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Don't Get Fooled by Dual Cameras on Smartphones!

Dual cameras are arguably one of the biggest smartphone trends in 2017 we've seen them in every phone from the best flagships all the way down to the entry-level smartphones. And why do we want them well just like having two eyes? Having two different lenses allows your smartphone to perceive depth. We can't fit DSLR optics into a seven millimeter body so therefore having two cameras allows for an artificially created but nonetheless impressive looking blurring off the background. 

Dual cameras

If we take a look at phones like the Galaxy Note 8 the Huawei p10 with their dual cameras, I wouldn't part with the feature for anything it's amazing it can turn you're pretty amateur photography into something that really looks like it was taken with a crew and a giant camera five times the size. And as a matter of fact, one of the few improvements from the Galaxy S8 plus to the Galaxy Note 8 is that dual camera and the change is so significant that for a lot of users that alone would be enough for me to recommend an upgrade.


You might have seen Doogee Mix  on Unbox Therapy or Marques Brownlee's channels and as a bit of a side note and curiously enough neither of these two actually mentioned this gaping hole in the smartphone's feature set. So physically speaking there are actually two cameras on here. On close inspection though, you can tell one of them looks very different to the other. But to be honest, most people will leave it at that and rightly. So I mean if you buy a two camera smartphone it's gonna have two cameras, right ?

 


I hate to say this but it's a complete lie instead of actually using two cameras to select the background understand the depth information in a photo. It is actually only using one camera to employ essentially what is little more than a tilt shift effect which is to say whatever subject you tap your finger on will be in focus and the rest of it will simply have a slight blur effect applied.


 

In a nutshell, Doogee Mix actually uses one camera and some software tricks to simulate effects that would otherwise require two camera modules. The problem seems to be rampant among cheap Chinese smartphones.

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One way you can test your owned your camera is to cover up the lenses one at a time and you might find that the supposed Bokeh mode which requires two cameras will still work completely. Well, you could walk around with some tack or tape covering the second lens and you would not be able to tell the difference now.


People are getting fooled by this fact and as you can see the rating down below i.e 4.9 that the price itself has allured them to go for it.


So don't fall for it. And always consider consulting a trusted source to test the phone before you go out and buy it.

Source: MRWHOSETHEBOSS

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