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Hey guys It’s Sagar from Tecworkz, and here
is my camera review of the iPhone 8 Plus.
Every time I get a new smartphone, I make
it a point to travel extensively with it.
That way I get to test out the camera in different
situations, and it also gives me a fairly
good idea, about the battery life that one
can expect, out of any given smartphone.
So in the past 2 and half weeks that i have
had the iPhone 8 Plus, I travelled a lot,
and shot a lot of images with it.
I have also shot a many of images with the
S8, OnePlus 5 and the iPhone 7 Plus, which
means there are going to be a lot of comparison
videos in the coming days.
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Now, before we get to the Image and video
samples from the iPhone 8 Plus, lets get the
specs out of the way.
The camera module and its specifications,
are more or less similar to that of the iPhone
7 Plus, but Apple tells us that these are
new sensors with deeper pixels.
Out of the dual cameras, The first camera
has a 28mm wide lens, and the same resolution
of 12 megapixel, with a wide aperture of f/1.8
as we saw on the iPhone 7 Plus.
While the 2nd one also retains a telephoto
lens of 56mm and again has a resolution of
12 megapixel with an aperture of f/2.8.
Thanks to this dual camera setup and the portrait
mode, you can get shots with amazing shallow
depth of field, and now, also add various
professional lighting effects to your shots.
More on this, when we take a look at the image
samples.
You get optical image stabilisation on the
wide camera, but the telephoto lens lacks
that feature, We also have a quad LED True
tone flash.
These new cameras can now capture 4k videos
at 60fps and 1080p slow motion videos at 240
fps.
These features are not even available in most
of the high end cameras.
So having them packed in your smartphone,
is really impressive.
Something what I don’t like, is that Apple
has buried the options to change any of these
video resolutions, deep in the settings app.
So every time you need to shoot at different
resolution, you gave to go to settings, scroll
down to camera settings, and then make the
desired changes.
I think, they should simplify things, and
let us make these changes, right from within
the camera app.
At the front you have an 7 megapixel sensor
with an aperture of f/2.2.
With iOS 11, Apple also embraced High Efficiency
Image File and High Efficiency Video Coding
formats.
Which basically means, you will save about
50% of storage space while taking photos and
videos, using the iOS 11 camera app.
Now lets take a look at the image and video
samples from this phone.
All the images are shot in the auto mode,
with auto HDR turned on.
Right from the first shot, you can tell, that
the colours are much more saturated and vibrant,
than what we are used to seeing from an iPhone,
and I am liking it.
Apple seems to have made some changes to its
image processing algorithm, and now it adds
a bit of punch to the image.
The overall images are very crisp and sharp,
and if you take some time composing your shots,
you can end up with some really impressive
images.
There is a lot of detail in every image, and
thanks to the wide f/1.8 aperture, you get
amazing close up shots.
Auto focus is fast and accurate, which is
important while taking these close up shots.
Now here are a few images shot with the normal
and telephoto lens.
The telephoto lens, helps in capturing distant
objects clearly.
You can see from these images, how much of
an optical zoom it provides.
From these kind of shots, it is clear that
the dynamic range captured by this camera
is simply amazing.
Just look at the amount of details in the
shadows of these images.
Its sometimes hard to believe, that the the
camera on smartphones, can take such beautiful
shots.
The portrait mode gives even better effect
to the close up shots.
This mode was introduced with the iPhone 7
Plus.
It was not perfect at the start, and it still
isn’t, but it has been getting better and
better, and now most of the shots that you
take in this mode, are actually usable.
What this mode does, is combines the image
data from both the cameras, and Image Signal
Processor does its magic and create a shallow
depth of field effect.
The Portrait lighting mode is introduced with
the iPhone 8 Plus, and it is in beta right
now.
It allows you to choose from various professional
lighting modes, while capturing or even after
you have captured a portrait shot.
It is still in its early days, so it doesn’t
work every time, but when it does, the results
are truly amazing.
As light starts to go down or if you are shooting
under artificial lights, you can still pull
off some amazing images.
Thanks to the wider f/1.8 aperture, even in
artificial lighting and lower lighting conditions
the results are amazing, and the noise levels
are very minimal.
Having optical image stabilisation also helps,
as it allows the shutter to remain open for
longer time, to capture more light.
Colours and sharpness are still maintained
even in these lighting situations.
If you like taking images with the front facing
camera, the 7 megapixel sensor delivered great
results in ample light.
Colours and the dynamic range from the front
facing camera are also very good.
Coming to the video footage, the iPhone 8
Plus is one of the best in its class, the
video it shoots is very stable, thanks to
the Optical Image Stabilisation.
And as I said before, you can now even shoot
4K videos in 60fps.
240fps slow motion videos in 1080p resolution
are just buttery smooth.
I did see some focusing issues while shooting
slow mo videos, specially in low light, but
that can easily be taken care of, via a software
update.
This is without a doubt, the best camera on
an iPhone yet.
Thanks to the wide aperture and telephoto
lens, you can take some amazing low light
and portrait shots, which was not possible
from the iPhones before this.
Its definitely an improvement over the iPhone
7 Plus in the camera department, specially
while shooting videos.
But sadly its throne of being the best camera
on an iPhone, will be short lived, as the
iPhone X with even better set of cameras,
is about to hit the market.
If you want one of the best camera on your
smartphone, go with the iPhone 8 Plus without
even giving it a second thought.
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This has been Sagar, and i’ll catch you
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Take care.
