If the anther and pollen in the middle are a fuzzy mess, you know you don’t have a particularly sharp camera. Small flowers can be a good subject to use for testing detail.

And unlike some those Lumia PureView cameras, you don’t have to be at least 15cm away to focus. For most of these day time shots I had most settings on automatic, with only focus set to manual. In good daylight, the camera is really superb. Panasonic’s CM1 delivers on that front.Īs well as being sharp, light levels are good and colors are beautiful. So, if a camera can get really close up to an object and take nice, sharp images with lots of beautiful bokeh (soft background), I’m already impressed. I think it’s the joy of seeing things in greater detail than I could with my own naked eye. In my iPhone days, I’d carry an Olloclip with me everywhere to take macro shots. For the photography enthusiast who cares little about the smartphone experience, the CM1 might be the best Android phone out there. What’s more, the manual controls and the rotating ring around the lens mean it’s pretty easy to achieve awesome photos. Having a 1-inch camera sensor means you get fantastic images. It may have been announced some time ago, but the Panasonic CM1 has wowed me in my short time with it. Panasonic’s CM1 may be thicker than your average phone, but it’s easily pocketable, not too uncomfortable to hold and has an epic 20MP camera with 1-inch sensor, a 6-element Leica lens, manual controls and a maximum aperture of f/2.8. Despite the rise of quality lenses and sensors, using a smartphone still isn’t quite as good a ‘proper’ camera. In other words, the camera on your smartphone, in your pocket, is better than the DSLR you’ve got sat on a shelf at home. Often when referring to your smartphone, it is said that “the best camera is the one you have with you”.

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