How to distinguish which mobile phone has a good photo-taking effect among various mobile phones?

Today's smart phone is a camera that can be carried around. If you haven't changed your mobile phone for several years, it's hard to imagine how powerful the camera performance of your mobile phone is now. In fact, a good camera phone has reached the level of an ordinary camera. If you have a camera phone, you don't need to take a camera when you travel.

Ignore these parameters

Mobile phone manufacturers like to brag about various camera parameters, but these parameters are basically meaningless. Manufacturers will pursue factors such as tens of millions of pixels, pixel size and poor light performance. Although these factors are also important, we find that these parameters rarely affect the actual effect of taking pictures.

Optical image stabilization is also a popular function, which can improve the low light performance, but it must be combined with image processing software to play its performance.

Comparison between Apple and Samsung

The trend of camera phones

The trend of camera phones is dual cameras. The earliest dual cameras were used for 3D shooting, such as 20 1 1 HTC EVO 3D, and now they are used for a series of different functions. Such as iPhone7plus, Huawei P9 and Galaxy Note 8, dual cameras are mainly used for optical zooming and defocusing. Glory 6X is only used for out-of-focus imaging, Honor 8 is used for wider color gamut capture, and LG V30 is used for super wide-angle function. Will dual cameras have better creative functions in the future? Optical zoom seems to be the most popular.

HTC EVO 3D

We have seen some self-timer cameras start trying to shoot portraits. Google Pixel is done by software, while iPhone X uses standard front camera and FaceID infrared camera to shape and present your face and blur the background image.

If you are a photographer, you may also want to consider other professional accessories and photography applications. The IPhone platform is still in a leading position in this field, with the most extensive types of additional lenses, camera phone cases and professional editing applications. Samsung also has good accessories and ecosystems.

Can your mobile phone completely replace the camera?

In order to get the best image quality, low light performance or super optical zoom, you still need a digital SLR camera or a mirrorless camera.

Glory Play 6X, with a price of 790, is much slower than the powerful P9 camera, but it is the best camera phone at thousand yuan level at present.

Please note that the mobile phone leaderboard has obvious timeliness. This list is the latest list from July 2065438 to July 2008, and the ranking order is good or bad.

20 18 top three camera phones

Huawei P20 Pro, Beijing reference price: RMB 4988.

Huawei P20 Pro

Huawei has gradually established its dominant position in the mobile phone market in China. Leica brand cameras are not impressive, but Huawei P20 Pro has changed this situation. P20 still focuses on taking photos, which is slightly inferior to competitors in video recording, but if you mainly consider taking photos during the day and at night, then P20 Pro is your best choice.

This is the first mobile phone equipped with three rear cameras: 40Mp main camera, 8Mp telephoto camera (3x zoom) and 20Mp monochrome camera. NPU (Artificial Intelligence Unit) and camera applications allow you to take extraordinary images.

P20 will automatically select the mode, and then automatically adjust to the best setting in this mode to adapt to the current scene. For example, lock a person, if you get closer, it will switch to portrait mode and blur the background.

There are landscapes, delicious food, pets, beaches, and even preset patterns such as blue sky, green leaves and flowers. If you don't like the green mode to make the grass and trees look too bright and unnatural, just click X when the scene label pops up. When you do this many times, the mobile phone will know that you don't want to use this mode in the future. If you have used the iPhone, camera applications like Apple will be familiar.

Huawei P20 Pro

Night mode is also a highlight. Compared with other mobile phones at night, Huawei is the first mobile phone that can open the shutter for six seconds to take clear photos. In order to prevent your hands from shaking badly, you usually only need a stable tripod.

Another outstanding function is the 5-fold hybrid zoom, and the 3-fold zoom lens is matched with 40Mp. A clear telephoto lens is far superior to other mobile phones in showing details.

By default, photos have the appearance of software processing. This image processing method has been controversial, and some people really like strong sharpening effect and dazzling colors. Some people don't like it and think it destroys the true colors of the image.

In most cases, the photos of P20 Pro are excellent, showing excellent details, clear definition and strong dynamic range. You can share photos on social software immediately without beautifying clips.

The default photo is 10Mp pixels instead of 40Mp, because three-quarters of the pixels are discarded. This "pixel-level classification" is not a new technology, it helps to take clearer photos. If you forcibly shoot at 40Mp, you will find that even if the image is enlarged a lot, it will be softer and clearer.

Self-timer fans will be attracted by the 24Mp front camera, although it is slightly inferior to the 8Mp self-timer of Pixel 2 XL. But in the night shooting environment, P20 Pro once again showed its amazing and sharp effect. As you can see below, it uses some processing in portrait mode to make the skin color look a bit unnatural.

So P20 Pro is the best choice for most people. It has many functions, thanks to its 3x and 5x zoom modes, and it can take clear photos even in the darkest environment.

One of the weaknesses of P20 is that it is very stable to record 1080p video at 30 frames per second. This makes other modes, including 4K, basically meaningless. If you want to record video at 60 frames per second, then iPhone X or Galaxy S9 Plus is a better choice. Nevertheless, Huawei P20 Pro is still one of the best camera phones this year.