{"id":61905,"date":"2018-03-31T07:39:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T07:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=61905"},"modified":"2018-03-31T07:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T07:39:48","slug":"huaweis-p20-pro-takes-even-better-night-pictures-pixel-2-xl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/huaweis-p20-pro-takes-even-better-night-pictures-pixel-2-xl.html","title":{"rendered":"HUAWEI’S P20 PRO TAKES EVEN BETTER NIGHT PICTURES THAN THE PIXEL 2 XL"},"content":{"rendered":"

HUAWEI’S P20 PRO TAKES EVEN BETTER NIGHT PICTURES THAN THE PIXEL 2 XL<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Roughly half of Huawei\u2019s P20 Pro launch event this week was dedicated to the new device\u2019s camera capabilities, reflecting the great deal of time and attention the company has dedicated to mobile photography. And the results, now that I\u2019ve had a few days to try out the P20 Pro, aren\u2019t far off from the lofty hype. Huawei has crafted a formidable contender for the crown of best smartphone camera. I\u2019m not yet convinced that it deserves that accolade, but I can say with certainty that the P20 Pro\u2019s night mode is a groundbreaking innovation that produces some of the best night shots ever taken with a phone. Even the lauded Google Pixel 2 XL struggles to keep up with the P20 Pro.<\/span><\/p>\n

Touring around the city of Paris, the venue of Huawei\u2019s P20 announcement, I shot a bunch of casual photos with the Pixel 2 XL and the P20 Pro. Below you\u2019ll find a selection of the most notable ones, starting off with the most challenging situation: nighttime photography.<\/span><\/p>\n

The way Huawei\u2019s night mode works is a technical marvel. The camera\u2019s shutter is open for a full four seconds \u2014 during which time I get to see the image exposure steadily rising until night scenes start to resemble daytime \u2014 and then all the information gathered is intelligently used to render a clean and sharp image. I expected the results from this process to turn out soft and blurry, but in the above pair of photos, you can see the Huawei phone outdid the Pixel. With the P20, you can still discern tree branches in the background, there\u2019s more color (and a lot less graininess) in the sky, and just better saturation throughout the frame.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another example where the P20 Pro offers better saturation and a much cleaner night sky than the Pixel 2 XL. The Total logo and the background buildings are much more defined in the Huawei shot. That does come at a price, though, as Huawei isn\u2019t shy about throwing in extra layers of sharpening and noise-reducing blur to make an image pop more. So you lose some of the naturalness of the Pixel photo, but you gain a crisper picture for sharing across mobile devices where pixel-level detail isn\u2019t that crucial. The notable thing about this capture is that the gent in the P20 Pro foreground kept walking throughout the four seconds of capture \u2014 Huawei\u2019s algorithms are clever enough to account for such moving objects and keep them reasonably fixed in place.<\/span><\/p>\n

These are both amazingly good photos, given the scant amount of light available for the cameras to work with. Huawei once again wins the comparison by presenting a beautifully noise-free sky, judging the exposure better, and giving a more faithful representation of the reflective surface of the pyramid.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the scene that I just can\u2019t get over. The P20 Pro sky is a freaking masterpiece compared to the Pixel 2 XL sky, which serves as a good example of the trouble most phones have with nighttime photography. Not only is the Pixel blotchy and ugly, it also blows out the luminous signs on the buildings. Then again, it does retain enough sharpness for the \u201chauts de seine\u201d sign on the right side to remain readable \u2014 whereas the P20 Pro\u2019s aggressive noise reduction destroys that along with plenty of small details in the frame. Ultimately, though, for the most common goal of casual tourist snaps, Huawei\u2019s solution is just going to produce more pleasing results for its user.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zoom in real close on this one, and you will rightly declare the Google Pixel 2 XL the winner for its higher degree of detail preservation. The people in that photo still look human, whereas in the Huawei shot, they look like they were painted on with a thick brush. But it\u2019s not a total Google victory because the P20 Pro does a better job of accurately exposing the red bar sign and the street light at the top of the frame. The Huawei photo also has a more saturated look, with the red reflections in the foreground catching the eye more readily than those in Google\u2019s image.<\/span><\/p>\n

Distinguishing between these two in good light would be impossible, except for one thing: Huawei\u2019s Master AI processing. It auto-detects the sort of scene you\u2019re trying to capture and aggressively processes the photo to pretty it up. In the above example, the P20 Pro caught a sniff of blue sky and decided to double down on that at the expense of foreground exposure. You can see how problematic that becomes when shooting the Eiffel Tower, especially because Huawei doesn\u2019t offer the option to remove its processing for a more natural look. So you\u2019ll have to be careful about letting the AI make all the decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the most part, Huawei\u2019s AI-assisted image alterations are for the better. Here\u2019s an example where the P20 Pro camera detected the scene as \u201cgreenery\u201d and boosted contrast and saturation accordingly. I can\u2019t say that this is the most realistic shot ever taken, as the leaves before me were not quite as lush as the Huawei phone presents, but it\u2019s undeniably a pleasing, clean, and extremely sharp capture. The Pixel 2 XL shot looks flat and lifeless by comparison.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m starting to feel bad about the Pixel being bullied at its favorite game, so here\u2019s a clear-cut Pixel 2 XL win to balance matters. Google\u2019s signature HDR+ processing exposes the buildings in the distance better and keeps them far sharper than Huawei\u2019s offering. I also favor the warmer color balance that the Pixel provides, even though the P20 might have been a touch more true to life on that occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Coming back to the Huawei side of the ledger, this shot really shows off the P20 Pro camera\u2019s strength in basic everyday situations. It once again looks less natural than the Pixel\u2019s, owing to its greater reliance on artificial sharpening, but then it is in fact much sharper all around. What Huawei is doing is somewhere between the typical oversharpening that less accomplished companies like LG do to their pictures and Google\u2019s approach of trying to remain faithful to the old ways of film photography. Sometimes that pays off in spectacularly crisp images like the above, which lands just shy of having too much processing.<\/span><\/p>\n

My conclusion, which I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll find unsatisfying, is that there\u2019s no conclusive winner in the contest between these two cameraphones. I think that the Huawei P20 Pro, Google Pixel 2 XL, and Samsung\u2019s latest Galaxy S9 are in a league of their own when it comes to capturing low-light scenes. As usual, I wish I\u2019d brought along a less awesome phone just to show how far ahead the Pixel and these two new flagship contenders are from the rest of the Android field and Apple\u2019s iPhone X. For now, all I can declare with surety is that Huawei\u2019s P20 Pro has one of the top three cameras on the market and it legitimately tempts me to put down the Pixel for a while and try life the Huawei way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/3\/30\/17179642\/huawei-p20-pro-vs-pixel-2-xl-camera-comparison-low-light<\/span><\/p>\n

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