Redmi Note 8 Camera Review

Redmi Note 8 Camera Review

One of the most important selling points of the Redmi Note 8 is its rear quad-camera setup. the most one may be a 48-megapixel f/1.79 camera which takes 16-megapixel shots by default and may record video at up to 4K 30fps or 1080p 60fps. Next, there's an 8-megapixel f/2.2 wide-angle camera, a 2-megapixel macro camera, and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. If you think that that sounds familiar, tons of those specifications are shared with the Realme 5 (Review).

MIUI's camera app is fairly simple but does have some quirks. The way you turn between cameras isn't especially intuitive — there are three dots above the shutter button which correspond to 0.6X, 1X, and 2X. As you would possibly have guessed, the primary two switch between the wide-angle and first cameras, but 2X just does a digital zoom. If you would like to use the macro camera, there is a separate toggle above the viewfinder where the flash and HDR controls are.

We struggled a touch bit with locking focus in low light and when using the macro camera on the Redmi Note 8. We frequently had to tap the screen to urge the Redmi Note 8 to lock on what we wanted. Another odd issue was the over-aggressive Pocket Mode, which resulted within the screen locking up fairly often once we held the phone in landscape to require a photograph, because the proximity sensor was covered.

When it involves photo quality though, we were impressed overall. The first 48-megapixel camera on the Redmi Note 8 gave us crisp, bright shots with excellent detail. Subjects at a distance attended be grainier than we might have liked, but closeups came out looking great. Colours were good and there was some nice natural depth of field.

Details were sometimes lost when shooting brightly coloured objects, or in scenes with contrasting backgrounds. Shots crazy the wide-angle camera on the Redmi Note 8 attended suffer in terms of clarity and exposures weren't balanced also, but there was little to no warping at the sides of our frames.

Other than the difficulty with autofocus detection, we found that our low-light shots were sometimes blotchy and noisy, and there might be some motion blur if we weren't very still. Quality was decent but nothing to urge excited about. Again, the wide-angle camera produced far less detail.

The macro camera on the Redmi Note 8 are often fun to use and lends itself to creative framing. We managed to urge some interesting perspectives. The depth of field it produces can make subjects stand out, but they are not captured in very top quality. We had to experiment a short time before deciding how far we would have liked to face from our subjects, and that we found it hard to capture anything that was moving.

As for video, we found that the Redmi Note 8 managed decent quality at 1080p, but colours were pretty overblown at 4K. There was also little to no evidence of stabilisation, which limits usability. At night, video quality was expectedly not nearly as good.

The Redmi Note 8 features a 13-megapixel f/2 front camera. We felt that our skin texture had been smoothened and softened an excessive amount of while the background was crisper and stole attention. Beautification has got to be turned off manually, which may be a multi-tap process. At night, selfies came out grainy and blurry.