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[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] exaflare:
The golden hour @ boracay Philippines

Mate 10 Pro

Drop shadow frame via photoeditor app

Watermark via Picsart
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] cheeze.keyk:
Venice in Manila.

Mate 10 Pro x Lightroom
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Haroun:
Sky & clouds
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] oelapoel:
Selfie camera pic = washed out.. anyone get this issue as well?
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] andrei80:
Nope. It's just dirty from fingers. Wipe it with something. Same with back camera. All phones get like that and some users never wipe the camera lenses and always take bad photos...
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] oelapoel:
cleaned it, and definitely improved it. thnx for the advice..
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Huezo147:
[IMG="photo"]https://dl.xda-developers.com/4/8/2/9/7/4/3/IMG_20190830_175104-01.jpg?key=QtPCePl3Gl7LR0BG10c7XA&ts=1569627389[/IMG]

A sunset shot in my city
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] kozmikdeli:
Hi,

is there a ois problem (photo mode) 9.1.0.345 ?

If you have 9.1.0.345 version, Can you check camera ois thank you very much :/

This is my video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykh-23X3_-A
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Haroun:
Took few portrait pictures, they look pretty bad and washed out. Anyone have the same issue?

ALP-L29 320
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] GreekSpirit:
Yes, Huawei's camera software is disappointing.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Ugglaimossen:
Yes, unfortunately I have also discovered that sometimes my usual vivid motifs get really washed. I couldn't believe it, but then read this thread... :( hope they will fix it when Android 10 comes out. What do you think?
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] kozmikdeli:
9.1.0.347 mate 10 pro camera ois fixed now it is beatifull again
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Haroun:
Just to clarify I'm only facing problems with portrait mode otherwise I have no complaints about the camera performance

Here's a picture I took with pro mode
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] phonistic02:
I have mate 10 pro(c432 9.1.0.345) i am shooting monochrome in pro mode, but it doesnt save the raw file. I change the resolution of it to maybe open the save raw file box but doesnt work. If someone know to open that box, please help! It does save the raw while it is standard pro mode but not work for monochrome.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] redmi_3g:
My lg v20 photo more sharp and natural than my wife mate 10...but performance mate10 is far awy better than v20..

Now still in dilemma to upgrade my v20 to mate 10 coz of wide angle camera features..mate 10 is perfect choices for me but camera is worse thn v20..oh man.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Ugglaimossen:
Anyone noticed some difference in Android 10!? I don't know but I feel the pictures get better, don't look so over-processed like the did before, but I don't know. Might as well be that I have got used to it :)
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] GreatVortex:
With android 10, night mode is really bad. Restored android 9.1 and night mode is better all the way.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] julientaming:
So, any chance someone unlock raw for the BW sensor ? I do street photography and I want that so badly, but no way we can unlock the bootloader or camera api2 :(
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] kozmikdeli:
Stock Camera vs Camera FV-5 (fv-5 ois working but stock camera not) :((((((
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] simuzer:
great photos..
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] amonrei:
I think the camera is pretty good. Miles better than the Mate 8 that i had. Can't expect too much from a tiny sensor but it's good enough for web use.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] gm007:
I'm also disappointed by the camera quality,to much aggressive noise reduction make the photos like plastic.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] jemeljsh:
Gotta agree, but then again this camera has a lot of potential..

I don't know how to exactly value Mate 10 camera, but in short - it tries to hard to make this perfect clean picture with no noise and in a lot cases overall image quality suffers and it does look artificial/unnatural, but then again it can take you by surprise and take an insanely great picture.

I am comparing mate 10 camera to my previous phone cameras which I considered good (iPhone 7 plus, S6, S7 edge), and I must say I like it more than I dislike it.

Like for example -> my favorite was ip7+. Very constant performance where you get these great looking pictures with this Apple yellowish filter, but it will never surprise - like you have this certain peak and that's it..

Not sure I described my findings accurately but to summarise the idea - Mate 10 is not constant in its performance (its AUTO mode has a lot off issues, which can be related to software being tuned so that all noise is reduced no matter at what cost (over-sharpening, over-exposed, contrast too strong) as IP7+ for example, but then again its best picture that will come out will be much better than the one taken by iPhone 7 plus

I hope I made myself clear and my findings are understood :laugh:

p.s. like if I would take 10 shots with Ip7+, 8 would come out great, 2 will be material for delete. If I take 10 shots with mate 10, 5 are great, 1-2 are over-the-top great, 3 are trash..

p.s.pII. one thing I do dislike is the color temperature regarding skin tones, especially for front/selfie camera. Unless you take a picture in ideal lighting conditions all faces look too pale/white and I would love to have some of that Apple yellowish filter in regard of people faces.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] gm007:
Everything you said is true, hope about a software fix.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Shipoftheline:
I'm loving it so far but worried about how small the images are in size

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[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] taphius:
Auto mode is eh, manual and raw editing is fantastic. File size is oddly small when using the 12mp setting, jumps up quite a bit when you switch to 20.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] strekib:
I have M10Pro. Quality in low light is not good. It's oil drawing. Very often when I use B/W photo, picture not sharp. Bad focus. I hadn't these problems with my M9.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Shipoftheline:
Well I'm getting to like it

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[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] lowphas:
Some pics I made with the M10pro.

https://imgur.com/a/KksWc
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Ol' Blue Eyes:
Yes, I've noticed that the 12mp file size is really small too and worried that the JPEG compression setting is set way to high. Nothing much that we can do about it other than to shoot in RAW then do the conversion ourselves.

Are there any downsides of shooting with 20mp setting? Has anyone compared the photo quality between 12mp and 20mp? Thanks!
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Krisbo:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/RBwEBb7EjSeI7uxB3

https://photos.app.goo.gl/untoTXTIACBpP2zB2https://photos.app.goo.gl/untoTXTIACBpP2zB2

Very quick comparison. First one is 20MP, second is 12MP. Tried not to move between taking them.

The only downside I have found to shooting 20MP colour is the inability to zoom. I've not checked out the photos on my computer but on the phone screen I'm not sure there's a whole lot of difference.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] narcosis34:
I can see the difference
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] wisemanwizz:
Hi, I've recently rooted my Huawei Mate 10 Pro, I realised the camera is affected by this (and the quality of the picture) as it doesn't use AI to identify the type of object you point the camera at anymore. i. e. - If i point the camera at a cat it does not show the little cat icon or if i point it at text it no longer smartly detects it as text (by showing the icon).Is anyone else facing this issue? I'm assuming there's no fix as of yet?
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] hopstryndel:
For me, photos from Mate 10 Pro (auto mode) are overexposed and washed out of colors. HDR photos very similar to the standard ones. \

When I used pro mode, and lowered EV photo looks way better.

For example:

Auto

https://imgur.com/a/ExBf5

Manual

https://imgur.com/a/Wn7PJ
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] ekerbuddyeker:
That snow maze picture is FANTASTIC.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Ol' Blue Eyes:
Many thanks, I've also realised that wide aperture mode isn't available when you shoot in 20MP. But photo quality seems to be quite similar though I haven't done a comparison in low light yet.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Lyvyoo:
Not so good results for M10 Pro. Last place...
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] gm007:
That was expected lol
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] warea:
Proper link: https://www.phonearena.com/news/Results-Big-2017-blind-phone-camera-comparison_id100830
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] meboy:
Proof that people have no idea what good image quality is.

Pixel 2 is terrible..

iPhone is decent but pretties up photos with processing (pumps contrast, warm) and is low-res as f.

3T and the mate 10 look the most true to life. Still outdone in a few ways and need lots more improvments though.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] ijuanp03:
Let's be fair here. Picture quality is subjective. If strong noise reduction, contrast and very strong image sharpening is your thing, then Mate 10 Pro is the clear winner.

iPhone X "wins" as pictures iare more pleasing (warmer) which most "average" consumers prefer.

I'd say Google Pixel 2 is the clear winner with the best detail.

Huawei is going the Samsung route here - remove all noise at all cost!!..even if the pic looks like an oil painting (make it darker for a Leica style look).
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] meboy:
True to life accuracy is not subjective
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] jonmorris:
I think I posted this before, but since then there have been a lot of new photos added - perhaps even from some other Xda members.

Some great shots here - and some recent ones of Christmas lights that (in my biased opinion) look great!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/pMDxptOy0Kiks4aA3
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] warea:
PCworld: Pixel 2 vs iPhone x vs mate 10 pro vs Xperia xz1 camera test

https://youtu.be/AMMznK7v0vc
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] kinjx11:
trying Star Track
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] warea:
Tested: the best smartphone cameras compared

We analyzed the iPhone X, Pixel 2, Note 8 and Mate 10 Pro to see which has the best camera system.

https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/21/2017-smartphone-camera-comparison-iphone-pixel-note-mate/
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] AndroidUK2016:
I've now had it for 5 days. I'm rally disappointed with the camera. As others have said, so many of the photos on auto look like an oil painting. No point in zooming in.

I'm going to experiment with manual / Pro options to see if I can get a better less painting photos.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] thomaspHK:
Finally able to take out the mate 10 pro for some photography testing. Quite happy with the results. Definitely more usable in low light than the mate 9 pro I had before.

Some shots came out quite overexposed and washed out, but they were the minority.

https://imgur.com/a/LtKI5
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] aleix0826:
[IMG="my lovely cat"]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QeZaBCTrA40v5e3CvU80ko5twlcB7PTB/view?usp=drivesdk[/IMG]
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] kinjx11:
a 18:9 shot :p

HDR
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] kinjx11:
night photo mode

https://imgur.com/a/ofq5k
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Tuborg68:
Ice.

https://imgur.com/b1eL6wV

Skickat från min BLA-L29 via Tapatalk
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] mahmoud sabry:
I bought mate 10 brown and compared its camera with the black one and noticed that image on black is much better than mine

What can i do now!?
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] sobelixtus:
Take a second look.

There just can't be big difference on different color variants. If there really is a significant difference, your phone might be faulty and requires service.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] saeedbg:
Mate10View attachment 4385958
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] k4fari:
Shoot same scene on both phones, Put both images on a PC and compare there, i am having a black mate 10 and my friend bought a brown and at first we felt the same and then we did a side by side comparison on pc and found both photos were same, tge difference was only on the phone due to lcds colors.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Kornelije23:
On my mate 10 pro i can t enable 16:9 aspect ratio in camera only 4:3 and 18:9, however i have seen in youtube videos people do that, am i missign something, thanks.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Pretoriano80:
It was removed from newer versions. On initial firmware 16:9 was also available.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] wisemanwizz:
Is AI scenario detection supposed to work on the front facing camera or just the rear facing?
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Tuborg68:
X-country skiing with the Mate 10 pro in -10 Celcius. Got a low temperature warning that flash would not work. But otherwise no problems with camera or battery.

https://imgur.com/GevYkgC
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] rosarios3:
Is it me? or is there a notable blue tint to the pixel 2 pics?
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] alexxutzu:
Hello friends!

The pictures from this thread are edited? I got good pictures with my Mate 10 Pro but sometimes there is a lot of noise in Auto mode. Anybody else has this problem with noise in pictures?
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Hildr:
Hello, here are my two cents about this camera:

I jumped one week ago to this Mate 10 pro from a 950XL. Well, the camera gave me a really hard time. The oil painting effect is really boring and unnatural (I could not even shot my syster blowing her birthday candels in low light, getting only a orang-ish mash for her face). I prefer when there is detail even with some noise to the photo like the 950XL and any other camera do.

Hopefully I found it was pretty easy to just shoot at raw format and edit it with Adobe Lightroom directly on the phone, or on the PC for the really good shots. The auto mode will do to share some common shots to social media with low quality upload, but so far, the jpeg conversion process is really bad.

Nonetheless the sensor is clean and the raw shots are great, even in low light (and even if I would have expected a bigger jump from my 2 years old Lumia).

I know it's a trend to have this over smoothing effect because people prefer drawings than the real world (just look at this embellishment setting with the front camera!) but it would have been really cool to have the possibility to deactivate this.

At least, the autofocus is quick and the shots are taken really quickly, the 950XL was a real pain at this point.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Grigorijs:
Agree with you fully. Don't like it for me too.

You can try FreeDCam app also, there you can change level of the denoise method.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] daniello8:
Hi everyone, I don't claim to be a good photographer but from a mere technical standpoint I can only agree that there is huge room for improvement concerning the Mate 10 Pro camera.

See this: https://goo.gl/DQk6UB
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Luinwethion:
Still playing with it, but so far, happy.

Zaandijk, Netherlands #mate10pro by Renato Laporte, on Flickr

Zaandijk, Netherlands #mate10pro by Renato Laporte, on Flickr

Zaandijk, The Netherlands #mate10pro by Renato Laporte, on Flickr

International court in The Hague #mate10pro by Renato Laporte, on Flickr
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Mefiboshet:
Question to Mate 10 (pro) owners

I see that the Mate 10 camera is getting some very good reviews by "pro reviewers", but gets bashed pretty hard by owners.

Starting to look for a replacement for my LG G6 and camera quality is very important to me.

Should I look elsewhere?
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Sveneezy:
I just updated from 127 to 129 last week and I gotta say the camera keeps getting better. Huawei tends to put too much contrast sometimes in auto mode but that doesn't ruin the fun! You can always add the Google camera. Takes flat pics and look more natural but you do loose the AI.

---------- Post added at 09:27 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:26 AM ----------

Nice pictures.

(Mooie stukje kunst.)
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] daniello8:
You mean you noticed a difference even though the Camera App Version itself has not changed?
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] m.mcrespo:
guys I test here photos in 12m and 20m,do you guys take shots in 20?
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] wizard6601:
sure , 20 MP is better. i use it. why not!?
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] m.mcrespo:
I using one time ago and in house at night I see best results in 12 one day, after that test 20 some days ago. and using 20 now
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] volcolm:
There's more than one model of this device, I wish people would post which model they have when they say they have issues or photos exhibit oddities, when compared to some of the first posts here. Less information is not more folks.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] aerohp:
ALP-L29 using the 'Good Food' mode.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] snir6590:
There are some photos from Colombia.

I love this camera.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Tuborg68:
Cold noseView attachment 4424028
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] mikeazores:
Bla l29 432View attachment 4424993
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Mubeen1:
Quality Of Photo

Good Quality of this camera.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] kalios:
night shot using hdr mode
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] penfold:
got phone yesterday, did some quick tests with stock camera, open camera and snap camera. Tried many scenarios, results varied but in general for shooting in jpg mode open camera gave the best results while snap camera gave the best results for shooting in raw, marginally better than snap, if not the same. You can't really see the detail here because i don't know why the hoster shrunk the pics, i did upload them at full size, but open camera had the most detail with the least overprocessing and best color accuracy.

*All settings were at default with the highest jpeg quality setting for the third party apps, this is not configureable in stock*

Shooting in raw with snap or open camera gave superb results, much better than stock.

For some reason the stock camera gave the best results for night shots.

In terms of video quality open camera was best in terms of detail, smoothness and stabilization at 15mbs 1080p.

Snap was best at 16mbs 4k HEVC, excellent video quality, but without stabilization unfortunately.

The photo quality is definitely not great compared to my old phones, but the images are however sharp, well saturated and bright.

The sensors are likely not the best.

stock (shot at 20mp resized to 12)

snap camera

open camera

snap camera raw converted and color balanced
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] wizard6601:
after reading this post , i try OPEN CAMERA .

take more than 10 photo with different situation and compare side by side

in all condition stock camera was the winner. (i had the same test with samsung phones and still stock camera app was the winner)

stock camera has 3 colour mode . standard , vivid and smoot

ALWAYS use standard color. in vivid mode photo quality is bad.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] penfold:
well the stock camera has the advantage of being able to shoot at 20mp, but did you set the jpeg quality in open camera to 100%? It makes a difference.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Shipoftheline:
I've noticed the raw don't seem as crisp as the jpeg ones, maybe the camera doesn't do its finishing things to the raw but I've stopped using that feature now because even Paintshop couldn't improve the raw images
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] 0alfred0:
I really like night shot mode, the results are great with a tripod or just resting the phone on something... Don't know a phone that produces this kind of photos, since it's more than one can do with promode. So little noise in the pictures it's ridiculous.

This was taken at night, the house above the street light is actually really dark to the eye and the sky was pitch black

[IMG="night mode"]https://abload.de/img/img_20180131_175538qss70.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG="vs normal mode (which is also lighter than my eyes)"]https://abload.de/img/img_20180221_233500l2swm.jpg[/IMG]
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] wizard6601:
yes. 100%.

and i compare 12 and 20 MP with stock camera. 12 MP has better color and same detail. so i use 12MP after this test

and consider , in your test when you resize photo from 20 to 12 , you make photos unsharp and blury. you must take all photos in 12 to compare
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Hildr:
That's exactly what bother me. Your photo are really pretty, but, for me, the white wall is far too clean to be real. But meybe in real life it's really that clean, but I can't even get some feel of texture from the photo.

But well, maybe I'm just too used to grany photo and I am biased in that regard.

In an other hand, I find the sunset photo in auto mode really good, never got this kind of result with a phone, with a sun perfectly distinct:
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] 0alfred0:
It's the wall.. it think textures are captured very well look at these bricks at night time with HDR mode
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] ipmanwck:
Loving the quality of the front and rear cameras for stills. But for video at 1080p I am finding the video capture very over sharpened. Anyone else think this. Here are some examples of camera though and think it takes really accurate nice stills. Front camera is really good after coming from a Samsung. Yes I was using beauty mode.... Level 10 ?
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] ThoroSOE:
I might have found a workaround for those not liking the overprocessed look of the auto mode pictures: Enable wide aperture mode and put the aperture to max (16). Somehow this seems to force lower levels of sharpening.

But I have just stumbled over that in artificial light indoors late at night (my reasoning was to find any other mode in the stock camera app that might override the standard sharpening level). More testing needs to be done. So far I like there being less artifacts and the more natural feel (although this can be subtle).

In some conditions - especially when there are clearly defined lines like bold text in the picture, the normal mode can bring out more detail (a shelf full of books from about 2 m distance is such a case). So this might not be an improvement in all scenes. Also the wide aperture mode sometimes struggles with highly textured surfaces with no bigger objects (f.e. my woodchip wallpaper and my carpet - it outright smears the details in parts of the picture, maybe because it has no object to put in the center of the artificial aperture processing).

An other downside: In lower light with wider aperture mode you lose the automatic improvement of a scene (the one where you are prompted to hold the camera still), which really can make a huge difference.

I am interested, what you find.

Edit: So far I find the difference in bright daylight rather small. This seems to help most in lower light scenes, when the software tries too hard do pull details where are none/few.
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] Tuborg68:
The dog caught catching some sun on the couch. Really happy with the camera on this thing.View attachment 4450665
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] kokope28:
In this comparison Mate 10 Pro is better than S9+.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQeRWQdIWxU
[Huawei Mate 10  Real Life Review] microhaxo:
I love the mate 9 that I have, and I am looking forward to possibly getting the mate 20 next year. But, I think that guy has a bit of bias towards the mate 10. A lot of the photos he claims the mate 10 won were subjective and I wouldn't say that the mate 10 pro has THE best camera out there, it is in the top 5 and is very capable. Not really "clear" winner though.