I’m going to add to this like a journey as I learn more about the Huawei P20 Pro.
My initial feelings when I took the phone out for a quick test of the camera with no knowledge at all was that the ‘auto’ mode was pretty gimmicky. Too much sharpening and greenery oversaturated but the detail was good. A quick try of a close up with the 3x zoom showed a small depth of field and not brilliant quality.
An automatic mode which comes up as ‘greenery’
I can’t remember what mode this picture reverted to but I was disappointed with the lack of detail of the foreground element. Maybe my distance to the plant was too close.
3x Zoom close-up. To me the area in actual focus seemed extremely poor and when zooming into the picture from the gallery, the detail seemed poor too. Was it a fault of mine? Did I forget to tap the screen to focus?
The default resolution is 10Mb and these pics were shot at that resolution. I was starting to feel that maybe this phone was not going to live up to my expectations.
2nd Outing
After reading up a bit about the phone, I realised that you really needed to set the resolution to the full 40Mb and turn off auto mode. HOWEVER, on this resolution the x3 zoom doesn’t work. I’m beginning to wonder though whether the zoom, which works off the 8Mb lens has much worth. As some writers have stated, better to take the photo on full 40Mb and crop it if you want a close up. In which case I might miss the iPhone’s x2 telephoto but let’s see how a crop does of an image taken with the 40Mb resolution....
My initial feelings when I took the phone out for a quick test of the camera with no knowledge at all was that the ‘auto’ mode was pretty gimmicky. Too much sharpening and greenery oversaturated but the detail was good. A quick try of a close up with the 3x zoom showed a small depth of field and not brilliant quality.
An automatic mode which comes up as ‘greenery’
I can’t remember what mode this picture reverted to but I was disappointed with the lack of detail of the foreground element. Maybe my distance to the plant was too close.
3x Zoom close-up. To me the area in actual focus seemed extremely poor and when zooming into the picture from the gallery, the detail seemed poor too. Was it a fault of mine? Did I forget to tap the screen to focus?
The default resolution is 10Mb and these pics were shot at that resolution. I was starting to feel that maybe this phone was not going to live up to my expectations.
2nd Outing
After reading up a bit about the phone, I realised that you really needed to set the resolution to the full 40Mb and turn off auto mode. HOWEVER, on this resolution the x3 zoom doesn’t work. I’m beginning to wonder though whether the zoom, which works off the 8Mb lens has much worth. As some writers have stated, better to take the photo on full 40Mb and crop it if you want a close up. In which case I might miss the iPhone’s x2 telephoto but let’s see how a crop does of an image taken with the 40Mb resolution....