Motorola Edge+ camera review By DXOMARK

Hi I'm Rachael, with DXO marks today, I'll be talking about the main camera on the edge plus the first premium device from Motorola in years, and while Motorola has a reputation for making high value phones, it seems to have pulled out all the stops on the edge class, calling it its fastest loudest and boldest phone. Yet, let's see how the camera performs in comparison to other flagship devices. First, let's take a look at the camera specs powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 and 65 chipsets. The triple camera system features a main, a hundred and eight megapixel sensor with optical image stabilization. This high resolution sensor, quad, bins, output to 27, megapixels, an 8 megapixel telephoto camera, also with optical stabilization, a 16 megapixel ultra-wide camera and a laser module for focus estimation. The camera has the capability to shoot 6k video at up to 30 frames per second, but we tested video at 4k 30 frames per second, because the quality was better.

The edge+ scored very well on exposure and contrast with its capable large sensor. Exposures are accurate and contrast is good in our perceptual analysis. The edge plus earned a very high score for outdoor scenes, with accurate exposures and good contrast. Dynamic range was also pretty good, though we observed partial, highlight and shadow clipping when capturing difficult scenes. Indoor exposures are also accurate, even in scenes with wide dynamic range, but highlight clipping again is noticeable.

Colors are generally pleasant and white balance is mostly correct, though there might be visible, casts in indoor and mixed light conditions. Colors are sometimes under saturated, as you can see, with the sky color in this outdoor scene, and warm tones in low-light conditions can also be under saturated with its very large sensor. The Motorola edge plus does a very good job of balancing texture and noise, its sub scores, and these categories are not far off the highest we've recorded. Our outdoor test seems show at 27 megapixels when well deployed, can record the edge plus manages to catch very fine detail that phones with lower resolution sensors can't match indoor shots, show that, despite some fine luminance noise in darker areas, noise is very well controlled when it comes to artifacts. The edge plus loses more points than most phones in its class.

Softness towards the edge of images is the main culprit here that we also had to penalize for mid-vignetting, let's zoom in on this photo of trees in the crop. You can see how corner softness zoom is one of our testing areas where the best performing devices distinguish themselves, but the edge class, even with its three times. Zoom lens and eight megapixel sensor runs in the middle Explorer. In this example, the Apple iPhone 11 Pro max does better in the low zoom range, because it's 2x lens takes over from the main camera. As you can see here, the edge plus has to use digital zoom until the 3x zoom level and despite the high resolution of the main sensor, the results are not particularly impressive in medium zoom or beyond.3X details suffer substantially, as you can see here in this outdoor image, focus shots like this image, have nice colors and outdoor lighting, but low detail and edge detection artifacts are less impressive. Here you can see how the edge Plus struggled with simple tasks like separating a clearly-defined shoulder from a distant background.

The edge plus delivers pretty good image quality with its dedicated wide camera, but it's true field of view is not as wide as some of its competitors, even though outdoors detail is fairly high and colors are mostly vivid and pleasantly rendered. There is also some distortion that bends straight lines, something to watch out for, particularly when shooting architecture indoors, the ultra-wide camera delivers an impressively neutral, color balance compared to other phones. Dynamic range is less impressive, with obvious loss of highlights around the light bulb the edge pluses ultra-wide camera has a neat trick up its sleeve. It can focus ultra close at macro distances, which opens up some interesting creative possibilities. Night photography is not a strength for the edge class for people in the dark.

The auto flash mode captures a slightly underexposed face with lots of detail, but the background goes black. As you can see here, it gives portraits that floating in space feel, which is not usually what you want to achieve. Turning on the edge classes, dedicated night mode, slightly increases target exposure and adds a bit of dynamic range, but images are noisy and sometimes have a greenish cast. In these examples, the edge class also missed focusing on the subject in the night mode shot in video. The main camera captures a lot of detail with minimal noise.

Dynamic range is very good. Those shadows sometimes clip to black autofocus tracks, moving objects effectively. Colors are generally Pleasant, though a green cast is sometimes visible indoors. There is some residual motion or stabilization visible in our walking tasks, and a few artifacts are sometimes noticeable, but overall, the phone delivers a strong performance. So, let's summarize the pros and cons of the Motorola edge class, the pros are high detail and well controlled noise in all lighting conditions, generally accurate target exposure in outdoor and indoor conditions and in video, effective tracking autofocus.

The cons are soft details or loss of details in medium and long range. Zoom depth estimation is not accurate and details are lost, and target exposure is slightly low at night. So now what you've been waiting for the Motorola edge plus achieved an overall DXO mark score of 113, with 119 for photo and 101 for video, make sure to visit DXO Marco to read the full report and click the subscribe button below to be notified. Every time we post a new video.

Source : DXOMARK