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what's up guys long hair from Android Authority and welcome back to another episode of camera 360 on this show we attempt to break down a smartphone camera in about three minutes time we're gonna give you the gist of everything that you need to know while keeping everything short and sweet we're gonna talk about the camera app its features and of course the image quality today smartphone is the LG G 8 so let's go ahead and dive right in before we get started let's quickly go over the camera specs the LG G 8 has a 12 megapixel primary shooter at F 1.5 with optical image stabilization and a 16 megapixel wide-angle secondary lens the front-facing shooter is 8 megapixel and is also paired with a 3d time-of-flight sensor moving right along the LG G 8 has a pretty standard camera app the shutter button is on the bottom and is flanked by a video recording button and image preview above these you've got a rotating set of shooting modes to pick from with a bunch of extra ones under the more tab the camera settings can be accessed in the top left and a few other settings are lined along the top that will change depending on which mode you're in you can switch between the modes on the bottom by swiping left or right some camera apps usually let you switch modes by swiping on the viewfinder as well but the LG G 8 doesn't do that instead swiping on the viewfinder regardless of direction simply flips between the front and rear cameras it would have been nice if swiping left or right was reserved for switching camera modes but minor complaint aside the app works smoothly generally most smartphone cameras tend to perform well in daylight conditions but in the case of the LG G 8 the camera had quite a few issues it sometimes was a little off with white balance in certain scenes and with shots leaning towards a very blue or cold color cast as you can see in a couple of these examples here exposure is usually pretty spot-on and photos are crisp but shadows are a little darker than we'd like even with Auto HDR turned on HDR is something we rely on fairly often with smartphone cameras but the G ace HDR processing could use some work you can still wind up with shots that have a lot of overexposed highlights and darker areas are underexposed giving you a lot less detail than you might expect production from the LGG a is vibrant but they look a tad artificial and over processed if the white balance is right the shots still look pretty attractive but if the white balance is off well then you just get an extremely blue looking image the LGG 8 does its best with capturing detail when there's plenty of light you can still see a lot of texture and detail in the print of these book pages and if you take a closer look at these meat kabobs it retains a lot of detail on the chili flakes low-light shots do generally look quite nice with fairly good exposure and colors remain vibrant it also seems like the LGG eight favours a much warmer white balance and darker situations again you'll really only spot problems like softening and motion blur when you look closer but the results are good given the circumstances the LGG eight won't knock your socks off with its selfie photos but it's capable of grabbing good shots with natural colors good skin tones and exposure LG's notification features are on by default and while you can turn them off you still get some amount of skin softening regardless on the video side of things it's great being able to record 4k at 60fps which is something that still isn't available on every flagship the 60fps makes for a much smoother looking video but you will be sacrificing image stabilization when shooting at these higher settings which is the biggest downside because of that you'll get a lot of jitters and shakes unless you get some sort of stabilizer like a gimbal over all the LGG eight produces great imagery but trails behind some of its competition giving it a total score of seven point four out of ten if you want to find out why make sure to check out the written version linked in the description below which covers the camera much more in depth and provides a more detailed breakdown of the overall score if you want to see the full resolution images for yourself we'll also have that link below as well thanks for watching and we'll see you guys in the next episode of camera 360