LG V30's camera takes on Berlin
See how the camera on the new LG V30 performs in our Berlin test shoot.
LG's new V30 is upon us and its camera is where the excitement lies. Like the G6 before it, the V30 has two lenses -- one of which is super wide-angle -- which allows for some neat creative compositions. A glass rather than plastic lens and wide f1.6 aperture also promise to make this one hell of a shooter. To find out how it handles, I took it for a spin around Berlin.
First up, this outdoor canal scene. The phone has done a great job at balancing the exposure between the bright sky and darker shadows on the trees. Colours are accurate, too.
Staying in the same spot but switching to the wide-angle mode, the phone has captured a huge view of the same scene, maintaining the good exposure balance.
Colours are again rich, with an accurate white balance in this shot of the gates of Berlin's zoo.
Switching to the wide-angle lens, it's easy to see how much more of the scene you can capture, without having to move at all.
A great exposure, rich colours and plenty of detail to be found -- an all-round solid image.
Moving inside, the phone's wider aperture has let in plenty of light to properly capture this shot of bottles, despite the lower light indoors.
That wide aperture has also helped capture a bright shot in this very low-lit hotel entrance hall. There's little in the way of image noise and the fine details on the chandelier are crystal clear.
The wide-angle mode comes into its own here, capturing almost the entire hall.
It can focus close up too, letting me get right up to these pretty flowers.
There's a 5-megapixel camera on the front, which captured a bright and reasonably sharp selfie here. There's a lot of distortion at the left-hand side of the image however, which doesn't look good.
The distortion is even more pronounced when you switch to the wide-angle selfie view. Make sure all your friends are in the middle if you don't want their faces to look a bit... off.
This swan looks happy to be captured by the LG V30. I think.
There are various creative modes on the phone, including this option to combine images taken with the front and rear cameras. Here, I took a selfie drinking a latte and also showed the cafe I was sitting in.
The HDR mode works well on the phone, easily balancing this very bright sky and the shadowy grass in the foreground.
Another trick to play with is the pop out mode, which takes an image with the zoom and wide-angle lenses to create the effect you see here.
There's no simulated bokeh effect on the V30, but the wide aperture of the lens has still given a nice out-of-focus effect to the background behind these flowers.
A lake, some lovely reflections, and a decent photo from the camera.
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