I've never associated BlackBerry smartphones with multimedia... And it has remained consistent, though it must be admitted that the Z10 package lacked only the FM radio. It plays both video and audio. In the case of the latter it suffers from a lack EQ (I have not found it also in BB World!) and the lousy headphones, which I have mentioned. I associated "blackberries" also with quite good photographic opportunities. Here, too, nothing has changed: Z10 takes good pictures. The camera menu is not very extensive, closer to Windows or iOS than Android. We have a choice of two formats of images (panorama and letterbox), stability and four scene modes: sports, text, night and beach/snow.
The camera also has a LED flash with a very neutral light colour and average power. Fans of dynamic shots will appreciate the serial photography mode that allows you to capture up to several successive frames. I do not like only the sluggish auto focus operation. What's worse - there are no rules. It happens that in the dim light it focuses in a split second, and sometimes a good light it lasts a few seconds... The shutter can be triggered by touching the screen (on the occasion of a focus on the point), but I preferred to do it by using the volume button. Then AF has had time to "catch" the focus. When setting by touching the screen, there were blurry shots – the shutter was faster than the AF. I might add that the camera can run without unlocking the screen – we just press longer its icon on the desktop. Below you can see examples of photos and videos taken with the phone and judge their quality on your own.
As you can see, Z10 provides reasonable clarity of detail and colours. In the photos taken in low light there may appear some noise but its intensity can be considered not very annoying. The digital zoom is quite ok: the images are almost clear, although the loss of sharpness is felt. Z10 video recordings look the same: no revelations, but no major flaws, and the obvious disadvantages are: bit too poor sound quality (and its mono recording...).
The saved shots can be viewed in a slideshow with audio. BlackBerry gives us a set of photographic special effects available from the photo gallery after taking shots. These include, among others, Lomography, sketch or watercolour. The editing mode also allows us to crop and rotate images, improve colour saturation, white balance, brightness and correct "red-eye". We can also stylize photos - the old plate, a cartoon or film tape. Below you can see the effects of all filters and effects. The name of each of them will appear when you hover over thumbnails. The latter two effects (smoothing skin and big eyes) operate exclusively with portraits - hence another image sample – excuse me.
Source: GSMchoice.com
