5 best dual camera smartphones

Smartphones carefully select work from cameras. More recently, the phone could make just readable and watchable photos, and now it surpasses the quality of the work of a soap box, and sometimes a professional camera. And the defective optical system in the camera of the smartphone is compensated for by software processing and automatic intellectual “enhancement” of frames.

Manufacturers of smartphones in full use the new trend - two-chamber. They install two camera modules into devices, allowing you to get a bokeh effect on a photo, improve quality characteristics and achieve a blurred background.

Dual cameras work like this. For example, Apple installs modules with different focal lengths. Such a system zooms frame with the help of optics. The notorious portrait mode acts on this principle: the camera focuses solely on the model, ignoring the background, then takes a picture and programmatically brings beauty, beautifully smearing the background.

Huawei came up even more unusual: it completes its phones with two modules, one of which works in monochrome mode. By capturing a frame in black and white, the camera is more sensitive to light and creates better images in low light conditions. Putting up a color snapshot from the second, ordinary camera, the user gets a juicy high-quality photo.

There is one caveat - the presence of two cameras in a smartphone does not mean its excellent photographic capabilities. The sly Chinese of the third echalon often supplement their devices with a second fake module with a minimum resolution that does not improve the shots. Therefore, we made a selection of the best dual-camera smartphones that will surely please you with the received frames.

Top 5 best dual camera smartphones

5 Xiaomi Mi A1

The smartphone on pure Android from Xiaomi has become an unofficial hit among budget phones with dual cameras. There are two color modules of 12 megapixel each, a two-fold optical zoom and phase autofocus. One module with a telephoto lens, the other - wide-angle. Portrait mode is present: in it the system smears the background and focuses exclusively on the object, simulating the work of a professional camera. Sometimes a smart program has misfired - the hair and “protruding” parts of the body are washed out; the contours of the object may be out of focus.

The camera is able to HDR and demonstrates quality results. The program interface provides access to a variety of manual settings: from contrast and exposure to the selection of the active camera module. Xiaomi Mi A1 can rightly be considered the best cheap camera phone. Yes, there are flaws in the cell, but for such a price they are easy to forgive.

4 Nokia 8 Dual SIM

The flagship from the beloved by many Finnish company surprises with a double camera and technologies implemented in the field of photography. The legendary optics of Zeiss AG deserves attention and respect. The process of creating a frame occurs in this way: the camera takes two modules at the same time, then superimposes the pictures on each other and improves them programmatically. In portrait mode, the system beautifully blurs the background. It is a pity that there is no function of post-focusing on the already prepared image.

The manufacturer focuses on the function of "Bozi": it is the ability to video simultaneously on the main and front camera. Another innovation from Nokia is video recording with sound on three microphones with the ability to focus on the sound source.In the viewfinder, you need to "tap" on the image of the sounding object, and now no matter how cool the phone is, the microphones will carefully ignore other sounds and record waves from the designated source.

3 Apple iPhone 8 Plus

This Apple-underrated smartphone boasts a dual camera with different apertures: wide-angle with f / 1.8 and a telephoto lens with f / 2.8. Both cameras are endowed with a resolution of 12 megapixels. Optical stabilization, alas, only in the wide-angle module. Compared to Apple’s previous creations, this phone has received a new, faster, image signal processor, has acquired an extended range of colors and instant autofocus. The flash has also undergone changes: the manufacturer has equipped it with the Slow Sync function, which means uniform illumination of the foreground and background. The camera can shoot in 4K format and creates high-quality videos. There is also a slowdown function, which is appreciated by instabloger.

But the main pride of the owners of the eighth iPhone with a plus sign in the title is portrait shooting with the effect of studio lighting. Now professional portraits can be created without special equipment, tripods, lamps and light diffusers.

2 Samsung Galaxy S9 +

This model has the most high-aperture camera in the world. The minimum aperture size is f / 1.5. But this is not all - the size of the diaphragm is configured by the user. For a photo in low light conditions or for a portrait frame with background blur, choose f / 1.5, and in sunny weather and landscapes - f / 2.4. The resolution of both modules is 12 MP. Pleases noise reduction system.

The shooting process is conventionally divided into three stages. First, the photosensitive matrix with Dual Pixel - a special autofocus system - is activated. Next comes the high-speed signal processing system. The DRAM module, which reads the image from the matrix and transfers it for processing, closes. Thanks to this division of labor, the smartphone can shoot in super slow shooting in 4K quality. Users appreciated the fun function of modifying lights in the background. Programmatically they can be shaped into hearts or asterisks. Well, the cherry on the cake: both cameras work with optical stabilization.

1 Honor 9

This is a creation from the sub-brand of Huawei, which users love for the magical quality of images. There are two modules in the main camera - 20 and 12 megapixels. It is they who do the wonders of photographing, forcing users to plant a debate about the nature of the picture - is it really shot on a smartphone?

One module is monochrome and shoots in black and white. The color module received a resolution of 12 megapixels, and the monochrome got 20 megapixels. When photographing, both modules are involved - first a monochrome image is obtained with high-quality white balance, elaborate shadows and expressive light areas, then a color image is taken over it, taken by another camera eye. The resulting photo is stored in a resolution of 20 MP.

In the application interface of the camera, you can choose which of the modules you want to use when shooting. Especially color images are obtained in a resolution of 12Mp.

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