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You can take 1920 x 1080 images while recoding a video but we don't find that amusing, given that these are nothing more than screenshots captured mid video. It is, however, very limited in terms of options and gives you settings for white balance, camera preference (front or back), a flash toggle, geo-tagging and the option to choose the video resolution. The camcorder interface borrows heavily from the camera one. LG Nexus 5 in our photo compare test FullHD is the limit

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You're free to select any other adversary, though. The Nexus 5 enters our Photo quality comparison tool to face the likes of the LG Nexus 4 and the iPhone 5s. In other words - the camera may not be the Nexus 5 strongest weapon, but it's good enough not to be counted against the smartphone and after the Nexus 4 that's a win in its own right. However, the snapper on the latest Nexus will do just fine for those that aren't too demanding and with the proper skills can produce some pretty good shots. The Nexus 5 camera certainly isn't going to win any photography contests - thanks to its poor white balance it can't even win its own 8MP league, let alone take the big guys with 13MP cameras (the Xperia Z1 and Lumia 1020 can't even be put in the same sentence with it). It was able to get very close to the desired subjects and produced very detailed results with nicely blurred backgrounds. Macro mode was arguably the best part of the Nexus 5 camera performance. You should keep in mind that it slightly reduces the maximum image resolution from 3264x2448 to 3200x2368 pixels, though. This means the contrast doesn't suffer and since we got no detail smearing either. The new HDR+ mode on the Nexus 5 does a decent job, adding a dash of extra detail in the highlights and keeping the shadows just about unchanged. The smartphone has a really hard time getting it right and often produces images that are way too cold or too warm. White balance turned out to be particularly problematic for the Nexus 5. Noise levels are above average, but certainly not the worst we have seen. The level of detail is very good for the 8MP league, although there's notable softness towards the left edge of the frame. The LG Nexus 5 camera image quality is about average (which is admittedly is a huge step forward from the disappointing snapper of the Nexus 4). After you've covered the entire surrounding scene the device generates a panorama, which can be viewed as a Photosphere in the Gallery and uploaded to Google's servers to be featured in Maps (if it's good enough). You start by aligning your image and then just move the phone about following a generated dot. Photosphere lets you take Street View panoramas of your surroundings.

So in essence it's a real task to frame your photos right and you cannot opt for the native aspect. It shows you a 16:9 feed while snapping photos in 4:3 aspect.

The viewfinder is annoyingly thought-out. You can choose Camcorder, Panorama and Photosphere through the underlying shortcut. Quick settings can also be triggered by touching the corresponding icon atop the virtual shutter button. It's not the most useful of ways to navigate the camera app in our mind. Using swipe gestures you can toggle the HDR mode, exposure, settings for picture size, white balance, timer, geo-tagging, scene mode, flash on or off and switching to the front-facing camera. You need to hold a finger anywhere in the viewfinder to get to the quick settings. It brings an end to the quick settings ring and instead opts for a quick settings arch.

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The camera app looks exactly the same as what we saw premiered on the Google Play Edition Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One in Android Jelly Bean 4.3.

The Nexus 4 had a 1/4.0' camera sensor and 1.12um pixels, while the Nexus 5 packs a much larger 1/3.2' image, which given results bigger 1.4um pixels. There's an LED flash as well but what's more impressive is the optical image stabilization.

The Nexus 5 doesn't pay attention to the megapixel race and instead keeps the more than adequate 8 MP resolution of last year's Nexus.

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