If it was not bad enough that Nokia faked the video stabilization portion of the Lumia 920 video (and later had to apologize for it), it seems they faked the part where they show still images as well.
If you get past the initial portion of video that focuses on video stabilization, you'll eventually get to some low light images shot on a street. It's here blogger Youssef Sarhan, resident of Helsinki, noticed that the lighting was off and nowhere on those streets would you actually find such strong lighting such as the one seen in the video.
The second thing he noticed was the diffraction pattern of the street lamps in the background. Sarhan mentions that in order to achieve such high number of spikes for the lamps, the lens aperture has to be really low, around f/22, which is not possible for the wide f/2.0 lens on the Lumia 920.
In other words, Nokia used a professional camera once again to shoot these images and tried to pass them off as Lumia 920 samples.
Sarhan concentrated on the video but while perusing Nokia's website we came across the following two images that caught out eye. Once again you can see how the Lumia 920 image (the second one) is not just brighter but the camera seemingly conjures up additional light sources from behind the tree, as can be seen from the strong shadow where the girl is facing.
Once again, we are not doubting the ability of the Lumia 920's camera. It probably takes fantastic pictures. We are just baffled by Nokia's insistence on using doctored images shot with professional equipment and lighting conditions, even though they seem to have a pretty good camera on their phone.
Source : http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_lumia_920_sample_images_found_to_be_fake_as_well-news-4769.php
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