Camera

Like the LG V10, the cameras and the overall camera experience is a big part of what LG is pushing. They are doing this with a triple camera setup. The front-facing camera is a 5MP model with a wide angle lens. This isn’t anything spectacular in itself but it is at least in line with other front facing cameras on premium phones. I really wanted to focus on the rear facing cameras though because for most people their phones have replaced their day to day cameras. Even for me, someone who loves taking photos and used to pack up my DSLR or at least a point-n-shoot I almost always just use my phone cameras anymore.

The V20 has a 16MP camera as its main rear facing camera. This one has a standard angle lens at 75 degrees, a 1/2.8" image sensor and a focal range of 1.8. This is a good camera in itself but I was most interested in how they also went with a second 8MP camera with a wide angle lens. The wide angle shows 135 degrees, has a 1/4'” image sensor, and a focal range of 2.4. So how do they compare? Well, check out the two photos below. Both were taken from the same spot. The new wide angle lens is great for getting more into your picture, but you do get a bit of a fish eye look. This is great for taking up close pictures of larger things or when you want to get a picture of everyone but are in a smaller room or a car.

I took all of our standard photos as well. I started with an outside photo to check out the full light performance. Sadly the winter has taken almost all of the color out of the small tree outside that I try to compare with so it looks washed out, but this is actually spot on for what it looks like right now.

A cat shot in a dark room with bright outside light behind the subject still came out well.

Then we have the triple shot of a small quadcopter with LED lights on. The first photo is with my photo lights on but turned down to their lowest brightness. The second is with no photo lights but with the phones flash turned on. The last photo is no flash and no photo lights in a dark room. All three came out in photo and look decent. Having proper lighting helped but even the flash photo came out better than expected.

Here is a random shot of the memory card as well with our recently painted GTX 1080’s with photo lights on with a blue background. The V20 camera did almost as good of a job as our DSLR.

The camera software itself is the same layout as all recent google phones. The main difference being the addition of the two buttons to flip between the standard camera and the wide angle lens up on the top. You can quickly get to your main settings and flip between all three cameras or flip between photo or video with this setup.