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When you stand and choose a smart­phone, your eyes sim­ply run wide. Even the cheap­est mod­els today are equipped with a cam­era, while flag­ships, mean­while, already have at least 3–4 lens­es. A smart­phone that can replace pro­fes­sion­al pho­to­graph­ic equip­ment for a pho­tog­ra­phy lover is called a cam­era phone. In this arti­cle, we will look at what pho­to­graph­ic qual­i­ties help the device to exceed expec­ta­tions from mobile shoot­ing.

If you are look­ing for a mobile cam­era in your smart­phone, you should under­stand the intri­ca­cies of the lens­es built into the top mod­els, the light sen­si­tiv­i­ty of the matrix and the zoom. The num­ber and size of megapix­els can say a lot about a smart­phone’s abil­i­ty to take high-qual­i­ty pic­tures, so these char­ac­ter­is­tics will def­i­nite­ly be eval­u­at­ed in the arti­cle.

Editor’s Choice

Infinix NOTE 12 VIP

NOTE 12 VIP is a thin and light smart­phone with super fast 120W charg­ing and a pow­er­ful Medi­aTek Helio G96 proces­sor. The thick­ness of the device is 7.89 mm, weight is 198 grams.

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The device is charged from 1 to 100% in just 17 min­utes using a stan­dard pow­er sup­ply. The dual 4500 mAh bat­tery is equipped with hard­ware pro­tec­tion that pre­vents over­heat­ing and dam­age to the bat­tery dur­ing charg­ing. SafeCharge tech­nol­o­gy will auto­mat­i­cal­ly turn off the pow­er when the phone is 100% charged. An improved cool­ing sys­tem using 9 lay­ers of graphite will not allow the device to over­heat even at max­i­mum loads.

The Medi­aTek Helio G96 proces­sor is ener­gy effi­cient and pow­er­ful, designed for gam­ing appli­ca­tions, and every­day tasks are giv­en to it with ease. The pro­pri­etary XOS 10.6 oper­at­ing sys­tem based on Android 12 is installed from the fac­to­ry.

NOTE 12 VIP can be safe­ly con­sid­ered a cam­era phone. The rear unit con­sists of three cam­eras: the main 108 MP dig­i­tal sta­bi­liza­tion, wide-angle 13 MP and por­trait 2 MP and equipped with laser aut­o­fo­cus. The 16 MP front cam­era is suit­able not only for self­ies and video com­mu­ni­ca­tion, but also for stream­ing.

Gamers who don’t want to pay six fig­ures for a gam­ing phone but are used to qual­i­ty will def­i­nite­ly love the NOTE 12 VIP. The 6.7‑inch screen with a refresh rate of 120 Hz is made using AMOLED tech­nol­o­gy and has a Full­HD + res­o­lu­tion. The image can be opti­mized using AVSYNC tech­nol­o­gy in three modes:

• Soft: High bright­ness, sharp shad­ow detail
• Clas­sic: Enhanced col­or sat­u­ra­tion
• Vibrant: Max­i­mum pic­ture con­trast

The screen bezels are almost invis­i­ble. For exam­ple, the low­er (most volu­mi­nous) is only 3.1 mm wide. The built-in stereo speak­ers will give you a great expe­ri­ence for both gam­ing and watch­ing movies. The Dar-Link 2.0 intel­li­gent audio pro­cess­ing algo­rithm allows you to pre­cise­ly posi­tion the sound in space.

The built-in mem­o­ry of the smart­phone is 256 GB, which is enough not only for every­day use, but also for installing games, stor­ing pho­tos, music (even in loss­less for­mats) and videos. But if this is not enough, the mem­o­ry can be expand­ed with an SD card up to 2 TB — a sep­a­rate slot is pro­vid­ed for it. RAM — 8 GB, this is the stan­dard val­ue for good mod­ern smart­phones. But by using part of the per­sis­tent stor­age, it can be increased up to 13 GB.

The smart­phone is equipped with face recog­ni­tion and fin­ger­print sen­sors that work excep­tion­al­ly accu­rate­ly. The case is made of poly­mer­ic mate­ri­als that are used in indus­try, includ­ing the air­craft indus­try. This allows NOTE 12 VIP to be not only durable, but also look styl­ish: the case looks like glass not only exter­nal­ly, but also in tac­tile sen­sa­tions.

Edi­tor’s Choice

Infinix NOTE 12 VIP

Gam­ing smart­phone with light­ning-fast charge

NOTE 12 VIP is a gam­ing smart­phone with built-in intel­li­gent video and audio pro­cess­ing algo­rithms, an ultra-clear screen and large mem­o­ry

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Main characteristics

Screen	6.7″ AMOLED, 120Hz, 1080*2400
CPU	Medi­aTek Helio G96
Main cam­era	108 MP, 13 MP wide-angle lens, 2 MP por­trait mod­ule, laser aut­o­fo­cus
Front-cam­era	16 MP
Video film­ing	2K 30FPS
Per­ma­nent / RAM	256+8 GB (expand­able up to 13 GB)
Bat­tery capac­i­ty	4500 mAh
Charg­ing pow­er	120 W
Fin­ger­print unlock	There is
Oper­at­ing sys­tem	XOS 10.6 based on Android 12
Col­ors	black, sil­ver

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Thin and light smart­phone (7.89 mm, 200 grams) with a light­ning-fast charge (in 17 min­utes from 10 to 100%), 256 GB of inter­nal mem­o­ry with sup­port for SD cards up to 2 TB, expand­able 8 GB of RAM up to 13 GB, built-in algo­rithms intel­li­gent video and audio opti­miza­tion, screen refresh rate — 120 Hz

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Top 11 smartphones with the best cameras in 2022 according to KP

1. Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra

A dis­tinc­tive fea­ture of the Xiao­mi Mi 11 Ultra cam­era phone is the largest pho­to sen­sor ever used in smart­phones. Before that, it could only be found on minia­ture pro­fes­sion­al cam­eras. If you think that this is where the ben­e­fits of a smart­phone end, you have not seen an addi­tion­al screen on the back of the Xiao­mi Mi 11 Ultra, which allows you to eas­i­ly take self­ies.

Thanks to arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and a high­ly sen­si­tive matrix, the smart­phone helps you take clear pic­tures even on the move. And with HDR, you get rich­er col­ors when shoot­ing in low-light areas. A trem­bling hand will no longer pre­vent you from tak­ing a stun­ning pic­ture — there is opti­cal sta­bi­liza­tion for this.

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2. iPhone 13 Pro Max

Fans of large screens will love the iPhone 13 Pro Max. The new gen­er­a­tion device out­per­formed Apple’s pre­de­ces­sor by 0.6 inch­es (6.7 ver­sus 6.1). As for the cam­eras, there are 4 of them in the smart­phone: wide-angle (main), ultra-wide, tele­pho­to and aux­il­iary. Of the obvi­ous advan­tages of the cam­era of this cam­era phone, one can note a six-lens lens (for a tele­pho­to cam­era and an ultra-wide-angle cam­era), a sev­en-lens lens for a wide-angle cam­era; macro mode and film effect.

The main cam­era is only 12 MP, but with opti­cal sta­bi­liza­tion, thanks to which ultra-clear pho­tos are obtained. Even the cre­ators of the new Apple have final­ized the col­or tem­per­a­ture, removed the exces­sive “warmth” of the pic­ture. Now the skin tone in the pho­to is as nat­ur­al as pos­si­ble, and in night shoot­ing the changes are notice­able.

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Smart­phones with pow­er­ful bat­ter­ies

Matri­ces, cam­eras and mem­o­ry do not mat­ter when a smart­phone los­es its charge in a cou­ple of hours

3. Huawei Nova 9

There are four mod­ules on the back of the Nova 9: ​​two main cam­eras and two small 2 MP aux­il­iary sen­sors. We get the main mod­ule, ultra-wide-angle, macro and depth sen­sor for por­trait pho­tos. Thanks to Ultra Vision tech­nol­o­gy, the device can eas­i­ly cope with shoot­ing in low light con­di­tions.

Due to the changed col­or gamut of the matrix pix­els, the cam­era of the Huawei Nova 9 smart­phone began to let in more light. This makes pho­tos in low light appear nat­u­ral­ly brighter. This device will be appre­ci­at­ed by lovers of night pho­tog­ra­phy.

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4. Realme 8 Pro

Not all smart­phones with the best cam­eras can boast 3x dig­i­tal zoom, which is why you should buy Realme 8 Pro. Cap­ture fine details that are far away from you with­out loss of qual­i­ty and use var­i­ous shoot­ing modes to get the most out of this smart­phone mod­el.

The res­o­lu­tion of the main cam­era of this cam­era phone has almost dou­bled com­pared to the pre­vi­ous mod­el, from 64 MP to 108 MP. Also improved light sen­si­tiv­i­ty in dim con­di­tions. A dis­tinc­tive fea­ture of night shoot­ing is that the cam­era man­ages to com­bine sev­er­al frames with dif­fer­ent expo­sures into one, there­by increas­ing the dynam­ic range of the image.

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5. Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra

Sam­sung Galaxy S22 Ultra is one of the best smart­phones that has a periscope lens with 10x opti­cal zoom (max­i­mum zoom with­out loss of qual­i­ty). There are four rear lens­es: a 108MP main wide-angle lens, a 12MP ultra-wide-angle lens, and two 10MP tele­pho­to lens­es. This device can even take high-qual­i­ty night shoot­ing with­out using spe­cial modes. Unlike the pre­vi­ous mod­el S21 Ultra, this smart­phone does not increase the con­tour sharp­ness and min­i­mizes the noise in the frames.

The flag­ship device is equipped with a 5000 mAh bat­tery, but, accord­ing to cus­tomer reviews, the charge is enough for about 4 hours when tak­ing pic­tures and for 6 hours with the active use of instant mes­sen­gers. The Dynam­ic AMOLED 2X dis­play with Vision Boost­er tech­nol­o­gy and 1750 nits of bright­ness does not glare in bright light and con­veys the image qual­i­ty. The pow­er­ful Sam­sung Exynos 2200 proces­sor ensures sta­ble oper­a­tion and launch of appli­ca­tions and games on your smart­phone. On both sides, the device is pro­tect­ed by tem­pered durable glass Goril­la Glass Vec­tus, which with­stands, accord­ing to tests^onedrop from a height of up to 2 m.

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6 Honor 50

Accord­ing to the man­u­fac­tur­er, the Hon­or 50 smart­phone is dis­tin­guished by its ultra-clear quad cam­era and the abil­i­ty to switch modes dur­ing video shoot­ing. This device got into the top smart­phones with the best cam­era in terms of price and qual­i­ty thanks to the option of simul­ta­ne­ous front and nor­mal shoot­ing. The front cam­era, among oth­er things, 32 MP, is the key to bright and clear self­ies.

The lack of opti­cal sta­bi­liza­tion does not degrade the qual­i­ty of shoot­ing, as well as the lack of a cam­era with a tele­pho­to lens. A high-qual­i­ty ten­fold dig­i­tal zoom comes to the res­cue.

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7. Infinix NOTE 10 PRO NFC

The Infinix NOTE 10 PRO NFC is a time-test­ed clas­sic. The smart­phone man­aged to gain pop­u­lar­i­ty and love of users of all ages. Reli­able, pow­er­ful and full of fea­tures, the updat­ed ver­sion of 2022 will please even the most demand­ing users, while an attrac­tive price will not let you remain indif­fer­ent to it.

The smart­phone boasts a pow­er­ful Medi­aTek Helio G95 proces­sor, a huge 6.95” FHD+ dis­play with a refresh rate of 90Hz, and a high-qual­i­ty 64MP cam­era with a spe­cial night mode that pro­vides beau­ti­ful pic­tures even in poor light­ing con­di­tions.

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8. Poco X3 Pro

If we talk about the bud­get mod­el among the best cam­era phones, then Poco X3 Pro deserves atten­tion. 2x dig­i­tal zoom and a quad-cam­era mod­ule pro­vide first-class shoot­ing day and night. Option­al­ly, the own­er can con­nect arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence to con­trol the shoot­ing process.

This mod­el, in addi­tion to clas­sic pho­to modes, allows you to simul­ta­ne­ous­ly shoot on both cam­eras. You can record video in 4K res­o­lu­tion at 30 FPS, but also in Full­HD with 60 frames.

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Large screen phones

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9. OnePlus 9 Pro

Imag­ine a cam­era capa­ble of cor­rect­ing nat­ur­al light? This is exact­ly what the One­Plus 9 Pro smart­phone has. This mod­el was devel­oped togeth­er with the Swedish com­pa­ny Has­sel­blad, which in turn is engaged in the pro­duc­tion of cam­eras.

With the launch of this cam­era phone, cap­tur­ing ultra-real­is­tic videos and pho­tos with per­fect col­or has nev­er been eas­i­er. Among oth­er things, macro shots are dis­tin­guished by excel­lent detail.

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10. Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra

High-qual­i­ty pic­tures and videos with the Sam­sung Galaxy S21 Ultra can be achieved with the help of excel­lent opti­cal and hybrid sta­bi­liza­tion. The res­o­lu­tion of the main cam­era is 108 MP, which is enough for high-qual­i­ty pho­tog­ra­phy both in day­light and at dusk. In video shoot­ing, the smart­phone out­per­formed its com­peti­tors by main­tain­ing per­fect sound, with­out noise and dis­tor­tion.

What sets it apart from its com­peti­tors is the pre­vi­ous­ly unat­tain­able 10x opti­cal zoom. In this smart­phone, the wide-angle cam­era was equipped with aut­o­fo­cus, which allows the user to go beyond ordi­nary land­scapes in shoot­ing.

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11. ASUS Zenfone 8

This device is notable for the pro­fes­sion­al qual­i­ty of shoot­ing on cam­eras with pho­toma­trix Sonu. On the back, there are two cam­eras, main and wide-angle. The first with an opti­cal sta­bi­liz­er, while both with phase detec­tion aut­o­fo­cus. The col­or ren­di­tion is cor­rect, the pic­tures are detailed to the max­i­mum.

This cam­era phone proved to be excel­lent due to three micro­phones, they help to keep the sound with­out dis­tor­tion dur­ing video record­ing. The front cam­era does­n’t go unno­ticed either thanks to dual pix­el PDAF aut­o­fo­cus. In gen­er­al, an excel­lent exam­ple of a cam­era phone for lovers of high-qual­i­ty pic­tures using a smart­phone.

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Leaders of the Past

1. HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro+

Lead­ing our list of smart­phones with the best cam­eras is an advanced mod­el from HUAWEI. When cre­at­ing this phone, the devel­op­ers did not make any com­pro­mis­es. The result is chic optics from LEICA, styl­ish design, pow­er­ful hard­ware and a fair­ly large bat­tery.

In fact, there are sev­en opti­cal sen­sors at once: the main, tele­pho­to, ultra-wide-angle, opti­cal zoom lens, front and two depth-of-field sen­sors. Pic­tures are detailed and sharp even at night due to the huge 1 / 1.28-inch matrix for mobile devices. The main cam­eras have opti­cal sta­bi­liza­tion and the abil­i­ty to record video in high-qual­i­ty 4K for­mat.

The only draw­back of this mod­el is the lack of ser­vices from Google. How­ev­er, the man­u­fac­tur­er has its own appli­ca­tion store with every­thing you need for dai­ly use of the soft­ware.

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2. Xiaomi Redmi Note 9

Let’s just say that the phone is bud­get. For less than 20 thou­sand rubles you will get a cam­era of four opti­cal mod­ules, a plas­tic case and not the most pow­er­ful hard­ware. The dimen­sions of the matrix are not the most impres­sive — 1 / 2.25 inch­es, this is a fee for an afford­able price. But here the bat­tery is as much as 5020 mAh – bat­tery life will please even with a huge 6.5‑inch screen. Includ­ed with the phone, the man­u­fac­tur­er put a block for fast charg­ing and a sim­ple sil­i­cone case — every­thing we love.

First of all, the Xiao­mi Red­mi Note 9 cam­era is appre­ci­at­ed for the qual­i­ty of shoot­ing in night mode. For such mon­ey, it will be dif­fi­cult to find an alter­na­tive to a phone from a Chi­nese man­u­fac­tur­er.

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3. Google Pixel 4a

A com­pact mod­el of an Android cam­era phone for a rea­son­able price. Despite the “child­ish” dimen­sions com­pared to the flag­ships, the plas­tic case of the device hides a won­der­ful fill­ing for its mon­ey. Let there not be the newest proces­sor and only one aper­ture (f / 1.7) main cam­era mod­ule of 12 megapix­els, the dev­il is in the details. To be more spe­cif­ic, in the excel­lent hard­ware and cam­era opti­miza­tion of the Pix­el 4a. The very exam­ple when the num­ber of megapix­els and opti­cal mod­ules does not great­ly affect the qual­i­ty of pho­tos in the end.

The smart­phone comes with fast charg­ing, which is rare in bud­get mod­els.

The down­side of the Pix­el 4a might be its price, but for that mon­ey you get a small device (which is a rar­i­ty these days!) and guar­an­teed sup­port for new soft­ware updates.

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4. HONOR 30

More afford­able, unlike HUAWEI, the brand offers a sol­id phone that is not infe­ri­or to flag­ship mod­els in many respects. The HONOR 30 has four lens­es, the main sen­sor size is 1/1.7 inch­es. The case of the device was made of glass and met­al — every­thing is like the expen­sive “broth­ers” from HUAWEI.

The cam­era of the device can work in two modes: for pro­fes­sion­als and inex­pe­ri­enced pho­tog­ra­phy enthu­si­asts. The auto­mat­ic mode will allow you to take high-qual­i­ty pic­tures with­out a long set­up, every­thing will be set up for you by arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence. The HONOR 30 main cam­era mod­ule has opti­cal sta­bi­liza­tion.

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The dis­ad­van­tages of the phone are clas­sic for the entire series from this man­u­fac­tur­er: the lack of ser­vices from Google. The man­u­fac­tur­er offers an alter­na­tive app store that has all the nec­es­sary soft­ware.

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5. ASUS Zenfone 7

The next flag­ship phone from ASUS used an unusu­al swiv­el cam­era sys­tem. To take a self­ie, just pull the cam­era mod­ule towards you and switch it to “front” mode. In such an unusu­al way, the devel­op­ers killed two birds with one stone — they got rid of the annoy­ing eye of the front cam­era on the phone screen and sig­nif­i­cant­ly improved the qual­i­ty of self­ies, because the “main” cam­era is respon­si­ble for them.

To ensure that the frames from the main and tele­pho­to lens­es do not blur, they have built-in opti­cal sta­bi­liza­tion. It also gives an addi­tion­al advan­tage dur­ing night shoot­ing.

Suc­cess­ful­ly com­ple­ments the unusu­al solu­tion with a rotary cam­era and ASUS Zen­fone 7 soft­ware, which per­forms post-pro­cess­ing of the received images.

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6. iPhone 12 Pro Max

Apple’s most advanced smart­phone mod­el to date. As is usu­al­ly the case with this man­u­fac­tur­er, the Cuper­ti­no engi­neers did not chase num­bers in the char­ac­ter­is­tics (megapix­els and matrix sizes), but opti­mized the entire opti­cal sys­tem specif­i­cal­ly for their device. All four cam­era mod­ules here are only 12 “chil­dren’s” megapix­els. The iPhone 12 Pro Max uses its own LiDAR sys­tem to mea­sure frame depth. The phone takes beau­ti­ful por­traits thanks to smart pro­cess­ing algo­rithms. Back­ground blur on the iPhone 12 Pro Max cam­era is one of the best on the mar­ket.

Also, this mod­el can take raw soft­ware images in Apple Pro­RAW for­mat — through a PC you can process them at a com­plete­ly pro­fes­sion­al lev­el.

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7. Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Lite 6

An afford­able ver­sion of a more advanced mod­el from Xiao­mi. Exter­nal­ly, the dif­fer­ences with the Mi Note 10 are min­i­mal, the phones can only be dis­tin­guished by the frames of the case and the cam­era unit. In the lite ver­sion, by the way, it hard­ly pro­trudes from the body due to the lack of a tele­pho­to lens.

A 64-megapix­el cam­era mod­ule was installed in the smart­phone, an ultra-wide-angle lens, a macro lens and a depth sen­sor work with it. The diag­o­nal of the matrix of the main mod­ule is impres­sive for its mon­ey — 1 / 1.72 inch­es.

High-qual­i­ty case mate­ri­als, tech­ni­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions and long bat­tery life of Mi Note 10 Lite can be attrib­uted to the plus­es.

For some, this phone may seem too heavy (208 g) due to the large bat­tery.

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8. Vivo X50 Pro

An inter­est­ing flag­ship phone mod­el from a not-so-famous man­u­fac­tur­er in Rus­sia. For 65 thou­sand rubles you will get a styl­ish cam­era phone that is pleas­ant to hold in your hands because of the high-qual­i­ty case mate­ri­als (glass and met­al).

Into the main lens of the cam­era vivo X50 Pro a hinged opti­cal image sta­bi­liza­tion sys­tem is built in — elec­tro­mag­nets move the lens if the phone starts to shake. Now you can get clear shots in the dark even with­out using a tri­pod. This option is also use­ful for video lovers. By the way, in the main mod­ule there is a 48 MP sen­sor and a 1/2‑inch diag­o­nal.

The fea­tures of the phone also include a high-qual­i­ty AMOLED dis­play, curved edges of the case and a built-in ampli­fi­er for high-qual­i­ty sound in head­phones.

The main dis­ad­van­tage of the vivo X50 Pro is the tech­ni­cal part that is weak for its mon­ey.

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9. Sony Xperia 5II

The best smart­phone for those who know how to use pro­fes­sion­al cam­eras. The Japan­ese man­u­fac­tur­er added a small (by today’s stan­dards) screen and pro­fes­sion­al optics from Zeiss to the styl­ish and dis­creet case design.

There are only three lens­es in the main cam­era mod­ule. Don’t be put off by their ‘mod­est’ 12-megapix­el sen­sors — the optics are fine-tuned for high-qual­i­ty and sharp shots, both on the main, tele­pho­to and wide-angle lens­es. The first two, by the way, have opti­cal sta­bi­liza­tion.

The Sony Xpe­ria 5 II cam­era has two PRO modes at once, with which you can take pho­tos and videos with non-stan­dard expo­sure set­tings.

With tech­ni­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics, every­thing is also in order here, a pow­er­ful proces­sor and sup­port for 5G and 8 giga­bytes of RAM.

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10. Sony Xperia 1II

Sony Xpe­ria 1 II can take not only good pho­tos, but also high-qual­i­ty videos. With it in hand, any­one can feel like a film direc­tor, man­u­al con­trol and a wide col­or pro­file show them­selves so effec­tive­ly. If we talk about pho­tos, then accord­ing to the man­u­fac­tur­er, Sony Xpe­ria 1 II is equipped with a pow­er­ful focus­ing sys­tem. Aut­o­fo­cus with Dual Pix­el tech­nol­o­gy copes with eye recog­ni­tion with a bang, por­traits are amaz­ing.

Two more details make the smart­phone stand out from the com­pe­ti­tion: a 21:9 aspect ratio screen and an enlarged dis­play bezel, due to which the front cam­era har­mo­nious­ly fits into the design.

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11. Google Pixel 5

Image qual­i­ty depends on many fac­tors, and in the Google Pix­el 5 smart­phone, it is deter­mined by the cam­era soft­ware. Thanks to the pow­er­ful Snap­drag­on 765G proces­sor, the own­ers of this device will no longer miss a great shot due to the fact that the cam­era freezes. On the back, there is a 12.2 MP dual cam­era, which is enough for high-qual­i­ty mobile pho­tog­ra­phy.

Do not assume that only flag­ships are capa­ble of good shots. Google Pix­el proves the oppo­site — in motion, the main cam­era does not “kill” the qual­i­ty, and the pro­cess­ing algo­rithms do an excel­lent job of noise sup­pres­sion.

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How to choose a smartphone with the best camera

Togeth­er with our expert pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­ph­er Yulia Kuryashk­i­na Let’s take a clos­er look at matri­ces and pix­els, and also deter­mine what the buy­er should pay atten­tion to when choos­ing a cam­era phone mod­el.

If you look at the char­ac­ter­is­tics of any smart­phone, you can find a lot of abbre­vi­a­tions that are incom­pre­hen­si­ble to the lay­man.

For exam­ple, 1/1.33″, 108 MP, 0.8 µm, etc. This is a descrip­tion of the matrix: its dimen­sions, num­ber and size of pix­els, in oth­er words, impor­tant para­me­ters for high-qual­i­ty pho­tog­ra­phy.

The size of the matrix is ​​respon­si­ble for the amount of light, which ends up in it. The more light it cap­tures, the bet­ter the image is trans­mit­ted to us. The diag­o­nal is mea­sured in inch­es, in the exam­ple above it is 1 / 1.33 ″, and the small­er the last num­ber, the more light the matrix of our cam­era phone will receive.

In addi­tion to the char­ac­ter­is­tics of the matrix, which speak about the qual­i­ty of future shots, you should pay atten­tion to opti­cal sta­bi­liza­tion. It is she who allows you to avoid a blur­ry image due to the move­ment of an object or a trem­bling hand.

In turn, the num­ber of megapix­els is the fig­ure that was pre­vi­ous­ly cus­tom­ary to rely on when choos­ing the best device for pho­tog­ra­phy. Today, flag­ship smart­phones can have more than 100 megapix­els (as in the exam­ple above — 108MP). Pix­elin sim­ple terms, it is a pho­to­sen­si­tive cell, which forms the image. Megapix­els are used to mea­sure the res­o­lu­tion of a matrix. The high­er it is, the bet­ter the pic­ture you get. Pho­tos come out clear­er, more detailed, not “soapy”. Not only the num­ber of megapix­els is impor­tant, but also their size. Pix­el size is mea­sured in microm­e­ters (µm). In mod­ern devices, the spread can be from 0.8 to 2 microns.

The num­ber of lens­es should also be eval­u­at­ed. In addi­tion to the stan­dard main and ultra-wide mod­ules, the device can have a macro lens for cap­tur­ing small details; and a tele­pho­to lens, on the con­trary, for high-qual­i­ty shoot­ing of dis­tant objects. Most cam­era phones today have three or four lens­es.

Mod­els should be com­pared by sev­er­al indi­ca­tors at once, not focus­ing only on “big” num­bers.

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