realme GT3 Camera Samples in Barcelona, Spain

realme revealed the new GT3 in late February during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

realme GT3's rear cameras

In our impressions article, we already shared some images. But, here are more of our favorite shots with the phone.

Besides its premium build, sleek design, 144Hz OLED display, stereo speakers, and fast charging capabilities, the new GT features an interesting camera system.

For cameras, at the back is the 50MP f/1.88 primary camera with IMX890 1/1.56-inch sensor, 8MP f/2.2 112-degree ultra-wide camera, and a 2MP f/3.3 microscope camera. 

While in front is the 16MP selfie camera. 

The stock camera app comes with the following modes: Photo, Video, Night, Portrait, Street, 50M, Pro, Pano, Movie, Slo-Mo, Time-Lapse, Dual-View Video, Microscope, Text Scanner, and Tilt-Shift. 

The Pro mode comes with controls for ISO (100-6400), Shutter Speed (1/8000-30 secs), EV (+-2), Focus, and White Balance.

It was our daily driver during our trip to Barcelona, Spain for Mobile World Congress.

Let's see how it performed.

realme GT 3 Camera Samples in Barcelona

Natural bokeh with the main camera

Stunning skies - Daylight 1x

Wide frame - Daylight ultra-wide

The first four (4) images listed above were taken in daylight. As you can see that the sharpness, detail, and contrast are on point but the colors are inconsistent. The blues, browns, and reds are vibrant and pop out of the frame but the skin tones are warmer than we would like. In fact, the white balance skews to the warmer side.

Calamares close-up

Gambas - Closeup

The same could be said with the close-up shots. Images are sharp, detailed, and contrasty with a pleasing natural bokeh but the white balance skews to the warmer side.

Daylight selfie

Daylight portrait mode

For the daylight selfie and selfie portrait, the images are sharp and detailed with the colors being vibrant but like the rear cameras, the skin tones are not quite right while the white balance tends to side to the warmer side.

While the portrait mode's artificial bokeh has good edge detection. It only struggled with individual hair fibres and the darker shade of blues from the jacket's hood.

Low light 1x

Low light 2x

Lowlight ultra-wide

In low light, the images are impressive, especially from the main camera. The main camera's image has some loss of clarity and sharpness from the noise and noise reduction but it is very minimal.

It is ultra-wide where the most clarity is lost because of the noise reduction. But do not get us wrong, these are nitpicking, the images are sharp, vibrant, and contrasty. Though like the rest of the images, the white balance is warmer than we would like.

Night Mode 1x

Night Mode 2x

Night Mode UW

What surprised us is the stunning Night mode shots. The images are sharp, detailed, and contrasty while having almost no visible noise. When compared to the low light shots, we see a slight improvement in clarity and in the amount of noise present. The colors are especially vibrant with the sky and the street colors standing out. However, like the rest of the images, it skews to the warmer spectrum.

Selfie Night mode

The same can be said with the night mode selfie.

Quick thoughts

realme selfie camera

The rear main camera performs outstandingly with sharp and detailed images. In contrast, the ultra-wide angle camera is decently sharp but we've seen sharper ultra-wide images from similar-spec phones. What we loved is the natural bokeh that both cameras have when shooting a subject that is at a distance from the background.

While the front-facing cameras capture crisp and detailed selfies with deep contrast.

What is common across all cameras is the vibrant color but the white balance is always leaning towards the warmer side. This affects the skin tones of the people inside the frame.

Because we are using pre-production hardware and software, we are hoping these get ironed out when a production model arrives.

What do you guys think?

Anyway, you may check our review part 1 for this phone here.