Review: Kin Two
For an eight megapixel shooter, image quality on the Kin Two was not very good. It wasn't horrible, and under the best lighting conditions images were actually pretty good. But indoors or with complicated, mixed lighting, images fell apart quickly. Inside, my pictures displayed lots of noise and a dreary, grey tint that sapped bright colors. Details were fuzzy, and an oversharpening effect gave pictures a digital look, like a still frame from a TV image. Outside, things looked much better, with accurate colors and fairly good details, especially close up. The camera was unable to deal with a mix of darker shade and backlighting, and sometimes shadier images took on the grey cast of my indoor shots. Deep red colors were a serious problem, a common issue with cameraphone sensors, and you can see the red flowers in my samples lacked all detail besides their brilliant color.
Video quality was similar; it wasn't bad, but it didn't live up to its high resolution potential. The high definition videos I shot with the Kin Two showed lots of blocky compression artifacts in my images and too much noise all around. Motion was not fluid in these video. For the camera holder, the microphone recorded sound surprisingly well without suffering too much from ambient noise. But for other subjects, voices were distant and hardly audible.
Check out the high-definition video sample below taken in 720p resolution with the Kin Two's camcorder
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