Compare the best smartphone cameras
Compare the cameras
- Standard, wide-angle, and dual telephoto lens
- Zoom in 5 times without losing quality
- Record in 8K quality
- No 3D sensor for portraits and augmented reality
- Image sensor captures the most light and the most details
- Standard, wide-angle, and single telephoto lens
- Zoom in 3.3 times without losing quality
- Record in 4K quality
- 3D sensor for portraits and augmented reality
- Image sensor captures the least light and the least details
- Standard, wide-angle, and single telephoto lens
- Zoom in 3 times without losing quality
- Record in 8K quality
- No 3D sensor for portraits and augmented reality
- Image sensor captures a lot of light and details
- Standard, wide-angle, and single telephoto lens
- Zoom in 5 times without losing quality
- Record in 4K quality
- No 3D sensor for portraits and augmented reality
- Image sensor captures less light and details
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra
The Samsung S24 Ultra has 4 cameras on the back of the device. The most noteworthy are the 2 telephoto lenses with optical zoom. This means you can zoom in without the photo becoming less sharp. One of the telephoto lens has 3 times optical zoom, and the other even has 5 times optical zoom. This is unique for a smartphone camera. The S24 Ultra also has the largest image sensor, which allows the camera to capture a lot of light and details. You mainly notice this with low light. All lenses have a night mode, so you can also take sharp and colorful photos at night. That even applies to the selfie camera.
Apple iPhone 14 Pro
On the back of the Apple iPhone 14 Pro are 3 different camera lenses. A standard, wide-angle, and telephoto lens. With all these lenses, you can take razor-sharp photos and 4K videos. All lenses support night mode. This allows you to create sharp and detailed photos and videos in the dark. You can zoom in optically 3 times, but that's the least of all devices on this page. The iPhone 14 Pro has something unique with Cinematic Mode and Action Mode. with the latter function, your videos are extra stable, for example.
OnePlus 10 Pro
The OnePlus 10 Pro has 3 cameras on the back, a standard lens, a wide-angle lens, and a telephoto lens camera. With the telephoto lens, you have 3.3 times optical zoom. This means you can zoom in just about as far as with the iPhone, but less far than the other smartphones in this article. Thanks to the large image sensor, you can also take sharp photos at night. And, you can record videos in razor-sharp, 8K resolution.
OPPO Find X5 Pro
Compared to the other smartphones in this article, the performance of the cameras of the OPPO Find X5 Pro is average. The telephoto lens has 5 times optical zoom. This is less than the one on the Samsung S22 Ultra, but a lot more than the one on the iPhone 13 Pro and the OnePlus 10 Pro. This smartphone also has a standard and wide-angle lens. This image sensor is also quite large, so you can capture many details in your photos and 4K videos both during the day and at night.
Conclusion
You can take razor-sharp photos with all these smartphones. The optical zoom of the telephoto lenses is what differs the most. With the Samsung S23 Ultra, you can zoom in 10 times without quality loss. The OPPO Find X5 Pro can do this 5 times, and the OnePlus 10 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro only have 3 times optical zoom. The iPhone 14 Pro stands out in terms of camera software. The Cinematic Mode allows you to record cinema-quality videos.
