How to choose a camera phone? Regret not paying attention to these problems

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Some people often say that mobile phone lenses are enough to scan the code, but you have to admit that many times the wonderful moments or fragments of life you share online are from mobile phones.

Seeing the mobile phone can also take high dynamic range, bright colors, rich details of the photo, not only exciting, but also the requirements for mobile phone imaging are getting higher and higher, if you want to change the new mobile phone, you will definitely pay more attention to its camera effect. Therefore, the mobile phone lens is not enough to scan the code, and the mobile phone photograph is not as good as the publicity effect, or it may be that the relevant parameters are not clear when buying.

For example, the results of the recently announced ShotoniPhone Photography Contest, seeing that these award-winning works are all macro worlds presented by mobile phones, may wonder why their mobile phones cannot shoot such an effect.

In fact, this year's Shoton iPhone Macro Photography Contest is only available for the iPhone 13Pro series, as Apple upgraded the camera system for the iPhone 13Pro series phones released last year, adding a new macro shooting feature to the ultra-wide-angle lens for the first time.

When the lens of the iPhone13Pro series is very close to the subject, the system automatically activates the ultra-wide-angle macro mode. In macro mode, with the new autofocus system, you can take photos or videos of objects at a distance of 2 cm.

Some people may not know that although the iPhone13 also has an ultra-wide angle lens, this lens does not have a 2 cm macro function. The reason is simple, the iPhone 13 and previous iPhones, their ultra-wide angle lens focus is fixed, users have no way to focus manually, and the difference in hardware makes it impossible to achieve macro function.

This is just one example, there are still some things to pay attention to when it comes to the focal length of the phone lens. We all know that the focal length is the distance from the center of the lens to the sensor plane, the focal length determines the viewing angle of the lens, under the premise of the same sensor size, the larger the value, the narrower the lens angle of view, that is, the farther it is shot; the smaller the value, the wider the angle of view. This is also the reason why the lens focal length parameters are expressed using the full-frame camera as a benchmark and the equivalent focal length.

At present, the main lens of the mobile phone, that is, the lens with the best quality is often said to be the most used by the user, and the equivalent focal length is 23mm-26mm, which is obviously a wide-angle focal length, which is much wider and greater distortion than the standard focal length of the traditional camera lens 50mm.

For people who know a little bit about photography, they are more inclined to use the traditional standard focal length of 50mm, which is more conducive to composition, which is why when more and more mobile phones begin to shrink on telephoto lenses, it has caused great dissatisfaction among many mobile phone photography players.

In fact, the main camera of the iPhone 4 and 4s used to use the 35mm equivalent focal length, just to pursue a wider viewing angle and a larger aperture, the main lens of the mobile phone gradually expanded from 35mm to 23mm, so that users can load more content when shooting.

This practice is no problem in the single camera era, but when the mobile phone enters the multi-camera era, ultra-wide angle, telephoto, macro lens, etc., all bring more flexible focus segment choices to the mobile phone, in theory, the focal length of the main camera lens should also be adjusted, so that 50mm to do the main camera is not too much.

In this regard, we can see that some flagship mobile phones of vivo and xiaomi have always been equipped with lenses equivalent to about 50mm, but they are mainly used to shoot people, and the quality is not as good as the traditional main camera, so that the scope of application is limited.

In addition, this year, the Nubia Z40Pro used the equivalent of 35mm in the main camera, but it has made a breakthrough. However, relying on a brand in Nubia alone, I am afraid it is difficult to promote the change of lens focal length in the entire mobile phone industry, and nubia probably wants to create more publicity gimmicks in this way.

At present, we can only hope that manufacturers can recognize the importance of focal lengths in mobile phone photography applications and listen to the voices of users.

Then there is the telephoto, which we mentioned earlier that many of this year's new flagship phones have cut off more than 3X telephoto, such as:

Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro: 50 million main camera + 50 million ultra wide + equivalent 48mm portrait

realmeGT2Pro: 50 million main camera + 50 million ultra-wide + microscope

iQOO9Pro: 50 million main camera + 50 million ultra-wide + equivalent 60mm portrait

Honor MagicV: 50 million main camera + 50 million ultra-wide + spectral enhancement camera

If you still want to buy a mobile phone with super telephoto function, you can only add money to buy some oversized flagships, such as Samsung S22Ultra, Honor Magic40pro, vivoX80Pro, and some old mobile phones, such as the representative Xiaomi 11Ultra.

It can be seen that if you hold the mobile phone lens just to scan a code mentality, casually buy a mobile phone, then when you want to take some photos with the mobile phone, you may find that the focal length is not long enough, the macro is not good enough, or the wide angle is not wide enough, or even the focus is not good enough, and missed the good opportunity to take pictures. Therefore, if possible, it is not too much to buy a better camera phone.

Here are also a few brief examples for your reference.

1.iPhone13Pro

Whether compared to the previous model or the conventional iPhone 13, the 13Pro's camera system can be said to be a complete evolution in hardware: a larger main camera sensor area, finally support for macro mode and autofocus ultra-wide angle, longer focal length equivalent 77mm telephoto.

2.vivoX70Pro+

VivoX80 series has just been released, but from the perspective of cost performance, vivoX70Pro+ will be more worthy of recommendation, from the perspective of hardware specifications, vivoX80Pro is basically still the continuation of the X70Pro+ camera specifications, it is worth mentioning that its main camera sensor GNV, vivo has been used for 3 consecutive years, the relevant tuning has been quite in-depth, coupled with zeiss color help, want to carry out mobile phone photography creation, this will be a very suitable choice.

3. Xiaomi Mi 11Ultra

Xiaomi Mi 11Ultra focuses on high hardware specifications, ultra-large bottom sensor, 8P lens, ultra-telephoto, ultra-wide angle lens are also outsole. But software tuning is not a bit of a fire, but it doesn't matter, third-party applications like VSCO and Snapseed can call up their favorite styles. The Xiaomi 11Ultra recent price cuts can be considered.

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