I’ve been packing the Elephone Vowney with me since it arrived for our review, and I’ve snapped a few sample photos and video with the rear 21 mega-pixel camera check them out here.
Elephone’s Vowney packs a lot of hot hardware in to one device. Upfront there is a 5.5-inch 2K display, there is a fingerprint scanner, 4GB RAM, Mediatek Helio X10 chipset, 32GB memory, 4000mAh battery and decent cameras.
Over the past few days I’ve snapped a few photos in bright sunlight and during the night, plus a short video to see if the rear Sony IMX230 21 mega-pixel camera is working how it should. The results are below.
Elephone Vowney Daylight Photo Samples
Elephone Vowney Night Photos Samples
Photos taken in the rain at night.
Elephone Vowney Video
Note: Towards the end of the video the exposure changes, this is because I touched the display changing the focus and exposure point
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Elephone Vowney camera conclusion
Elephone have given the Elephone Vowney a sorted 21 mega-pixel camera from Sony, but I didn’t really expect the performance to be as good as it has been. We’ve seen decent camera’s on Elephone phones in the past which have suffered poor optimisation and lenses, but the Vowney is working better right out of the box.
Daylight photos are a surprise and the level of detail and the colour reproduction is far beyond what I expected the Vowney to be capable of. Night images are good too, but the camera does slow down a lot when there is less light about. To get the images I shot here required a second or so for the camera to focus, capture and save, where as photos shot in good bright conditions are snapped and saved almost instantly.
I hope Elephone keep optimising the camera software to improve low-light speed, and I also hope to see some added features and changes to the camera app. For example I can’t seem to find the promised slow motion video feature, and the stock camera app is just your standard Android camera. A sensor this good could really shine with additional features.
Overall I am quite impressed with the image quality from the Elephone Vowney camera, but after seeing the samples above do you guys agree?
Would be nice if you could make a blogpost about the best camera phones for 2015. Is there any phones that take good low light photos?
What band do you require for 4G? The Vivo Xshot would be my pick, it’s not 64 bit but that really shouldn’t be a reason not to get a great phone. 64 bit has it’s advantages but a lot of them still are years away from being clear cut advantages.
If i would go all in for 4G it would be 1/3/7/20 but i think more and more that maybe a great camera would be more prio. It seams hard to find stores selling it (for a decent price). Would you choose the 2Gb version for 290 or add 100 more for an used Samsung S6 (if camera is prio)? http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Original-Vivo-Xshot-X710L-Qualcomm-801-CPU-3GB-RAM-32GB-ROM-5-2IPS-Optical-image-stabilization/1961790949.html?spm=2114.01020208.3.1.IX0RZw&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_1,searchweb201644_1_10001_10002_10005_10006_10003_10004_62,searchweb201560_8,searchweb1451318400_6151
Band 20 is hard to find in Chinese phones, it’s not widely used outside of Europe and most of these phones don’t have an official presence there so they don’t include it. The S6 has a good camera (my wife has one) but the battery life is horrible on it. Some others with good cameras are Meizu Mx5, OnePlus 2 and LG G4. Any one of these you can take some spectacular photos with the right conditions.
If flash is great does it still counts as low light??? This thing Elife E8 has me impressed as it turns complete darkness into a great picture. 4g+64bit+64gb+expandableROM just expensive as… But my BLU came at $350…