LG's 12 megapixel GC990 Louvre flagship with Schneider-Kreuznach optics records our puzzlement in HD
By Thomas Ricker 
posted July 8th 2009 6:19AM
posted July 8th 2009 6:19AM
If you're the type who values specs above all else then lean in close, LG's GC990 Louvre is about as spec heavy as it gets. Taking its industrial design and UI cues from the GC900 it will replace later this year, LG's newest flagship brings yet another 12 megapixel camera to market. LG's promising "zero shutter lag" while using respectable Schneider-Kreuznach optics with auto- or touchscreen-focus, a xenon flash, claimed ISO 3200 sensitivity (from a tiny cellphone image sensor?), and the ability to record 720p video at 30 fps. It'll also geotag your snaps thanks to on-board GPS. Fine, just remember that 12 megapixel images shot at full quality will result in massive (up to 18MB) files that must then be stored and transmitted to your favorite image sharing sites -- a waste of time and treasure unless you plan to blow up and crop those well-lit images. Anywho, rounding out the specs are LG's S-Class featurephone UI running atop an auto-rotating 3.2-inch (16:9 aspect) touchscreen display, WiFi, Bluetooth, DivX and Xvid video support, a TV-out jack, and support for media sharing with DLNA standard devices. Picture of the backside camera just beyond the read link.
I'd say 5 megapixel.
Jeez, did they forget anything?
I didn't see "kitchen sink" on the spec sheet. BOOOO!!!!!
"claimed ISO 3200 sensitivity"
I have no doubt that it will offer ISO 3200 sensitivity but whether you'd want to use it (and whether you can prevent the camera from using it as a form of digital anti-shake) is another matter. My old Nikon D40X did ISO 1600 and the results looked horrible - just because something is on the specification sheet doesn't mean that it is good. I also have a pathological hatred of on-camera flash.
What's your favorite cezanne?
You basterds are never happy. you either slate the iphone for having to low pixels. yet you get 12 megapixels and your slating that too ?
Make up your minds ?
Also its impossible to keep you ungrateful lil basterds happy. A phone is either to ugly to slim to wide screens to small crap battery crap this crap that.
Your all ungrateful lil basterds. Try making a phone then ull see how hard it is.
Is it as hard as spelling "you'll"? Or "bastards"? Or "too"?
It's funny......'cause instead of LG this was Apple, people would be nuts for it and doing pre-orders.
Its not that Apple rocks, clearly they are clearly stifling innovation. No MMS for 1st gen, No video for 2nd gen iphone, but give it all to the iPhone 3G. The problem is and the reason people are willing to put up with it is .... Apple's UI are pretty darn impressive. The last LG I had was the chocolate flip... i order it from Korea , I was so excited. The hardware at the time was okay , but the UI was terrible. It made me hate LG and they never released any meaningful updates. So sure the hardware is great, but the firmware sucks.
Give me a phone with those specs on the pre and I'll be surely lining up in front of a store.
Seriously? 18MB per picture? My D300's JPEGs never get above 7MB, why does this need 18MB per picture?
TELL ME!?
TELL ME?!
This megapixel shenanigans must stop.
This whole "race to inifnity" with the megapixels really has to stop.
I bought a nice Powershot ELPH 6 months ago and the first thing people ask is "How many megapixels does it have?" as if they even know what that question means. They just know bigger is "better". Sometimes I honestly forget and I have to look at the camera to answer them. I couldn't care less about megapixels, anything above 6 is fine with me. Give me good optics, good shooting modes, and a nice big bright LCD and I'm happy.
*3GS
Dudes.. you must be living either in historic times, or in the US.
Have you seen the latest Japanese/Korean phones? they produce images as good as some of the compact cameras nowadays. ISO 1600 images from those phones look as good as the iphone's normal images..
Dudes.. you must be living either in historic times, or in the US.
Have you seen the latest Japanese/Korean phones? they produce images
as good as some of the compact cameras nowadays. ISO 1600 images from
those phones look as good as the iphone's normal images..
Dudes.. you must be living either in historic times, or in the US.
Have you seen the latest Japanese/Korean phones? they produce images
as good as some of the compact cameras nowadays. ISO 1600 images from
those phones look as good as the iphone's normal images..