Playing with the HTC Titan II's 16MP camera. Low-light and macro samples.

Titan II

Before today, we compared and contrasted the Nokia Lumia 900 and the HTC Titan Two on AT&T and each featuring 4G LTE. Both phones have their strengths and weaknesses just if in that location is i thing nosotros can absolutely agree on is the impressive rear camera on the Titan II (review).

Featuring a back-side illuminated (BSI) sensor for excellent low-light performance, 16MP for loftier resolution, f/2.half dozen lens with dual LED wink, the Titan 2 has arguably 1 of the best cameras on a phone today (well, definitely on a Windows Phone). In fact, HTC in general has been investing heavily in cameras every bit of late, including their new flag ship Android telephone, the One X (review), which has an 8MP BSI sensor with a jaw-dropping f/ii.0 22mm lens.

There's no debate about it: the Titan Two's rear camera crushes the Lumia 900'south (review) That doesn't make the Lumia 900 a bad phone at all, in fact we discover that the camera performs quite well in well-lit conditions and we're throwing down $450 on April 22nd for a glossy-white 1 to dorsum upwards our opinion. Just if photos matter to you lot, then the Titan Two deserves a serious look. And if you have 4G LTE in your area to ship those massive pics, it will certainly helps for those uploads.

Likewise the exceptional camera hardware, HTC have washed some really great work with the Titan Ii'due south camera software too. For instance, it's the first Windows Telephone that nosotros know of that has grin detection in addition to face up detection. There'due south too an impressive scarlet-heart reduction built in, flare-up mode for rapid shots and the familiar anti-shake choice (ramps up ISO for non-blurred shots).

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Those are very impressive and useful features but there'due south more. There'due south too 18 "scenes" including more than obscure things like "Backlight portrait", "Night portrait", "Text", "Beach", "Foliage' and even a special setting for "Food". Yup, there'due south a pre-set fashion for taking pictures of your latest meal. If you don't want to bother choosing your scene, just use the "Intelligent Motorcar" manner to automatically choose 1 for you (and aye, information technology's smart too). You even have some built in furnishings similar "Vintage warm", "Vignette" and "Blue Tint" which tin as well be used for video. That's on peak of what's built into the optional Photo Enhancer app by HTC.

Only plenty talk, lets run across some photos. We walked around the streets of Manhattan snapping a couple of pics besides equally some macro and regular shots for yous to peruse and yes, we're linking to the total resolution pics for your pixel peepers out at that place. These photos have non been altered in whatever way except to remove some EXIF info like GPS from our habitation pictures. The dual LED wink was non used for whatsoever pictures.

Bound past the break to have a look...

Low-lite and Macro shots from HTC TITAN Two

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Full-size photos found on Imgur below

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