The LG G4 a photographers phone?
After a few years left in the smartphone backwoods using an aging HTC evo 3D I decided it was time for a new phone. Its been a self imposed exile after taking tens of thousands of cell phone pictures I largely gave it up in favour of shooting more film. Well a lot has transpired in the intervening years as far as cell phone image capture and its reached a sweet spot of quality and features. That’s what brings me to this point writing this post on the phone that I also took the following images with. I haven’t exported any images to a computer yet but so far on the phone they look good. The G4 ended up being my pick because of its RAW capture and manual settings as well as the image stabilized f1.8 lens. I didn’t only want the manual overrides for image making but as a quasi lightmeter for my old film cameras, yes i know there are apps for that. In the future I will go into more detail for now I’m just learning its capabilities and shortcomings. These images were captured in RAW and processed with Snapseed but are only small representations of the larger files.
