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hey it's Josh regard from Android 30 what's going on everybody and every video and photo that you're seeing in this future focus was taken on the cameras of the LG g3 why don't we just jump right in and take a look at some foodie pictures now this video is taken at 4k and you'll see the 4k video sample at the end of this linked so that you can take a look at all the 4k goodness but the reason why I wanted to look at these photos first before I got into anything is that they already show some of the low or lower light situations in this case we just have the lamp shining down on the Korean barbecue grill and as we do the 100 crop we do see that detail is pretty good but a level of noise is still very easily seen throughout did you know that Friday was national donor day well we do have some donuts here in these pictures and we're gonna zoom into those as well here's a picture of some right now getting really close in there using the auto mode on there and as we crop in we do see that level of grain throughout it is something that we're going to see throughout all of these crops in these lower light situations but os+ seems to be doing a very good job still as we still have quite a bit of detail it's not too blurred as the stabilization does a good job of keeping things at least under control and in this particular case we zoom right in and there is a little bit of a blur on there maybe my hand was a little too shaky but still looks pretty good here's a selfie that I took using that gesture where you put your hand up and once the phone detects your hand you create a fist event at 3 second countdown happens it is pretty nice to use as it keeps you from having to fiddle with the buttons after that we have Corona del Mar that very next day where we took the camera out to the beach to see what we could get out of there and it's not a full daylight situation where we have cloud cover as you can see up there but it was also a good chance to use HDR now we're gonna go ahead and put HDR here as you can see and not only does the sky look a lot better you see a lot more vibrancy throughout all of the at least darker colors throughout the photo here's another HDR example as we have the regular photo and then the HDR photo it does brighten things up quite a bit as it takes those different exposures here's my favorite one though as even though my fingers right there you're going to see what I mean when it comes to HDR right here the HDR takes different exposures and you can see that the rows on there looks really great it may not be fully exposed but it still looks a lot better than the original it looks really nice with the Sun in the background as you probably saw in that video the stabilization was actually pretty good as OAS plus also helps with the video I have pretty steady hands but it's nice to get that extra boost after that we'll go into the specs this is the 13 megapixel shooter and I'm using it at the full resolution at 4 by 3 aspect ratio while cropping into certain photos I did want to show this one because it looked like it was able to get the focus pretty well but you see that little bit of blur because it was a moving subject but it didn't do a very bad job and that's because of the laser focus on the back does a really good job this camera is leaps and bounds better in terms of focusing speed when compared to the LG g2 and when you turn on the camera for the first time you'll notice that it is a touch to focus and also touch to capture interface and you don't even have any elements on the screen until you actually want them to when you hit the menu button unless otherwise stated the vast majority of these photos are taken at the full auto and it is the mode that you're going to be using the most because you actually don't get too much control over the various settings for your photos you can change the resolution you can change the size of the videos that you end up recording but after that there really isn't a whole lot that you can do in terms of catering the shot to what you need it to be so this camera is made to be the kind that gets you the photos that you need without much fuss at all and you know what I will admit it does a pretty good job it went it might be nice to change the ISO or maybe the white the white balance in certain cases but for the most part all these photos as you can see look pretty good already even on this overcast day as far as color profile goes you will see that these pictures are all a little bit warmer on that scale but I do prefer that in my photos more than having a cool photo because that blue hue that you get on cooler temperature photos does tend to look a little bit less attractive than warmer tone photos which is what you get on the LG g3 so ultimately the g3 s camera is a great performer whether or not it's the best one out there or something we're going to have to save for our comparisons when I do camera shootouts amongst all of the flagship phones now that they're all basically out but ultimately the laser focusing system is one that works incredibly well and it makes taking pictures on this camera not only speedy it makes it a breeze and also incredibly fun alright let's take a look at the last two in this final section we'll take a look at panorama and I'll sweep through this entire photo right now so you can see that not only is stitched together pretty well actually it is also pretty well exposed throughout and I will say that that's probably because we did have some cloud cover so the lighting was pretty uniform throughout the entire photo we didn't have any sunspots that would change the exposure one way or the other so you do have a pretty uniform lighting situation and also the color profile like I said before has that warmer tone to it and then of course to end the day we do have this sunset photo and here it is just going through it right now this is a darker photo because we're just looking at the ocean and all the cloud cover above but ultimately this is a panorama that looks really nice and it's probably one of the better panorama modes that I've used on any phone that's far and finally the magic focus it's a mode that's available where you'll take a bunch of photos at different depths and you'll be able to select between all of them as you can see here in these screenshots from the interface I did find magic focus to kind of work it wasn't necessarily the most reliable one it may not be my favorite mode on the lg g3 but at least in this case it did kind of get the job done making my whiskey glass better in focus than the rest of the field and finally to bring it full circle we have one more low-light test using dr. Lloyd right here this has a lamp shining on it and then I turn off the lamp and you'll see the grain and the noise just goes all the way throughout turn on the flash though and you'll notice that the flash is probably not one of the best performers out there it really does harshing out the middle of the photo it doesn't have a very uniform look to it here's another example with my coaster turn off the light there's all the noise but once you turn on the flash it definitely does not look as good at all as the original photo if you had good lighting because it's a pretty harsh flash it doesn't create a nice uniform light throughout finally my last two cameras right here with a couple of items in the background again the noise is all there and then you turn on the flash and the middle portion of the photo gets too harsh compared to the rest so the flash is not the best performer but it is there if you really do need it and so there you have it for this camera shootout using the cameras of the LG g3 you can see right there on the left side we have a 4k video sample using a bunch of clips that I took with this camera so you can see the video quality for yourself aside from the warmer tone throughout all of the photos I had a really great time with this camera especially because of the fast laser guided focus and we will go into that a little bit more with my full review which is coming very so stay tuned to Android authority for all of the best LG g3 coverage and keep it tuned here job with some likes subscribe if you haven't already and remember that Android Authority is your source for all things Android