96 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 64ROUND-UP
Cameras
If there’s one area where the G7 Power does reflect its
price, it’s in the camera department. As with the G7,
there’s a 12Mp rear camera and an 8Mp selfie camera
with a group-shot mode.
It lacks the 5Mp depth-sensing camera, so has to
use software and its ISP to figure out what’s subject
and what’s background. And the results aren’t as good
as Google manages with the Pixel 3, nor are photos of
the same quality. But all this is to be expected given
that the G7 Power costs around a quarter of the price.
Even in good light, photos show evidence of noise
reduction (and a lack of sharp detail) and there’s visible
noise in photos taken at night or low light.
However, that’s only noticeable when examining
pictures close up. A less critical observer would deem
the images fine to share with friends on Facebook
and we’d have to say that colours are realistic and
exposures generally very good. The PDAF system
isn’t the best, though. It occasionally fails completely
and produces out-of-focus photos and we ended
up with too many blurry photos of children and pets
which wouldn’t stay still for a photo. We also spotted
random blurry areas in otherwise sharp pictures
(including the photo of St Pancras opposite) and can
only attribute it to an imperfect HDR blending system.
Video is much the same as you get from the Moto
G7. It goes up to 4K, but above 1080p 30fps there’s
no stabilization. You can record at 1080p60, but most
people will stick with the out-of-box 1080p30 setting.
There’s not an immense amount of detail, but it’s what
we’d call “usable” footage.