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Best phone for editing?

Started Dec 25, 2019 | Questions
onehp Junior Member • Posts: 40
Best phone for editing?
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Best android phone(s) for editing Raws in LR:

- Screen with the possibility to set 'reliable' colours (not really possible, but the closer the better)

- Fast with LR, the app uses a lot of power

- As above, good battery

- Descent in phone pictures is a plus, as is a phone that is well supported/reliable.

Background:

In the last two years, I've moved most of my editing to my Note 8. Usually don't take a huge amount of pics, and I always have it with me (I travel light with only one lens etc). The prints I've made were close enough.

Note 8 was bought on merits of the, then, better/best camera, now looking for the best android phone(s) to edit with.

Main point is carrying light/always with me and being able to edit batches of 10-20 pics quickly on the spot.

Hard to find candidates as few have this angle when buying android phones... Not on a budget but don't want to pay more just for the sake of it...

Thanks beforehand for advice from fellow pragmatic photographers.

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FotografMagnus
FotografMagnus Regular Member • Posts: 268
Re: Best phone for editing?

Any mobile with a pressure sensitive pen such as the Samsung Galaxy Note series should get the job done easily. I myself just added a Note 10 Plus as a mobile editing platform to carry around with me when i'm out shooting events and stuff. It's fast, big display, big battery, 12gb ram and can handle anything you throw at it.

/ Magnus

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Rishabh Bansal
Rishabh Bansal Junior Member • Posts: 29
Re: Best phone for editing?

Hey,

There is no such phone that is specially made for editing purposes. You can edit images in any good phone. It is just you must have good photography and editing knowledge.

Tools like Photoshop Express, Photoshop Lite, Pixlr, etc run on every device.

Still if you are looking for a good smartphone, I would suggest you Oppo K3 with pop up selfie camera. It is a great device regarding performance, battery, and its price.

There are a lot of budget phones available that you can use in editing.

Artichoke
Artichoke Forum Pro • Posts: 12,662
don't know about best

Rishabh Bansal wrote:

Hey,

There is no such phone that is specially made for editing purposes. You can edit images in any good phone. It is just you must have good photography and editing knowledge.

but the Nokia 9 Pureview gets high marks from me

the camera app has wonderful presets, well thought out ergonomics & the screen seems quite accurate using my Eizo CG 277 as benchmark ...its processor/video subsystems were well chosen & tweaked for its unique camera system

the phone works fine, though I am not an Android fan, much preferring WebOs or Winmobile, but both no longer supported

while I hate the lack of expandable memory & the absent earbud jack, the quality of photographs from this camera awes me, particularly for available light product work

it can capture DNG files or its superb preset jpgs & you can shoot both

it has five 12 mp cameras which cleverly combine to produce very low noise, high resolution images with simply amazing OOC color depth, accuracy & resolution ...like the superb Windows phone camera, it allows control of ISO, shutter speed & exposure compensation ...it has many modes available for shooting

this is one I took shortly after getting it & was converted from the DNG in C1

worked in C1 from DNG hand held iso 341 1/45 sec

Nokia has been a leader in smartphone cameras & put together, along with partners like Zeiss, Light & Qualcomm developed  a idiosyncratic jewel that runs Android One & handles light better than any phone I have used

I'll forgo the headphone jack in the interest of water/dust resistance as long as it delivers such wondrous photographs that are so simple to tweak

I have a much larger version of this & other samples from this exceptional smartphone camera system in my pbase gallery ---> here

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