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iPhone X Camera Compared to LG G7 ThinQ Camera

Pretty obvious that the "test" pictures taken on the LG were set up to look ******** than the Krapple device. I did extensive comparison pics on my XL 2 vs. wife's X and mine are routinely better in more everyday shots and lighting.
 
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iPhone photos have water color effect. Apple must remove excess compression.
 
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macduke said:
I like the idea of a wide angle lens, but not at the expense of a telephoto lens. Wasn't Apple rumored to be working on a three camera system? I'd love a 0.5X, 1X, and 3X system. The current 2X doesn't feel close enough. It's too bad that nobody has figured out how to do proper optical zoom in such a thin enclosure. I remember Sony did it with their old T series of point and shoots, but they basically had a zoom barrel inside the camera vertically with a mirror that angled forwards at the top. There isn't room for that in the iPhone.
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It's been done the way you described in an Asus phone. I think we're still a couple of years away from it meeting Apple's quality standards.
 
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We largely preferred the look of the iPhone X photos because of its tendency to capture more natural colors and accurately capture images with a lot of variation in lighting without overexposing elements of the photo
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With such a small sample size I don't understand how you've reached this conclusion.
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entropys said:
Are you sure there wasn’t something wrong with the LG?
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Well one could suspect they chose the pictures samples that favor the iphone x the most.
Also the G7 is not on the final software.
 
Personally, if I were going to present an article on two cameras, I'd do my best to try and take the SAME FRAMED PHOTO (within the capability of the cameras). That might mean moving a few feet instead of just standing there or adjusting the zoom if it has it (it's best to keep the lenses within the same aperture, though for a good comparison). Given you get an immediately result with digital cameras, you should be able to adjust the framing to match within reason!

Without taking the SAME PHOTO, you can't be sure if the cameras are getting the same auto-exposure cues (e.g. the grass in the foreground on the last picture is on the left in the iPhone picture and the G7 shows grass on the right and the house in the distance is much further away on the G7. It's not even CLOSE to the same framing! Similarly, in the first photos, the fence is at the bottom in the G7, but 1/3 the way up in the iPhone and zoomed in more on the G7 this time (the fact one is closer than the other in one photo and then reversed in another tells me it's not due to a wide-angle lens on one of the cameras or they'd be consistent!) Did the author spend more than 30 seconds on this entire photo shoot???

Frankly, the article is meaningless with such poor framing of the subject matter. Yes, they might be two different lenses and that can affect the field of view, but that doesn't excuse shoddy comparison picture taking!
 
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If you have to zoom in so much to notice any difference... maybe it doesn't matter...
 
bladerunner2000 said:
G7 photos look underexposed.
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Yes, the G7 pictures are underexposed but recovery works, not so on overexposed where the recovery is between very problematic and impossible. The last picture of X is already overexposed - still acceptable. The test pictures should be taken in different light condition, I'm missing some pictures in very strong light.
I'm not making advocacy for any brand just looking on facts!
 
For as long as I have used iPhones and multitude of Android phones, I find that iPhones tend to produce good pictures in almost any situation. On Android, some do excel and produce much better pictures than iPhones in some situations, but suffers at others. This is why despite many tech bloggers claim superiority of specific Android phones, many lay users that I know/met still prefer iPhones since it can produce good enough pictures in most situations.
 
This aricle is just plain mean. We all know the LG is crap, why drag it through the mud?
 
Both pale in to insignificance when compared to the camera on the Galaxy S8.
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Royksöpp said:
This aricle is just plain mean. We all know the LG is crap, why drag it through the mud?
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Laughable. We all know LG manufactures the Retina Display on the iMac which is the finest AIO Display available.
Furthermore LG IPS PC Monitors are the amongst those that offer the highest image quality
http://www.lg.com/uk/ips-monitors
https://www.pcbuilderbd.com/computer-components/lg-22mp68vq-monitor-review-best-budget-monitor/
Don't forget the awesome LG Ultrafine 5k Display
https://www.imore.com/lg-5k
 
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The only part where G7 beats X is the Wide-angle camera. I dont understand why no other company puts those into their phones, instead of the useless telephoto...
 
I usually agree when you say “both are good choices” but it really doesn’t look like that’s the case here. The G7 appears way oversaturated and there’s no detail in its dark photo. These are objective flaws, not a matter of taste.
 
I prefer the Apple photo on all of those.

Amazes me, given just how important the Camera is to most people.
For many it's Camera comes 1st on a phone these days, as (almost) everything else is the easy bit.....

Why do so many companies bring out, what are actually very nice, sexy, premium phones and then ruin the whole deal by not fitting the best camera module/processing software possible?

Poor camara is the headline killer of any product.
Some will even buy a poorer phone if it has a OMG stand out camera.

Makes you wonder why the companies can't understand this, spend the extra few dollars on the camera you fools!
 
chas_m said:
I dislike “whatever” articles like this where the conclusion is that they’re both great and you should just choose whatever you want — thus defeating the entire purpose of the article.
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The purpose of articles like this is to imply that everyone else has "caught up" to the iPhone now. You're supposed to believe that non-engineered things like personal preferences or (at most) the "ecosystem" are all that separates the various competing brands.
 
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This aricle is just plain mean. We all know the LG is crap
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The *ignorance* in your post is staggering. You do realize that LG is also likely going to supply Apple with their 6.5 OLED displays in 2018 as well, right?
 
Truly amazing the pq you can get from a phone these days

I've got a leica d lux and haven't gone near it in years thx to the cameras in the iPhone

SO convenient too !!
 
I hate when tech websites review cameras. Photography is not about going to the nearest tree and taking a snapshot to compare the results. MacRumors should have enough connections to find a halfway decent photographer to lend the two phones to for a day or two and get some well composed photographs.

As it stands this article is basically pointless click bait. Please - macrumors - you're better than this.
 
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