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5th October 2009.
12:56
Category Archives: Satio
My friend Anders works as a professional retoucher (www.retouch.se) and I thought it would be cool to see what he could do with pictures from Satio.
I put a Satio in his hands for a few days and this is what he has come up with so far. Normally he doesn’t photograph himself but for this occasion he can actually take all the cred since he also did the photo-work. I also asked him some questions on what he thought was the main upside of using Satio and as expected the answer was “Pixels” 
In good lighting you really are able to get the most out of every 12 M of them because of a quite conservative jpg-compression, at least for a mobile phone.
This is what he wrote me when he sent the pics.
I decided to do some testing like this. Simply treat the images from the SATIO as if they were raw-files from any other high-end camera… The photographers i use to work with mostly shoot editorial works with really high end DSLRs , and advertising whith digital backs.
Could the SATIO have any chance to match some of them…? No, of course not!
But hey, what about matching a grainy 24x36mm film? Now we’re talking!
Unfortunately it’s raining cats and dogs here in Stockholm today, so a outdoor location shoot was not a good idea… An indoor still life was more much comfortable 
I used two images, one background shot and one from another angle to get “Nils Holgersson” and the goose in a different perspective.
So interpolated, and a little grain added, i would say it looks pretty good, don’t you?
/Anders
The result is interpolated to around 69 MP Just as he works in his normal work.. I think it’s a really cool pic and again it shows how post processing can add that extra wow-factor, or in this case even create a new pic from two different ones.
First the two original pics he shot with Satio:
And this is the result after he did his magic, as said earlier – 69 MP
Here’s a short video showing a very frequent use-case, at least for me. Starting up the music player, this time with a short detour into media just for show, choosing an artist, an album and start playing a song. Then minimizing it to the stand-by screen where the controls then are available.
Of course there are a lot of other options and navigation paths in the music player but I thought this would show how easy the most common use-case is. If you want to know more just shoot away your questions in a comment as usual.
One thing that has been special with most of the pictures that have been in my sample galleries is that they have been straight out of the Satio, i.e. totally unprocessed. This of course to give you a good idea of what Satio is capable of – what it gives you to work with. However today the majority of pictures we see during a day has had at least some and in most cases a lot (e.g. advertising) of post processing done to them.
I would expect most of the pictures seen on services like Flickr, Picasa and others to at least have some kind of post processing applied. Therefore I’m glad to see that Sandeep has started to post some post processed pictures for us to look at.
Don’t get me wrong here, the pictures from Satio are of course usable without post processing but just as with pictures from any other camera (phone, P&S or SLR) the photographer gets another level of control by tweaking things afterwards. The endless possibilities in post processing is really one of the revolutions that digital photography has brought us!
Think about it, just a decade or two ago you had to be some kind of dark room chemistry expert do these things. Today anyone can do it with huge amounts of free and easy to use software available.
Here’s two of his processed pictures that I really think has that wow factor!
As usual you find all of his work on his blog and in his picasa album.
I thought I would end the work week with something a bit less serious
Here’s a short clip of me playing the included game Labyrinth by Illusion Labs
As you’ll see it’s quite hard, but really fun! It uses the accelerometer in a very sensitive and realistic way. I’ve also found that it’s even more challenging to play when you’re on a bumpy bus-ride
I never stop being excited about the engagement on the blog, and as one example of that we recently passed 2000 comments!
One of the more frequent commenters, Valinor, posted the 2000th comment and to highlight that I made a quick interview with him.
Valinors real name is Harun and he is from The Netherlands. He is 23 years old and studies Medicine at the University of Amsterdam.
How did you find the blog and what are your thoughts about it?
- I found the blog by using google to search info about the SE Satio. I have some regular sites I visit but there was not much info about the phone so I tried finding more info using Google.
The blog is really good. I like the clean template style, not much stuff that distracts you. Also the fact that you, a sony ericsson insider, answers alot of questions and you do that really fast, made me decide to stay and get hooked to your blog And offcourse I wont forget superman Piotr who helps answering alot of questions, that guys never sleeps 
Do you find the blog useful, in what ways?
- The blog is really good. Like i said before, the fast answering is awesome. Also the fact that there are alot of serious people around makes it more fun. 3rd the fact that the blog is being updated reguraly with info and photos is sweet. You don’t feel left in the dark till the release of the phone, because every day theres another post that helps with the waiting
Another thing I like are the links to the side, that link to other websites and to the 2 testpilot blogs. Theres always stuff to read or visit thanks to that.
What part of the blog could be improved?
- I personally wouldn’t change anything. I really like it as it is. Putting more stuff in would probably make it to busy and I think blogs should be basic without to much stuff on them. But we should probably ask Piotr or Moshik about this haha. They’re like the specialists on this blog
