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We have retested this device using the new Wide and Night test protocols and updated the scores in this review, but we have not changed the text from the original review.
This camera comprises 16Mp super-wide, 12Mp standard, and 12Mp telephoto units with focal lengths equivalent to 16mm, 25mm, and 50mm, respectively. Our test device is the triple-camera version. This article is designed to highlight the most important results of our testing. For more information about the DxOMark Mobile test protocol, click here. It also handles target exposures well even in backlit situations, and its color rendering is usually good outdoors and indoors.
Conversely, there are many artifacts visible in images, and this brings down its overall score. Video footage shows good color and exposure in most situations. In addition, image stabilization works efficiently, especially when counteracting low-frequency motion, and the autofocus is fast to react to changes in the scene in brighter light and under indoor conditions. AF failures are more common in low light, however, and video footage shows some noticeable artifacts when walking while recording, such as a jello effect, frame shifts, and differences in sharpness between frames.
Even in tricky situations, such as with backlighting and in low light, the LG G8 ThinQ does a good job of exposing the main subject. As shown by the comparison samples below, it can produce usable exposures down to very low light levels. When it has issues, the exposure system tends towards slight underexposure. The bright background of backlit scenes can trick many cameras into underexposing, and this is a common problem with portrait shots in bright locations. However, the LG G8 ThinQ copes very well, usually identifying that the person in the foreground is the subject, and thus skews the exposure towards them.
In terms of dynamic range , the G8 ThinQ does well, but in comparison with the best smartphone cameras available at the moment, its dynamic range is a touch more limited, with slightly more highlight clipping in the brightest parts and shadow clipping in the darkest parts of the image.
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But while the G8 ThinQ has the same generally good color response in different levels of light, some color casts are occasionally visible. While the G8 shows good noise control for the most part, especially in the shadows , some luminance noise is visible in even-toned areas such as the sky in bright light shots. The enlarged sections of the images below show how much more visible the noise is in the sky from the LG G8 ThinQ. The strong edges of the window frames look good, but some of the finer details of the foliage are lost.
Indoors, where the light and contrast is lower, the LG G8 ThinQ struggles to replicate some finer details. For example, the grain on the door in the images below is lost in places. The main issue here is the loss of acutance , or the perception of detail, towards the corners of the image. Subtle details are almost completely lost if they are in the corner of the image.
Cyan shift , which in the sample below can be seen as the unnatural halo around the sun, is also visible in some shots. That said, image detail when zooming is not quite on the same level as on the best in class. The sample shot below was captured in the lab at a bright lux and at a subject distance of cm approximately x zoom.
The difference is slightly more visible when the light conditions are a little dimmer. The lab sample below was captured at a cm subject distance under indoor light conditions lux. When the flash from the G8 is the only light source , the camera handles the target exposure, color rendering, and white balance well. However, when there is some additional lighting, which is more likely in most real-world shooting situations, the camera struggles to get things right. In better news, the results are consistent and repeatable, so neither the exposure nor the white balance changes from shot to shot.
The most noticeable problem is the inconsistent application of blur effects to images of the same scene.
In some images, the blur starts quite sharply behind the portrait subject, while in others, the blur begins appearing much farther behind them. In addition, there are depth estimation artifacts. As with its stills, the G8 generally gets the target exposure right and produces pleasant colors.
Perhaps the biggest surprise, however, is that the AF system, which is fast and reliable with stills, is a weak area with video. The tracking AF system is a particular problem, and the subject can drift in and out of focus when it moves. The website is very user friendly making it simple to choose my repair, pay and send off my phone IPhone 5 with a VERY cracked screen without and any worry. The website updated me on my repairs progress and the phone was returned good as new within a week.
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