They're dead simple to use and offer excellent focus and balanced colors. Sony phones also have good cameras, but their latest models are often very expensive and difficult to get in the US.Īpple's latest cameras tend to be the benchmark in the creative industries. Higher-end devices tend to perform better, but the gap is closing, especially if you primarily take photos in good light. In the US, Apple, Google, and Samsung phones have the best cameras. There's intense camera innovation going on from manufacturers such as Huawei, Oppo, and Xiaomi, but, for various reasons, these manufacturers don't sell their phones in the US, and their phones work poorly on our networks. One thing we find frustrating with modern smartphones is that often the best cameras aren’t available on phones sold in the US.
It did not specify first-quarter compact sales, but lowered its 2015 forecast to 7.0 million cameras from 7.8 million, or 23 percent less than 2014. “Sales volume for low-end (digital camera) models declined due to the ongoing contraction of the market in all regions from the previous year,” said Canon in its earnings release. That shift has dragged Canon’s compact sales down nearly 70 percent since the market’s peak in 2008 - the year after Apple Inc released its game-changing iPhone.
1 camera maker contends with a shift in consumer preference toward increasingly capable smartphone cameras. Profit at the world’s largest camera maker fell to 33.93 billion yen (£188 million) in January-March, compared with the 53.64 billion yen average estimate of 5 analysts according to Thomson Reuters data. Canon's logos are seen on compact digital camera on display at an electronics retail store in Tokyo July 24, 2014.