In each case, I’ll show the full scene (as captured by the iPhone 6s itself) and then (in all but the ‘pub’ mock-up case) 1:1 crops from each relevant smartphone camera, so that you can more easily see any differences. In terms of specifications, all the non-Apple devices above have larger sensors, higher native resolutions and often larger apertures as well, but Apple’s image processing is right up with the best, allied to lightning fast response, so I’m still expecting the iPhone 6s to do well, even just looking at image quality. For a comparison with a wider range of Android hardware, watch for an article in the future over on our sister site AndroidBeat. So this is standing in here for all the iPhone’s Android competition. Sony Xperia Z5 Compact (the camera in this is common to all the Z5 range and reckoned by DxOMark to be the current state of the art in the Android world, beating even the Samsung Galaxy S6, reviewed here in its Edge variant, and the LG G4, reviewed here).Nokia Lumia 1020 (the monster-sensored camera champion from the Windows Phone world, still on top for image quality by quite a few metrics, even though in terms of speed and wider phone use it’s not in the same league as the modern iPhones).Smartphone Camera ShootoutĪrmed with the questions above, I selected the necessary candidates and headed out to take a variety of shots under a wide range of lighting conditions. Of course, the word ‘class’ is somewhat ambiguous here – did I mean to include camera specialist phones like the 1/1.5″-sensored Lumia 1020? Did I merely refer to 2015 camera-toting smartphones? And what about platform? Below, I look at each of these, including comparisons to imaging on the original iPhone 6 – suffice it to say that the camera in the iPhone 6s manages to be ‘up there’ while knocking spots off much of the competition in terms of performance and usability.

I remarked in my recent full review of the Apple iPhone 6s a few days ago, that image quality from its rear camera is ‘excellent but not quite class leading’.

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