Lenovo Z6 Pro review

Video recording

The Lenovo Z6 Pro can shoot videos with three of its cameras - the primary, the ultrawide, and the 2MP eye that's dedicated for nighttime videos. The primary and ultrawide snappers shoot in 4K and 1080p resolutions at 30fps and there are no stabilization options available.

The 2MP night cam captures 1080p (Night Mode, OIS) or 720p (Sport Mode, OIS+EIS) clips at 30fps. If you select 1080p resolution in Video settings, the Night Mode will activate automatically when needed. If not, you will need to opt for it manually from the Mode Selector. Not that straightforward, but easy enough to remember.

The 2MP snapper can be used during the day, of course - select Sport or Night Mode and that's it. It won't provide you with better (or worse) videos than the 1080p ones from the main camera, but it offers stabilization, so it might be worth checking out.

The 4K clips we took with the regular camera are rich in detail, with excellent contrast, lively (though a bit over saturated) colors, and notably high dynamic range. The foliage isn't that realistic though - it's either over-sharpened or blurry. Same goes for the 1080p videos - there is plenty of detail, but they are a bit sharper that we would have liked them.

The 4K videos shot on the ultrawide camera have average detail and a bit colder color presentation, and frankly they looked like upscaled 1080p ones. Then the 1080p ultrawide clips are quite rich in detail, sharp, with quite the field of view, but once again the colors are a bit off.

You can select 2X zoom but it won't switch to the dedicated telephoto camera. C'mon, Lenovo! Anyway, if you are at 1080p resolution, the clips will turn out pretty good.

The 2MP camera can shoot during the day, of course, even though it's a bit odd that you must select the Night Mode for that. Nevertheless, the videos are equal in detail to the 1080p regular ones, though they are not over-sharpened and actually have a very true to life color presentation. Add the optical stabilization to these improvements and we think this camera would be of better use both day and night.

Here you can see the gain from shooting with this camera in broad daylight compared to the regular one in 1080p resolution.

And talking about night, here are some 1080p nighttime videos taken with this 2MP camera during different hours. They have amazing level of detail, excellent exposure, and impressively low noise.

Depending on where you tap, you can pop more detail in the shadows at the price of clipped highlights. The playlist below contains three videos to demonstrate this - a 1080p taken with the regular camera, a 1080p taken with the dedicated 2MP snapper, and another 1080p clip with the 2MP camera with manual exposure to keep the highlights from clipping.

And here you can see the gain from shooting with this camera at night over the regular one.

Finally, let's see the stabilization capabilities of the Lenovo Z6 Pro. Unfortunately, there is stabilization available only on the 2MP camera - OIS in 1080p (Night mode) and EIS+OIS in 720p (Sport mode). The OIS does a pretty good job in the 1080p videos, though adding EIS in the Sport mode does show a huge difference and despite the low resolution, the Sport videos could rival the stabilization capabilities of the action cameras.

Here's a glimpse of how the Lenovo Z6 Pro compares to rivals in our Video compare tool. Head over there for the complete picture.

2160p: Lenovo Z6 Pro against the Xiaomi Mi 9T and the OnePlus 7 in our Photo compare tool