What Are The Best Smartphone Camera Features To Consider?

By David Throop


As you check out smart phones, you will find some excellent models that come with quality cameras. Yet, there can be some major differences in these phones when it comes to taking good pictures. Here are some important features that may or may not be in your best interest, when you look for the best smartphone camera on the market.

When you shop for smart phone cameras, you want something that is fast and simple. After all, you don't want to wait on one of those special moments "frozen in time". By the time you make adjustments or wait for the camera to boot up, you could miss the shot. A good model should be as easy as pointing and shooting, and yet it should still deliver good quality images.

Megapixels are often heavily advertised with cameras. However, many smart phone users have very little knowledge of megapixels or even know what they are. A pixel is a tiny component of a digital image and it takes a million of them to create one megapixel. The more megapixels within an image the clearer it should be, but this is only up to a point. In fact, megapixels may not be such a major issue these days.

As you shop smart phones, you will notice that some have many more megapixels (MP) than others. If you need a camera for printing out clear color photos, you should try to get a phone that has as many megapixels as possible. However, most phones are not used for this purpose, so you may not need as many megapixels as you think. In fact, five megapixels is usually plenty for taking photos for uploading to social network sites and other websites, so ten or sixteen megapixels may be more than you actually need.

Many top smartphones have cameras with digital image stabilization. This feature helps to keep image blur to a minimum if you are taking pictures while traveling or moving. For example, you might want to take an image or movie from inside a vehicle as you travel down the road. Digital image stabilization will compensate for shaking or other movements that the car might make, and you will get a clear picture.

HDR (high dynamic range) is an important feature you may want to consider. With this option, your smart phone actually takes 3 pictures of the same image and combines them into a clear and better looking image. However, it works best for still life images, and may not be needed if most of your pictures are of family and friends.

Any time the light is low your LED flash will come to the rescue. However, some phones have dual LED flash capabilities and this will provide better pictures in darkened areas. Yet, dual flash does use a great deal more battery power and can be an expensive feature.

Generally speaking, to get the best camera phone for you money, look for ones that are simple to use and have automatic features. Most quality phones have enough megapixels. You may want to check out ones that have dual flash capability and digital image stabilization.




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