 PureView - there are a couple of points where Damian picks
the device up to illustrate something, so apologies for a few
rustles and taps here and there!!


You can follow Damian on Twitter here, by the way.