so what he is trying to say is that within 1-2 years an 18 Megapixel camera will be on phones,it will probably have a very nice optics system which has been made to the same quality of current DSLR’s but in a much smaller factor and will make it so that the same device that you use to call your friend or to play angry birds will also be able to take full 1080p HD video.

that is an amazing feat, and let me say that if i were hired to take pictures for a wedding, or to shoot concert footage for a band and was able to use my cellphone and a good stabilizing mount that i would be blown away and so would the customer.

also as one commenter noted Nokia is struggling to find its place in a market with fierce competition from some of the largest corporations in the world. it is not out of the question at all that they are either working with Cannon or Nikon, or are just simply developing on their own a phone that can replace a DSLR camera.

maybe that is their business plan, is to have a phone that people who like photography will choose instead of Android, Windows Phone 7, or the I phone.

i can gaurentee that everyone who commented on this article would choose the Nokia 18 Megapixel, 1080p HD recording subsidized phone over the Iphone’s 5 megapixel camera because they would feel they would get more use out of Nokia’s amazing camera and still have the same functionality as the Iphone.

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Deal with it. It’s just a matter of time, wanted or not.

For me it is like the format we know is coming close to a very big shift in the way we know it. Think for instance about the new generations, the ones that are just starting to use computers and the way they are experimenting this tachnologý, my 3 years old boy loves to seat in my legs to see the photos i take, we see stills and movies indistinctly, he keeps asking me, (when we see a still) Dad, why don´t they talk? (the stills) and when we see movies he constantly ask me to pause a scene so he can see details, even to zoom it
He is very familiar with Google earth animations and street view, and that is (for him) the reference he uses to compare, in other words, it is “native” to him and a very big shift in habits compared to us. i cant even imagine him enjoyng an old Atari game

My best guess is that imaging will tend to unify video/stills into one format and you would just capture the moment and be able to freeze images as you like and get the stills or have the video from the same source. the capturing device will be something like a panoramic camera, maybe with human eye angle of vision (or maybe 360 Degrees) ang giga pixel capacity.

Who will need to worry about pentaprisms and lens if you have lots of IQ and pixels. Crop is the key.

Optics? does the eye have such a huge and heavy optics???, NOOOOO it doesnt, it has sensible organic “sensors” and powerful “electro-chemical processing”.

Nanotechnology is all about that.

O.k., It is late and im hungry!!!

Photography rocks!!!

All these being said, I very very much doubt the statement of Nokia. In 20, let alone 50 years, who knows what may happen?! But in the next few yeras, no nokia cameraphone will replace your dSLR’s, or even my compacts …

As someone said, it is much easier to integrate a cellphone into the body of a dSLR!

But the DSLR cameras are advancing as well. they are getting smaller, lighter and got much more MPs. If someone told me that you can get a 21MP FF For under $2.5k back in 2004 I would of gave him a very weird look. But 4 years after that we got the 5d mk II.

Say that those new semiconductors will come out in a few years, and they are able to match the quality of DSLR sensors, only in much smaller size. DSLR cameras will still have a hughe advantage, because you can use those same new semiconductors in DSLR cameras as well, resulting in HUGHE resolutions, or extremely good low light performances. So that the fact that DSLR sensors are bigger, will always give them an advantage. So yes, size does matter.

@Eric Calabros
Good point also. In DSLR cameras/lenses, certain distances between glass lens parts are necessary to achief depth of field.
Matching the optics and DOF qualities of DSLR lenses in such a small format could only ever be possible if they invent a material that has the same optical qualities of glass, only with about 1/100 its thickness.

Off course, we will never know where technology will bring us, but I think that Nokia’s statement is very far from being realised.
That’s my two cents.