Unless you really get in there, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus offer at least as good an impression of detail as the rest, or better.

While they make great use of the megapixels they have, when you zoom in using Photoshop or something similar, the ultra-fine detail you can get when shooting outdoors with good lighting with the LG G4 or Samsung Galaxy S6 isn’t there.ĭoes this matter? If you’re taking photos just to post to Instagram or Facbook, with no need to crop into them to make the image you really want, no. It’s here we see the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus lose by having only half the resolution. Still, these two are absolutely at the top of the tree, with the HTC One M9 lagging behind just a bit. So the sharpness is down to processing, not some extra ability of the actual hardware. The LG G4’s photos are the sharpest overall, but they also appear sharpened. So, yes, the M9’s megapixel advantage really is just about the numbers when you look closer.Ĭhecking out the photos above, the HTC One M9’s shots also look a little bit softer than the LG G4 or Galaxy S6’s right down at the pixel level. Most people like to shoot with as aspect ratio that fills the screen (16:9), and while the HTC One M9 does this by default, it means you only use about 16 megapixels, not 20. The iPhones, the G4 and Galaxy S6 do, but the HTC One M9 doesn’t. First, not every single camera here uses all its resolution when shooting ‘normal’ photos.

While that’s not nonsense, there’s more to consider. More resolution equals more detail, right? How much detail a camera can resolve seems like a pretty simple equation.

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