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Shooting with the LG G2, coast to coast (pictures)

CNET takes the LG G2's 13-megapixel camera around town in San Francisco and New York to test out its photo quality.

Lynn La
Lynn La covers mobile reviews and news. She previously wrote for The Sacramento Bee, Macworld and The Global Post.
Lynn La
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Taking shots with the G2

Equipped with a 13-megapixel camera and plenty of photo features, the G2 is LG's most powerful handset to date. CNET takes the camera for a spin in sunny California and beautiful New York.

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Caught in the rain

Though gray in real life, the sky is completely washed out in this photo taken during a rainstorm.

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Headless in Manhattan

Here, the colors run a bit colder than when compared with real-life colors, but the people are in focus.

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Waiting at Shake Shack

In addition to dressing sharp, these people at Madison Square Park also look sharp in the photo.

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A sandwich on midnight

With Night Mode activated, this dimly lit restaurant in Brooklyn gets a whole lotta (blurry) light.

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Some gnarly flowers

This photo, as well as the next three, are taken at a 10-megapixel resolution setting with the same camera. Here, the flowers are true-to-life, but don't look particularly sharp around the edges.

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What're you looking at?

Because of the phone's powerful Snapdragon 800 processor, I was able to snap quick shots of this fast-moving squirrel

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A walk down Market Street

You can see plenty of details in the stone fountain located in the background.

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Sunshine and coffee

The chairs and this man's face is sharp in this sunny photo of a San Francisco storefront.

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