Rating of smartphones with the best camera 2022 | Articles | Phones

This year, choos­ing an excel­lent cam­era phone is not a prob­lem. In the first half of 2022, com­pa­nies have released many new prod­ucts for any bud­get. And there are still wor­thy flag­ships of 2020 and 2021. We got acquaint­ed with pop­u­lar mod­els, read domes­tic and for­eign reviews and made our own rat­ing of the best cam­era phones in 2022. Do you have some­thing to add to it? Be sure to write in the com­ments.

All prices are valid at the time of writ­ing.

With the help of top cam­era phones, you can take bright, clear and detailed pic­tures. Pho­to: isorepublic.com

What to look for when choosing a camera phone

one. Cam­era res­o­lu­tion (megapix­els) — the more of them, the more clear and detailed the pic­ture will be.

2. Addi­tion­al fea­tures. Just a large num­ber of megapix­els is not enough. It is impor­tant to pay atten­tion to the capa­bil­i­ties of the cam­era. Auto­mat­ic frame cor­rec­tion by arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, spe­cial shoot­ing modes, auto­mat­ic change in col­or depth — all this will improve the pic­ture.

3. The pres­ence of sta­bi­liza­tion. This fea­ture helps to com­pen­sate for move­ment. As a result, even while walk­ing, you can take a clear pic­ture and shoot a video with­out jerk­ing. Sta­bi­liza­tion can be opti­cal (OIS) and elec­tron­ic (EIS). In the opti­cal sen­sor, the cam­era detects move­ment (for exam­ple, a shak­ing hand). He shifts the cam­era lens to can­cel out the shake. EIS sta­bi­liza­tion uses a dig­i­tal method and soft­ware. OIS is usu­al­ly found in flag­ship smart­phones.

four. Bat­tery. It is bet­ter to take from 4000 mAh so that the smart­phone does not sit down quick­ly while shoot­ing a video or pho­to shoot.

5. Mem­o­ry size. It is bet­ter to have both oper­a­tional and built-in as much as pos­si­ble. For exam­ple, 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of built-in. So that the smart­phone does not slow down, there was enough space for all the pic­tures.

Now let’s move on to the rat­ing. Sort­ed from cheap­est to most expen­sive.

Vivo X80 Pro

The most bud­get smart­phone with a good cam­era and a pow­er­ful proces­sor from our top. This is a styl­ish flag­ship with a large rear cam­era mod­ule that cov­ers almost half of the rear pan­el. The back cov­er is glass, slip­pery. Fin­ger­prints remain on the sur­face, so a cov­er is required.

Large (6.78-inch) bright OLED dis­play with almost no bezels, slight­ly round­ed. Visu­al­ly it looks even big­ger. The max­i­mum screen refresh rate is 120 Hz. At the same time, it changes depend­ing on the con­tent (this saves bat­tery pow­er).

High qual­i­ty shoot­ing is the main advan­tage declared by the man­u­fac­tur­er. Com­pared to pre­vi­ous flag­ships from the brand, the shades have become brighter and more sat­u­rat­ed, and the sharp­ness of the pic­ture has increased.

The smart­phone has 4 rear cam­era mod­ules (50 MP + 8 MP + 12 MP + 48 MP), which help to take cool pic­tures at any time of the day. There is arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence that auto­mat­i­cal­ly improves the qual­i­ty of images. It auto­mat­i­cal­ly selects the appro­pri­ate expo­sure, bright­ness, white bal­ance. There is built-in opti­cal sta­bi­liza­tion — less blur­ry frames, more clear pho­tos and videos.

Anoth­er advan­tage is Zeiss Nat­ur­al tech­nol­o­gy. She is respon­si­ble for nat­ur­al col­or ren­der­ing.

A detailed review of the Vivo X80 Pro smart­phone is already in our blog.

Smart­phone Vivo X80 Pro is an unusu­al mod­el with a mas­sive cam­era. Pho­to: clubic.com

Google Pixel 6 Pro

A smart­phone that is in many ways sim­i­lar to the pre­vi­ous mod­el from our top. In this brief review, we will focus on the cam­era and the dif­fer­ences.

The main advan­tage of the cam­era phone is 3 rear mod­ules (50 MP + 48 MP + 12 MP). There is an opti­cal image sta­bi­liza­tion sys­tem, fast aut­o­fo­cus. Google Pix­el 6 Pro is equipped with arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence that auto­mat­i­cal­ly adjusts bright­ness, white bal­ance and sharp­ness. In night mode, the pic­tures are decent, noise appears only when shoot­ing with a wide-angle cam­era.

Main dif­fer­ences from Vivo X80 Pro:

• 128 GB of inter­nal mem­o­ry (vs. 256 or 512 GB);
• slow motion is avail­able in the best res­o­lu­tion — 1080p;

The Google Pix­el 6 Pro smart­phone is an afford­able flag­ship with a great cam­era. Pho­to: popsci.com

Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra

A pow­er­ful, styl­ish gad­get with a large (6.8 inch­es) and bright AMOLED screen for 80,000 rubles. Five advan­tages that make the Xiao­mi Mi 11 Ultra smart­phone one of the best cam­era phones in 2022:

- excel­lent cam­eras. There are 3 of them on the rear side (50 MP + 48 MP + 48 MP). There is opti­cal sta­bi­liza­tion, accu­rate col­or repro­duc­tion. A sig­nif­i­cant plus is the cool night mode with almost no noise, with deep blacks and spe­cial set­tings for shoot­ing the moon. Now astropho­tos from your phone will be amaz­ing;

- styl­ish design. The body of the Xiao­mi Mi 11 Ultra phone is made of glass and alu­minum, there are prac­ti­cal­ly no frames (because of this, the screen seems even larg­er);

- a dis­play that has received the high­est rat­ing from the inde­pen­dent Dis­play­Mate lab­o­ra­to­ry. There is a flick­er-free mode (impor­tant at low screen bright­ness);

– a small dis­play on the rear pan­el. Locat­ed next to the main cam­era, which allows you to take gor­geous self­ies on the main mod­ule;

-pow­er­ful Snap­drag­on 888 proces­sor. The phone prac­ti­cal­ly does not heat up dur­ing use, eas­i­ly opens resource-inten­sive appli­ca­tions and launch­es top games.

Xiao­mi Mi 11 Ultra is a ver­sa­tile smart­phone with a pow­er­ful cam­era in 2022. Pho­to: hardwarezone.com

OPPO Find X5 Pro

Mod­el with an unusu­al design. OPPO Find X5 Pro is a smart­phone with a ceram­ic body. Out­ward­ly, it does not dif­fer much from glass. Scratch­es appear less often on it, but it is bet­ter not to drop it from a great height: ceram­ics eas­i­ly beats from a strong blow.

The flag­ship has many advan­tages:

• a large amount of RAM (8 or 12 GB) and inter­nal (256 or 512 GB) mem­o­ry;
• AMOLED screen (6.7 inch­es) with excel­lent res­o­lu­tion (1440x3216) and high refresh rate (120 Hz). This means that it is con­ve­nient to watch dynam­ic videos, play games on a smart­phone;
• pro­tec­tion against water and dust IP68 (not afraid of falling into water to a depth of 1 meter);
• opti­cal sta­bi­liza­tion of the cam­era;
• capa­cious bat­tery — 5000 mAh.

But the main advan­tage of the OPPO Find X5 Pro phone is the cam­era. There are 3 rear lens­es (50 MP + 13 MP + 50 MP). The pro­pri­etary coproces­sor MariSil­i­con X is involved in image pro­cess­ing. It helps to auto­mat­i­cal­ly improve the frame.

There is a High-Res mode to take pic­tures in max­i­mum res­o­lu­tion. Night shots are bright, with­out noise, high­lights and strong shad­ows. There is also a spe­cial night mode for shoot­ing video. More about the advan­tages and fea­tures of the mod­el were told in a spe­cial arti­cle on the blog.

OPPO Find X5 Pro is an unusu­al phone with a ceram­ic body. Pho­to: cdn.pocket-lint.com

iPhone 13 Pro Max

New in autumn 2021 for 114,389 rubles. The new iPhone pleas­es with the abil­i­ty to record video in 4K up to 60 frames per sec­ond (both the main and front cam­eras can do this). There are 3 main mod­ules (12MP + 12MP + 12MP) and the wide-angle lens is 120 degrees (good).

The most notable changes (com­pared to 12 Pro Max):

• col­ors are more nat­ur­al when shoot­ing dur­ing the day, the cam­era does not turn yel­low;
• updat­ed night mode. Now you can shoot even with a min­i­mum amount of light, and the frames will be clear, with­out noise. This is pos­si­ble thanks to the increased aper­ture (f / 1.5 instead of f / 1.6);
• improved opti­cal sta­bi­liza­tion — affects both the qual­i­ty of the video and the qual­i­ty of night shoot­ing.

Advan­tages of the iPhone 13 Pro Max smart­phone:

• Deep Fusion — an arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence-based sys­tem that will increase the detail of images;
• shoot­ing with smooth focus switch­ing (“Cin­e­ma effect”);
• he switch­es to night mode if he under­stands that the cam­era does not have enough light. Macro mode also turns on by itself. It is enough to bring the smart­phone clos­er to the object.

And a detailed review of the entire iPhone 13 line is in our blog.

The iPhone 13 Pro Max is the best solu­tion for those who are look­ing for a smart cam­era. She will select the bright­ness, shoot­ing mode. To take a cool pic­ture, just press the but­ton. Pho­to: best-magazin.com

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra

One of the top cam­era phones from Sam­sung, whose pop­u­lar­i­ty is not decreas­ing. This is not sur­pris­ing, because it has many advan­tages:

- a capa­cious 5000 mAh bat­tery, thanks to which the smart­phone will work up to 16 hours on a sin­gle charge;

– a set of 4 cam­eras (108 MP + 10 MP + 10 MP + 12 MP);

– opti­cal sta­bi­liz­er;

– the abil­i­ty to shoot video in 4K (up to 60 frames per sec­ond) and 8K (up to 24 frames per sec­ond);

- 40 MP self­ie cam­era, there are modes for sin­gle and group shoot­ing;

- A pow­er­ful proces­sor, high refresh rate (120Hz) and a bright AMOLED dis­play with a res­o­lu­tion of 1440x3088 make the Sam­sung Galaxy S22 Ultra a great gam­ing gad­get.

S22 Ultra is a smart­phone with one of the best cam­eras, a pow­er­ful bat­tery and a pow­er­ful proces­sor. Pho­to: pcmag.com

Camera phone rating 2022: table and comparison

We col­lect­ed all the key char­ac­ter­is­tics of smart­phones in one table.

We rat­ed the mod­els from the rat­ing on a scale from 0 to 5.

Impor­tant: the cam­era in the iPhone 13 Pro Max was rat­ed at 5 points, although there are few­er megapix­els than com­peti­tors. But the cam­era of the iPhone 13 Pro Max is not infe­ri­or to oth­er mod­els from this top. All thanks to mod­ern AI, which max­i­mizes image qual­i­ty. Details on why you need to look not only at the num­ber of megapix­els were described in a sep­a­rate arti­cle.

Now let’s look at the rat­ings.