Best camera phones under Rs. 20,000 (2022)

The XIaomi Mi A2 is hands down the best camera phone you can buy under Rs 20000, It comes with a dual 12+20MP sensor at the back with f/1.8 aperture and 1.25um pixel pitch. The specialty about the secondary camera is that it can bin four pixels into one to create well-lit, detailed and vibrant low-light shots. The results are quite nice and is far ahead of the what other phones in that price range can do. The Mi A2 also has a consistent portrait mode that blurs the background without making it look artificial.

Xiaomi entered the dual camera game with the Redmi Note 5 Pro's 12+5MP dual camera unit. The secondary camera works as a depth sensor and is actually quite reliable in taking good portrait shots. It also takes well-detailed shots in the daylight. It's only weakness is low-light photography.

The 16+2MP sensor on the Huawei P20 Lite may not be Leica branded but it takes a lot of features from the triple-camera flagship P20 Pro. The P20 Lite takes vibrant images in the day that has a good dynamic range and has a stable portrait mode that makes you look good.

The Honor Play may be made for gaming, but it's also a good enough camera phone that uses a lot of AI-centric features to improve the images. You have the portrait mode, AI recognition and machine-learning based stabilisation to aid your low-light shots.

the camera setup on the Samsung Galaxy A6+ is good for all daytime and most indoor photos, but is no good for low-light scenes, whether its taken through the front camera or back. The Live Focus mode is capable of creating good-quality Bokeh-style shots.

The Realme 2 Pro is astonishingly powerful and affordable. It's power under the hood is matched by the camera on the body, a 16+2 MP sensor that takes good, detailed images in the day as well as indoors. It's low-light photos are good enough as well if you factor in the price it's offered at.

The Zenfone Max Pro M1 is offered at a price much less than the Redmi Note 5 Pro despite having the same hardware. Through multiple OTA updates, the camera has also improved a lot with features like EIS added later, making the Zenfone Max Pro M1 a good camera phone to buy under Rs 20,000.

The Nokia 6 (2018) has Zeiss-branded lenses at the front and the back and comes with the company's Pro camera app that makes shooting images easy and seamless. The image quality is above average and can take good images both indoors and outdoors.