Huawei’s Honor brand launched the Honor 5C smartphone in India last month priced at Rs. 10,999. It recently went on open sale in the country. We already brought you the hands-on impressions and battery life test results of the smartphone, here we have the camera review of the phone.
The Honor 5C has a 13-megapixel auto focus rear camera with f/2.0 aperture and LED flash.
Judging by the numbers, you would get a performance that is perhaps identical to most of the other smartphones in the price range. There is no fancy sensor size value nor pixel size in terms of microns to suggest otherwise. However, the image quality that this phone can produce is truly amazing. The Honor 5C has a class-leading camera that offers great image quality not just under good lighting conditions but also under low or poorly lit conditions. The noise in the images during such situations is barely visible and definitely can compete with several smartphones in the higher ranges as well.
The colour reproduction, white balancing etc are spot on too and the smartphone captures a lot of detail too. If there is one small thing that the camera could’ve been better at, it is the dynamic range. However, that is just being very picky and just in case you need more dynamic range, you can just turn on the HDR mode to improve it. The shutter speed is pretty quick too although it does slow down a bit when using the HDR mode but not by much.
Click on any of the images below for the full fledged samples. The photos on the left were taken in HDR mode while the ones on the right are taken in normal mode.
The front-facing 8-megapixel camera with f/2.0 aperture also tells a similar story. Great details, bright images with less noise. More than enough for your social media friendly images and a wide enough lens to accommodate your friends into one frame.
The Honor 5C can record 1080p videos at a maximum frame rate of 30 fps which is on par with most of the other offerings in this segment but the quality of videos aren’t that great. Videos are bright and lively in terms of colour but are quite jerky and seems to lose out in terms of details. There is some moire effect going on as well and the edges of objects seem to have some weird artifacts. We hope that this is something Honor can focus and improve on in future firmware updates since this issue is most likely related to processing on the software end.
Check out the video sample below.
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