These days one of your main considerations when buying a new smartphone is the quality of its photos. Thankfully, as technology continues to improve and disseminate, you don’t have to fork out a fortune to own a smartphone with a decent, nay, a good, camera. Here we offer three such worthy photo-shooting cameras at three different price points.

 

 

Samsung Galaxy M20

Available

Rs 18,490

Samsung Stores/ Daraz

 

The Galaxy M20 sports a combination of a 13MP primary sensor and an f/1.9 aperture at the back along with a 5MP ultrawide camera. The secondary camera has a 120-degree field of view, which is great for capturing larger buildings or big groups of people in a single frame. In adequate ambient light, the phone manages to capture good looking images with a decent amount of detail.

 

It’s fair to say it can shoot pretty Instagram photos and meet your social media needs,with the photo quality only a wee worse than what you get from the pricier Samsung phones. The big deal is again that it can click wide-angle shots using the second lens, which is rare on any smartphone at this price. The live-focus (bokeh) pictures come out quite impressive in M20. The software does a fine job of detecting depth and edges to give you a proper blur in pictures.

 

Mi A2

Available

Rs 30,999

Mi Stores/ Daraz

 

Mi A2 competes against premium handsets when it comes to camera performance. It comes with two new imaging sensors at the back—a 12MP f/1.75 sensor joined by a 20MP f/1.75 lens. The secondary camera is designed to become active during low-light shooting. The camera interface can be used to toggle between the flash, HDR, and live filters. There’s also portrait mode, along with a manual mode that lets you select between the regular 12MP sensor and the 20MP low-light shooter.

 

The Mi A2 has a 20MP front camera with Xiaomi’s AI features to lighten up your pictures. The phone employs pixel binning technology, so expect premium pictures. You also get a software-assisted portrait mode for the front camera, and it works pretty well most of the time. It can capture some really impressive images in good light, and doesn’t disappoint in low-light either, managingto click well-exposed photos with good detail and optimum saturation.

 

 

Huawei P30 Pro

Available

Rs 119,900

Huawei Stores/ Daraz

 

This phone is a beast when it comes to the camera. The P30 Pro packs three main cameras and a Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor that measures the distance to objects in the field of view. The main 40MP camera is what you’ll use in most cases. Because it uses pixel binning, it saves 10MP images by default. For groups of people or landscapes, you can switch to the ultra-wide camera. If you need to bring your subject closer, switch to the telephoto.

 

In general, pictures taken with the P30 Pro look great, with crisp detail, pleasant colors, accurate white balance, and good dynamic range. P30 Pro can zoom in optically up to 5X and then switch to lossless zoom until 10X, and digital zoom goes up to a whopping 50X.The portrait mode on the P30 Pro is among the best out there. This is where that TOF camera comes to play by measuring the distance to objects in the scene. It also performs phenomenally in low light and its 32 MP camera should be enough to satiate your selfie/tik-tok needs.

 

Huawei has also tested recording record videos with two cameras at a time, so one of them can capture the full scene, while the other can zoom in on the subject. This feature, called Dual-View Video, is coming as an OTA in the coming weeks.