Camera quality often separates the good from the great, and here you get a mixed bag. The LG G7 ThinQ has dual rear sensors, both with 16 megapixels.

This second camera has a true wide-angle lens. It’s not just a digital effect, and it lets you fit more people, or more landscape, into an image. This isn’t a true GoPro view, it doesn’t seem to bend reality around the lens, known as the “fisheye” effect. But it does let you fit much more into a shot.

Like the rumbly speaker, this is something different. Most high-end phones have lenses that zoom in. This one zooms out.

The LG G7 also has an AI mode. This scans through what the camera sees in real time, looking for objects and scene types. At one point it mistook a park bench for “ham” and seems to come up with some truly odd tags constantly, which - rather distractingly - appear on the display as you shoot.

Thankfully, not all of these are actually recorded. In the LG G7 gallery app you’ll see a section called “tags”, which analyses all your photos, not just the camera ones. There are loads: field, dog, couple, bridge, and many more. And thankfully, no ham. That one didn’t make the final cut.

Using the AI mode also applies colour filters that jack up the colour. Non-AI photos usually look better, more realistic.

You can’t get around the main LG G7 camera issue by turning off AI, though. The phone has a very bad habit of blowing-out highlights. On every sunny day you’ll see great big blocks of white in clouds, caused by overexposure.

This is because the G7 is obsessed with making its images look bright and punchy, and they usually do. But blown highlights always look bad.

A lot of phones around the price handle this better, including the HTC U12+, OnePlus 6 and Google Pixel 2 XL. The Sony IMX351 sensors used here have lower native dynamic range than the 12-megapixel ones of many top end phones. That won’t help.

The camera feels fairly fast-to-shoot as long as you don’t use the AI mode, which slows everything down a bit. However, on occasion the shutter button just doesn’t seem to react to presses either. It could do with an update or two.

I’d still class the LG G7 camera experience as pretty great, though. This is where the screen’s 1000-nit brightness excels. Even on the brightest day you can see clearly what you’re shooting.

It has special skills for night shooting too. An optically stabilised rear camera makes taking sharp, pretty detailed night shots a cinch. And when there’s virtually no light at all, you can use the Super Bright mode. A little button to turn this on appears when it’s dead dark out.

This reduces the resolution to four megapixels and the results never look very detailed. However, it’s brilliant for taking photos that would otherwise look like a sheet of black paper.

For video you can shoot at up to 4K resolution, and as there’s OIS, you get stabilisation even at 4K. Footage will look smoother at 1080p, though, as this uses software stabilisation. It crops into the image, using the edges of the frame as a buffer.

Around the front you get an 8-megapixel camera. AI crops up here too. It recognises how many people are in the scene and lets you blur out the background for a DSLR-like look. This isn’t the best selfie camera round, but it is better than the 5MP one of the LG G6.