I'm Tama Tech Jeff and I've been traveling across America for the past couple of weeks testing out the new Nokia 9 PureView with his crazy v camera setup along with my partner Sarah who I'm helping to move for a new job. We drove nearly 3,000 miles from California to Massachusetts so we took the southern route stopping off a few amazing places on the way and of course taking a ridiculous amount of photos.

The Nokia 9 PureView is a unique device that boasts five lenses, all 12 megapixel and F1.8 aperture, with the same field of view and sensor size. What's interesting about these lenses is that they're not just ordinary camera lenses - they take a photo simultaneously, which then gets fused together to produce an incredibly high-quality and detailed image. The process works like this: the primary color picture is taken through the lens in the middle, while the detail from all the other lenses around it is populated into the image. This helps reduce noise and gives you the most detailed picture possible.

The Nokia 9 PureView's cameras are not just about quantity, but also quality. Two of them are normal RGB lenses, while three others are monochrome, which lets in nearly three times more light. There's also a time-of-flight 3D lens and a flash, making this device a powerhouse when it comes to camera capabilities. So, what tips can you get from someone who's spent two weeks with the Nokia 9 PureView?

First of all, one thing you should do is go into the camera settings, tap on "File Support" and select "Save RAW files as DNG format". This means that when you take a photo, you'll also get a RAW file in addition to a JPEG. The RAW file will be much larger, around 30 megabytes, while the JPEG will be smaller, around 6 megabytes. Having both will give you more flexibility when editing your photos later on. JPEGs are great for quickly sharing on social media, but if you want to get into the nitty-gritty of photo editing, you'll want to open up an editor like Adobe Lightroom and play with the settings.

For instance, you can increase exposure and shadows, drop highlights, punch up vibrancy, and make other adjustments to get a really professional-looking photo. Of course, you don't always have to do this, but if you want to get the best possible results from your Nokia 9 PureView, it's definitely worth giving it a try. Another feature you should enable is Depth Mode in the camera settings. When you've got depth mode on, all five lenses work together to capture 1200 layers of depth, which gives you an incredible bokeh blur effect.

To get the best out of this feature, go into the Google Photo app, tap the three bar settings icon, and then adjust the depth setting slider. This will allow you to customize how intense the bokeh blur is in your photo. But what's even better is that you can tap any one photo to pick the focus point - with 1200 layers of depth captured, this means you'll get some seriously cool photos. I tend to keep the depth slider around 50%, and having a clear subject in the frame does help, although sometimes the edge detection of the blur isn't always spot-on.

Finally, there's the Pro Mode, which allows you to tinker with settings like ISO, shutter speed, and white balance to get the best possible photo. I wouldn't consider myself a pro photographer, even a good one, but using the Pro Mode does make me feel more in control of my shots. Of course, this comes at a cost - the Nokia 9 PureView's camera processing can be quite slow sometimes, especially when switching between different modes or waiting for it to process a photo.

However, if you're willing to put up with that speed, the Nokia 9 PureView is definitely worth considering. The device itself may use last year's Snapdragon 845 chip, but the camera system is so advanced that it feels like a brand new product. And let's not forget that saving in RAW format and enabling Depth Mode can really unlock the full potential of this camera.

Well, that's the end of my trip with the Nokia 9 PureView - I hope you've enjoyed this video and learned something from it. A big thanks to Nokia for sending me this amazing device, and if you want to see more travel tech videos from me, hit that like and subscribe button below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys I'm Tama tech Jeff and I've been traveling across America for the past couple of weeks testing out the new Nokia 9 PureView with his crazy v camera setup along with my partner Sarah who I'm helping to move for a new job we drove nearly 3,000 miles from California to Massachusetts so we took the southern route stopping off a few amazing places on the way and of course taking a ridiculous amount of photos and so after all of that here's a few of my tips on how to get the most out of the Nokia 9 pure views camera but the first question has to be why would you want a phone with 5 lenses the companies do offer multi camera setups and you'll often get a little wider or telephoto zoom but not on the Nokia 9 they're all 12 megapixel all F 1.8 aperture all have the same field of view and sensor size and actually what happens is they all take a photo simultaneously this is the first phone in the world to take five simultaneous photos and in normal photo mode it'll then fuse it together for an incredibly high-quality and detailed photo so it takes one primary color picture with the lens in the middle and then it populates the detail from all the other lenses around it and this helps to reduce noise and give you the most detailed picture possible and it's not just the number of lenses either two of them are normal RGB lenses but three of them are monochrome which lets in nearly three times more light there's also a time of flight 3d lens and a flash so all in the nokia 9 has a lot going on so that's the hardware but let's get into how to take the best photos and the first thing you should do is go into the camera settings tap on your file support and then select save RAW files as DNG format this means that when you take a photo after you processes you'll get a jpg file and a war file you can see the little logo at the top right war files are much bigger around 30 megabytes versus 6 megabytes so there's a lot more data in the image and ideal for editing afterwards JPEGs are great for quickly sharing to socials but ideally you want to open up the more photo in an editor like Adobe Lightroom where you can then tinker with the settings maybe increase the exposure and the shadows drop the highlights punch up the vibrancy a touch and you can get some really professional looking photos and then you can share from there of course you don't always have to do this but you may as well turn on your capture so you have the option next up you should enable the depth mode in the camera settings alternatively you can switch to the bokeh camera mode but when you have depth enabled the lenses all work together to capture 1200 layers of depth then go into the Google photo app tap the three bar settings icon to bring up the editing tools tap the same icon again and you'll see three sliders so here you can adjust the depth setting so how intense that bokeh blur effect is but even better you can tap any one a photo to pick the focus point and with all those 1200 layers of depth captured you can get some seriously cool photos to get the best results I tend to keep the depth slider to about 50% and having a clear subject in the frames does help although I did find that the edge detection of the blur wasn't always spot-on but most of the time it does a good job other ways you can help your photography game is by using the pro mode as you'd expect it allows you to tinker with the ISO the shutter speed white bands and other settings to get the best photo possible I definitely wouldn't consider myself a pro photographer even a good photographer is a stretch and so while the pro mode is nice to have I generally use just photo bokeh and monochrome I actually find myself using monochrome way more than I thought of course you can get them on a chromatic or black-and-white photos by adding a fill to an Instagram or dropping the saturation to zero in the Edit so you are editing a color image and either adding a filter or removing data but because we have those three monochrome lenses on the nokia 9 we can get true native monochrome photos and with the extra light these let in you can get some incredibly detailed shots plus that black and white aesthetic can look really cool ok we finally made it to Boston after nearly two weeks with a Nokia 9 PureView I've got to say I really really do like this thing it's not gonna be the perfect camera phone for everybody there's no Walter wide lens is no telephoto lens you although you do get two times or five times digital zoom there's also no oh is so 4k video is a bit shaky but if getting the best possible pitch quality it's most important to you then this is definitely worth considering especially when you start saving in war and you also enable the depth mode and the you sort of play with the focus and tinker adjust the settings after you can get an awful lot out of this camera the biggest downside for me is the speed it can be quite slow sometimes especially going between different camera modes and also when it's processing but remember it is processing five different cameras all together fusing it together so there is a lot going on so maybe you can forgive it but also it is using last year's snapdragon 845 so well it's a twin nineteen phone it's using last year's chip they say that's because it took such a long time to develop this camera system that well we had to use last year's stuff so that's the end of my trip and also the end of the video a big thanks to Nokia for sending me the Nokia nine PureView I'd love to hear what you make of it in the comments below and if you enjoyed this video and you want to see more sort of travel tech videos from me hit that like and subscribe button down below that's watching I catch you next time right here on the texture\n"