DxOMark has just released its review of the main and selfie cameras on the iPhone SE. The iPhone SE has similar camera hardware to the iPhone XR’s. It’s a 12MP sensor with aperture f/1.8, the autofocus for phase detection, OIS, and up to 5X optical zoom. It’s a very simple system, in today’s standards. The selfie camera is meanwhile a 7MP sensor with an f/2.2 aperture and fixed focus lens.
The iPhone SE does a really good job of exposure and contrast metering. The automatic HDR from Apple is to thank for that. This works well for both indoor and outdoor photos and has managed to effectively show shadows and darks.
The iPhone SE has colors as a strength. DxOMark cited color equilibrium and on-point saturation well represented.
Autofocus is powerful, fast, and consistent though sharpness in low-light shots is more evident. Noise and distortion were where DxOMark saw camera weakness.
Higher-resolution sensors (even in the budget sector) that use pixel binning to reduce noise and improve low-light performance rival the 12MP sensor nowadays. Noise and lack of clarity are more noticeable on indoor or high contrast shots.
Main camera portraits and selfie camera are passable, yet incoherent. Furthermore, shooting with low light isn’t the power of the iPhone SE. The SE does not have a dedicated Night shooting mode.
It has Always the Lack of the Specs
Although the budget-friendly Apple smartphone provides comparable quality to the more costly iPhone 11 in many ways, its single-camera setup falls short for zoom and bokeh shots compared to the top-performing DXOMark models.
However, as a drawback is the lack of an ultra-wide frame, which is the key discrepancy between it and the iPhone 11. The average score is the same as that of the iPhone X and Pixel3A but is lower than that of the Redmi K20 Pro, which has 102 points overall.
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