Up close and in the dark with LG’s V10 Android cameraphone

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I'm writing the Verge review of LG's new V10 Android smartphone — a premium variant of its G4 flagship from this summer — and thought I'd share some of my excitement early. This phone's camera is really good. It's not perfect, no camera is, but it's taken some extremely impressive shots and has a manual mode that allows for tons of creativity. Basically, you have all the settings available to fashion out your own photo filters, if you so desired. But more on that in the review tomorrow. For now, here's a sample of some of the photos I've taken with the fully automatic mode. Half of them are in a low light, in order to demonstrate how the camera handles challenging conditions, and all are accompanied by 100-percent crops of particular areas that best exhibit the full-resolution quality.

P.S. — Hit this link for the full set of 66 full-resolution images from the LG V10.

Grid View

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100% crop Every single vein in that red leaf is distinguishable.

Low light This was a very dark shot, with the nearest street light casting only oblique rays onto the wall. The V10 makes it look brighter than the actual conditions at the time.

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Low light Another image where the V10 ramps up the ISO to make the image brighter than the actual light at the time of the shot.

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Moderate to low light

100% crop Plenty of detail is smudged away at full resolution, but for the lighting conditions, this is a hugely impressive (and atmospheric) photo.



100% crop If you're not impressed about being able to read the Police Constable's name badge, you should be.



100% crop The water droplets speak for themselves.

Low-light indoor shot

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Low light My favorite shot of the bunch, with the V10 perfectly balancing exposure to silhouette the tree against a halo of street lights.

100% crop Much detail is lost when you get up close in low-light pictures, with LG prefering to blur things in order to obscure image noise.