The LG V40 Has Five Cameras #Helpful Post

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hey guys this is Austin 20:18 has been a

very interesting year for smartphones

we've lost our friend the headphone jack

and instead we now have notches on

almost every smartphone you can buy and

dual camera setups are everywhere but

what if I told you that there's a

smartphone flagship in 2018 that does

things just a little bit differently the

brand-new LG v 40 think you takes all

the boxes you would expect out of a

modern flagship you're getting that huge

six point four inch OLED display it does

have a notch although it actually is

hidden by default which looks nice and

you're getting that classic glass and

aluminum build with well something's a

little bit different if you look closely

you'll find not one camera not two

cameras but three cameras on the rear

and just to sort of add to that there's

also two front-facing cameras the three

cameras aren't just for show they each

serve a different purpose so the main

camera is what you would expect on most

smartphones

it's a roughly thirty millimeter

equivalent but the wide-angle camera at

16 mil is going to give you a much wider

field of view and the telephoto with a

roughly 2x zoom at around 50 millimetres

is going to get you much much closer to

the action I sound like the the LG ad

right now it'll get you closer to the

action the main camera is the highest

quality of the three now I do have a

wide F 1.5 aperture but there's also

optical image stabilization as well as

dual pixel autofocus that wide-angle can

give you a very different perspective

now to be fair this is something that LG

has been doing on their flagships for a

little while now but usually you lose

out on the telephoto option whereas with

the v40 you literally get at all the

telephoto camera is the weakest of the

three all of that comes down to the

sensor which does seem a bit inferior to

the wide and the standard you don't

quite have the same range and you are

losing some features like it does not

support raw and the color just isn't

quite on par quality wise the v40

cameras do a pretty good job but they're

a little bit different than the iPhones

and the galaxies of the world so out of

the box it's not going to be as punchy

however I think a lot of people were

buying the v40 are going to really be

into sort of customizing and tweaking

their images and there's a lot of

flexibility here specifically thanks to

that raw processing there's just a lot

of dynamic range that you can get out of

the wide and the standard photos it

might not be quite

part would like an SLR or something

that's really impressive what you're

able to get out of this if you don't

mind doing a little bit of editing

low-light performance is pretty

impressive on the standard shooter as is

the bokeh it's very nice

even without the portrait mode and on

top of that the AI cam is actually

decent so like most smartphones in 2018

it has some kind of mode which will give

you a little bit of an optimization

based on what you're taking a photo of

for example if you take a photo of food

it will boost like saturation or

sharpness or whatever the case is

usually I don't find this all that

useful and you can of course turn it off

here but it actually does a pretty good

job out of the box the portrait mode on

the v40 is actually pretty decent so to

be fair we do have pre-release software

so I have noticed a few issues like

sometimes it does a really good job of

cutting you out of the shot but then it

will slightly miss focus but generally

speaking it's pretty solid it is a

little bit weird that you can't take a

portrait mode shot with the telephoto

camera like pretty much every other

phone instead you have to use the main

shooter

I assume that's probably something to do

with the fact that the telephoto camera

isn't as good but there are some cool

modes including a contour lighting modes

very similar to what you're getting on

the iPhone but my favorite is the code

backdrops so as opposed to just cutting

you out and putting like a black

background behind you can pick a bunch

of different colors and some of them

look really nice assuming you don't have

hair or anything that it doesn't like

mat looks great on it this one's top

notch

video is a huge component of the v40 so

as a little test we are now shooting on

the v40 at 4k 24 frames per second you

can't go all the way up to 4k 60 but for

this test because this is a 24 p video

that makes a little more sense we have

the high bitrate mode enabled we are

shooting an HDR 10 and then grading it

down to rec 709 to fit inside

standard YouTube timeline so you guys we

get a good sense of sort of the quality

of the image as well as the audio

because we are using the hi bye audio

that is built into the phone as if three

rear-facing cameras weren't enough you

also have two selfie shooters so one is

going to be a standard email excel and

then we have an extra-wide 5 megapixel

option to be honest I can't tell a huge

difference at first glance between the

two shooters but once you actually

switch over to that wide-angle that can

make the difference between getting your

friends in the shot or only your

favorite friends in the shot the bottom

line is that while it sounds excessive

to have 5 cameras on your smart phone

they actually do all serve a purpose

props tell chief we're not just adding

gimmicky features like a extra depth

sensor or a monochrome sensor all five

lenses really do give you something

different here the v40 continues LG's

trend of nella including a headphone

jack but a properly good one so this is

rocking a 32-bit - wah Zac and what

better way to test that then with the

sponsor of today's video mass drop and

the sennheiser 58 x jubilee headphones

all you do is jump into the LG settings

and enable the high fived ack and we

should have the full power of the phone

so one of the reasons why this actually

is a really good combination is that

these headphones give me that they're

only $150 our proper audiophile grade

and they sound almost identical to the

$500 version of the sennheiser headset

these headphones actually are able to be

driven with a normal headphone jacks if

you want to plug it into a standard

phone or laptop they're going to sound

good but if you have something they can

give them just a little bit more juice

such as the v40 it really does help them

to come alive so you were probably able

to hear my music pretty well with these

and that's because there are open-back

headphones now there are pros and cons

to this design one of the pros is these

like a lot of other high-end headphones

do give you a very wide soundstage -

rich rich sound but on the downside it

is definitely going to be a little more

for home use because well it's not

exactly a stealthy way of listening to

music if you've been curious about

getting into higher end audio the HD 58

X Jubilees are an awesome way to get

into it and right now there are only a

hundred and fifty dollars on not strop

but if you guys know how masks drop

works they're not going to last for long

they've sold over 20,000 of these pairs

of headphones so you'd better get them

soon or you might be waiting quite a

while enough excuse me I'm

to go back to listening to a little bit

of music Tom a LGV 40 and my super dope

headphones coming back to the v40 the

hardware is very similar to a bigger g7

that means you have glass on front and

back with an aluminum build as well as

if a prince sets are right where it

belongs

unfortunately what you're not going to

find is any kind of face unlock but and

I mean fingerprint sensor still works

right the screen looks terrific it's a

six point four inch OLED display with a

1440p resolution and they actually have

a lot of different customization options

as you would kind of expect on a

high-end phone like this that's aimed

for more of the creative wes's of the

world yes I like how the display is

customizable for the creative

professionals like me in the world

thanks boss unfortunately early software

on the v40 means that we can't actually

do our full screen regiment of tests but

based on at least subjective impressions

it looks very accurate although maybe

not quite as bright as stuff like the

iPhone 10s or the note 9 inside you'll

find a snapdragon 845 paired with 6 gigs

of ram as well as 64 gigs of storage and

that is expandable with the micro SD

card slots aka

it has almost the exact same spec as

every other Android flagship in 2018 now

we are shooting this video before the

official announcement so at the moment

we don't have the final price or the

release date but assuming that it is

somewhere in that 800 to $1,000 flagship

range it looks interesting the cameras

really are the selling point of the v40

having three individual options is

something that is legitimately helpful

to have on a phone there's a lot of

potential here and I'll tell you what

this certainly will not be the last

phone we see with three or even five

cameras this year or next year it's

probably going to be a thing now