Without a doubt, the best mobiles are because they also have the best cameras on the market. And these logically can be better or worse based on certain characteristics. Today we want to review those aspects that make the camera of a mobile phone better than another, and therefore make it eligible to be the best mobile of the year.
Sometimes we get the wrong idea of what a good camera for a mobile phone is. And it is that many times we look at data that does not necessarily tell us that this camera is good, but that it stands out in some functions that do not necessarily make it better.
Not everything is megapixels
This is perhaps the most striking feature for everyone, and one of those commonly used by manufacturers in their marketing to attract buyers to their mobiles. And it is that the fact that a camera has more megapixels in its sensors does not necessarily mean that it is better than others. And we have 108 megapixel sensors that are no better than other 50 megapixels currently on the market. The important thing is not the number of megapixels, but other factors, such as an adequate aperture to be able to capture more light. It is also important that the pixels of the camera, even if it has a lower resolution, are larger, because they will also capture more light than usual, and therefore more detail.
The same goes for the technology of these sensors, there are some like Quad Pixel that combine the capacity of four pixels in one to improve the quality of the photos that are captured. Because yes, a 108 megapixel camera can capture very large images, but with less detail when we approach them, than for example a good 12 megapixel sensor, or 64 megapixels. Therefore these megapixels do not guarantee a great camera, but those other factors, such as the aperture, the size of the pixels, the sensor and also the technology of these.
Optical stabilization
This is a feature basically available on high-end or high-end premium mobiles. Thanks to it, a camera, or rather its sensor, can physically move to stabilize the image, so that it moves as little as possible and therefore the greatest detail in the images is preserved. This feature known as OIS is one of the indicators that make us think that we are facing a high-level camera, and therefore that we can expect the best results.
We even have cameras on the market with an integrated Gimbal , as is the case with some Vivo mobiles, which are basically similar to those carried by drones or stabilizers, which move to counteract the movement of the phone, also minimizing vibrations in video, and notably improving the detail of the photos and the brightness of these when we take them at night.
Video recording
This is another of the essential aspects when considering that we are facing a high-level camera on a phone. Currently it is something that we can identify by the resolution at which it records the video. If it is really a high-end, next-generation camera, this will record video in 8K resolution .
Many mid-range mobiles already record in 4K, so we can appreciate the capacity of that camera with a resolution of this size. In addition, to record in 8K you need a lot of storage, something available on a mobile with a high-end camera and a lot of storage.
Slow motion video
Recording in slow motion is something that many mobiles do on the market. But not all of them do it with the quality that a high-end camera offers us. This is something that we can notice in two aspects, one of them is the level of fps, frames per second at which they do it.
This is usually already in some cases more than 1000 fps . The memory that the specific phone has for the work of this functionality depends on this, since there are hundreds or thousands of photos that must be taken and stored to achieve this effect. In addition, good software processing is necessary for slow motion to appear sharp and detailed when played back. And for this, all the factors that we have seen before will come into play to achieve it.