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Best smartphone cameras in the world according to the DxOMark index
As smartphones become increasingly powerful, so do their camera systems, and for many, the camera’s capability is the most critical factor to consider when buying a new smartphone.
While many people would look at a camera’s megapixel rating to determine its overall quality, this only tells part of the story.
Modern smartphone cameras use a combination of different technologies and features to improve the quality of the pictures they take.
A great and reliable way to investigate which smartphone’s camera will best suit you is to use an independent benchmark, such as those provided by DxOMark. DxOMark completes thorough testing on the camera systems of a range of smartphones to assign the front and rear cameras of each a rating.
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These are the best smartphone camera systems available in 2021.
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Honor’s Magic3 Smartphone Has Four Cameras and an IMAX Partnership
Honor has announced the Magic3, Magic3 Pro, and Magic3 Pro+, its first internationally launched flagship smartphone line. The Pro packs four cameras into its giant camera array and adds the ability to shoot "cinema-like" videos thanks to its "IMAX Enhanced" capabilities.
Honor, previously Huawei's budget smartphone brand that was spun off into an independent entity, has launched the Magic3. While it has launched two other phones specifically for China, this is its first flagship phone for the global market. Looking at the design and some of the features, it's pretty clear that Honor has not yet deviated far from its roots: the Magic3 Pro has a lot in common with what would be expected out of a Huawei device.
Firstly, the design of the camera array is decidedly Huawei. The giant circular system and overall design of the whole device looks very similar to a Huawei Mate device, and Engadget also notes that the boasts about IMAX Enhanced cameras being able to allow users to make their own "cinema-quality films" is language that was also used to sell Huawei's Mate 30 and Mate 40 devices.
Honor's Magic3, Magic3 Pro, and Magic3 Pro+ are designed to be the highest-end phones in the company's line and are very similar outside of the camera systems on each. The Magic3 features a 50-megapixel, f/1.9 main camera. To that, Honor adds a 64-megapixel, f/2.2 monochrome camera, and a 13-megapixel, 120-degree f/2.2 ultra-wide camera.
Honor Magic3 Pro
The Pro adds a 64-megapixel periscope telephoto module to that with a 3.5x optical zoom and up to 100x digital zoom that is bolstered by an optical image stabilizer.
The Pro+ swaps out that main sensor with a 50-megapixel wide (main) camera with a larger 1/1.28-inch sized color sensor with optical image stabilization that works with what Honor calls "Full Pixel Octa Phase Detection (PD) AutoFocus." The company says it allows the phone to track moving objects precisely and accurately. The Pro+ also slightly changes the monochrome camera, increasing the light gathering capability to f/1.8 and upgrades the ultra-wide to a 64-megapixel, 126-degree field of view, f/2.4. Finally, the Pro+ adds a time-of-flight (TOF) sensor and color temperature sensor to allow it to better perform in various environments.
Honor Magic3 Pro+
All three smartphone models use the Honor Image Engine, an imaging system that was designed in-house and is powered by artificial intelligence.
The "IMAX Enhanced" camera that Honor touts comes as a result of the brand's partnership with IMAX and adds AI-powered "professional movie-grade color solutions" to videos captured on the devices. The Magic3 series has what Honor calls "Magic-Log" and "cinematic-level 3D LUT (look up table) video capabilities." LUTs are common in filmmaking and are usually laid out over log footage to create specific "looks" to films, and the addition of log into the Magic3 series means that editors will have more freedom to adjust color in post than without it. Honor does not state the bit depth of the log footage, however. Lower bit depth log footage means less data in highlights and shadows, so it is unclear how much latitude editors will actually have.
The Honor Magic3 series will launch first in China, with a western release planned shortly. Pricing for Europe was released, however, and the Magic3, with 8GB RAM and 256GB of storage will retail for 899 Euro ($1,054), the Magic 3 Pro with 8GB RAM and 256GB of storage will cost 1,099 Euro ($1,289), and the highest-end Magic3 Pro+ with 12GB RAM and 512GB of storage costs 1,499 Euro ($1,758).
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Apple May Be Testing Auto Lens Flare Removal for iPhone Photos
Apple appears to have added a feature in the latest iOS 15 operating system beta that will automatically remove the "green orb" lens flare that is common when a bright light appears in the frame, but only in certain circumstances.
Noticed by MacRumors, a discussion among some users on Reddit appears to have found instances where the iPhone is performing some kind of background image processing that automatically removes the green dot lens flare from photos.
Apple has strongly relied on its image processing to improve the quality of images in new iPhones, and this change appears to be baked directly into the upcoming operating system. In two images posted on Reddit (and shared below via Halide), Apple appears to have created an algorithm that will automatically remove flare from photos in specific circumstances after the photo is taken. The two photos show post-photo processing on the newest beta where the final still shot from a live photo appears without the "green orb" lens flare.
Big news: the latest iOS 15 beta automatically removes the famous 'green orb' lens flares we are so used to on iPhones. Thoughts? https://t.co/l6OQ3vRVRR pic.twitter.com/4wtorXaZxt
-- Halide (@halidecamera) August 4, 2021
Once pointed out, other beta testers agreed that the change was visible on their devices as well, but not in every circumstance.
"It doesn't appear to do it when the flare is on certain surfaces, like trees or through screens," one Reddit user has reported. "It does fine for grass, sky, and most other textures though!"
He later adds that it doesn't seem to work with bathroom lights either, and may only work well with the sun.
"It's pretty inconsistent."
One other Reddit user pointed out that they were able to see the lens flare in a photo taken with an iPhone 12 Pro, but when they revisited the photo later in the day they noticed it had been automatically removed.
"So I've noticed something that I haven't seen reported elsewhere; whilst out and about I took this photo and thought it was ruined/needing to be edited later due to the lens flare (as I've done numerous times in previous photos with the iPhone 12 Pro as it's so prone to lens flares)," they write. "However, I got home and noticed the lens flare has automatically gone in the original photo despite it being obviously there still in the live photo, meaning the automatic post-processing has gotten smart enough to remove lens flares now!"
PetaPixel reached out to Apple, but the company did not immediately reply.
iOS 15 is still currently in testing and will not ship to all users until this fall.
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