24 Stunden im Leben von Wien – the photo exhibition powered by the BlackBerry Pearl

All pictures are copyright of the Leopold Museum 2007 and their creators. We had to constrain the resolution to VGA and add the texts due to a restrictive contract pressed upon us by the museum administration. We apologize for any inconveniences! – the TamsPalm team

The Leopold Museum in Vienna(shown below) is not the place where one would expect to see any kind of technical innovation worth of a TamsPalm article – but their exhibition titled 24 Stunden im Leben von Wien(24 hours in the life of Vienna) is worth it. The reason for this is simple – all the pictures shown were made with a stock(according to the museum) BlackBerry Pearl smartphone:

The exhibition is in two rooms of the top floor. The rest of the museum showed interesting artworks…but hey, this is TamsPalm and not TamsArt. Each room had a showcase with some kind of BlackBerry in the middle. The firs room had a ‘family tree’, the second room’s showcase contained a BlackBerry Pearl with Swarovsky crystals:

The pictures were about 70×50 cm big, with one or two of them being even bigger. All of them looked good from a distance of about one meter – here are a few sample pictures(the Museum forces us to put that text bar over them, sorry):

Here is a closeup of a picture that looked like it was made on a very close range. The strawberries look very natural and accurate from about one meter away – if you come close, you can see the slight ‘fuzzyness’ shown below:

Night pictures turned out surprisingly noise-free and looked pretty good:

Chromatic aberrations were not visible either:

Pictures shot at daylight contained surprising amounts of detail:

Overall, the pictures shown in the exhibiton were of exceptional quality for a cameraphone – since the exhibition was sponsored by BlackBerry, it’s very probable that the machines used to create these pictures were not exactly stock ones(software and/or CCD upgraded). The images probably also were modified on a workstation. But nevertheless, this exhibition clearly demonstrates what today’s(next-gen) camera phones are capable of capturing when paired with a good postprocessor…interesting viewing for every technology freak!

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