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SONY Xperia X Performance Real Camera Review: The best SONY can offer?

Posted on August 12, 2016August 12, 2016 by Juan Carlos Bagnell

The Sony brand has come to represent multi-media prowess from an entertainment juggernaut of a company. This year sees Sony offering phones that are a bit more modest, though maintaining premium price points. Why might a consumer be inclined to spend more on a phone? Camera performance is certainly one aspect which still sets high end phones apart from more budget friendly options.Based on the specs we should expect a solid photography and video solution here. Sony makes the actual camera sensors which are built into numerous competing phones. For the X Performance, they’ve included ...

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Improve your smartphone photography: What is metering?

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Juan Carlos Bagnell

Digging through our viewer mailbag, we got a question about photography.Does your OP3 over expose & blow out areas not in focus when u tap to focus?-TGCHave you ever focused a phone camera at an object and then produced a photo which was way too bright or too dark? We’ve gotten several questions about this “bug” on various smartphone cameras, and we’re sorry to say this is probably a feature, not a bug.The issue is likely metering, and understanding how your camera decides to adjust exposure based on what you focus on. Let’s dig into this setting on your ...

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ZTE Axon 7 Real Camera Review: Ambitious but flawed…

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Juan Carlos Bagnell

2016 will be remembered by gadget fans as the year of the “budget buster”. This year represents a turning point for manufacturers building phones in the $200-$400 range, where they significantly closed the gap between mid-range fare and higher end devices.The Axon 7 has a terrific collection of specs on paper, but how does this package compete against similarly priced options, and can it still hang with more expensive handsets? This Qualcomm 820 powered phone boasts a 20MP Samsung sourced camera sensor with optical image stabilization, phase detection auto focus, and an f/1.8 ...

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Moto Z vs Moto Z Force Real Camera Review (video)

Posted on July 22, 2016July 22, 2016 by Juan Carlos Bagnell

We’re trying something a little different with our real camera review for this release. Motorola dropped two very similar phones. The Moto Z and Moto Z Force are more alike than they might be different, but one area that separates the two is camera performance. Though the external camera housing is exactly the same form factor to interact with Moto Mods, the actual sensors are different resolutions.The Moto Z delivers a 13MP sensor, paired with laser assisted auto focus, optical image stabilization, a dual LED flash, and an f/1.8 aperture. The Moto Z Force expands the resolution to ...

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OnePlus 3 Real Camera Review: Never Settle (for a lame camera)

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Juan Carlos Bagnell

Never settle! Flagship killer! OnePlus makes some bold comments regarding its phones. On this third iteration, are there compromises to make when buying a phone for $400?Our Real Camera Review series looks to raise the bar on how we talk about smartphone cameras. These days, it’s not a severe compromise for many people to use their phones as their main photography solution, so we’re aiming to talk photos and videos for phones in the same way we would for a standalone camera.For the OnePlus 3, we’ve got a 16MP ...

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Top 5 phone cameras (of the first half) of 2016!

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Juan Carlos Bagnell

Here at Pocketnow, we pride ourselves on producing some of the most in depth lifestyle examinations of smartphone performance available online. Recently we’ve taken to reviewing phone cameras in the same way we might examine a standalone camera. Our Real Camera Reviews are deep-dive videos for folks who want to know as much about photo and video performance as we can demonstrate while shooting in real world conditions.The major phone releases for the first half of 2016 have all been reviewed. Looking at Samsungs, HTCs, LGs, ...

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Does Phone Camera Aperture Size Matter? Huawei P9 vs Galaxy S7!

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Juan Carlos Bagnell

We recently produced a full, in depth review focusing on the camera performance of the Huawei P9, where in that review we made the following statement:While we might be concerned to see the smaller f/2.2 apertures over competing phones, on sensors this small, the difference in depth of field blur between f/1.8 and f/2.2 is fairly minimal. We still achieve a nice shallow blur to backgrounds…We got a few comments on that review regarding the above statement about aperture size and how it affects depth of field. ...

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Huawei P9 real camera review: Is this “Leica” legit?

Posted on May 5, 2016May 5, 2016 by Juan Carlos Bagnell

The most interesting things about Huawei’s P9 are the dual camera sensors on the back. This is the first device born of the collaboration between Huawei and Leica, and it’s not without a little controversy. While Huawei representatives insist that Leica was an active partner in developing the camera hardware and software for the P9, many are still concerned this might only be a branding exercise.Regardless of the logos on the box, or the lofty certifications referenced, the P9 is an interesting photography experiment. We’ve seen dual sensor phones before, but none with ...

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HTC 10 Real Camera Review: We waited for an update…

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Juan Carlos Bagnell

The HTC 10 is a work in progress. At the time this video was produced, it was still only available for pre-order, and units had not yet shipped to consumers. Given that reviewers had access to pre-release software, we wanted to see how HTC would respond to early criticisms focused on camera performance.This camera represents a significant departure from last year’s One m9. Like Samsung, HTC is also walking away from the megapixel wars, reducing resolution to 12MP, while increasing sensor size. This brings us back to the Ultrapixel moniker, and those larger individual dots are ...

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LG G5 Real Camera Review: Dual Camera Fun

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Juan Carlos Bagnell

You won’t find a more in-depth examination of a phone camera anywhere else online…Many companies have tried producing phones with dual cameras. HTC for example has played with both 3D and depth camera sensors on various EVOs and M8’s. Instead of depth information or color accuracy, LG’s approach is to offer two completely different cameras and separate shooting modes.One camera has a standard field of view which is very similar to the G4 it replaces. A 16MP camera, 1/2.6″ sensor, 28mm equivalent focal length and an f/1.8 aperture. The other camera is an ...

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