LG is well aware that it's in the camera space where so many phones try to stand out and it has equipped the LG G7 ThinQ with an interesting camera array, although it's not one that always delivers quite the results you might be looking for.
At a base specification level, you'll find dual 16MP (f/1.6 and f/1.9 wide) lenses. As it has done with previous handsets, LG doesn't offer a secondary telephoto lens, but instead offers a wide-angle one. That's an interesting choice for a smartphone and it makes for a broader range of possibilities if landscape photography is your passion.
The LG G7 ThinQ carries LG's ThinQ branding and this isn't just a case of it being for branding's sake. LG's camera app has a dedicated AI Mode that, like on the Huawei P20 Pro or Mate 10 Pro, provides observational analysis about what it's looking at and applies photographic settings appropriate to the scene for best results.
LG's approach is to make its AI deductions quite explicit, with every aspect floating up momentarily onscreen so you can literally see what it's thinking. It's a cute gimmick that also extends to tagging based on those observations. Photo quality in AI mode was decent for the most part, with reasonably intelligent selections for those who don't want to go down the full manual route.
LG's other party piece for the LG G7 is what it calls Super Bright Mode, which can be toggled on (or set to automatically kick in) when there are few light sources. Super Bright Mode works by radically dropping the resolution and grouping pixel sites together to eke out a significant uptick in overall image brightness.
Taken by itself, the results can be quite remarkable. As a stress test, here's a picture of my local park taken late at night in standard shooting mode with the LG G7 ThinQ resting on a fence post to reduce jitter:

Not much to look at, right? Here's the same shot with Super Bright Mode enabled:

However, there's an issue here because the LG G7 ThinQ doesn't exist in a vacuum. We've seen numerous cameras on smartphones this year boast of their low-light capabilities. So by way of comparison, here's what the Samsung Galaxy S9+ made of that exact same scene at that exact same time:

The LG G7 ThinQ's camera performance is fine for what it is, but it does struggle to stand out, excluding that wide-angle lens. Here are some sample shots taken with the LG G7 ThinQ, letting the camera pick the settings in each case:
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