low light photos with a cell phone

[jimenita]

Hi! I need to take pictures at a club with little almost no light.any idea on which phone will be thebest to do this? If not a camera?where to ask about it?

 

[nomiko]

Lumia phones have the best low light photos but you would need to keep them very still meaning a handheld photo would not be possible in low light situations

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[Vince.1551]

Taken with iPhone 4S handheld

 

[Vince.1551]

<img src="http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=68164"/> Taken with iPhone 4S handheld

Who says can't use hand phone to take pics in lowlight and handheld ?

 

[Gavjenks]

Those are extraordinarily noisy photos. The first one is okay in the tiny size it displays at in the post, the other two, not even that.

Cell phones are inherently incapable of taking fantastic lowlight images handheld, because their tiny sensors and the tiny pixels on them, and the tiny lenses that fit in the phone simply cannot collect enough light to keep noise low enough. You can get recognizable photos to put on facebook, sure. But not gallery quality photos or something you'd want to hang on your wall in an 8x10 print that looks good.

 

[Vince.1551]

Those are extraordinarily noisy photos. The first one is okay in the tiny size it displays at in the post, the other two, not even that. Cell phones are inherently incapable of taking fantastic lowlight images handheld, because their tiny sensors and the tiny pixels on them, and the tiny lenses that fit in the phone simply cannot collect enough light to keep noise low enough. You can get recognizable photos to put on facebook, sure. But not gallery quality photos or something you'd want to hang on your wall in an 8x10 print that looks good.

You missed the point ... "Handheld ... Low light... Phone cam" ... no one is talking about noise

 

[Gavjenks]

Well actually, I'm not really sure whether we are exclusively talking about phones versus other cameras. The OP is written pretty confusingly

Hi! I need to take pictures at a club with little almost no light.any idea on which phone will be thebest to do this? If not a camera?where to ask about it?

Does that mean "if phones don't work, then what about cameras?"
or does that mean "cameras don't count, only talk about phones."


I'm not making fun of the OP. He's from Lebanon, I'm sure it's not his native language. But I legitimately do not know whether he's only asking about phones or about phones or "real" cameras. If he is at all considering an actual camera, then I would suggest that, because even the low-end ones with the right cheaply available lenses will do massively better than cell phones in low light.