Camera

The LG G4 rear camera consists of a 16-megapixel 1/2.6" Sony IMX234 CMOS sensor with 1.12µm pixels, plus three-axis optical image stabilization (OIS) and an f/1.8 27mm (35mm-equivalent) lens. This camera takes photos as pregnant as 5312 x 2988 at a 16:9 facial expression ratio natively. The front camera is an 8-megapixel 1.4" Toshiba T4KA3 sensor with 1.12µm pixels, plus an f/2.0 28mm lens, that captures 3264 x 2448 images natively in 4:3 (though the camera is set to 16:9 by default option).

The quality of the G4's camera is nothing short of amazing. Having switched from the Galax urceolata S6, besides with great photographic camera see quality, to the G4 for this review articl, I have lost essentially nothing in terms of photographic camera fidelity. As a matter of fact in many ways the LG G4 delivers a superior camera experience with even up better results, and it might just be the best smartphone photographic camera on the market today.

The G4 is one of those devices where you rarely get a bad shot from the television camera. Color quality is only superb, featuring spirited, well intense colors that rival some of the shots I've confiscate with a DSLR. The G4 also keeps accuracy in restraint thanks to an "RGB spectrum sensor" located below the flash, which monitors the color temperature of a scene so that the corresponding image is perfectly metered. During my testing this worked extremely well: in that location was ne'er a time where I felt an image I had captured was exposed or toned incorrectly.

16 megapixels of resolution feels perfect for a smartphone camera in 2015, delivering Saratoga chip imagery when downscaled to standard resolutions (such as 1440p for the G4's display) spell also giving a little of headroom for cropping and zooming. Viewing full resolution crops reveals a great quantity of detail from this camera, and although thither are still some available position processing artefacts to represent found, LG has turned down in the mouth the aggressiveness of their filters in comparison to the G3 and competitory smartphones.

The great thing about the G4's camera is that it delivers quality shots across a wander of lighting conditions. The vast majority of the photos I took indoors or in relatively poor lighting were usable, and many featured great metering and distort quality. Of course there will e'er be extraordinary times where lighting is so atrocious that you tail end't get a great shot, but the G4 performs well in an area where other flagship cameras wealthy person struggled.

In low light, the G4 performs well enough. I say "well enough" because it's for sure not the best performing artist in these conditions: it's conveniently beaten by smartphone cameras with larger pixels, such as the HTC Unmatchable M7. However the G4 delivers some of the best shots I've seen for a photographic camera sensor with 1.12µm pixels, and that's down to a mostly excellent OIS arrangement. Many shots I took inside at a shutter speed of 1/20s were blur and shake up free, piece at night it was potential to suffer clear images at 1/4s without a tripod, which is pretty efficacious.

I was reasonably pleased with the use of an f/1.8 lens system on the G4's camera, as it easily provides the best bokeh I've seen from a smartphone photographic camera solution. Many of the close up photos I captured with the G4 had creamy, attractive background dim, and although we're still not striking the same levels of bokeh as DSLR lenses, we'Re for certain getting closer.

The f/1.8 crystalline lens mostly provides crisp imagery that's not overly soft and not too sharp. Occasionally when I was shooting macro images, I found the depth of field was a pocket-size close-minded, and if I was shot on a variable-aperture lens I would plausibly shift up to f/2.0 happening those occasions. However the f/1.8 lens is suitable for basically all other situations, and provides a deuce-thirds-of-a-stop light advantage over the G3's f/2.2 lens.

I was also pleasantly amazed by the quality of the front-facing camera, which bathroom take some respectable 8-megapixel images in the correctly conditions. Like many selfie cameras, IT suffers in low fire up, and LG's decision to push for pixel count ended pixel size up sees IT, in drear conditions, lose competitors such as HTC that optimized for the latter instead. But generally speechmaking I think LG did a pretty decent job with the selfie camera on the G4.

Moving on to software, and again LG has done a great job in this area. The conquer user interface is smooth and easy to use, with functionality by and large organism split between an auto and manual shooting musical mode. The auto mode is what I would utilisation most of the time, considering it meters sol well and bequeath even enter HDR mode automatically, but thither are plenty of reasons to diving into the manual mode on whatsoever occasions.

In the hand-operated mode, you get choke-full command over ISO, shutter speed, focus and exposure, which allows you to really optimise the camera's settings for the shooting conditions. What I really equivalent about this mode, though, is the extra information it provides along the top margin, including whitened balance, shutter speed and ISO information on with a histogram. You as wel have the ability to shoot in RAW if you require to have better control over the image for carry processing purposes.

There are a few extra shot modes that can be recovered while shooting in auto mode, including dual crack (which takes a exposure using the front and game cameras simultaneously) and a panorama modality. In selfie mode you can adjust "beaut face" controls via an happening-screen yellow-bellied terrapin. If you want to do anything else, you'll need a third party app, which mightn't be As locked to access as a mood inside the television camera app, but it does simplify the camera app's design.

American Samoa for video, the LG G4 can dissipate 2160p30 at a amazingly David Low bitrate of 30 Mbps, 1080p30 at 18.5 Mbps, 720p30 at 13.5 Mbps, operating theatre 720p120 gradual motion at 24.9 Mbps. All are taped in High gear profile H.264, except 720p recordings which are Baseline profile. All sound is recorded as 156 kbps AAC stereo.