The 12-megapixel dual camera makes use of two incredible lenses: an ultra-wide lens with ƒ/2.4 aperture and 120° field of view and a wide lens with ƒ/1.6 aperture.

This is a feature we can all be excited about. The iPhone 12 Mini selfie camera - also known as the TrueDepth camera - has 12 megapixels. The highest of any selfie camera in an iPhone! The selfie camera now also includes Night Mode, Deep Fusion and Portrait Mode with improved bokeh.

This is where smartphones meet easy-to-use professional photography. When you shoot in Portrait Mode, your subject is made the focus, with the background blurred. This feature is also known as the “bokeh effect”. The popular Portrait Mode now offers six instead of five lighting options in the iPhone 12 Mini.

Portrait Mode has some game-changing lighting options that could turn even the most amateur photographer into Kevin Carter (an award-winning South African photographer). Go from natural light to studio to stage to contour to high-key monochromatic. The six lighting options include Natural, Studio, Contour, Stage, Stage Mono, and High‑Key Light Mono.

This is the feature where computational photography comes alive! In the split seconds before and after you take a photo, the camera analyzes the various textures, colours and light variations of the photo and works to bring them to life. Notice how the texture of your clothes or hair or the sand on the beach in your pics looks more detailed!

Tone Mapping is smart. The camera analyses a photo and picks up the areas with a lot of colour, texture and light and highlights these features to improve your photo.

Apple worked really hard on improving your night shots using the iPhone 12 Mini, offering Night Mode on both lenses. The wide lens brings in 27 percent more light, making low-light and night time shots even clearer and more realistic.

The camera also gives you 2x optical zoom which works the same way as a zoom lens on a traditional or DSLR camera. Optical zoom is much better than digital zoom at taking photos from far away as it does not degrade image quality. The model also includes a 5x digital zoom.

The iPhone 12 Mini offers HDR video recording with Dolby vision - a feature no other iPhone has ever had! You can also shoot at 4K at 24, 25, 30 and 60 frames per second (fps). That’s pretty amazing! Optical image stabilisation is available in the wide lens and you can take 8-megapixel photo screenshots from 4K video.

Isn’t it annoying when you take a beautiful photo with the flash, only to find everyone has beady red eyes? You won’t have that problem with the improved red-eye correction feature.