Yu launched the YUREKA Plus, an upgraded version of the YUREKA smartphone last month, which got a permanent price cut to Rs. 8,999 earlier this month. One of the major improvements in the YUREKA Plus is the smartphone’s 13-megapixel camera, which uses Sony IMX214 sensor, compared to Sony IMX135 sensor in the YUREKA. It has the same 5-megapixel front-facing camera with OmniVision 5648 sensor, 4P lenses and 71-degree wide viewing angle as seen in the YUREKA.
Since it runs on Cyanogen OS, it comes with Cyanogen camera app with several modes (HDR, Action, Backlight, Beach, Candlelight, Fireworks, Flowers, Landscape, Night, Night portrait, Party, Portrait, Snow, Sports, Steady photo, Sunset, Theatre, Mono, Sepia, Negative, Solarize, Posterize, Aqua, Emboss, Sketch and Neon). You can select different modes from the settings and just swipe the screen to switch to different modes.
YUREKA’s camera was not impressive, but YUREKA Plus has a considerably better camera. Daylight shots are good with vibrant colors in sunny days, but the images are a bit dull if it’s cloudy. Macro shots are good, thanks to the f/1.8 aperture. HDR shots are decent. Low-light shots obviously had a lot of noise, but the you don’t lose much details. Flash helps in poor lighting conditions and is not overpowering.
Check out the camera samples (Click the image for the full resolution sample)
Daylight
Macro
HDR
Low-light
Flash
It can record videos at 1080p resolution at 30 fps. Video quality is good. Since it has a secondary microphone, audio is crisp. Check out the 1080p video sample.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx8_riNGfHE
There is also an HFR option to record slow motion videos, which actually records videos at 60fps and reduces the frame rate to 1/3rd from the original video to 20 fps. Check out the slow motion sample below.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EluvhWT_mqk