Hello TH-cam. This is a commentary on the LG V40 cameras which is about as long, or longer, than many camera sections in other full phone reviews. If you're only instinct is to complain about the full in-depth review being locked on Patreon, then I will mute you on this channel. No warnings. TH-cam as a platform continues to put the screws to smaller channels like mine, demonetizing videos randomly, not notifying subscribers, and ad rates have plummeted over the last year. A video like this took days to shoot. It took additional days to organize and analyze. It took an entire day to edit, and render and upload on a PC capable of producing 4K video. I'm not here for imaginary internet points. If my time for that work isn't partly compensated for, then there's no point in producing these videos. If this work can't contribute to buying food and paying rent, then I won't make them. If everyone currently complaining about a $1 a month Patreon charge (which would get you access to months worth of content) instead were actively supporting this channel, sharing, posting to Reddit, participating, I probably wouldn't need something like Patreon. This current flavor of TH-cam however, smaller creators like me can't get by on passive views alone. I'm still investigating other ways to make this economically feasible, but for now, Patreon offers the best tools for delivering content, AT THE CHEAPEST PRICE I can charge viewers. If you have other suggestions, please send them along. We can have real conversations, but if you're just going to whine and moan, then you will be invisible on this channel.
I don't have any problem giving you a dollar a month as long as I trust you. But plz make a video suggesting best earphones/ headphones options for this quad dac. Thanx.
$1 per month One-a-dollar per month for content that can be 30 minutes long each. Let that sink in a bit. I know it’s not ideal but I’m really just crossing my fingers that he can be able to grow and maybe rely less on Patreon for funding if it does take off. Unless you’re big, TH-cam doesn’t treat smaller channels well. Which sucks because many of those said smaller channels have great content
Hi Juan & thanks for another detailed summary video. Seeing that you mention the camera's main sensor & being that I'm seriously thinking about buying a G7 now that the price has dropped, I'd like to ask a couple of questions for which I believe you might be able to give me some insight. 1) How does the V40's main sensor compare to the G7's? It's bigger size combined with the less megapickles (= larger pickles) make it appear so.. 2) Can you confirm that the G7 uses Sony's Sony IMX351? If that's the case, the 1/3.09" size combined with the 16M resolution would result in 1.0 μm pixels which is kind of a bummer since the G4 I'm looking to replace has a IMX234 sensor that is actually bigger (1/2.6"). I know that this is not what most people are looking for in a camera phone, but since I don't intent to shoot anything other than RAW going straight to Lightroom I'm mostly interested in sensor/optics (hardware) performance rather that software improvements. Oh and that Quad DAC... Thanks for your time reading this & pardon the slight videojacking (is this even a thing?) EDIT: I just read the pinned post, I might just take all this to Patreon instead. Absolutely getting your point, no need to reply. All the best & keep up the good (and pretty unique) work
The V20 had to have a removable battery because the batteries they made would fail after 12 months. By fail I mean do the thing where the phone shuts down at 30%.
@@SethiestSeth no, I have note 4, the battery sucks after less than a year Random shutdowns and reboots, invalid battery level status, etc. And big throttling always happened,
@@harysviewty wait a second... After a year did the area near your camera start getting really hot??? Cause after a year I had CPU over-heating issues and haven't been able to use a phone case since! I even had to shut off all animations and start using Nova Launcher.
I'm disappointed that I can't see the full video. My income has dropped significantly and I just can't afford extras lone Patreon. The fade out was clever but also annoying.
There only reason ANY videos like this exist is because of the people contributing directly to making them happen. Id like to find other avenues for compensation my time, but so far patreon is the easiest and cheapest for subscribers to join AND cancel. Though, if everyone who was complaining about paywalls spent as much time ACTIVELY supporting content they liked, we probably wouldn't need paywalls.
Matt Josephson right. Unsubscribe time! I don’t want to watch the beginning 4min just to be told to pay for the rest. I don’t/won’t pay for cable tv and won’t ever pay to finish a video no matter how much I like the personality making the video. Sorry Juan!
@@reclaimer429fishing Well you sound like the typical music, and movie pirater. Which is why music and a lot of movies are so bad now. People can't just put in all their time for zero compensation. Otherwise it's a waste of that person's time it's only $1 for a month. Lol
The LG V series phones aren't really good for people that doesn't like to thinker with their phones.. 90% or more usually use their phone to rake selfies or simple auto mode pictures, I really appreciate what LG does with their V series.. I regret picking up a Note 9 instead of waiting for the V40 after owning the V20 and V30 which still have. Great video as always Juan!
Hey man, I got a question for you: Can I turn on the flash in auto mode? I'm asking bc it seems that I can turn on the flash only in the manual mode, which is really odd, and I wanted to know if it's just built that or is there a setting that I'm missing.
You deserve so many more subs man. I think a lot of big channels have great high budget videos.....but it stops there. Information and actual practical opinions are not priority anymore. Sadly that includes MKBHD IMO.
I can't fault Marques for his hustle. He's the best overview guy on the web IMO. We just have different goals. I'm interested in VERY specific and granular conversations.
So I been following u for a few months and I like how u go in deep with the details and the little things... The design, the display (which is by far top 3 on the market). The quad dac and boom box speaker which are both amazing and kills other phones audio capabilities.. I've seen other videos in the day time and low light and this phone competes with any phone out. Are u happy with the phone? How is the battery cause I been thinking about getting this over the g7 or 6t.
@@uraidodot well, the main & wide lens and selfie cam on v30 are now becoming wide, telephoto, and secondary selfie cam on V40. All those sensors are identical and reused. G6 camera are similar to G3 camera, with bigger aperture. Imx214 2014 sensor 😚
Harys Viewty was very upset with the removal of switching between wide and superwide. Telephoto inclusion is not really a bonus for me. I never used it on my old note 8. I love lg for a lot of reasons, but this feature being removed is more than annoying. Unfortunately, it saddens me that I will have to look at other options and hope they have this feature. I don't mind 2014 sensors BTW. The improvements with the ThinQ updates improved quality dramatically on the v30 and g6.
@@uraidodot yes, telephoto lens here is 1/3.6" C level camera sensor. The wide cam is 1/3", it's so good. And the fact that you can still zoom digitally with normal & wide angle in video recording on previous lg phone, It's just a bad decision
Might there be a chance that you would review cameras? Like DSLRs, Mirrorless, etc., I think you'd do a good job. And finally, the V40! The mirrorless camera of the smartphone world (kind of)? While the DSLR of the smartphone world is the Mate 20, I think? Been waiting and hoping to see this in my notifications. Great work, just love it! :-)
Still glad to see that in the short clip of video of the ball that LG is still delivering a slightly flat picture profile for video and ''I LOVE IT!'' Still hoped that they kept the LOG profile and maybe bumped up the bitrate a little bit for extra flexibility in post but, I'd still love this phone 😍
Ported Google camera will result a handful changes in processing.. the juicy hdr can really show it's magic. I wish LG worked around with Google for their image processing
I'm so heartbroken now that LG stopped selling all of their phones here in my country. and also I can't easily access your patreon. it's so sad when all what I can access are those 'bad' reviews that I can't even trust
TH-cam hasn't been the best platform to work on lately. All I can add, is this is the literal cheapest way I can set up a paywall. $1 unlocks EVERY camera and audio review I've made over the last six months, and then you can cancel when you're caught up. You could stagger that every SIX months if you wanted. Even using TH-cam would force me to charge $5 to put up that paywall.
I never really quite understand people complaining about late updates and stuff. Remember that LG were always the first ones to the get new Android version very early. Right after the nexus and now the pixels.
It's not that Juan "hate" it, HDR does have its benefits but it can get a bit too much. LG just make their image processing more traditional in how they handle a photo. Not all photo need to have extreme dynamic range and more often than not contrasty image will actually look better than photo with HDR. Long story short, HDR isn't the end all be all type of image processing.
But based on LG's newest addition, seems like they did new kind of processing for this phone. Advanced HDR, mult denoising, full resolution bright mode etc.
Oh i don't hate it. I just think it's related on way too much as an easy shortcut "good photo" filter. I show in the full review, you can actually create a similar (maybe even better) night shot from a single raw file to what these auto stacking modes produce.
@@SomeGadgetGuy oh, I see. I just thought it was a weird glitch. I love this phone in comparison to the v30 not a big jump, but is a lot more refined in my opinion. The notch I thought I would hate, but you get used to it. I'm subscribing to your patreon, cause you actually gave this phone a chance. The other tech reviewers only cared about pre production software.
The sensor and aperture size in the zoom module is significantly smaller than the main one It’s going to be worse in low-light than the main one, hence why they made it so that it only works in daylight. Most phones do this
Ohhh. That was interesting...cutting off the video and ending on a "You need to be my Patreon to see the rest" sort of thing. Let me know if it works? Not a dig. Just a neutral comment. I did read your warning, so I'm prepared to be banned. I hope you don't though. Also interesting to note that the comment count is way down. I wonder why? ;)
Juan I love your videos and I hope you don't take this the wrong way...but everyone can't be a patreon. I'm in a really tough spot. When I have the money I can donate because I DO value your opinion but this feels like I'm being forced to PAY for it now. I have no problem buying your stuff from time to time, like your book but I was really hoping for your opinion here as I got robbed recently and need to get a new phone. This was disappointing.
I've never tried patreon. But $1 a month is 1lesa drink per day for me in a 3rd world country. Stop whining. I will definitely join and catch up on recent camera reviews.
got the same shirt. target in the house haha. i want thsi phone.....but i just cant seem to pull the trigger. to me, there should not be any updates needed....it should have been this good out the box. 3:52 dude.....thats not right. haha
@@SomeGadgetGuy oh I get it. it just seemed like an imperfect phone that was not fully complete at release. i've watched these releases make the camera get better and better. why wouldnt they put the work in the software during development? did they not really care? did they fail to test it ahead of time?
These are great reviews. It's 1 dollar bitches! If you can't afford 1 freaking dollar for a comprehensive review of a phone you have bigger problems...
See pinned comment. I'm down to discuss actual solutions and other options, I'd really like to have some other choices, but you and I both know that "early access" doesn't really encourage more participation. People just wait it out, or you drag it out so long the video isn't worth watching.
Sadly LG will quit from my country this year 😔 i though after they build big factory to meet indonesia standards they will stay longer.... But.... 😔 And G7 will be the last LG in here....
Hello TH-cam. This is a commentary on the LG V40 cameras which is about as long, or longer, than many camera sections in other full phone reviews. If you're only instinct is to complain about the full in-depth review being locked on Patreon, then I will mute you on this channel. No warnings. TH-cam as a platform continues to put the screws to smaller channels like mine, demonetizing videos randomly, not notifying subscribers, and ad rates have plummeted over the last year. A video like this took days to shoot. It took additional days to organize and analyze. It took an entire day to edit, and render and upload on a PC capable of producing 4K video.
I'm not here for imaginary internet points. If my time for that work isn't partly compensated for, then there's no point in producing these videos. If this work can't contribute to buying food and paying rent, then I won't make them.
If everyone currently complaining about a $1 a month Patreon charge (which would get you access to months worth of content) instead were actively supporting this channel, sharing, posting to Reddit, participating, I probably wouldn't need something like Patreon. This current flavor of TH-cam however, smaller creators like me can't get by on passive views alone. I'm still investigating other ways to make this economically feasible, but for now, Patreon offers the best tools for delivering content, AT THE CHEAPEST PRICE I can charge viewers. If you have other suggestions, please send them along. We can have real conversations, but if you're just going to whine and moan, then you will be invisible on this channel.
I don't have any problem giving you a dollar a month as long as I trust you. But plz make a video suggesting best earphones/ headphones options for this quad dac. Thanx.
When will you qualify for that coveted +2 Charisma JOIN Button of Ultimate Inclusion?
Imaginary Internet Points- the next big crypto currency
$1 per month
One-a-dollar per month for content that can be 30 minutes long each.
Let that sink in a bit. I know it’s not ideal but I’m really just crossing my fingers that he can be able to grow and maybe rely less on Patreon for funding if it does take off. Unless you’re big, TH-cam doesn’t treat smaller channels well. Which sucks because many of those said smaller channels have great content
One of the best investment of a $1 ever made.
Hi Juan & thanks for another detailed summary video. Seeing that you mention the camera's main sensor & being that I'm seriously thinking about buying a G7 now that the price has dropped, I'd like to ask a couple of questions for which I believe you might be able to give me some insight.
1) How does the V40's main sensor compare to the G7's? It's bigger size combined with the less megapickles (= larger pickles) make it appear so..
2) Can you confirm that the G7 uses Sony's Sony IMX351? If that's the case, the 1/3.09" size combined with the 16M resolution would result in 1.0 μm pixels which is kind of a bummer since the G4 I'm looking to replace has a IMX234 sensor that is actually bigger (1/2.6").
I know that this is not what most people are looking for in a camera phone, but since I don't intent to shoot anything other than RAW going straight to Lightroom I'm mostly interested in sensor/optics (hardware) performance rather that software improvements. Oh and that Quad DAC...
Thanks for your time reading this & pardon the slight videojacking (is this even a thing?)
EDIT: I just read the pinned post, I might just take all this to Patreon instead. Absolutely getting your point, no need to reply. All the best & keep up the good (and pretty unique) work
The V20 had to have a removable battery because the batteries they made would fail after 12 months. By fail I mean do the thing where the phone shuts down at 30%.
😂 that's normal, usually every battery cell has 500-700 charging cycle
@@harysviewty that's not normal...
PS I'm using my 5 year old Note 3 that doesn't have any such issue
@@SethiestSeth no, I have note 4, the battery sucks after less than a year
Random shutdowns and reboots, invalid battery level status, etc. And big throttling always happened,
@@harysviewty wait a second... After a year did the area near your camera start getting really hot??? Cause after a year I had CPU over-heating issues and haven't been able to use a phone case since! I even had to shut off all animations and start using Nova Launcher.
Seeing as I'm using a Note 8 that's over a year old and it's just fine, I'm going to say it's not normal.
Wow u spent 27 minutes on an lg phone. Plz make an audio review for it too and I'm hooked.
Audio review is live on the Patreon 🙂
I'm disappointed that I can't see the full video. My income has dropped significantly and I just can't afford extras lone Patreon. The fade out was clever but also annoying.
There only reason ANY videos like this exist is because of the people contributing directly to making them happen. Id like to find other avenues for compensation my time, but so far patreon is the easiest and cheapest for subscribers to join AND cancel. Though, if everyone who was complaining about paywalls spent as much time ACTIVELY supporting content they liked, we probably wouldn't need paywalls.
Matt Josephson right. Unsubscribe time! I don’t want to watch the beginning 4min just to be told to pay for the rest. I don’t/won’t pay for cable tv and won’t ever pay to finish a video no matter how much I like the personality making the video. Sorry Juan!
@@reclaimer429fishing Well you sound like the typical music, and movie pirater. Which is why music and a lot of movies are so bad now. People can't just put in all their time for zero compensation. Otherwise it's a waste of that person's time it's only $1 for a month. Lol
It costs 1 dollar monthly...
I just subscribed. 1$/month is a joke, anyone can afford, quit wining.
The LG V series phones aren't really good for people that doesn't like to thinker with their phones.. 90% or more usually use their phone to rake selfies or simple auto mode pictures, I really appreciate what LG does with their V series.. I regret picking up a Note 9 instead of waiting for the V40 after owning the V20 and V30 which still have.
Great video as always Juan!
The other day the v40 had a software update about half a gig in size. I haven't noticed much improvement in the cameras sadly.
I wish you didn't quit pocketnow. I miss the Real Camera Reviews
Whelp those are now on Patreon.
Wish they were here. More people deserve to see them. But maybe I'll take a look there.
What happened with Pocketnow btw? Did I miss something?
Hey man, I got a question for you: Can I turn on the flash in auto mode? I'm asking bc it seems that I can turn on the flash only in the manual mode, which is really odd, and I wanted to know if it's just built that or is there a setting that I'm missing.
How different is the camera after the Android Pie update?
Juan was there any significant changes on this camera because of the Pie update?
You deserve so many more subs man. I think a lot of big channels have great high budget videos.....but it stops there. Information and actual practical opinions are not priority anymore. Sadly that includes MKBHD IMO.
I can't fault Marques for his hustle. He's the best overview guy on the web IMO. We just have different goals. I'm interested in VERY specific and granular conversations.
Can you shoot 4k 60p on the wide angle? And can you shoot video on the Tele lens?
Yup. 4K 60 wide with manual controls. The zoom CAN shoot video in auto, but no manual control over photos or videos.
@@SomeGadgetGuy thank you for the answer 😍
You're very welcome. I can't always jump on these, but there's pretty poor info out there for phones which aren't Samsung/Apple/Oneplus
So I been following u for a few months and I like how u go in deep with the details and the little things... The design, the display (which is by far top 3 on the market). The quad dac and boom box speaker which are both amazing and kills other phones audio capabilities.. I've seen other videos in the day time and low light and this phone competes with any phone out. Are u happy with the phone? How is the battery cause I been thinking about getting this over the g7 or 6t.
I like the phone a lot, but the battery is average at best.
Has It Been Released Yet...????
you are by far the only person on youtube who has a say on yhe beautiful manual controls and options of the v series
Keep it upp 😍😍
I like having good controls built-in 🙂
How much has the camera update improved the photo quality...
Juan did they add back the feature to switch between cams while recording video from the rear?
Only normal and tele. No wide switching. But the normal camera are now 7°wider, and the wide angle has more resolution for crop zooming
Harys Viewty ty yuk. Pass. Sticking with v30 and g6
@@uraidodot well, the main & wide lens and selfie cam on v30 are now becoming wide, telephoto, and secondary selfie cam on V40. All those sensors are identical and reused.
G6 camera are similar to G3 camera, with bigger aperture. Imx214 2014 sensor 😚
Harys Viewty was very upset with the removal of switching between wide and superwide. Telephoto inclusion is not really a bonus for me. I never used it on my old note 8. I love lg for a lot of reasons, but this feature being removed is more than annoying. Unfortunately, it saddens me that I will have to look at other options and hope they have this feature. I don't mind 2014 sensors BTW. The improvements with the ThinQ updates improved quality dramatically on the v30 and g6.
@@uraidodot yes, telephoto lens here is 1/3.6" C level camera sensor. The wide cam is 1/3", it's so good. And the fact that you can still zoom digitally with normal & wide angle in video recording on previous lg phone, It's just a bad decision
Might there be a chance that you would review cameras? Like DSLRs, Mirrorless, etc., I think you'd do a good job. And finally, the V40! The mirrorless camera of the smartphone world (kind of)? While the DSLR of the smartphone world is the Mate 20, I think? Been waiting and hoping to see this in my notifications. Great work, just love it! :-)
Still glad to see that in the short clip of video of the ball that LG is still delivering a slightly flat picture profile for video and ''I LOVE IT!'' Still hoped that they kept the LOG profile and maybe bumped up the bitrate a little bit for extra flexibility in post but, I'd still love this phone 😍
I really want to. I had a blast reviewing the Samsung NX cams back in the day...
My personal faves are canon and fujifim 😉
@@SomeGadgetGuy Can't you borrow camera's/lenses to review? Would be nice to see XCD 80mm on your channel.
Ported Google camera will result a handful changes in processing.. the juicy hdr can really show it's magic. I wish LG worked around with Google for their image processing
I'm so heartbroken now that LG stopped selling all of their phones here in my country. and also I can't easily access your patreon. it's so sad when all what I can access are those 'bad' reviews that I can't even trust
TH-cam hasn't been the best platform to work on lately. All I can add, is this is the literal cheapest way I can set up a paywall. $1 unlocks EVERY camera and audio review I've made over the last six months, and then you can cancel when you're caught up. You could stagger that every SIX months if you wanted. Even using TH-cam would force me to charge $5 to put up that paywall.
3:30 whoa whoa whoa, LG providing updates???
They've updated this phone like more than 6x now
I know right! I'm not sure i would expect these to continue long term though...
I never really quite understand people complaining about late updates and stuff. Remember that LG were always the first ones to the get new Android version very early. Right after the nexus and now the pixels.
The V20 may have been the "first" phone with Nougat, but it took until August 2018 (that's only a few months ago) to get 8.0.
Is that a Tough Armor?
Went Spigen.
@@SomeGadgetGuy We're Spigen buddies then. XD
Have a Tough Armor on my Note
Juan why do you hate HDR processing?
It's not that Juan "hate" it, HDR does have its benefits but it can get a bit too much. LG just make their image processing more traditional in how they handle a photo. Not all photo need to have extreme dynamic range and more often than not contrasty image will actually look better than photo with HDR.
Long story short, HDR isn't the end all be all type of image processing.
But based on LG's newest addition, seems like they did new kind of processing for this phone. Advanced HDR, mult denoising, full resolution bright mode etc.
Oh i don't hate it. I just think it's related on way too much as an easy shortcut "good photo" filter. I show in the full review, you can actually create a similar (maybe even better) night shot from a single raw file to what these auto stacking modes produce.
The zoom lense doesn't work in low light. It has to be bright which is strange.
Almost all phones are like that. I can almost never get the iPhone zoom to kick on.
@@SomeGadgetGuy oh, I see. I just thought it was a weird glitch. I love this phone in comparison to the v30 not a big jump, but is a lot more refined in my opinion. The notch I thought I would hate, but you get used to it. I'm subscribing to your patreon, cause you actually gave this phone a chance. The other tech reviewers only cared about pre production software.
The sensor and aperture size in the zoom module is significantly smaller than the main one
It’s going to be worse in low-light than the main one, hence why they made it so that it only works in daylight. Most phones do this
@@NeXMaX I figured. 2.4 aperature is bad for low light.
In low light iphone, samsung will try to digitally zoom using main camera than with telephoto lens which many don't know .
Ohhh. That was interesting...cutting off the video and ending on a "You need to be my Patreon to see the rest" sort of thing. Let me know if it works? Not a dig. Just a neutral comment. I did read your warning, so I'm prepared to be banned. I hope you don't though. Also interesting to note that the comment count is way down. I wonder why? ;)
That's the video I was waiting for! 👊
Juan I love your videos and I hope you don't take this the wrong way...but everyone can't be a patreon. I'm in a really tough spot. When I have the money I can donate because I DO value your opinion but this feels like I'm being forced to PAY for it now. I have no problem buying your stuff from time to time, like your book but I was really hoping for your opinion here as I got robbed recently and need to get a new phone. This was disappointing.
I've never tried patreon. But $1 a month is 1lesa drink per day for me in a 3rd world country. Stop whining. I will definitely join and catch up on recent camera reviews.
got the same shirt. target in the house haha. i want thsi phone.....but i just cant seem to pull the trigger. to me, there should not be any updates needed....it should have been this good out the box. 3:52 dude.....thats not right. haha
Well to be fair, ALL computers need updates. No phone is perfect.
@@SomeGadgetGuy oh I get it. it just seemed like an imperfect phone that was not fully complete at release. i've watched these releases make the camera get better and better. why wouldnt they put the work in the software during development? did they not really care? did they fail to test it ahead of time?
Watching on my V35 ThinQ @1080p60 (:
Noice.
you want me to pay to watch your video?? BAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
A sucker is born every day..
I am here after missing real camera review from pocketnow
These are great reviews. It's 1 dollar bitches! If you can't afford 1 freaking dollar for a comprehensive review of a phone you have bigger problems...
You're such a tease Juan! 😂🤣
LG V40 is the best overall phone of 2018
💪best youtuber(knowledgeable) experience
Correct...
I like your smile
V30 much much better value for money
And way better battery
Ton of megapickles!
I like you, as a youtuber you should use youtube.
Patreon is for early access maybe, not like this!
See pinned comment. I'm down to discuss actual solutions and other options, I'd really like to have some other choices, but you and I both know that "early access" doesn't really encourage more participation. People just wait it out, or you drag it out so long the video isn't worth watching.
Every other youtuber is absolutely bashing V40
That's a shame. It's a fine phone.
Breaks my heart to say this, but here it is: goodbye!
The LG Ambassador 😀😀😀
"I just don't get why LG phones are so underrated..." Says TH-cam reviewer who rates phones...
1st here
kya mila 1st aake?
Sadly LG will quit from my country this year 😔 i though after they build big factory to meet indonesia standards they will stay longer.... But.... 😔 And G7 will be the last LG in here....
LG phones are dead to me