Huawei may have just announced the Mate 40 Pro, but it has already stormed to the top of DxOMark's leaderboards. Crowned the new king of main and selfie cameras, it seems that the Mate 40 Pro is new smartphone to purchase if you are a camera junkie - until DxOMark reviews the Mate 40 Pro Plus or Mate 40 RS, that is.
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Another DxO scam. This model continues the last one's practice of a mandatory ~1.2x crop in stacked auto, which is where almost all of its advantage lies. To use the whole sensor, one is forced to 50MP mode which from initial samples at GSMA is shockingly poor, so their claim of the largest smartphone sensor (in production or not) is another lie, yet again, just like back with P40. Along the same lines, I don't believe they can claim G78MP24 if 4 units out of 24 can only be used to run Pinball.
And samples show that their night mode is still really bad, such that it should be completely disregarded as it has not the slightest advantage to auto even in poorly lit conditions.
Quote from: S.Yu on October 23, 2020, 00:20:10
Another DxO scam. This model continues the last one's practice of a mandatory ~1.2x crop in stacked auto, which is where almost all of its advantage lies. To use the whole sensor, one is forced to 50MP mode which from initial samples at GSMA is shockingly poor, so their claim of the largest smartphone sensor (in production or not) is another lie, yet again, just like back with P40. Along the same lines, I don't believe they can claim G78MP24 if 4 units out of 24 can only be used to run Pinball.
And samples show that their night mode is still really bad, such that it should be completely disregarded as it has not the slightest advantage to auto even in poorly lit conditions.
Zoom out in the camera preview then at 0.8-0.9x you should be able to use the full sensor area to take a photo. Surely you found this out when you were trying out P40 Pro in the store, correct?
Kirin 9000 uses a 24 core GPU. The frequency of each core might be low to keep the power consumption within a certain ramge but nevertheless the truth is Huawei made a decision to opt for the highest MP24 configuration for Mali-G78 this year. You can't get around this fact no matter how hard you try to twist it.
Quote from: Alexander Kim on October 23, 2020, 12:44:18
Quote from: S.Yu on October 23, 2020, 00:20:10
Another DxO scam. This model continues the last one's practice of a mandatory ~1.2x crop in stacked auto, which is where almost all of its advantage lies. To use the whole sensor, one is forced to 50MP mode which from initial samples at GSMA is shockingly poor, so their claim of the largest smartphone sensor (in production or not) is another lie, yet again, just like back with P40. Along the same lines, I don't believe they can claim G78MP24 if 4 units out of 24 can only be used to run Pinball.
And samples show that their night mode is still really bad, such that it should be completely disregarded as it has not the slightest advantage to auto even in poorly lit conditions.
Zoom out in the camera preview then at 0.8-0.9x you should be able to use the full sensor area to take a photo. Surely you found this out when you were trying out P40 Pro in the store, correct?
Kirin 9000 uses a 24 core GPU. The frequency of each core might be low to keep the power consumption within a certain ramge but nevertheless the truth is Huawei made a decision to opt for the highest MP24 configuration for Mali-G78 this year. You can't get around this fact no matter how hard you try to twist it.
Zoom out in the camera preview then at 0.8-0.9x you should be using the UWA instead, surely you must know better than GSMA?
The GPU was just a figurative example, there's nothing to discuss until the competitors have their numbers.
Quote from: S.Yu on October 23, 2020, 14:58:59
Quote from: Alexander Kim on October 23, 2020, 12:44:18
Quote from: S.Yu on October 23, 2020, 00:20:10
Another DxO scam. This model continues the last one's practice of a mandatory ~1.2x crop in stacked auto, which is where almost all of its advantage lies. To use the whole sensor, one is forced to 50MP mode which from initial samples at GSMA is shockingly poor, so their claim of the largest smartphone sensor (in production or not) is another lie, yet again, just like back with P40. Along the same lines, I don't believe they can claim G78MP24 if 4 units out of 24 can only be used to run Pinball.
And samples show that their night mode is still really bad, such that it should be completely disregarded as it has not the slightest advantage to auto even in poorly lit conditions.
Zoom out in the camera preview then at 0.8-0.9x you should be able to use the full sensor area to take a photo. Surely you found this out when you were trying out P40 Pro in the store, correct?
Kirin 9000 uses a 24 core GPU. The frequency of each core might be low to keep the power consumption within a certain ramge but nevertheless the truth is Huawei made a decision to opt for the highest MP24 configuration for Mali-G78 this year. You can't get around this fact no matter how hard you try to twist it.
Zoom out in the camera preview then at 0.8-0.9x you should be using the UWA instead, surely you must know better than GSMA?
The GPU was just a figurative example, there's nothing to discuss until the competitors have their numbers.
GSMA themselves admit you can out-zoom to 0.85x and get the complete field of view from the main camera in P40 Pro Plus review. Mate 40 Pro applies the same 27mm equivalent crop to the main camera and ultra-wide has the same 18mm equivalent field of view as in P40 Pro, so it is reasonable to assume that you can do the same on Mate 40 Pro, no?
Quote from: Alexander Kim on October 23, 2020, 15:18:16
Quote from: S.Yu on October 23, 2020, 14:58:59
Quote from: Alexander Kim on October 23, 2020, 12:44:18
Quote from: S.Yu on October 23, 2020, 00:20:10
Another DxO scam. This model continues the last one's practice of a mandatory ~1.2x crop in stacked auto, which is where almost all of its advantage lies. To use the whole sensor, one is forced to 50MP mode which from initial samples at GSMA is shockingly poor, so their claim of the largest smartphone sensor (in production or not) is another lie, yet again, just like back with P40. Along the same lines, I don't believe they can claim G78MP24 if 4 units out of 24 can only be used to run Pinball.
And samples show that their night mode is still really bad, such that it should be completely disregarded as it has not the slightest advantage to auto even in poorly lit conditions.
Zoom out in the camera preview then at 0.8-0.9x you should be able to use the full sensor area to take a photo. Surely you found this out when you were trying out P40 Pro in the store, correct?
Kirin 9000 uses a 24 core GPU. The frequency of each core might be low to keep the power consumption within a certain ramge but nevertheless the truth is Huawei made a decision to opt for the highest MP24 configuration for Mali-G78 this year. You can't get around this fact no matter how hard you try to twist it.
Zoom out in the camera preview then at 0.8-0.9x you should be using the UWA instead, surely you must know better than GSMA?
The GPU was just a figurative example, there's nothing to discuss until the competitors have their numbers.
GSMA themselves admit you can out-zoom to 0.85x and get the complete field of view from the main camera in P40 Pro Plus review. Mate 40 Pro applies the same 27mm equivalent crop to the main camera and ultra-wide has the same 18mm equivalent field of view as in P40 Pro, so it is reasonable to assume that you can do the same on Mate 40 Pro, no?
No, since they're describing the full FoV and 12MP auto in a mutually exclusive manner in the latest Mate review, even suggesting that to shoot the full main module you need to resize the 50MP output to 12MP to lower noise, and that they still prefer the stacked but narrow output.
Quote from: S.Yu on October 23, 2020, 16:18:31
Quote from: Alexander Kim on October 23, 2020, 15:18:16
Quote from: S.Yu on October 23, 2020, 14:58:59
Quote from: Alexander Kim on October 23, 2020, 12:44:18
Quote from: S.Yu on October 23, 2020, 00:20:10
Another DxO scam. This model continues the last one's practice of a mandatory ~1.2x crop in stacked auto, which is where almost all of its advantage lies. To use the whole sensor, one is forced to 50MP mode which from initial samples at GSMA is shockingly poor, so their claim of the largest smartphone sensor (in production or not) is another lie, yet again, just like back with P40. Along the same lines, I don't believe they can claim G78MP24 if 4 units out of 24 can only be used to run Pinball.
And samples show that their night mode is still really bad, such that it should be completely disregarded as it has not the slightest advantage to auto even in poorly lit conditions.
Zoom out in the camera preview then at 0.8-0.9x you should be able to use the full sensor area to take a photo. Surely you found this out when you were trying out P40 Pro in the store, correct?
Kirin 9000 uses a 24 core GPU. The frequency of each core might be low to keep the power consumption within a certain ramge but nevertheless the truth is Huawei made a decision to opt for the highest MP24 configuration for Mali-G78 this year. You can't get around this fact no matter how hard you try to twist it.
Zoom out in the camera preview then at 0.8-0.9x you should be using the UWA instead, surely you must know better than GSMA?
The GPU was just a figurative example, there's nothing to discuss until the competitors have their numbers.
GSMA themselves admit you can out-zoom to 0.85x and get the complete field of view from the main camera in P40 Pro Plus review. Mate 40 Pro applies the same 27mm equivalent crop to the main camera and ultra-wide has the same 18mm equivalent field of view as in P40 Pro, so it is reasonable to assume that you can do the same on Mate 40 Pro, no?
No, since they're describing the full FoV and 12MP auto in a mutually exclusive manner in the latest Mate review, even suggesting that to shoot the full main module you need to resize the 50MP output to 12MP to lower noise, and that they still prefer the stacked but narrow output.
They described the camera in that way too in their early unit P40 Pro review only to end up finiding out they could zoom out to use the complete field of view and adding another section in the review of P40 Pro Plus to demonstrate it. Furthermore GSMA is known not to cover the camera features thoroughly, they added a set of samples taken in special stacked 50MP after readers had pointed out its omission in P40 Pro Plus review. We can find out which one of us is wrong as soon as Mate 40 series hits our market, but I'm 98% certain I'm the right one here, have a good day ;)