Smartphones have made amateurs attempt and excel at clicking out the world photographs. The quality of smartphone photographs keeps improving as technology advances, along with the quality of camera lenses and hardware. You can now find camera phones using AI, advanced optics, sensors, and algorithms to extract the best of your picture and post-processing. To help you find a good camera phone, here are some recommendations:

iPhone 13 Pro Max
Most users and experts agree that the iPhone 13 Pro Max is the best camera phone. It is by far Apple’s biggest phone. It has four cameras – 108 MP wide, 12 MP ultrawide, 10 MP telephoto cameras in the rear, and one 40 MP front camera. The sensors are bigger now, which allows more light that is right for clicking brighter pictures. The ultrawide camera now has an autofocus that can photograph objects just 2 cm away. The phone has retained the sensor-shift OIS from the iPhone 12 Pro Max. 

Google Pixel 6 Pro
This phone is one of the most affordable yet high-quality camera phones. Experts rate the Pixel 6 Pro as the best Android smartphone, with four cameras – 50 MP main, 12 MP ultrawide, 48 MP telephoto in the back, and an 11.1 MP front camera. Night mode, night shift, and Tensor Chip are new features unique to this phone. New features of this camera phone include Action Plan, Long exposure, Real tone, and a Magic eraser. 

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra
Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra has an array of four cameras in the back and one in the front. They are 108 MP wide, 12 MP ultra-wide, 10 MP telephoto, 10 MP telephoto in the back, and one 40 MP front camera. Samsung has used AI to optimize the camera sensors’ capabilities to increase the light to capture low-light pictures. An anti-reflective nano-coating in the lens reduces the halo effect. It has wider optical image stabilization and digital image stabilization to reduce shaking. The phone also has a technique called Adaptive Pixel that helps to retain details from the sensors while reducing the pixel file size.  

OnePlus 10 Pro
The One Plus 10 Pro is widely accepted as one of the latest and better camera phones. It has a triple camera system: a 48 MP main camera, 8 MP telephoto camera, and 50 MP ultrawide camera in the back. The cameras association with the Hasselblad has brought in features like color science optimization. It also offers multiple modes for shooting, a few standard ones and new ones like the 150-degree mode and XPAN, PRO, and movie modes.

Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra
The Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra has the largest image sensor in a camera phone that is ideal for clicking natural and lifelike pictures with objects or people in the foreground. It is ideal for nighttime and low-light photography. The Mi 11 Ultra has a triple camera system and new Samsung ISOCEL sensors,  ToF sensors, and multispectral color temperature sensors, allowing fast and accurate autofocus.

Realme GT 2 Pro
The  Realme GT 2 Pro has features similar to leading camera phones on the market, like a super-wide 150-degree camera. It has a four-camera system with the  SONY IMX766 OIS as the main camera. It is more affordable in terms of pricing and has gained good user reviews and ratings.