HTC U20 5G: The Full Camera Review - A Good, Solid Performance! By JEMZ Space

Hi everyone it's jams from namespace, I'm back with another video. This is the follow-up video to the HTC u20 here, and this video specifically looks at its camera performance. I just want to apologize for the delay. I did have COVID-19, which put me out of action for about two weeks, so this video is about two weeks late. So sorry, but here it is, let's proceed with the camera performance review. Okay, let's start with some indoor photos to see how the camera handles artificial light.

This photo was taken in really low light, and it's remarkable how sharp and clear the photo is. The colors are a bit muted, as the yellow of the smiley face is naturally more punchy at full marks for sharpness in this photo of a waiting area in a much better lit room. The colors have more accurate look, and it handles light source as well with a little case of overexposure in this picture of my cat, the room is dimly lit but check the individual hairs around her legs and tail. It has picked up some remarkable detail, but colors are a little muted. So, let's try outdoor photos in natural light.

We start with the main sensor here, and I love the sharpness and excellent HDR performance on this photo. It makes it look like a computer generated image is so perfect. The u20, when lighting is great, can take excellent sharp photos. But how does the wide angle camera code here you can see the color accuracy and HDR performance is very similar. A lot of phones, the main and wide cameras take drastically different photos, there's a much more consistent performance here.

However, the lower quality wide lens is noticeably lower quality, as there's a lack of sharpness and some graininess setting in you can notice it on the black and brick work and signs. The bouquet effect on portrait is very good, and I love this photo. The blurring effect of the background is nice, and the edge detection on the statue in the foreground is perfect, with no errors to be seen. The depth camera is showing its worth here. The colors are a bit muted, however, which seems to be a running theme of this video.

Let's test out the zoom capability with the spy of this church here, here's the original non-zoomed photo here and, let's take a second to appreciate it. It's sharp and detailed. I love how it's picked up all the colors in the sky. When we zoom in two times five. It still maintains a good level of detail, but as we move to times five, we can see the quality starts to drop with a lot of noise.

Settling in its maximum zoom is times eight, and it's not the greatest quality you'll ever see it has digital zoom, not optical zoom, so now dedicated, telephoto lens for great zoom photos. Unfortunately, there's a 48 megapixel mode for hyper sharp photos. There is one problem, however, for whatever reason, HDR mode cannot be activated on it, which means high light sources like the sky, become incredibly over saturated check the sky in this photo and compare it to the other daylight photos earlier in the video, a big negative, different front-facing cameras now for selfies and the HTC has that same skin. Smoothing effect, that's very popular with Chinese phones. My skin, in these pictures is super smooth and blemish.

Free but looks incredibly artificial. Some people prefer this approach, but personally I prefer more realistic photos. Even though I appreciate the technology making me look younger now, a nighttime photo in a very dark street. I actually think this photo is impressive. Considering how sharp and detailed everything is, even though it's very dark, it does well to maintain a natural and sharp look when we turn the night mode on.

However, the photo lights up drastically, but sharpness drops a lot, certainly on the houses on the side, you can see and notice a lot of noise, okay, taking a selfie video with the front facing camera now and unlike the photos, it has a much more realistic look. The video is sharp and detailed check my beard for an example. However, the camera struggles with focus, as you can see by the intermittent lighting that goes from dark to light. The stabilization on the front camera is non-existent as well. The main camera takes better, more stable video, using gyro, assisted electronic image stabilization and maintains the now regular trend of a nice sharp quality.

However, it also does maintain the problem of muted colors as well. Okay, so there you have it. The HTC u20 carries on HTC's admirable good, solid camera performance with their flagship phones. This is a good camera, but not without flaws on the positive it has. Fantastic portrait mode can perform consistently, both outdoors and indoors, no matter what the lighting is with impressive sharpness, when you're outdoors on the lighting is great, it can really take pictures comparable to the best phones out there.

There are flaws, as mentioned the wide angle and zoom modes are underwhelming, and the night mode actually takes worse pictures at night than with it switched off. Video performance doesn't quite match the quality of the photo performance and the selfie camera has an annoying beauty mode that some might like, but I find it needless. However, flaws aside, this is a good camera. Performance and fans of HTC won't be disappointed and that's it. I hope you enjoyed the video hit the subscribe button for more and don't forget to comment and like this is jams and jams space.

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