Today, we would like to give you a flagship camera comparison in which LG G5, HTC 10 and Samsung Galaxy S7 edge will be examined. Then, you will know which one is the best at taking photos. Check it out now!
Information
Those are there of the most well-known flagships in the H1 of 2016, coming with modern, powerful specifications including cameras. And their rear shooters are what we are going to focus on in this post. As we know, HTC 10’s cam sports UltraPixel tech, a 12MP, 1.55µm sensor, f/1.8 aperture, OIS (to capture things well in the dark), laser autofocus, and dual LED flash. As for Samsung Galaxy S7 edge’s, this time the manufacturer decides to reduce the sensor to 12 megapixels (compared to the S6 edge’s 16MP). Though, they claim that the quality of images are better thanks to 1.4µ pixel size, PDAF, OIS, LED flash, and a slightly brighter f/1.7 aperture (compared to the HTC 10).
About LG G5’s main snapper, it boasts kind of a totally different one. A dual camera system stays on the back, consisting of a 16MP sensor (with f/1.8) and an 8MP one (f/2.4) giving 135° wide angle. Besides, laser autofocus, OIS (3-axis), plus LED flash are also on board to help produce beautiful pictures. In general, we can see that all of them have autofocus (AF) feature, but according to many people’s experience, the HTC 10’s Laser AF does not bring major innovations while the S7 edge’s Dual Pixel AF is said to be the best AF system in both good and bad light conditions.
So, those are some basic pieces of info about the cams. In reality, we would like to only talk about how they take photos outdoors, indoors and in low-light environments.
Outdoors
Firstly, basing on many shots by LG G5, Galaxy S7 edge, and HTC 10 in daylight, we notice that HTC 10 tends to use higher ISO which prevents dark things from being too dark, captures shadow areas better, and provides cleaner edges. Meanwhile, the others use lower ISO and the same dark things are not very clear in the pics. In terms of rendering colors, it is reported that brightly colored details cause problems for the snappers. Specifically, the Samsung’s handset has issues in all three color channels (red, blue and yellow) while the HTC 10’s got a lesser extent and the LG G5 struggles with blue, less with red and okay with green.
Even though the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge doesn’t do well in shooting dark parts, it does best for the rest ones. Images taken by the S7 edge are rendered with rich detail (and of course we’re talking about their bright parts). Then, the LG G5 comes second and the HTC 10 comes last. So, no doubt all the devices have their advantages and disadvantages when it comes to shootings outdoors and we can hardly say which one is the winner.
Next, let’s see how the cams work indoors.
Indoors
Indoors but there is still light although it is not natural like outdoor environment. The smartphones were used to capture richly detailed things and the result is that HTC 10 got it right; the richly detailed object in the picture taken by the HTC 10 has a “lifelike look”. The Galaxy S7 was okay despite creating some artifacts due to the shooter’s strong sharpening. As for the LG G5, it smoothed out the detail too much; even the sharpening could not make it look like the real object. After many shots, finally HTC 10 was chosen as the winner thanks to often rendering its targets in sharp detail.
Low-light conditions
Last but not least, we’re gonna find out which is the king of taking pics in low-light environments. Many images in various lighting conditions (dark, dark with bright lights, etc.) were shot and LG G5 should be the champion because the machine captured the most detail without flash, but it still had super strong flash to boot. Samsung Galaxy S7 edge had good and not good moments and HTC 10 was only produce noisy photos and worse when working with flash.
