LG G5 dual cameras, one main and one wide angle

[AlphaVictor87]

So i know we get to see the phone next week and it's not confirmed, but the last dual camera phone i had was the HTC One M8 and after awhile i just absolutely hated the dual camera set up and was getting absolutely terrible pictures.

Any reason why companies would still be using the dual camera set up?

Moderator Edit: LG has announced the G5 specs and the cameras are one camera 16MP main and the other a 8MP wide-angle (135 degrees) camera. The full spec sheet is available here: http://www.androidcentral.com/lg-g5-specs

 

[thisisjason]

I don't think LG has said yet how theirs will function. It could be to get more depth information so you can change the focus on pictures or it could be two cameras with different focal lengths for better zooming. I'd be more interested in the latter, since normal digital zooming is completely worthless in terms of quality

 

[kramer5150]

If its like the V10, its so you can have the option of a wide angle field of view for selfies. I dont know the exact field of view angle... IIRC its in the vicinity of 130 deg. So you don't need to use a selfie stick. You set it to 16:9 and select the wide angle ~130 deg lens.

 

[AlphaVictor87]

I don't think LG has said yet how theirs will function. It could be to get more depth information so you can change the focus on pictures or it could be two cameras with different focal lengths for better zooming. I'd be more interested in the latter, since normal digital zooming is completely worthless in terms of quality

If its for the depth information just to change the focus on pictures, it better do a hell of a better job than my HTC One. I realize that was a couple years ago, and the G4 took stunning pictures, but they better do just as good as the G4. A good camera is my one thing i need functioning really well on my phone and if it sucks, i hate wasting a year on a phone with terrible quality because the company wants to "try something"

 

[thisisjason]

If its for the depth information just to change the focus on pictures, it better do a hell of a better job than my HTC One. I realize that was a couple years ago, and the G4 took stunning pictures, but they better do just as good as the G4. A good camera is my one thing i need functioning really well on my phone and if it sucks, i hate wasting a year on a phone with terrible quality because the company wants to "try something"

I don't expect that LG would go backward in image quality, it's one of the things they're known for, and they've been steadily improving from the G2 to the G3 to the G4 to the V10. I expect another step forward

Whatever the implementation, I expect good quality

 

[thisisjason]

If its like the V10, its so you can have the option of a wide angle field of view for selfies. I dont know the exact field of view angle... IIRC its in the vicinity of 130 deg. So you don't need to use a selfie stick. You set it to 16:9 and select the wide angle ~130 deg lens.

The dual camera on the G5 are on the back, not front-facing like the V10

 

[missouriexile]

Really hope the two lenses allow you to toggle to wide angle shooting and back.

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[momo662]

I know lots of people are all over the cameras on their phones. For me, personally, I'd love to see these companies focus more on actually improving the phone itself.
I'm not buying a camera to make phone calls!!!

 

[srkmagnus]

The LG G5 has two rear cameras (16MP main, 8MP wide-angle (135 degrees)). Beyond that, there's nothing else at work relative to the cameras. My question is could they have gotten away with one larger lens that provides the wide-angle, but also serves as the primary. So the default could be to take photos in the standard frame and have an on-screen option to adjust it to wide-angle (135 degrees) should you choose to. Maybe that could have freed up some internal space for other improvements (sensor, battery capacity?). Just thinking out loud - I'm not a photography expert nor an Engineer to determine if other improvements could have been made by consolidating the cameras into one.

 

[caffeinated pants]

The LG G5 has two rear cameras (16MP main, 8MP wide-angle (135 degrees)). My question is could they have gotten away with one larger lens that provides the wide-angle, but also serves as the primary. So the default could be to take photos in the standard frame and have an on-screen option to adjust it to wide-angle (135 degrees) should you choose to.

The other option would have been to do what Samsung did this time around: improve the main camera and provide a panoramic field of view with optical lenses attached to a case. This will probably turn out to be the solution that provides higher-quality pictures overall, but that will also depend on the quality of those lenses and on image processing. I hope there will be some side-by-side reviews of Samsung's optical lenses and LG's double-camera setup.

 

[Guyinbox]

I would've much rather they improved the main camera rather then using the same one in the g4 and adding a wide angle secondary lens.