Exploring The Very Best Smartphone Camera Features

| Friday, January 9, 2015
By David Throop


There are many excellent smart phones on the market today, and most of them have cameras. However, picture taking capabilities among modern mobile phones can vary a great deal. Here are some tips on smart phones, to help you get the best smartphone camera features for the least amount of money.

No one wants to spend time waiting for the camera to boot up. Look for phones that are quick and simple to use. Some phones are ready instantly to let you take the perfect shot every time. This is very important for people that like to capture life in action, especially when it comes to pets and children.

Many people are concerned about megapixels, but few smart phone owners actually know what a megapixel is and why it is an important feature. Digital images are made up of tiny particles called pixels and one million pixels are equal to a megapixel. Naturally, one would think that an image with more megapixels would be clearer and sharper than ones with fewer megapixels. However, megapixels do not tell the entire story.

Most of the better smart phones on the market today have cameras with enough megapixel images to do a good job. For example, there may be very little difference between 16 MP images and those from 8 MP cameras. Extra megapixels can make a big difference in full color images that you print from your computer, and because most mobile phone users do not print out their images, megapixels should not be much of an issue. For example, a five megapixel image should be just fine for uploading to online sources.

You will find features like digital image stabilization in some of the top smartphones these days. This is a good feature to have because it can eliminate much of the blur from a moving or shaking camera. For instance, if you are making a video while traveling or moving, it is hard to keep your camera still, and digital image stabilization compensates for movements that can affect the quality of your photos.

High dynamic range or HDR is a good feature to have in smart phone cameras. It has special qualities that allow the camera to create 3 images of each picture you take. Those images are all blended together to give you one high quality photo. However, this feature is best used on still type images and may be of little use for action photos.

Many modern mobile phones have LED flash features for taking better images in low light. However, some models come with dual LED flash and others only a single flash. When you want better flash images, a dual LED flash is the best choice. Yet it uses more power and can add quite a bit to the price of the phone.

As a general rule, if you want to get the most camera phone for your money, ease of operation is very important. Megapixels are not that big of a deal. Digital image stabilization and dual LED flash as two excellent options to consider, if you can afford them.




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