The best five budget camera phones at the end of 2020
2020 was the year of budget phones. All phone companies introduced its competitive budget phone with some special features. These phones come with powerful cameras and deliver good, crispy pictures Just like their premium versions.
Nowadays, buying a good camera phone that will fit your sensible budget won’t represent a big struggle. But choosing the right camera phone for you, might take a bit of research, reading and watching many reviews. In this post we will go in details through the best 5 camera phones in 2020.
1) Google pixel 4a:
The Google Pixel 4a is equipped with a single rear camera. This camera features a Dual-pixel detect autofocus and optical image stabilization. It shoots 4k videos at 30fps and 1080p video at 120fps. Meanwhile the front facing camera (selfie camera) has an 8MP sensor.
The strong point about Pixel 4a and pixel products. It is the software that takes the camera specs to the next level with its unbelievable enhancements. Also let us not forget that pixel 4a has some of the best features that came out with Pixel 4. Such as astrophotography Mode and Dual Exposure sliders.
Last but not least, you can get more camera performance and features, if you go for the Pixel 4a 5G that Google released with the pixel 5. Its not just about 5G in this new 4a. On the camera department of Pixel 4a 5G. You will notice that it comes with the same two rear cameras that you find in pixel 5. It is much better the regular Pixel 4a with a price of 500€.
2) One Plus Nord:
The Nord is the first One plus phone to offer six cameras. Four cameras on the rear and two cameras on the front.
The quad cameras on the back include a 48MP primary camera. A secondary ultra-Wide-angle 8MP camera with a field of view of 119°. The 8MP sensor is hooked to an f/2.25 aperture lens. One Plus Nord offers also a 2MP macro camera.
For the selfie cameras, the Nord offers a 32MP camera. And for more details one plus added a front ultra-wide-angle camera, but don’t expect images to come out always with a good quality from this camera.
The One Plus Nord is not as amazing as its competitors but for some good rear camera mobile photography pictures, The Nord can be a good choice for you.
3) Samsung A51:
The Galaxy A51 has some decent cameras. There’s a main 48MP camera, as well as wide-angle and macro lenses, a depth sensor, and a 32MP front-facing camera.
The cameras of A51, making it one of the best budget camera phones. It also helps that it happens to be a great phone in other departments too (battery life, big screen.). The OLED display is gorgeous, the design meets Samsung standards, and you get cool features like a headphone jack.
Dynamic range shots seem good on this A51 Samsung. Colors are generally quit “OK” on most pictures that this phone produces. Although don’t expect much from the front facing cameras, even if its looks performant on the numbers but in reality, you won’t get much from it.
4) Iphone se :
iPhone SE took the form of iPhone 8, the processor and software power of the iPhone 11Pro. It’s a Pocketgraphy (Mobile Photography) friendly set-in terms of size and price.
This iPhone offers a 12MP rear camera and a 7MP front camera. There is no dedicated ultra-wide or zoom cameras but the iPhone SE offers a 5x digital zoom, and a portrait mode with advanced bokeh and depth control.
The level of details that this camera phone can offer is quite impressive. iPhone SE won the race against many budget camera phones with its smart HDR from the iPhone 11 generation that provides a noticeable boost in image quality, both day and night.
The one camera weakness for the iPhone SE is the lack of night mode. When most its competitors offer insane night sight modes (for example google pixel 4a), apple did not include this mode on their budget iPhone which slowed its competitiveness.
5) Xiaomi Poco F2 Pro
In this phone the magic happens on the back. 4 cameras lenses with a shape of X.
Xiaomi Poco F2 Pro offers a 64MP camera, 13MP ultra-wide-angle camera with 123° field of view. For more precision, this phone includes a 5MP macro camera and 2MP camera for depth sensing.
The coolest thing about this phone is the front camera that pop up everytime you want to take a selfie. It’s a 20MP selfie camera that has the ability to shoot in HDR. The Poco F2 can take some of the most amazing pictures in day light and one of its strongest point is that allows you to have so much details in one picture.
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Written by :
Abdelkarim Ennakhla a 24 year old Digital marketing student at Audencia, passioned about mobile photography and in love with the beauty of sunsets.