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hey what is up guys I'm Kip EHD here and this is a one plus two it is and I can't show you guys yet because it's not out yet but if you've been following along with oneplus over the past couple weeks they've been like teasing slash trolling the release of various specs of the oneplus 2 ahead of the official announcement one of the things they haven't actually talked about yet is the information in specs about the camera so they sent me one of the phones early and I am tasked with testing this new camera so I'm not going to be promoting it anyway I'm literally just going to be figuring out if it's any good or not I do think later this year once we have the new Galaxy Note and the new iPhone and maybe the new Moto X and new Nexus we're going to have to do a sort of a full giant comparison between all the smart phone cameras but for now this is just a video on my experience with the one plus twos camera and I'm not going to be revealing anything else about it even if I have it so don't ask so first of all just get the numbers out of the way I have a photo album with all the images that I'm about to show you guys linked right below this like button they are 13 megapixel photos officially and the camera app that was telling me they are four by three photos at 12 and a half megapixels so 13 megapixel sensor and also pretty much every single photo that I took no matter bright or dim conditions was pretty much always at f/2 so F 2.0 appears to be the maximum aperture so pretty much all the photos here were taken in like one shot in auto mode so just walk up focus snap the photo and then shove it back in my pocket and my impressions of the images are pretty solid so far there's nothing too insane or out of the ordinary here but sharpness is pretty good as it should be with plenty of light like this contrast is on point and colors look pretty accurate as well and dynamic range is actually pretty healthy too without using HDR it held most of the tonal range obviously there's still extreme areas of contrast where there's still areas of total white and still areas of total black but unlike some phones like the one m9 for example this one +2 usually picks a nice balanced exposure between the highlights and the shadows so nothing too crazy here you can see everything nothing really gets blown out now there are a couple of different shooting modes in the oneplus camera software like I said I shot in automatic mode most of the time but there was also something called clear shot and then there's also HDR mode and then a beauty mode which is just to skin softening for portraits so clear shot I couldn't really pinpoint exactly what it's doing it could be better in low light but I'm not really sure yet because in most of my shots it was identical to auto mode just a lot sharper so you'll really only notice that sharpness when you zoom in could be trying to fake those like 50 megapixel shops like Oppo use to and then HDR mode which does a pretty aggressive job at bringing up the shadows in the darker areas and it also adds a lot of saturation so here again is auto clear shot and then HDR so auto HDR auto and then HDR with the moving Auto pretty impressive so there is also the panorama mode which was pretty standard now the interface guides you exactly like taking a panorama on an iPhone and it's just together pretty nicely so yeah overall I found the photos had a nice sort of balance to them and usually air it on the side of a little bit underexposed where some others actually tend to overexpose and like I said at the beginning almost every photo was at F 2.0 so not as fast as the f 1.9 or F 1.8 on the galaxy s6 and LG g4 but shooting at f/2 out all the time means the shutter speed was pretty fast and you can freeze action to get it nice and crispy and you can also get a pretty shallow depth of field going on at f/2 if your background is further away I also tried some lower light shooting as well since this is where a fast aperture should shine and it did okay I'm not really sure if it has optical image stabilization or not my guess would be no based on actually the videos that I shot so speaking of video yes the oneplus 2 shoots 4k video which is nice and crispy as you can see here when I tried moving around a bit all this stuff is handheld and even in video mode you can get some nice depth of field which I guess is still shooting at f/2 and it also is particularly good that's like really good at focusing so adjusting focus and getting it nice and sharp to start the video and then focus wall shooting was pretty good too a lot of times we see this smartphones tout 4k video but then when you go in and actually look at the video it takes it just looks like muddy like up scaled 1080p or even worse so I'm glad this isn't the case here before okay looks good it gets a pass also you can record 720p video in slow motion alright so here's one final test I brought together a couple of the top dogs in smartphone quality right now LG g4 galaxy s6 iPhone six-plus and I threw in the oneplus one from last year all to compare with the oneplus 2 camera and here's what I got if you're watching in 4k or the highest resolution you can that will help you see the differences also I'll have some full size links again to look at below here's the oneplus one from last year and then here's the same photo on the iPhone 6 plus the LG g4 the galaxy s6 and then the oneplus 2 and you can see side by side just in terms of exposure and detail and color what it tends to favor you getting sort of a good portrait a characteristic of what a photo from the oneplus 2 looks like not the sharpest thing in the world but pretty good exposure and Colour and again here's another one I took of a tree trunk like just for the sharpness and detail test so here's a oneplus one then the iPhone 6 + LG g4 galaxy s6 and then one plus two so again on the side-by-side it holds its own an image processing is at least definitely a step up from last year's model so there you go guys that's the camera on the oneplus 2 a lot of the stuff you talk about when you consider taking pictures on a smartphone is just the shooting experience when you're taking photos and videos with it and the oneplus was pretty quick to take photos I wouldn't say it's the fastest but it's pretty quick once you tap the shutter to actually focus and take the picture and the focusing itself was actually very quick thanks to what appears to be laser autofocus at work in the hardware there you go that's another spec laser autofocus made the photos and videos focused very quickly it's definitely not the best camera on any smartphone I've used I would I would give that still hands down right now to the galaxy s6 followed closely by the LG g4 and then a couple others right there but at least if you're checking down the boxes and seeing if this is an exponent want to buy you know that the camera doesn't suck it's pretty decent I would give it like a B+ - a - given the numbers I don't know anything about the price of this phone but given the hardware it seems pretty good it's also not even finalized software it's the version 1.0 of their camera apps so assuming that stuff can also be improved in processing can be tweaked before the final version I feel like is a pretty good thing to see so thanks for watching guys feel free to share this video if you think others will be interested in the camera quality of the oneplus 2 and I'll talk to you guys in the very next video peace