I bought Nokia 1020 as a present to my wife, because she usually takes photos with a smartphone. All I can say about photo quality is just "wow". Now point and shoot camera era is officially over. It was practically over even earlier because number of photos taken with smartphones increased explosively, however, now it is officially over. At this particular moment Nokia 1020 produces a very pleasant photos and it is just ready anytime almost anywhere to shoot. I can not imagine what may make me to buy point and shoot camera today.

Anyway there are some observation as well:

photos:

1) indor white balance. it's awful, unreliable and unstable. The worse results are in auto white balance mode. For some reason in the same shooting conditions it is almost impossible to get identical white balance photos.

no other observations on photos.

verdict for photos: Nokia 1020 is a great compact camera capable to make calls.

video:

1) no "basic" manual control. Well in fact there is a possibility to manually adjust focus and manually choose white balance presets. That's it. No aperture control, no exposure control. It's terrible. In reality when you shoot indoors white balance sporadically changes under the same lighting conditions that is clearly seen during recording and in footage. It happens regardless of white balance mode choosen either auto or manual. Outdoors the camera shoots better video, although it would be nice to have more control on exposure and aperture.

2) codec is not the best one.

verdict for video: I would not recommend to buy Nokia 1020 for video unless there is a manual control available for aperture and exposure in addition to manual control of wb and focus.

FilmicPro does have a project on KS to make a version for Anroid and Windows phone. Neither funding is successful, however, still more people vote for Android rather than for Windows phone. Hopefully FilmicPro will produce windows phone version anyway.

If you have any questions or would like me to make some real world photos/videos please ask. I would not be able to make a sophisticated test though (no diagrams and graphs).

take care,

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

So far I tried only one of default camera apps that is Nokia Pro Cam. There is also Smart Cam and another one cam app. I did not tried them though. I was interested mainly in video mode of Nokia Pro Cam. I will try other default apps soon. As far as I know Nokia/MS are developing one combined camera app (including Pro Cam and Smart Cam). It should be released during this year. I am not sure if they are aware of WB flaw.

http://www.photographyblog.com/previews/nokia_lumia_1020_photos/

I never thought they would bring RAW to a phone. Great move, although how long will it take to write a 41MP RAW image?

Two comparisons:

• http://connect.dpreview.com/post/8720896323/pureview-compared-nokia-808-lumia1020-studio-test-scene
• http://evan-theelectricalengineer.blogspot.co.il/2013/10/nikon-d800e-vs-nokia-lumia-1020.html

Second one is more fun, of course.

I have the 1020. Like it so far. Has the capability of producing fantastic pictures, but I will note that on auto mode, both focus and use of a smart shutter speed can be lacking at times. Shot to Shot when storing the full rez picture is also slow at least 3 seconds between each shot.

RAW samples at http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/10/29/another-nokia-first-digital-negatives-raw-dng-lumia/

DXOMark report on 925. Strangely it scores quite higher compared to 920. As I understand software plays big role here as 920 had been tested with different, previous apps.

http://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Nokia-Lumia-925-overview-Lower-pixel-count-lower-IQ

Black incorporates a number of important improvements in image processing for the camera, begging further detailed investigation. Happily, we have both AT&T and generic Euro variants of the 1020 to hand, so it was easy to set up some test shots and see what Nokia has changed in terms of 'noise reduction and tone mapping' in going from Nokia Amber to Nokia Black and the way these interact with the class-leading camera hardware.

http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/18966_Exploring_the_imaging_improvem.php

http://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Nokia-Lumia-1020-overview-Has-the-best-got-better

After a lot of time playing with the phone's DNG files, it's safe to say that shooting Raw on the Lumia 1020 offers you some flexibility in post-processing, but not the same degree of flexibility you are you used to from your DSLR, mirrorless system camera, or even premium compacts, such as Sony's RX100.

http://connect.dpreview.com/post/6430831685/shooting-raw-with-the-nokia-lumia-1020

Fun thing