[Update: More samples] Huawei P30 Pro beats Pixel 3 in some low-light photos
Huawei's cameras have become exceptional over the past few years, and earlier this month, the company unveiled more phones with excellent camera performance. While the P30 and P30 Pro have already turned heads with its 5x optical zoom, its low-light performance appears to beat the Pixel's Night Sight in certain cases.
Both phones were only announced a few days ago, so in-depth reviews aren't available yet. However, sample shots have been making their way to social media and YouTube, and some are seriously impressive.
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Pixel 3 without Night Sight (what the eye sees)
Pixel 3 with Night Sight
P30 Pro full auto (the F kind of sorcery is this?) pic.twitter.com/pCBSWBbT1e— Vlad Savov (@vladsavov) March 30, 2019
The above tweet from Vlad Savov, a senior editor at The Verge, shows that the P30 Pro is able to pull far more detail from total darkness than the Pixel 3. While the Pixel's photo is still impressive given the complete darkness, the P30 Pro's picture is far more sharp. Vlad shared another sample collection, which is also very impressive:
One more time
Pixel 3 default (equivalent to iPhone and most other phones)
Pixel 3 Night Sight
Huawei P30 Pro default(Side note: P30 Pro night mode doesn't improve things much, because how could it) pic.twitter.com/Tl0JBhgz0i
— Vlad Savov (@vladsavov) March 30, 2019
Ironically, the P30 Pro seems to take worse low-light pictures in its night mode than its regular mode, at least when it comes to white balance. In the below images from Basil Kronfli (from the YouTube channel Let's talk about tech), the P30 Pro's night mode photo is far more saturated than the same photo taken in regular mode.
Night Sight on the Pixel 3 on the left, auto on the P30 Pro in the middle, night mode on the P30 Pro the right. Huawei now needs to tune its night mode white balance to be as good as its auto mode. All so impressive though, it was almost pitch black #HuaweiP30Pro #TeamPixel pic.twitter.com/i6kAozC8YS
— Basil Ⓥ🌈📱 (@BasilKnows) March 30, 2019
Another impressive example comes from Ben Sin, where the P30 Pro easily beats the iPhone XS and Galaxy S10+ in low-light mode. All the photos were taken in the P30's regular camera mode.
The iPhone camera is good at many things but in low light it cannot hang. Here are shots I just took in my near pitch black room pic.twitter.com/VwukXFE4UZ
— ben sin (@bencsin) March 30, 2019
Here are some more samples:
The extent to which the P30 Pro in regular auto mode totally obliterates Pixel night sight is still blowing my mind. These shots were taken together in light where I could barely see anything. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/SflTo1rOiS
— Paul O'Brien (@PaulOBrien) March 30, 2019
Night Mode on the P30 Pro (left) VS Night Mode on the S10 (right) is very oof pic.twitter.com/FZlhD14AoU
— Fergus 'Willpower' Halliday (@Cvamped) March 27, 2019
Pixel 3 xl vs p30 pro
Night sight Camera pic.twitter.com/8UFbcw7slf— Hossam Ahmed (@Hossam201695) March 30, 2019
Part 3
Lowlight indoor pic.twitter.com/huY2K2kRJ0
— Zat (@zatpiko) March 28, 2019
End of Update
It's great to see smartphone cameras become more and more impressive. Perhaps phones like the P30 Pro will finally push Google to include another camera (or two, or three) on the Pixel 4.
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