Let’s play a game. Open and Scroll through your Gallery app on your smartphone, more especially you recently taken photos. Now, count how many pictures you have taken with the selfie or front camera and compare with the number of photos you have taken with one of the rear main camera sensors. You will be amazed by what you will find.
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There is no doubt that the choice of camera you often use will depend on several factors including; your lifestyle, what you often use the camera for, the camera quality, time of day you usually take your pictures, etc. When you’re taking a selfie, there are a few specific camera qualities you’re looking for: you want it to be wide enough to feature you and a friend (and maybe a few others). Ideally, it can achieve a shallow depth of field so that you stand out from the background. And it’d be nice if it can hold up in low light since you’re likely to be taking photos in bars and at parties that aren’t brightly lit.
What you don’t necessarily want is an incredibly high-resolution sensor, since you probably won’t be cropping in, and you definitely won’t want to zoom in tight enough to see your nose pores.
A higher-megapixel camera for either the rear or selfie camera isn’t necessarily a good thing or a bad thing. More megapixels mean bigger and sometimes more detailed images. But fewer megapixels mean better low-light photos, so the key is to strike a balance. To give you a sense of how many megapixels any camera really “needs,” it only takes about 8.3 megapixels to capture 4K images.
The extra detail found in a smartphone with camera sensors higher than 12-megapixel capture is certainly something pro photographers find helpful; it’s great if you need to touch up an image or print it out in a really large format. But for typical use — sharing on Instagram, getting photos printed for your home — it provides way more detail than is necessary. So if you have an iPhone X or a Galaxy S9 with “only” 7 or 8 megapixels in its selfie camera, you’re not exactly missing out but what OEMs are doing nowadays is using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve image quality on both front and back camera. But for today what we looking for is to know which camera you use the most. Between the selfie and back camera which one do you use the most? Let’s get polling.
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