Top 5 Best Phones To Capture Slow Motion-Tiktok Videos In 2020

Описание: Slow-motions videos are always fun to watch, but they are not as easy to film. Phone cameras have been doing slow-mos for a while, but it’s only now that they have gotten the hang of it. Things are still far from perfect, though. You will need a good deal of light, preferably outdoor settings, to shoot decent footage and most phones only allow a few seconds (mostly fraction of a second) of true slow-motion capture, which makes it tricky to shoot the moment you actually want to.

But yes, the ability to capture slow-motion footage is high in demand and manufacturers are obliging even their affordable products, even if it’s with software trickery. Before we proceed to the list of phones that shoot great slow-motion videos, here are a few basics you should know.

960fps vs 480fps slow-motion videos on phones
Slow-motion video recording is about capturing more frames every second. Most content plays at 24, 30 or 60 frames per second, and if the camera shoots more frames per second than your media player playback, you will be able to stretch the footage you captured over a longer time – resulting in slow-motion videos.

There are two necessary requirements for effective high fps slow-motion capture:

Chipset support
DRAM stacked on the camera sensor.
Two popular frame rates for slow motion on phones are 960fps and 480fps. As stated above, you will need hardware support on the camera sensor to shoot true 960fps. Such camera sensors with DRAM are still very rare. All of the popular 48MP and 64MP camera sensors that we saw this year max out at 480fps.

Many affordable phones that claim 960fps slow-motion video recording actually use software interpolation to copy and duplicate frames in between, resulting in choppy and poor quality slow- mos.

There are a few sensors that have native 960fps support and these include Sony IMX350, Sony IMX500, Samsung ISOCELL Fast 2L3, and Samsung ISOCELL Fast 2L4. Currently, you will find them mostly on Samsung, Sony, and Huawei flagships.

Best Phones That Support Slow Motion Video recording
1. Samsung Galaxy S20 series
Samsung Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, and Galaxy S20 Ultra also belong to the list of phones who can capture slow-motion videos at 960fps. There’s a small caveat though, while the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S20+ can record slo-motion video in HD resolution at 960fps while the Galaxy S20+ Ultra can shoot at 480fps which is interpolated digitally to 960fps.
2. Huawei Mate 30 Pro (1920fps)
Huawei Mate 30 Pro grabbed headlines for 7680fps slow-motion videos, but natively it can shoot half-second 720p footage at 1920fps and stretch the capture over 32 seconds. This still makes it twice as fast as any other phone out there. Besides, the 4x software interpolated 7680fps where it fills the middle fram3.
3 Sony Xperia 1 (960fps)
Sony has always delivered cutting-edge camera specs on its flagships. The Xperia 1, just as its XZ series predecessors, can shoot at 960fps. And the good thing is that it can do 1080p videos at 960. However, the phone captures only 0.1 seconds of 1080p footage at 960fps and 0.2 seconds of 720p@960fps that can be stretched to 3.2 seconds and 6.4 seconds of playback at 30p. This surely makes it a tough sell.

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OnePlus 7T Pro and OnePlus 7T (480 fps)
OnePlus 7T Pro and OnePlus 7T supports 480fps slow-mos at 720p resolution. The Sony IMX586 sensor is however not ideal for shooting slow-motion videos. In fact, the quality of slow-motion videos is a notch below what we had on the OnePlus 6T. But you can still capture workable 1080p videos at 240fps.

Samsung Galaxy S20 series 720p@960fps
Huawei Mate 30 Pro 720p@1920fps
Sony Xperia 1 1080p@960fps
Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus 720p@960fps
Samsung Galaxy S10+/ Galaxy S10 / Galaxy S10e 720p@960fps
Huawei P30 Pro 720p@960fps
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 720p@960fps
Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus/ S9 720p@960fps
OnePlus 7 Pro 720p@480fps
Asus 6Z 720p@480fps