Nokia faked the still photos too

As if faking the video wasn’t bad enough.

This is a still from Nokia’s new product promo video. It’s showing off their apparent Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) on their new device, the Lumia 920.

Being a Finnish company, Nokia shot these scenes in Helsinki of course. I’ve lived in Helsinki, and where these photos were taken, there’s no lighting like this. Pretty much all street-lighting in Helsinki originates high from the center of roads. It’s ambiently diffused, not spot, as this video would have you believe. When you live through 20 hours of daily darkness in the winter, you start to notice these sorts of things.

I decided to do a bit more research based on the data we have at hand. Going by these still images it’s hard to tell what device really took the photos. We don’t have the EXIF data because these are part of a video, and there’s no cheeky reflections we can zoom in and enhance. However, there is one thing, that once seen can’t be unseen. Diffractions. Diffractions are the sparkle affect generated around the bright lights in the background.

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