iPhone 7 Plus (left); LG V20 (middle); and Huawei P9 Plus all have not one but two cameras in the back. Photos: Ben Sin
The iPhone 7 Plus has a 12 MP normal f/1.8 lens (an improvement over the iPhone 6S’ f/2.2, which means it takes in about 50% more light) and a “2X zoom” lens at f/2.8 that Apple is calling a “telephoto” lens but nah it’s not really.
The LG V20 has a 16 MP normal shooter with f/1.8 and an 8 MP, f/2.4 wide-angle lens that shoots photos at 135-degrees.
Huawei’s P9 Plus, meanwhile, has two cameras that have the same specs (12 MP, f/2.2) but one is a normal lens and the other is a monochrome shooter.
LG’s two cameras work separately (normal, wide); Huawei’s shooters work together to process a single image (so it takes in more light); and Apple’s shooters can do both — they work separately as a normal camera and a 2X zoom camera, and together to create digital effects like bokeh (the Huawei P9 Plus also does this).
iPhone 7 Plus (left) and LG V20.
iPhone 7 Plus.
LG V20.
iPhone 7 Plus (left); LG V20 (middle) and Huawei P9 Plus, shot from about 30 feet away across the street.
iPhone 7 Plus (left); LG V20 (middle); Huawei P9 Plus (right), all 100% crops.
iPhone 7 Plus’s shot (left) and the LG V20′s shot.
iPhone 7 Plus (left) and LG V20. 100% crops.
iPhone 7 Plus (left); LG V20 (middle); Huawei P9 Plus, all 100% crops.
iPhone 7 Plus (left); LG V20 (middle); Huawei P9 Plus. All 100% crops.
iPhone 7 Plus (left) and LG V20 (right).
iPhone 7 Plus (left); LG V20 (middle); Huawei P9 Plus.
iPhone 7 Plus (left); LG V20 (middle); Huawei P9 Plus, all 100% crops.
iPhone 7 Plus (left); LG V20 (middle); Huawei P9 Plus.
iPhone 7 Plus (left) and LG V20, both 100% crops.
The above images were taken in very low light situation — in the evening, with no light on and very little natural light from the outside. As you can see, all three phones are very strong in low light photography — these pics look way brighter than the scene in real life at the time — but the LG’s image has the most detail, and the less noise. Pay attention to the reindeer’s face in particular, LG’s shot just looks a tiny bit more clear than the iPhone’s shot. Huawei’s shot, while the darkest, may have the best colors though.
So there we have it. I took a bunch of photos, all under the exact same conditions, and the iPhone 7 Plus, the camera that mainstream publications automatically declare the best camera phone year in and year out (along with Samsung), doesn’t clearly win in any category. Now I’m not saying the iPhone 7 Plus camera sucks — both LG V20 and Huawei P9 Plus have very, very strong cameras. But I really roll my eyes every time I read or hear someone say “Apple and Samsung’s cameras are the best in class, blah blah blah.”
No, not true. LG had the best smartphone camera in 2014 and 2015 (G3 and G4), and right now, it’s definitely in the running against the Galaxy S7 and iPhone 7 Plus too.
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