Choosing an affordable smartphone for a blogger

We are a resource about beautiful pictures, and who is their main supplier now? Of course, bloggers! And if you also want to become a conductor of a beautiful life, then this article is for you.

First decide who you are: insta blogger, beauty blogger, travel blogger, fitness blogger, micro blogger, tiktok blogger… These are all different bloggers, but with one common feature: everyone gives in The network has a wild number of beautiful, licked photos, so deliciously processed with filters that it seems to broadcast life from another dimension. Such pictures are very popular with the public, but they are extremely demotivating for those who decide to embark on a difficult blogging path: after all, an ordinary person cannot take off SO beautifully!

At this point, we will wipe away the stingy tear that rolled down the cheek of the young blogger and tell the first good news. Yes, an ordinary person can't take it off like that, because top, well-earning bloggers have not been doing anything themselves for a long time: they are accompanied by a whole crowd of assistants on a salary who are looking for locations, building lights, selecting costumes, retouching faces, photographing, inventing texts ... And every third post they have is advertising. So we suggest you immediately forget about the first top of Instagram, and the second one too, this article is not about them, but about those for whom blogging is not yet a profession, but for now a lifestyle, a desire to share what you like with your audience, even if it is a little.

The brightest, sincere and interesting content in the social network is not provided by silicone models, but by ordinary people who watch "without filters", are able to find the beautiful around them, and share it with the world through their accounts. Very often it is their broadcasts that discover new talents, they "shoot" into trends. These boys and girls do not have a staff, they are used to doing everything themselves, and often continue to do it on their own even when they become stars. And they produce most of the content with just one tool. Guess which one?

That's right, smartphone!

But stop wetting the anti-coronavirus mask with your tears: this smartphone is not necessarily an iPhone! There is an opinion that every blogger's main smartphone is certainly an iPhone, but this has not been the case for a long time. Of course, Internet celebrities regularly "glow" with the most expensive gadgets, but this is just the case when bloggers are served by a whole staff of staff, and they need a smartphone solely to emphasize their status.

Do not think that you cannot become a wow blogger without a fashionable gadget, just recently there has been a clear trend: people are increasingly appreciating not luxury, but functionality and convenience in gadgets. Often, not only beginners, but even quite well-known bloggers who do everything themselves - and shoot on a smartphone, and mount photos and videos on it, consciously choose an inexpensive smartphone as the main tool, this is now a chip! It is especially noticeable when the posts of guys with a small audience "shoot" and overtake the content created on professional equipment.

So, the initial data: you are young and active, you want to become a successful photo / video blogger, you have the desire, energy and understanding of what content you are going to produce. But you can't afford to buy professional content production equipment.

The absence of a large amount on the account should not stop you! Because if you have an idea, positioning and approach to the audience, then you can become a successful blogger even with your own smartphone. Although, of course, it's better to update it, because technology is developing so rapidly that just by regularly updating the gadget in your own segment, you will get the best quality for the same money every time.

A top iPhone in the maximum configuration costs 130 thousand rubles today, but what novice blogger is willing to spend several salaries on just one gadget with the Apple logo?We decided to find a smartphone TEN TIMES cheaper, but which will cope with all the functions necessary for a novice blogger with no less success.

As a result of market research, our choice fell on the ZTE Blade 20 Smart smartphone, and it is on its example that we will consider whether an inexpensive Chinese smartphone can replace an expensive toy. Of course, we will not compare it head-on with a gadget from a completely different price category, but we will go through the main characteristics that are important for a blogger.

Why did we choose the ZTE Blade 20 Smart as an example? In short: because all the main trends of modern smartphone construction were concentrated in it, and it gives out the maximum for its money. And, by the way, it looks quite premium: try to tell from 3 meters what price category it belongs to!

There are two body colors in total: dark emerald and black garnet. We liked the first one more, although the second one is also nothing.

The camera has long and firmly become the main component of a modern smartphone, if you don't believe it, ask digital cameras ... by the way, where are they? In general, the camera catches the picture that will then go to the social network on its matrix, so when choosing a smartphone, any blogger, regardless of his profile, first of all looks at the characteristics of the camera and its modes.What do we have here?

On the back cover there is a block of three cameras: 16MP f/1.8 — main, 8MP f/2.4 - wide-angle plus an additional module for 2 MP to determine the distance to the object and create a blur effect.

Yes, there is an ultra-wide-angle lens with a viewing angle of 120°, which allows you to fit more information into the frame. That is, entire landscapes can be shot at a time, without gluing, so travel bloggers, tick yourself off.In addition to shooting panoramas, there is also an HDR mode, which a few years ago was available only in the most expensive devices. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range: the camera alternately takes pictures with different shutter speeds and brightness settings, usually 3 pieces, and then combines them into one frame. This technique allows you to achieve high quality and depth, uniform brightness in details. This mode should be used when there are very bright and very dark objects in the frame at the same time, for example, a light sky and dark greenery of trees in the urban landscape.