Motorola Moto G62 review

Triple-camera setup with 50MP as primary

The Moto G62's camera setup is shared with around a dozen other Moto G phones from the past two years. That revolves around a 50MP main camera with f/1.8 aperture and a rather small 1/2.76" sensor, 0.64µm pixels. There's also an 8MP ultrawide camera with f/2.2 lens and a tiny 1/4.0" sensor with 1.12µm pixels. The advertised field of view is 118-degree.

The third camera on the back is a 2MP f/2.4 macro unit with predictably low image quality ceiling.

And on the front, we have a 16MP f/2.2 selfie shooter with 1.0µm pixels, which is again very popular in the Moto G series.

Camera menus

The handset uses version 6 of Motorola's Moto Camera app, which is distributed and updated through Google Play. There aren't any major changes to the UI compared to the previous Moto devices we've reviewed. All available modes are found in the so-called "hamburger menu," and the mode you used last is saved on the main mode carousel.

Camera menus

Additional settings for each Photo or Video mode are accessed by a swipe up from the shutter button.

We are happy to report that Motorola has finally fixed the interpolation behavior and now the main and the ultrawide cameras shoot in their native resolutions. No needless upscaling this time around. We also like the dedicated toggle for the Macro camera. It finally gets a spot on the viewfinder in the default Photo mode.

Daylight samples

Main camera

The main camera produces pretty good photos with the handset's price in mind. Detail level is good and noise is competently suppressed. Colors are rendered a bit cold and desaturated, except for the greens which are better handled. Exposure is also a bit conservative, so shadow areas aren't often underdeveloped.

12.5MP daylight samples

You are better off keeping away from the 50MP mode. These samples have a narrower dynamic range, while not adding anything in terms of total resolved detail. You get poorer photos and larger file sizes, which doesn't seem like the best trade-off.

50MP daylight samples

Ultrawide camera

There are absolutely no surprises here with the ultrawide camera. It offers the dramatic perspective it's supposed to, but its samples have limited detail and dynamic range. Colors are dull and exposure is again slightly too low for our liking.

Color reproduction is a tad better of artificial lighting samples though and we got better contrast as well. There's something more appealing to the indoor ultrawide samples than the ones taken with the main camera, despite the less developed shadows and the increased noise.

Daylight ultrawide samples

Macro samples

As it's usually the case with these 2MP macro cameras, the image quality is severely lacking. Getting an image in focus is challenging too because the lens has a fixed focus distance and you have to move the phone back and forward until you hit it. It's especially hard with moving objects like insects or swaying flowers.

Macor camera samples

Low-light samples

Main camera

The main camera's low-light performance is adequate with contrasty images with punchy colors and good dynamic range. There's not a lot of resolved detail, though and noise is visible all around. To our surprise, the Night mode doesn't help with either of those things. In fact, it makes the samples look considerably worse.

Low-light main camera samples

The Night mode has a very heavy-handed approach to noise suppression, which washes away a lof of the fine detail. Worse yet, it doesn't do particularly well against the noise itself and you still get some of that. It does improve dynamic range and local contrast, but overall we'd steer clear of it.

Night mode main camera samples

Ultrawide camera

Since the ultrawide camera struggles to deliver decent enough photos during the day, we weren't expecting much at night either. The ultrawide samples below are extremely soft as if they are out of focus, noise is prevalent and more often than they come out underexposed.

Low-light ultrawide samples

Here's how the primary camera on the Moto G62 stacks against the rest of the competition in the controlled environment of our Photo Compare Tool.

Motorola Moto G62 5G vs. Xiaomi Redmi Note 11S 5G and the Samsung Galaxy A33 5G in our Photo compare tool

Portraits

These portraits may not be the sharpest and most detailed ones in town but colors are nice, contrast is good, dynamic range is on point and the faux bokeh effect is quite believable. We can see excellent edge separation even with more complex backgrounds and in more challenging lighting. We would have liked a tad more accurate skin tones reproduction as people often comes out a bit too reddish.

Portrait samples

Selfies

With the right lighting conditions, the selfies look good. They are detailed and sharp enough, for the most part, the subject's face is always well exposed even with more challenging lighting conditions. Overall quality deteriorates fast in dimmer environments, but that's to be expected. Colors are also pretty realistic, although slightly dull. The faux bokeh effect seems pretty strong and rough around the edges so we'd avoid that.

Selfies: Normal • Portrait

Video recording

Since the chipset can only do 1080p videos, the Moto G62 can only go up to that resolution. It's still stabilized and even the Indian version of the device with Snapdragon 695 isn't able to go beyond Full HD video recording. Not that the lack of 4K video recording is a deal breaker on a €200 phone.

The overall video quality is good. The output is more contrasty, but overall, the sharpness and detail are good for the class. The color rendering is much better than on the photos.

The ultrawide footage is much softer than the main camera's. Contrast is fine but the dynamic range remains limited.

Stabilization is on point, though, and you can expect stable, non-shaky videos even when walking around with the phone in your hand. The field of view is narrower so in case you are doing a video from a tripod, for example, you can turn off the EIS from the settings.

Once you are done with the real-life scenarios, take a look at our video compare tool to see how the Moto G62 stacks against the other phones we've reviewed.

1080p: Motorola Moto G62 5G vs. Xiaomi Redmi Note 11S 5G and the Samsung Galaxy A33 5G (2160p) in our Video compare tool