Sunday, December 28, 2014

Exploring The Very Best Smartphone Camera Features

By David Throop


There are many excellent smart phones on the market today, and most of them have cameras. However, picture taking capabilities among modern mobile phones can vary a great deal. Here are some tips on smart phones, to help you get the best smartphone camera features for the least amount of money.

When you shop for smart phone cameras, you want something that is fast and simple. After all, you don't want to wait on one of those special moments "frozen in time". By the time you make adjustments or wait for the camera to boot up, you could miss the shot. A good model should be as easy as pointing and shooting, and yet it should still deliver good quality images.

Megapixels are often heavily advertised with cameras. However, many smart phone users have very little knowledge of megapixels or even know what they are. A pixel is a tiny component of a digital image and it takes a million of them to create one megapixel. The more megapixels within an image the clearer it should be, but this is only up to a point. In fact, megapixels may not be such a major issue these days.

As you shop smart phones, you will notice that some have many more megapixels (MP) than others. If you need a camera for printing out clear color photos, you should try to get a phone that has as many megapixels as possible. However, most phones are not used for this purpose, so you may not need as many megapixels as you think. In fact, five megapixels is usually plenty for taking photos for uploading to social network sites and other websites, so ten or sixteen megapixels may be more than you actually need.

When you check into top smartphones you'll see things like digital image stabilization features. This is good to have if you take a lot of pictures on the go. Maybe you like taking action shots or movies from inside of you car. If your phone has digital image stabilization it will eliminate many of the blurring effects from shaking and camera movements.

High dynamic range or HDR is a good feature to have in smart phone cameras. It has special qualities that allow the camera to create 3 images of each picture you take. Those images are all blended together to give you one high quality photo. However, this feature is best used on still type images and may be of little use for action photos.

Many modern mobile phones have LED flash features for taking better images in low light. However, some models come with dual LED flash and others only a single flash. When you want better flash images, a dual LED flash is the best choice. Yet it uses more power and can add quite a bit to the price of the phone.

As a general rule, if you want to get the most camera phone for your money, ease of operation is very important. Megapixels are not that big of a deal. Digital image stabilization and dual LED flash as two excellent options to consider, if you can afford them.




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