Zenfone 9 Photo thread!

[Mattias_ASUS]

Zenfone 9 is here and as many of you probably have seen, we got some pretty impressive cameras this time around!
So I propose a thread with some of our best pictures, the pics I will upload are taken by normal average people and without any enhancements.

The picture above was taken with the camera's Light trail mode by a waterfall.

[Pitek]

Danishblunt

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/comment/243607#Comment_243607

If you value video and want to stay on the zenfone, then grab mcpro24fps on play store. It supports HDR recording and has tons of features that are great for video. It easily beats the likes of the Iphones as well.

I would however recommend switching to sony. Their phones are much better suited for video recording as they not only have much superior and color accurate lenses but also SD card slots and the integrated software is on par with mcpro24fps if not better. For any person who values camera on their phones, sony is by far the best option.

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Maybe you're right, but here we have good lens, but poor software so laggy video record is unacceptable.

fakeco14

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/comment/243607#Comment_243607

Did you use a case for the underwater shots? I think the video shows that stabilisation is working relatively well though.

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Yes I had case, stabilization works good, but sometimes, as you see - a specially in hotel room and sometimes outside, there are a lot of lags.

[Danishblunt]

Pitek

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/comment/243680#Comment_243680

Maybe you're right, but here we have good lens, but poor software so laggy video record is unacceptable.

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/comment/243683#Comment_243683

Yes I had case, stabilization works good, but sometimes, as you see - a specially in hotel room and sometimes outside, there are a lot of lags.

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Sony has far better lenses and perfect software support.

[Danishblunt]

@Pitek

here is an example of how ridicolously good the sony xperia 1 IV is for video. It records 10bit HDR for perfect color grading, it also is able to produce extremely clean video footage even in low light situations you see in the video. Other smartphones would crap themselves, even big lens phones like the samsung will simply fall apart. The proper and true optical zoom lens (physically moves) allows for lossless zoom recording while being a big lens in itself, meaning even in low light you still maintain great quality, much better than anything the competition has, as typically the zoom lenses on smartphones is small and use digital zoom to zoom further than the fixed zoom the lens has.

[Pitek]

Yes you're right, but Sony Xperia 1 and 5 IV aren't perfect. Before I bought Asus, I read a lot of about new Sony. Snap 8gen makes them really hot and then finish record - 4k 60fps only 15 minutes.
In Asus I recorded sometimes 1,5h in 4k and nothing happen, maybe a little warm but not in dangerous level.
We need here one thing, improve and optimize software and Zenfone will be perfect phone. I'm very disappointed why Asus ignore our requests.

[b_preslavski]

I used to have sunny 5 ii - total crap in photography. It couldn't focus properly even in bright conditions and the sensors were 5 or more years old and... Total crap and not worth the ridiculous price. Never again, even the new models are only marketing and history of the company.