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what's up guys Lew here and this is the iPhone 5 camera test if you haven't subscribed yet definitely click that button right now so you don't miss out on any of my iPhone 5 coverage or tests there's a button around you find it click it anyways this video here we're going to be looking at the rear facing camera as well as the newly improved forward facing camera which now shoot 720p making it a viable option for shooting vlogs and things like that stick around till the end of the video to get all the details on both cameras but to get started on this test we've got to do the most basic thing that people do with their camera phones still images so I took the iPhone 5 to my local supermarket where there are a number of colors that can be represented you know through pictures I think it's a good place to take a phone when you're testing it plus you get to look at you know cookies and things like that it's a win-win situation so anyways as you guys can tell here I mean the results speak for themselves this is still one of the top if not the top camera on a smartphone as of right now now of course the Lumia was recently announced which is supposed to challenge this and of course I can't say too much about it until I've got my hands on it so I won't talk too much about the Lumia right now instead we'll stick to the iPhone and as you take it outdoors you can even start to see it perform even better as there's more available light if you guys want to inspect any of these images in more detail just feel free to pause the video and take a closer look at any of them as you can tell the colors are represented in a vibrant manner but they're not oversaturated like some camera phones and some cameras for that matter tend to do with images like these and another thing to notice I look at the detail on the bark in this particular image here and then you can see as the focus changes it's really good at giving you more depth of field than other you know camera phones are capable of because it does have that large aperture for such a small lens but anyway anyways then the next thing that I wanted to mention is the fact that it doesn't really tend to over expose the areas that you don't want overexposed which again is a common problem in camera phones so the sky wasn't completely blowing out my image you can see this is a good example of that now it also shoots these new panoramas which are awesome and really easy to shoot the app is really easy to use I guess you can call it an app it's a feature within the camera app and it's really easy to use to make your own panorama so that's always a positive thing now the next thing to talk about after we get finished up with the stills here is of course the video mode which again is incredibly impressive here you guys can get a look at the sharpness you've got lots of resolution to work with at 1080p the colors again our vibrant without being oversaturated and probably the thing that stood out to me most was the improved stabilization when walking you guys have to remember most often when walking around filming video especially with a device as small as a phone it's very difficult to keep the phone from shaking now granted I do shoot video for a living here and there so I do sort of know how to hold it and to sort of allow your knees to take some of the shock so I was trying a little bit to stabilize it and in this particular frame I was actually leaning up against something but as you can see you're getting really nice movement really nice frame rate of course it's not going to be as stable when walking as a dedicated camera that has optical image stabilization but then again it's you know a third of the size of your average camera to begin with and it's a phone so you kind of have to curb your expectations just a bit but the coloring is really nice and as I said before you've got lots of resolution to go around and even when walking it's completely usable so I definitely recommend this device from a camera perspective if the camera is the most important aspect of your smartphone purchase then it's pretty tough to get better than the latest generation iPhone 5 you know for most people this is going to completely overtake their need to have a dedicated camera at all now my case I own multiple cameras because of the fact that I do video production for a living so you know for me it's not going to replace any of those cameras for obvious reasons but for the casual user I just can't see the need anymore by today's standards to carry around something like a point-and-shoot when you're getting these kind of results out of something as slim and light as the iPhone 5 which is literally on you at all times it sits in your pocket it's super convenient and you're getting this kind of quality out as you guys can tell I'm a big fan and I would say my expectations were exceeded you know I did not expect to see these kinds of results out of the latest gen and to see this kind of improvement over the 4s this is just really beautiful stuff to look at so the next thing to look at guys is the forward facing camera so here's a closer look at the new iPhone 5 as a vlogging camera I'm using the forward-facing 720p camera right now and I'm walking along a little bit too so we can get a sense for the image stabilization or lack thereof but the quality is definitely improved over the previous version I can tell already just looking at the screen without even seeing it on the computer so I'll go ahead and upload this and hopefully that'll give you guys a better idea of what to expect from the forward-facing cam on the brand new iPhone 5