Apple iPhone 8 and 8 Plus camera review

The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus are the new benchmarks for mobile photography. They pack refreshed sensors, a new image signal processor and a novel Portrait Lighting mode on the 8 Plus variant. This means there’s a bit of new stuff here, but there’s also a lot of what we’ve seen before when it comes to megapixels, apertures and shooting modes. But how do the phones stack up in the real world, and are they worth upgrading to from older models?

iPhone 8 camera specs

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Basil Kronfli

Basil Kronfli is a freelance technology journalist and content creator with a number of specialisms. He started his career at Canon Europe, before joining Phone Arena and Recombu as a tech writer and editor. From there, he headed up and runs Tech[edit], a technology YouTube channel, and has worked alongside this role at Future as a Senior Producer, sharpening his considerable video production skills. 


His technical expertise has been called on numerous times by mainstream media, with appearances and interviews on outlets like Sky News, and he provides Digital Camera World with insight and reviews on camera phones, video editing software and laptops, on-camera monitors, camera sliders, microphones and much more.