Killer LG G4 Camera Blows iPhone 6, Galaxy S6 Cameras Away, LG G4 Is Just Better At Everything

While the LG G4 is a smartphone that Mashable says offers no compromises, the LG G4 camera is a “killer” piece of technology that helps make the G4 the “Swiss army knife” of smartphones.

A huge step up from previous LG cameras, the G4’s superiority becomes glaringly obvious when putting its specifications side by side with competitors’ specs.

“The best android smartphones all have compromises. The Galaxy S6 has a fantastic camera, but dumped the removable battery and storage expansion Samsung so proudly trumpeted on the GS5. HTC’s One M9 has great speakers and a sleek design, but it’s camera is junk. The Nexus 6 runs unaltered Android and have a big screen, but it’s too damn big,” according to Mashable.

Mashable adds that the “G4 is better at everything. Better design, better cameras, better software, and a better display.”

The LG G4 features a 16-megapixel rear-facing and 8-megapixel front-facing camera, with a wide-angle F 1.8 aperture – the fastest aperture in the world on any smartphone camera, according to Dxomark, a company that measures and standardizes image quality.

The LG G4 camera’s F 1.8 aperture gives it the ability to take in up to 50 percent more light than other smartphones, and more light means better photos in low light situations.

According to Mashable, people love taking pictures in places like bars. The F1.8 aperture in the LG G4 camera allows people to do just that, but without messing up the photo with a flash.

The LG G4’s rivals, the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, sport a 16-megapixel rear camera – the same as the LG G4 camera – and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with an F1.9 aperture.

The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus feature an 8-megapixel rear camera with an F 2.2 aperture. Most smartphones have apertures ranging from 2.0 to 2.4, according to Dxomark.

No smartphone camera on the face of the Earth sports such a wide aperture as the LG G4 – not even the Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus, and Dxomark previously declared the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge as the smartphones with the best camera equipment to beat in October, 2014.

For testing, LG gave an LG G4 to professional photographer Colby Brown to test for a week, according to LG Korea (in Korean). Colby Brown is a popular professional “landscape/travel photographer based out of Colorado,” who knows his stuff, and he put the upgraded device to the test in a professional, but rugged setting.

The photos that resulted from Brown’s tests are nothing short of amazing, according to Droid Life.

Only a few smartphones on the market have camera technology worth looking at for taking professional quality photos, according to Brown. The iPhone was the benchmark to hit until Nokia released its 41-megapixel “beast of a camera in the Nokia 1010 for Windows Phone.”

Since then, Brown says, only Android phones have excited him. Although Samsung’s Galaxy line – especially the Galaxy S6 – has impressive cameras, the LG made massive improvements with the G4 camera.

After testing the LG G4 camera, Brown posted the results and sample photos from the LG G4 camera, and photos from other devices side by side for comparison on his website, Colby Brown Photography.

According Brown, the ultimate analysis of the LG G4 camera is that it is amazing – in fact, said Brown, the LG G4 outdid even some of his professional photography equipment.

According to Dxomark, other improved features on the LG G4 camera include a laser AF supported autofocus feature, an improved image stabilization system, the “16MP ½.6-inch CMOS,” and a new sensor “reads RGB color and infrared in order to recognize objects in a scene and their color.”

According to Mashable, which did its own side-by-side comparison of the LG G4, Galaxy S6 and iPhone 6, the “G4’s lens obliterates every other smartphone camera on the market while retaining sharp details.”

Additionally, while Galaxy S6 and iPhone 6 advanced settings fare well during testing, they don’t come close to the G4’s manual mode,” according to Mashable.

Mashable notes, however, that it tabled the iPhone 6 in its image sharpness test because it has fewer megapixels. The iPhone 6’s 8-megapixel main camera is technologically behind just about every other camera on the market.

In fact, the iPhone 6 main camera has the same number of megapixels as the LG G4 secondary camera, and putting it against the LG G4 and Galaxy S6 main cameras would not have been a fair fight.

The LG G4 and its impressive camera were unveiled at a live, multi-city event April 28, according to the Inquisitr, and are due to be released at the end of May, or early June.

[Photo Credits: Colby Brown Photography, Droid Life, Mashable]