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after a good showing in the g4 and then the v10 after it of course one of the main features of the LG g5 that we want to take a look at is the camera so the structure of a car from Android thority what's going on everybody and this is a closer look at the LG g5 s camera so we're spending time with the LG g5 here in Barcelona Spain and we have this wonderful backdrop that we've already been taking a lot of pictures with using the g5 and we have the new set up on the back with these two lenses on the back that provide not only the regular lens construction but also a wide-angle lens of 135 degrees worth of field of view of course having this new camera setup means that the design of the g5 is pretty radically different from ones that we've seen in the past especially with the g4 in the v10 but with these two cameras what we have is a wide-angle version that is of eight megapixels and then a 16 megapixel regular camera is going to accompany it and being able to go from wide-angle to a regular and more narrow view is going to happen automatically as you zoom in and out of the photo which we'll show you in a little bit as far as the front-facing camera goes it is a 8 megapixel shooter of course one of the best parts about the cameras in previous LG iterations is I had a great manual mode we're going to take a look at that in a little bit one of the main shortcuts to get into it is pressing the volume down button a couple of times and you get right into the camera interface now a lot of this will look pretty familiar I'll head over to the simple mode first and you'll see that it is a basic point-and-shoot sort of interface so what we have here is the wide-angle view as you can see denoted by the icons on the top and if we just press on any area it will focus there using the included laser autofocus and just take the picture as I'm pressing the screen but of course you can pinch to zoom in order to zoom in and you'll see the icon change up here as i zoom in it changes to the regular lens the 16 megapixel lens that is not of that very wide field-of-view but of course it's going to have the same property of just taking the picture after focusing as I tap the screen now moving on to the auto mode this is where you'll get a lot of different modes available in the mode area right here everything from auto to a nice pop out that'll put some style on the photo we can add a lens blur to the outer rim we can also do the black and white for the outside which looks pretty nice as well I'm going to take that photo right there and that is one of the modes that is available multi-view as you can see the picture right now is basically you could see me in the camera right now you can take a picture one by one by one to create a very nice effect on there other modes include a snap and panorama mode a slo-mo which is basically for video of course and then a time-lapse feature that allows you to take a really nice photo every however many seconds as you can see in the setting right there in order to record a nice-looking time-lapse video using photos but that gets all of the modes out of the way so let's take a look at some of the settings we do have the ability to change the aspect ratio of course and also to show what kind of HD photo and video you're going to be taking including 4k video they also have HDR that can be turned on and off or set to the auto so you don't have to do all that guesswork from here you can have some film looks as well to stylize the shot including black and white and then a few extra modes and settings like image stabilization that you can use on top of the OIS that is already constructed into the cameras speaking of OIS we took some video while walking through the streets of Barcelona and you can see it right now and the OAS seems to be doing a pretty good job of making even my steady hands look even better but now we can jump into the manual mode and this is where all the granular control can be found you have everything from the different sliders that are available even the white balance is done in the Kelvin readings and you can see that I'm actually making the photo that much warmer or I can make it that much cooler and then of course we'll hit Auto to go back to the regular setting you can also see what you're shooting with here at the top we have the white balance reading at 4900 Kelvin we even have the shutter speed at 1 over 180 and the apertures at F 1.8 if I was to zoom out to create the wide angle you can see just how much more of the photo you can create so by zooming in and out like that they move seamlessly between the two with that just kind of 1/2 second pause in between to switch between the two modules even more sliders down here including the shutter speed if you want to get some nice slow maybe perhaps during night shots you want to have a much slower shutter speed or even faster if you want to capture motion we'll go ahead and just head that back over to one over 125 and then ISO readings if you need to get a little bit more punch in your photos especially during low-light situations so that is the manual mode and we actually took a lot of photos with the LG g5 while out here in Barcelona and you can see for yourself and judge for yourself what the quality is like now we do have to mention that the cameras on all LG g5 that you might be seeing here at MWC are not final software so you have to sort of take that into account and that is why we're not necessarily comparing the pictures from the g5 to any other phones at the moment you can actually take this as a preview of what you can expect and if it's anything like the g4 or the v10 that came after it we think that the pictures are going to come out pretty great but you can always judge for yourself by looking at these photos so that should pretty much do it for this quick look this feature focus on the cameras of the LG g5 hopefully you're enjoying all of the photos that you're seeing right now and you can judge for yourself what do you think the quality might be like but there might be even better once the extra phone comes out because this is not final software that said however we have a lot of fun already with this camera especially considering the wide-angle lens that is included and that dual camera setup looks like it should be really fun to use the front-facing camera does seem to have a fairly narrow field of view so you might have to take that into account when you're taking your selfies but at least when you want to get even better field of view for things like scenery or any landscapes you can definitely use that for the rear facing camera overall however we're excited to really put this camera through its paces and to compare it to plenty of other phones including the original LG g4 the v10 and even the Samsung phones that are coming out a little bit later this year so keep it tuned to Android 34 even more about to the LG g5 as we're spending some quality time with the phone right now here in Barcelona Spain of course we're here for MWC 2016 so make sure you stay tuned here for that and the rest of our coverage because we are your source for all things Android