Now here we are! For those who don’t know, the Camon series is Tecno’s Camera centric smartphone. That does not really mean it the smartphone series with the best camera from Tecno. But the truth remains that when a Tecno Camon smartphone is mentioned, especially among geeks, the next thought that will come to mind is camera. So what is the Camera performance on the Camon CM?
Tecno Camon CM (CMore) Camera Specs and Features
The Camera is a 13-megapixel shooter with support for Phase Detection Auto-focus (PDAF). It has 3.5mm focal length and f/2.0 aperture. The image size is 3120 x 4160 resulting to between 4-6MB for a single image. The LED light is a single-toned, ring (quad) flash. The front camera also retains same settings except for the single front facing LED flash.
I put the 13-megapixel rear sensor through both indoor and outdoor test, and while some outcome was very impressive, few others turned out a bit disappointing. One major area I was disappointed with the CMore rear camera, is in the colour reproduction. Outdoor images captured on the Camon CMore lack enough colours. Images are generally bright and sharp, but the lesser colour tend to make it look too whitish.
Another area the phone failed to impress me is when shooting an object in front of a larger light source. Even when I tried to manually focus the object, the CM will still not allow in more light enough to make the point of focus brighter. This result in a bit darker image output, giving an upper hand to Ulefoone Mix 2, thanks to it dual rear camera.
Where the Camon CM shines is during night or low light shots, as well as indoor shots. This is where you’ll notice the importance of the rear Ring flash. The front facing camera is also very Okay, producing clean picture in full day light, but the noise level is too high at night. For the ladies, you also get about 8 level of facial beautification (did not try it).
Tecno Camon CMore More Main Camera Samples
In summary, the Camon CM rear camera did very well in both my photo shooting and video recording. However one important thing to note is, when recording video, the Tecno Camon CM can only record at 720p resolution
Tecno Camon CMore Front-facing Camera samples:
The screen is also very pleasant enough for watching movies. And yes, the loud speaker on this device does it job pretty well. The speaker is really loud and crisp, with notable highs and mids. Even at the highest volume, the output is still very clear keeping sound distortions to the barest minimum. Although I would have loved to see more of lows.
The story becomes entirely different when you plug-in the pair of the follow-come earbuds. The earbud is still the traditional cheap earbud that accompanies both Tecno and Infinix smartphones. But for some good reasons, I could still enjoy some great sounds after playing with the EQs. Plug in a more premium earbuds like my Xiaomi Mi Piston Pro HD (Piston V4), and you are in a different world of sound quality entirely.
In all, multimedia consumer will totally have no issue with this device. One thing I still don’t like with the CM at this point is the fact that the pre-loaded Boom Player is still a bit slow for my liking, and when on data, the player keeps sending useless music notification which can be easily turned off from the player settings. But if you don’t like the boom player like myself, Google music app is also pre-loaded.