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what's up guys Lew here and today we're taking a closer look at the newly released Nokia Lumia 1020 this thing has a beast of a camera especially for a phone we're gonna take a closer look and do some test shots so check this out first things first I want to give a thanks to 80 for sending this Nokia Lumia 1020 out for me to take a closer look I don't get very many chances to look at Windows Phone devices so I'm very excited to get started with the cream of the crop the 1020 this thing is beautiful it comes in a number of different colors I've got the yellow unit inside here the most exciting part is this gigantic enormous 41 megapixel image sensor I expect it to produce some incredible imagery but don't take my word for it stick around because towards the end of this video I will be testing that theory first the unboxing after all this is unbox therapy we've got some paperwork from Nokia as well as some information regarding taking better photos and then you have a message from AT&T reminding you to never text and drive at the same time not smart not cool don't do it the phone is beautiful as I mentioned before I mean I knew this before I got it I've obviously seen pictures and whatnot but once you actually get to hold it it's quite nice all the materials are very smooth very soft touch and the industrial design is very very impressive I also like the fact that it's available in colors it's not just another boring black slab like some other stuff that's on the market finishing up the unboxing we've got a little bit more paperwork from Nokia followed by your power brick although in this case it's not much of a brick it's somewhere between a rectangle and a cylinder maybe there's a name for that shape I'm unsure anyways this microUSB cable will plug into the brick and charge up your device you've also got a wrist strap and lastly there is a SIM card tool for of course inserting your SIM card into the device taking a closer look at the physical attributes you can appreciate this large flash that's on the camera module that's going to be amazing for illuminating people in low-light environments all of the buttons are on one side of the device keeping the design very clean-looking you have your power switch there as well as a dedicated camera button and of course your volume rocker for guess what adjusting your volume on the top is where you'll find your headphone jack right in the center there's also a microphone up there and that's where you'll insert your SIM card as well this is a very beautiful looking phone as I'm sure you can tell it's available in a few different colors but I just lucked out I guess because this is my favorite and it also happens to be what AT&T sent over as I mentioned earlier I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to the Windows Phone interface but it's actually pretty easy to pick up I didn't experience any lag it was really smooth I launched into the web browser and just picked a random site to check out unbox therapy com anyways yeah it works just fine and Scrolls very smoothly so as a phone it seems to function and it seems to be pretty capable but really what this story is all about is this gigantic image sensor that this phone has 41 megapixels of power that's tons of resolution and it means that you're going to be able to zoom in to pictures without having them bust up into pixel madness instead you still maintain a very usable image that you can then go ahead and share so you could just take these huge images and then crop them at a later date and basically recompose whatever it is you're trying to do it gives you creative freedom after the fact instead of just before there's a little tutorial to get you started after all this is a fairly elaborate camera interface as it should be when you're working with this kind of hardware but you just go through this little tutorial and it'll pretty much teach you everything you need to know you can use the device in a simple automatic mode and it'll figure out what to do in order to give you good results or if you're like me and you want to get a little bit more technical you can go into the manual settings and adjust all kinds of different things from is so two shutter speed more on that in a moment but I want to get started with the automatic mode as many individuals we want to get great images right out of the box without having to get too technical right away and that's fine you'll see here that you can take pictures with your thumb right on the screen by tapping the camera icon or you can use the dedicated shutter button on the top of the device that's completely up to you whichever is more comfortable you can also touch focus by tapping on any object off in the distance but what I'm really excited about is this manual functionality and the first feature I'm showing off here is exposure compensation which gives you a really quick ability to dial in the correct exposure so if your image is underexposed just dial it up and if your image is overexposed dial it down very simple next you've got shutter speed to play with I could give you some awesome motion blur if that's what you're looking for you have manual focus controls ISO sensitivity as you can see here it's sort of like having a lens that you turn the focus ring on lastly we have white balance this is very important for getting accurate images and it's something we focus on in a big way here in the studio so to have it on this device and have it easily accessible is always a very welcome addition as mentioned earlier this 41 megapixel sensor gives you the ability to zoom into your photo to recompose your image to give you more creative control after it's already been shot you've got so many pixels to work with that you can zoom all the way in and still have a completely usable shareable photo outdoors the imagery is intense it's insane it's really really good as you can tell here I mean the images speak for themselves and video follows right in line you've got optical image stabilization and as you can see that's what helped me follow this little bee around in this particular garden but I'm more impressed with the purple on the flowers here it's just so vibrant and impressive I mean as I said the video and the images they basically speak for themselves I don't have to say too much about it and this pizza it also speaks for itself I'd have to say too much about it all in all had an amazing time going out and shooting with the No the Lumia 1020 I want to give one last shout out to AT&T for sending out the device so that we could carry out this test and have some fun with this brand-new 41 megapixel sensor this device isn't exclusive as I said earlier check out the description for more info so that wraps up this unboxing first looking test of the Nokia Lumia 1020 this thing is a ton of fun to get out in the world and shoot with it produces some amazing images as you can tell from the samples in this video if you enjoyed this content please 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