Honor 5C review

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Honor 5C review

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Sharp, loads of detail for a cheap phone and accurate brickwork colors. Great stuff.Honor 5C review

Sharp, loads of detail for a cheap phone camera, and accurate brickwork colors. Great stuff

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Honor 5C review

Here's the 5C's one daylight issue in action: the camera has totally failed to focus on this church. Unless you touch-focus carefully, you'll end up with loads of these

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The sky's gradient is a little off here, with hints of green creeping in, but the brickwork coloring is nuanced and the detail is sharp

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Photoshop adds contrast to this kind of shot if you try to auto-process it, but the Honor 5C's take is actually pretty true-to-life

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Lovely colors, good contrast. The Honor 5C has among the best cameras on a phone in this price range

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Detail is not surprisingly lost in the deep shadows in the lower part of this image, but the colors of the flowers look great

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Here's a demo of an Honor 5C strong suit – it's rare that you see a phone this cheap able to produce such dramatic-looking nature close-ups. Colors are vivid but natural, and the shallow depth of field effect is lovely

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The 5C's metering chops are on show here: the camera has chosen to prioritise detail in the sky and allow the foreground to darken a bit, but you could recover much of this foreground detail in post-processing if you wanted to. Ultimately the right choice

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The far-away beams of London's Waterloo station here show off the amount of detail a 13-megapixel sensor can render – a lot

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This may look like an unremarkable shot, but it really says a lot about the quality of the 5C's sensor. The fact that it's picked out the blue of the sky through the leaves, and hasn't blown any highlights significantly, is truly impressive

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Andrew Williams

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