Huawei Mate 20 Pro camera samples: testing out the new triple camera

17 October 2018
We took a quick photo tour of London and while it was foggy, we managed to test the zoom capabilities of the Leica camera.

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Nety, 18 Oct 2018Damn.. So clear and so much details.. it took my mac nearly... moreAre You Kiding

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    • Anonymous
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    • 18 Oct 2018

    Curtisjr1, 17 Oct 2018help pleas is huawei p10&p10+ still worth? want to get ... moreS8+ has the best camera.

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      • Anonymous
      • mx{
      • 18 Oct 2018

      Huawei is untouched in low light performance, no iphone, galaxy or pixel can beat them

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        • Anonymous
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        • 18 Oct 2018

        jackwilder, 18 Oct 2018i dont see major improvement compared to P20 PRO cam. so w... moreTheres still 3 cameras... 4th circle is the flash

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          • jackwilder
          • 6cc
          • 18 Oct 2018

          i dont see major improvement compared to P20 PRO cam.
          so whats the point for making it 4?

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            • Hoffmann
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            • 18 Oct 2018

            Curtisjr1, 17 Oct 2018help pleas is huawei p10&p10+ still worth? want to get ... moreP10+ has a good camera. Go for it !

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              • Nety
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              • 18 Oct 2018

              Damn.. So clear and so much details.. it took my mac nearly half an hour to render these images...

                The samples from P20 Pro and this one reveals oversharpening applied. Pixels and recent Galaxy's flagships have better cameras than this one. DxOMark should be more precisely to determined the best camera.

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                  • laciii
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                  • 18 Oct 2018

                  abubasim, 18 Oct 2018The only phone I have seen from Huawei that actually took g... moreI can confirm it! :)
                  I still have a Nexus 5X and 6P and actually the photos from the 5X/6P are just better for my eyes (more natural, not 'artificial') than photos from the P20 Pro. I was so disappointed, I sold my P20 Pro and bought a Pixel 2 XL. I mean it has a very good camera of course but just not my taste... Nexus/Pixel users will understand. :)

                    Shui8, 18 Oct 2018Go for vanilla Mate 10. Its about $450 now, camera quality ... moreThe iPhone 7+ had an u impressive camera. Many Chinese smartphone companies have way better cameras for less. Starting with Xiaomi.

                      Realistic1, 18 Oct 2018As someone who had P20 Pro - I can say that my guess would ... moreYou do or did not ever have a P20 Pro. Prove it with photos. And don't take photos with someone else's smartphone. It's lousy.

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                        • 18 Oct 2018

                        Superb triple camera combination. Glad they finally accepted that the monochrome camera wasn't useful enough and ditched it for a more useful extra wide angle camera. The Triple Camera of the Mate 20 Pro looks awesome. Even better than the Pixel 3.
                        It could easily be the best smartphone camera of the year.

                        But, did they remove OIS from the main 40 MP camera in the Mate 20 Pro?

                        That would be a downgrade, because the P20 Pro had OIS (Optical Image Stabilisation) in it's main 40 MP camera.

                          As someone who had P20 Pro - I can say that my guess would be that their camera is overhyped again. Photos on P20 Pro looked far from natural to me, they looked artificial. So it does have good camera but not nearly as good as Huawei wants you to believe.

                          And for some reason, Pixel was still king of photography, despite having less cameras...

                            Anonymous, 18 Oct 2018As a long avid user of the Nokia 808 till this day.. I fina... moreWhen was the last time you capured a photo with your 808 PureView?
                            Return to your PureView Power it up play with camera a little bit again so your eyes remember again its quality :)
                            808 PureView can exceed that zoom with its single sensor.
                            808 PV user here :)

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                              • Anonymous
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                              • 18 Oct 2018

                              As a long avid user of the Nokia 808 till this day.. I finally concede.. This Mate 20 Pro has finally overtake the 808 Pureview as the NEW KING OF PHOTOGRAPHY.. Hail Huawei!

                              p/s: Nokia pentalens please come out soon and reclaim the title

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                                • Anonymous
                                • wce
                                • 18 Oct 2018

                                Does night mode work on the ultra wide angle camera?

                                  The only phone I have seen from Huawei that actually took good photos, _at least for a
                                  pixel peeper like me_, was the Nexus 6P.
                                  I have grown used to the disappointment I feel when looking at all the new reviews and
                                  zooming in at 100% and seeing almost all phones applying too much noise reduction
                                  and sharpening. Some of the few exceptions are the last Nexus models and the Pixel
                                  models. But those phones are not available in big parts of the world.

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                                    • 18 Oct 2018

                                    The photos from mate 20 are good, however, mate series and P series both have different color characteristics... P series have a more saturated and contrast color while the Mate have accurate color. As for me personally I like P series color...

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                                      • 18 Oct 2018

                                      there's no argument about superiority of bigger optics and sensors on proper cameras compared to smartphones. currently, we have no technology to miniaturize image sensors in the same way it is done with transistors in an soc (or at least none that is publicly known), so the camera modules depends greatly on the amount of light it can take in and spread unto the image sensors. the very little difference in size of camera modules that can fit into ever thinning phones makes it difficult to confirm the better performance of particular modules over others- the jpeg being judged here undergoes layers of processing so they end up looking good. in conclusion, the better guage of performance for smartphone camera should be in the raw output.

                                        Anonymous, 17 Oct 2018Well, all shots are 8MP. With this resolution they we... moreThey are 10MP samples...