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The lack of OIS is a bit of a problem. For a camera meant to be used on the go and to capture moments as they happen, the RE doesn’t cope well with movement. If your hand is moving more than a little when you take a picture, the result will be a blurry mess. When we first got the RE the ease with which you can take pics made us a bit blase.
We’d swing our arms around or walk and take a pic. Suffice to say this doesn’t work. You still need to treat the RE like a camera – you need to frame your shot and stand still. So what’s the point of having the RE if you’ve already got a top smartphone with a decent snapper?
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Aside from the convenience and ease with which you can use the RE, it also has a 146-degree wide-angle lens that lets you take in a whole lot more of the scenery. The proof is in the pictures, though, so we took the RE out to Las Vegas to get some shots as you would on holiday. When we got back to London we also tested it against two of the best camera phones on the market right now – the iPhone 6 Plus and Samsung Galaxy Note 4. That wide-angle lens lets you get more of the scenery in the frame than you can with a traditional smartphone camera. If you’re at a football match you can even get the whole pitch in a shot. Something’s got to give when a camera takes so much in, and in the case of the RE that thing is detail.
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In general photos look good, if a little muted. There’s none of the warmth of the iPhone or the detail of the Galaxy Note 4, but we found ourselves taking a lot more photos with the RE than we do with a phone simply because it is so unobtrusive to do so. We took this picture underwater to test the RE’s water-resistance We took the same photos – standing in the same place and taken within seconds of each other – with the RE, iPhone 6 Plus and Galaxy Note 4 to see how they compare. We left HDR mode off the phones to keep the test like for like. Before we go into detail, we should look at just how much more the RE fits in frame. The RE captures more of the scenery.
Photos taken from the same location. Note 4 picture inset In the following test we digitally zoomed in and cropped a section of each photo to see how much detail the camera managed to capture. St Paul’s Cathedral dome, shot over the river Thames, is noisy and there’s a massive difference between the Note 4’s sharpness and the RE’s fuzzy crop.
In lower light, things don’t get much better, as this photo of a statue in a dark room shows. The HTC RE just can’t compete with these top phones. The RE’s photos aren’t bad, it’s just that these phones take better photos under a variety of conditions.
READ ALSO: BEST CAMERAS HTC RE – Video and Audio Quality The RE doesn’t shine on the video front either. It struggles with changes in brightness and shows some signs of stuttering as we moved and shot. The 120fps 720p video works well enough, but suffers from the same issues normal Full HD video does.
Audio capture comes courtesy of a single mic, so it’s mono. It’s not bad, but you might be disappointed if you want a cheeky memento of your favourite song sung live at a gig. Watch the test video of the HTC RE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI4TNyeVARI HTC RE – Battery Life The 820mAh battery charges lasts for 1200 full-res photos or an hour and 40 minutes of Full HD video, according to HTC. That’s pretty close to what we achieved, with 700 odd photos and several short videos being taken before we had to tie the RE down to a plug socket.
Unfortunately the ease with which you can take video also led us to holster the RE while it was still shooting. Pulling it out of your pocket to take a beautiful landscape shot only to realise you’ve killed the battery is a real disappointment. The good thing is that it charges in less than two hours and you can use a portable power pack to top it up on the go.
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