Father's Day Special: Check Top 5 Mid-Range Smartphones To Buy For Your Camera Frenzy Dad

Wondering what to buy for your dad on Father's Day? Here are our top picks, the 5 mid-range smartphone with stunning videography features.

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So, you know your dad has a knack for capturing special moments and occasions in the form of stunning photos and videos. Remember the last family trip to the hills where your dad clicked some of the coolest photos and you kept bragging about it to your friends for days on end. This Father’s day, why not gift your dad something that he will absolutely love, yet not create a dent in your wallet. Here are our top picks for the 5 mid-range smartphone with stunning videography features: 

OPPO F19 Pro+ 5G: If you are an aspiring videographer or just someone who loves capturing brilliant and beautiful portrait shots and videos, the OPPO F19 Pro+ 5G will let you do that with ease, thanks to its back-facing AI highlight Portrait Video. The smartphone features a 48 MP Quad Camera, 8MP Wide Angle Camera, 2MP Portrait Mono Cameras and 2MP Macro Mono Camera.

The AI Highlight Portrait Video optimises video portraits by automatically detecting and adjusting for light. Be it low light night or bright backgrounds, portrait videos on the OPPO F19 Pro+ 5G are vivid, with sharp details, balance and natural skin tones.

The AI-enabled portrait shots truly puts this smartphone “Ahead in Photography and videography. Once the AI determines the type of video you’re filming, it will correspondingly apply either or both Ultra Night Video and HDR Video algorithms to brighten up the shot. The Ultra Night Video leverages proprietary algorithms to ensure more dynamic night-time videos and photos. The AI Highlight Portrait Video will be the ideal feature for capturing brilliant and exquisite portrait shots with ease.

With the Dual-View Video, you can keep both your rear and front cameras on at the same time, filming yourself reacting to the world around you. The Focus Lock feature enables the video recording to automatically follow the subject of your video, even when the camera has significant movement. Moreover, the premium features such as the AI Scene Enhancement 2.0, Dynamic Bokeh, and Night Plus work together enabling you to automatically capture clearer, beautiful photos and videos even in challenging light contrasts and low light situations. Just as useful are continued features like the AI Night Flare Portrait, AI Color Portrait, AI Beautification 2.0, Ultra Steady Video, and 4K Video.

Samsung Galaxy A52: The Samsung Galaxy A52 5G is a great camera smartphone, featuring a quad rear camera including a 64 MP primary module and a 12 MP ultra-wide one. A 5 MP macro and 5 MP depth sensor for bokeh simulation complete the shooting options. If you’re looking for a more price-efficient handset from the Samsung brand, you can be assured of some high-quality photos and videos when shooting outdoors with the A52 5G. You will appreciate things like the AR DOODLE, FOOD mode, as well as SINGLE TAKE.

The latter instantly captures a few different shots and even short clips with a single press of the shutter key and is a perfect example of a feature that originally made its entry on flagship Galaxy devices and has made its way to the mid-range. Then, the phone also features a floating shutter and extensive voice commands, and a palm shot shortcut. There is also a toggle for the always-on by default video stabilization, in case you opt for some tripod shooting.

Vivo V21: This is a smartphone with some ace camera features. It boasts a 44 MP OIS Night Selfie camera for bright and clear selfies in the dark, a 64 MP OIS Night Camera to capture detailed and crunchy photos, and is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 800U 5G-enabled Processor for fast and smooth performance. To enhance the quality of selfies clicked in low-light conditions, the front camera has a Dual Selfie Spotlight feature.

Moreover, the dual view video feature of the phone allows you to capture videos with a dual perspective by rolling both the rear and front cameras concurrently. Vivo V21 is a stylish and sleek smartphone that features 2.5D screen curves. Also, it is about 7.29-mm thin and weighs about 176 g.

Realme X7 Max: The Realme X7 Max has a triple-camera setup on the back and a single lens in the punch-hole at the front. The primary camera has a 64MP Sony IMX 682 sensor. In day light, the Realme X7 Max takes shots that are full of detail and have outstanding dynamic range. Shutter speed and focus are fast, which can adapt dynamically as the sensor identifies a moving subject. The large sensor size on the phone allows for a shallow depth of field when capturing close-up shots.

The phone also features a multi-frame synthesis algorithm that can upscale 64MP hi-res shots to 108MP shots. As for the 8MP ultra-wide shooter, the photos are quite clear in colours and even the focus is very sharp across the frame, even in varying lighting conditions. The macro shooter also has fast focus speeds for close-up subjects along with intricate detailing when capturing moments at the right ambient lighting conditions.

The Realme X7 Max is also superb in terms of Low-light photography when the Night Mode is used. The phone also has a 16MP selfie shooter that takes precise pictures while slightly concealing facial features. The portrait mode works quite well on the front camera with intelligent edge detection features.

Mi 10i: The 108-megapixel primary rear camera is the real showstopper, with its Samsung HM2 sensor and f/1.75 aperture. Then there are 8-megapixel f/2.2 ultra-wide camera, 2-megapixel macro camera, and 2-megapixel depth sensors. Video recording goes up to 4K 30fps and the slow-motion video goes up to 960fps but at 720p. Photos on the phone are shot at 12 megapixels by default, with the sensor combining nine pixels in one.

For selfies, there's a good 16-megapixel f/2.45 camera. Skin smoothening is enabled by default and there are some other filters and options available as well. Xiaomi's camera app offers a lot many choices and customisations. The phone offers modes such as short video and vlogging modes for creating quick social-media-ready items, alignment and framing guides, among others.