10 Best Camera Smartphones Of 2022: is traditional camera still worth the money?
- cameron hansen
- May 19, 2022
- 4 min read
“The best telephoto camera.”
The latest Galaxy flagship's four-camera system is top-notch, featuring wide, ultra-wide, telephoto and super-zoom sensors. The first of these boasts a 108MP sensor, with an f/1.8 aperture, Dual Pixel AF, and an 85-degree field of view. The 12MP ultra-wide camera features an f/2.2 aperture and a 120-degree field of view. There's also one 10MP telephoto with an equivalent three times zoom (f/2.4) and another 10MP telephoto with a 10 times zoom (f/4.9). And that's not to mention the selfie camera, with its 40MP resolution, f/2.2 aperture and 8K video capture at 24fps.
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2. Apple iPhone 13 Series
"Best for video"
Apple has gone for a triple lens set up on the iPhone 13 Pro, giving us a standard, ultra wide and telephoto lens. We have the same focal lengths for the 26mm (equivalent) standard lens, and 13mm (0.5x) ultra-wide optic, but the telephoto lens has been extended to a 3x (78mm) offering, compared with the iPhone 12 Pro’s 2x lens.
“Google's best camera phone ever.”
Its triple rear-facing camera system has had a full hardware refresh: the main (26mm wide-angle) camera features a 50MP 1/1.31 sensor with 1.2-micron pixels, omnidirectional phase-detection autofocus, laser autofocus, and OIS. For a wider perspective, there's also a 12MP 17mm ultrawide camera module.
But arguably the most impressive camera in the Pixel 6 Pro is its new periscope zoom camera. Utilising a 48MP sensor with an f/3.5 aperture, 104mm lens, the telephoto module gives you roughly 4x zoom.
"Second best Samsung camera phone"
This phone features four rear cameras, including a 108MP f/1.8 main camera, a 12MP f/2.2 ultra-wide camera and two 10MP telephoto cameras – one with an f/2.4 aperture and 3x optical zoom and one with an f/4.9 aperture and a huge 10x optical zoom. You also get a fantastic 6.8-inch screen. The Dynamic AMOLED 2X display features a 120Hz refresh rate for smooth scrolling and gaming experiences, HDR10+ support, 1500-nit peak brightness and a 1440 x 3200 resolution.
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5. iPhone SE (2022)
"The best-value iPhone (with a great camera)"
At a surprisingly affordable price, you get an impressive camera setup, with a 12MP f/1.8 aperture wide camera on the rear. The new, fast A15 Bionic chip makes everything works smoothly and beautifully, with AI enhanced software such as Portrait mode and the same Smart HDR 4 tech as the iPhone 13 giving you lots of great shooting options. The rear camera (7 MP, f/2.2) is pretty decent too.
"High-end zoom lens"
Featuring a triple rear camera, the Note 20 Ultra has a 108MP f/1.8 main camera, a 12MP f/2.2 ultra-wide camera and – the pièce de résistance – a 12MP f/3 camera with 5x optical zoom and 50x digital zoom.
"The best for photographic flexibility"
The Sony Xperia 1 III is the only choice for video pros and cinema buffs who want to get manual with their smartphone videography. It’s able to shoot footage at up to 21:9 for cinema style capture, offers full manual control and features a beautifully flat color profile, perfect for post-processing in Premiere Pro or Da Vinci Resolve(opens in new tab). Thankfully, almost everything else about this phone is excellent too, with a striking 21:9, 4K HDR screen, a clean UI and a snappy chipset ensuring plenty of power under the hood. Sony photography fans will also appreciate all the Alpha elements that have made their way into the Xperia camera UI. If want the ultimate cinema experience, both from a content creation and consumption point of view, the Xperia 1 III is it.
"The best-value camera"
ability to take still images in 10-bit colour and RAW+ capture, which is a Hasselblad-tuned mode that combines three RAW frames to create an image with even greater dynamic range than in a regular RAW format. The new ultra wide camera is also capable of capturing both 110-degree and 150-degree fisheye images.
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9. Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G
" The best budget camera"
With a massive 108MP camera, which is something that's frankly astounding for a phone this cheap, and it really impressed in testing.
For a mere fraction of what the most recent iPhone and Samsungs cost, this is a phone that manages to hold its own under scrutiny, taking Instagram-worthy pictures in a wide variety of lighting conditions and environments. Video recording is limited to only 1080p at 30fps
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10. Huawei P40 Pro+
"Next best thing to shooting in 8K resolution"
Huawei has packed a lot into its P40 Pro+ model, specifically a 32MP selfie lens, a 50MP wide lens, 8MP periscope telephoto and telephoto lenses and a 40MP ultrawide lens.
And that’s not to mention the front and rear TOF (time-of-flight) 3D lenses, which work to produce similar results to the iPhone’s LiDAR (light detection and ranging) scanner – accurate mapping of surroundings and 3D objects for more true-to-life photos.
It has a maximum 10x optical zoom, and an f-stop range that allows for creativity, such as enhancing your portraits with ‘bokeh’ blurring effects.
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