Does the mammoth camera module translate to a high-quality camera? Well, the camera isn’t bad — but it’s also pretty inconsistent. On the back, the phone has a triple camera array, made up of a 50-megapixel main camera, a 64-megapixel periscope telephoto camera, and a 50-megapixel ultra wide camera. It’s a decently versatile setup.
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That said, its image quality is very good. The main camera is capable of capturing relatively vibrant, detailed shots, but they’re not always detailed and consistent. In good lighting conditions, images are usually pretty good, but you’ll get a dud every now and then. It’s not surprising that images are relatively good, though you can tell that there is some processing going on that can make images look slightly off compared to the real world. Images also aren’t the most consistent across cameras — at times, colors can look slightly different on the telephoto camera compared to the main camera and the ultrawide camera. But it’s not bad, and certainly not as bad as it has been in previous-generation models. As a whole, expect to take good shots.
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The camera captured very good zoomed shots, too. That’s true at decently high zoom levels. At 3x or 4x zoom, you’ll get solid detail, but even at much deeper zoom levels, I found that the camera could capture very detailed and vibrant shots. Like any smartphone camera with digital zoom, you can go too far — and Honor gives you the ability to do so, unlike, for example, Apple, which maxes zoom out at much lower levels. But even up to 10x or 20x, while you can obviously tell that digital zoom is involved, I was able to get better photos than the majority of other smartphone cameras.
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In low lighting, the camera was quite good, too, though when you combine low light and zoom, expect the camera to struggle more. It was able to capture relatively crisp and detailed images in most low-light scenarios, but zoom in much, and you’ll get a bit of a blurry mess.
In general, though, I was very impressed with the camera performance on offer by the Honor Magic V5, despite its inconsistency. That inconsistency basically means that most of the time, you’ll get images that are better than much of the competition — but sometimes, you won’t, and the rate of sub-par images was a little higher than I wanted.
