Apple i. Phone 8 Plus reviewed The best smartphone camera weve ever tested. The Apple i. Phone 8 Plus has a main camera system truly worthy of a flagship phone. Similar to the i. Phone 7 Plus, it features two cameras a wide angle 1. MP main camera, and a 1. MP telephoto camera with a slower lens for zooming in on subjects and for special effects such as Portrait mode. Comparing the camera datasheets of the older i. Step-3a.jpg?resize=600%2C337&ssl=1' alt='Best Noise Reduction Software Noise Ninja Download' title='Best Noise Reduction Software Noise Ninja Download' />Ive used many noise reduction plugins and programs and Ive never seen one consistently provide me with the latitude and high end results that DeNoise does. In my salad days I posted some supremely unflattering selfies. I was a photo newbie, a bearded amateur mugging for the camera. Im happy to say that the results of. Phone 7 Plus and the new i. Phone 8 Plus make the two look almost identical however, under the hood upgrades have given the 8 Plus an image quality and camera performance boost in almost every one of our tested categories. Key camera specifications 1. MP main wide angle camera with BSI sensor, f1. MP telephoto camera, f2. Optical zoom, with digital zoom up to 1. Portrait mode. Portrait Lighting betaOptical image stabilization main camera onlyQuad LED True Tone flash with Slow sync. Autofocus with focus pixels. Wide gamut color capture. Body and face detection. Auto. HDRTest summary. The Apple i. Phone 8 Plus is the best performing mobile device camera we have ever tested. Its overall Dx. OMark Mobile score of 9. Google Pixel and the HTC U1. Phone 8 just scored. Its Photo score of 9. Pixels 9. 0. For Video, its score of 8. HTC U1. 1 and slightly below the Pixels 9. Of course, the Pixel is nearly a year old now, so it makes sense that Apples new flagship is breaking new ground. Bright light. Images captured outdoors with the i. Phone 8 Plus are generally stunning, with excellent detail preservation, accurate color, and impressive dynamic range. The i. Phone 8 Plus builds on the excellent performance of the i. Phone 7 family with even better results in bright light. In particular, it has improved exposure calculation, and excellent ability to capture HDR High Dynamic Range scenes. This scene has proved challenging to many of the smartphones we have tested, but the 8 Plus handles it like a champ. If you didnt know that the image came from a phone, it would it would be very hard to tell. Compared to the i. Phone 7 family, the i. Phone 8 models do a better job of capturing HDR scenes. Black Wonderful Life Acapella Downloader. In this comparison, you can see that they offer better detail preservation and overall exposure than the i. Phone 7 Plus. Overall, their performance matches that of the Google Pixel for the scene click on the individual images to bring up the full resolution versions for easier comparison i. Phone 8 Plus. Google Pixeli. Phone 8i. Phone 7 Plus. Low light and Flash. Low light Exposures are generally accurate, although there can be some underexposure in very low light. The 8 Pluss strong performance in low light and with flash, combined with its excellent ability to recognize and properly expose faces, make it a natural for anyone wanting to easily create memories of their indoor events. Even in tricky mixed lighting situations, the i. Phone 8 Plus does an excellent job of providing an accurate and detailed rendering of indoor scenes. Zoom and Bokeh. While the i. Phone 8 Plus camera is amazing overall, it is in our new test categories of Zoom and Bokeh where it really stands out. While the technical specifications for the second camera that help make these features possible are very similar to the specs for the second camera on the i. Phone 7 Plus on paper, upgrades to the image processing software have raised the 8 Pluss performance to a new level. Especially important for those looking to capture portraits with their phones, or to create artistic effects in macro and other closeup shots, zoom and bokeh used to require standalone cameras. But phones like the 8 Plus are changing that. Zoom The dedicated telephoto camera on the 8 Plus gives it a large advantage over most traditional single camera designs when it comes to zoom. At 5. 1, it has the highest Zoom sub score of any mobile device we have measured a full 5 points better than its predecessor, the i. Phone 7 Plus. Here you can see that at 2x full frame equivalent of about 5. Phone 8 Plus does an excellent job of both framing and detail preservation click on individual images to get a full size version for easier comparison i. Phone 8i. Phone 8 Plus. Google Pixeli. Phone 7 Plus. Bokeh Overall, the 8 Plus is the highest performing phone weve tested when it comes to bokeh. Despite the relatively small changes in the actual camera specs, additional development and processing power allow it to beat out the 7 Plus by 5 points, putting it even further ahead of the Google Pixel, with a score of 5. You can see the improved depth effect on the i. Phone 8 Plus compared to the older model, showing that the dual camera system now does a better job of blurring the foreground like a true optical blur, instead of blurring only the background. The images below also show how the second camera of the 8 Plus provides a much more artistic rendering of the image than the single camera on the i. Phone 8 click on individual images to get a full size version for easier comparison i. Phone 8i. Phone 8 Plus. Google Pixeli. Phone 7 Plus. Video. Apple continues to up its game on Video. With a score of 8. Plus has the best video quality of any Apple device, starting with the best exposure calculation. In particular, exposure is more stable while panning or walking than on previous i. Phones. Its HDR capabilities are also very good, but highlights are sometimes blown out. There is still room for improvement, as the i. Phone 8 Pluss Video score of 8. HTC U1. 1 and is still behind the Google Pixels 9. This said, the 8 Plus camera does an excellent job of face tracking when shooting video in bright light. Photo scores explained. Our Overall Photo Score is a composite of a number of category sub scores. Here we detail how the 8 Plus performed in each of those categories. Exposure and Contrast 8. The 8 Plus does an excellent job of accurately calculating exposure, improving on the performance of the i. Phone 7 family. Its ability to represent high contrast scenes is also improved, probably at least in part due to additional processing power and improved software for combining multiple frames into a single image. Apples Auto. HDR technology is some of the best on the market for rendering high dynamic range scenes. The 8 Plus also does an unusually good job at recognizing and properly exposing faces in an image. This HDR scene tests the boundaries of what a mobile device camera can capture. The 8 Plus does an excellent job of keeping the highlights visible while still showing detail in the shaded foliage in the foreground. Color 7. 8Color is pleasing both outside and indoors. White balance is also quite good. The 8 Plus improves slightly over the i. Phone 8 in its color performance by completely avoiding visible color shading, even in low light conditions. The i. Phone 8 Plus accurately renders pleasingly colorful outdoor scenes like this one. Color saturation in i. Phone 8 Plus images remains very good, even under low light conditions. However, in low light and in typical indoor tungsten light, 8 Plus images pick up a noticeable color cast that you can see in this chart of test sample patches Using the reference patch on the far right, notice that the light gray patch nearly turns peach under very low light conditions left most H column, luminosity similar to candlelight. A note on color white balance evaluation Apple has clearly made a choice to provide a slightly warmer white balance than Google for some situations. For example, in this outdoor scene, the image from the 8 Plus has a bit warmer yellowish cast than the Pixels image. Both versions are pleasing, so which you prefer is a matter of taste. In the case of our color scoring system, we allow for a slight variation in color from what is perfectly accurate to accommodate some style choices on the part of camera makers. Phone 8 Plus, showing a slight yellow cast. Google Pixel. Autofocus 7. Although the 8 Plus doesnt always focus quickly, once it focuses, it is remarkably accurate.