ROG Phone 5 Cameras - A Great Camera Setup By RevAtlas

Last year we did a video on the ROG phone 3, where we spoke in length about its excellent camera capabilities. Now this was a phone that many wouldn't have expected to feature great cameras, because similar gaming phones from other brands are often equipped with subpar hardware and pretty poor camera software, and given the excuse that a gaming phone doesn't need to have good cameras. However, considering that you are essentially looking at a flagship phone with the highest specifications on everything, why does that have to stop with the cameras? That's where I feel ASUS have excelled with the ROG phone 3, and this year gone a step further with the kg phone 5. This is sunny from redress and here's. My experience with the cameras on the ROG phone 5. On paper.

The ROG phone 5 is quite similar to the phone 3 in terms of the camera hardware itself, and that just shows how great the hardware was back then, and still is you get a primary 64 megapixel Sony, mix 686, one by 1.73, inch sensor with f 1.8 aperture, a secondary 8, megapixel, ultra-wide angle, camera and a 5 megapixel macro camera, but where the change really lies is the benefits from the superior spectra, 580 ISP on the new snapdragon 888 chipsets, which is 35 faster than the outgoing model, as well as the feedback and improvements that have been made via software and tuning the camera hardware. The primary camera takes great photos in terms of image quality, with overall good sharpness and great amount of detail resolved, as well as having accurate colors with a slight boost at times now, the white balance is also pretty accurate and, overall, all these add up to a good image at the end. Now one thing you quite like last year was the really wild field of view on the ultra-wide angle, camera, and that continues this year as well. But what's made better is the white balance, as well as the sharpness and detail. The overall noise levels are also lower than before, owing to the better ISP and the tuning.

The dynamic range is also very good and is one of the best that we've seen even for an ultra-wide angle, camera and in terms of portrait mode, there's good edge detection and the both is rendered quite naturally, one slight gripe that we had last year was the reduction of sharpness in portrait mode, which this year seems to have been improved quite a bit. Judging from these images, it's good to see that ASUS is taking feedback seriously. Now the native performance in low light has been improved quite a bit, especially with more detail coming from the shadows, but please do use the night mode to get very impressive results from the camera and doing so will give a much cleaner output with lower the amount of noise, higher sharpness and detail, as well as a much better exposed frame. One neat feature this time around is the auto-detection of the night mode, where the phone turns on night mode automatically when it detects that the ambient light has dropped below a certain level. Now, while there isn't a telephoto camera on board, you can actually make use of the digital zoom within the camera.

App now I know most of you would be thinking why zoom, when you can just crop in later. Well, that's partly true, but the reason I say this is that on the yogi phone 5, the camera app understands that you're shooting a zoomed in image, adjust the parameters and optimize the shot, giving a much sharper and blurry image than you would get with a crop later on, not to mention that the metering is also adjusted accordingly to the zoom portion and looks more impressive than the crop actually would now. The front facing camera remains the same: 24 megapixel f2 sensor and last year the sharpness and dynamic range surprised me. It remains good this year as well, along with a good portrait mode too, and in terms of video, you get 8k 30fps video recording where there's plenty of detail to go around along with good colors and dynamic range. But the best thing is that even at 8k there is as for very stable output.

Now, if you need more dynamic range, you can shoot 4k videos with HDR turned on which improve the dynamic range further, and here too, you have as for good, stable videos. Now, if you need more stable footage, then you need to turn on the hyper, steady mode, and here is how that looks both when shooting, and how the footage ends up. Looking like, which is very impressive. Like last year, you can shoot slow motion. Videos at 4k resolution, which, for a creator like me, is a great thing considering how, when you shoot video clips and then combine them in post, you really want to put on the slow motion clip in between, but often since, most camera phones are limited to 1080p in slow motion resolution, the jump from 4k to 1080p and then back to 4k is quite jarring in terms of quality other than 4k at 120fps.

You can also get 480fps at 720p resolution, and you also get a 4k time lapse mode. Another feature that I quite liked was the tracking autofocus, which works very well with videos. Now the shutter button too here is multi-function in nature, where you can just pull up to enable a custom timer up to a max of 10 seconds and pulling the button right to take burst shots and pulling it left to start video recording, and this makes it quite easy to switch between the modes using just one hand and the thumb and for those who want more control over the shots and impressively even on videos. To roger phone 5 even has a pro mode for both photos and videos, and the latter supports even up to 8k resolution now AI scene detection is also there which lets you capture images across various objects, with relative ease, thanks to neural processing, on the fly to enhance the shot in the settings for the video feature, you also see an option called audio effects, and what this does are reduce the amount of wind noise. Now it does this beautifully thanks to four microphones that the kg phone five has on board and the directional audio and the videos recorded sounds incredibly accurate and differentiating between the left and right channels.

Overall, the ROG phone five from ASUS continues the tradition of breaking free from the stereotype that people think is true. Not all gaming phones have bad cameras and definitely not the ROG phone five. In fact, the ROG phone 5 has great cameras that are, in fact, as good as any other flagship phone out there. In fact, in terms of features and tweaks that it provides through the camera UI, I feel it can even do better than most of them. Thanks for watching this video, if you have any questions, do let us know in the comment section below see you again next one, and please don't forget to hit the subscribe button.

Source : RevAtlas