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[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Your friends are never going to believe what you did. The only way to prove it to them is with that video you took. Rate this thread to express how videos shot on the Huawei P20 Pro come out. A higher rating indicates that videos are smooth (and not choppy) and that auto-focus works very well, and that the camera adjusts quickly to different lighting conditions while recording.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] MC268:
Having trouble with autofocus on the P20 pro in videos. It seems to effectively render the zoom unuseable. Am I doing something wrong? Do I Have a faulty handset?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] 5nak3:
What kind of trouble exactly? I'd be happy to test if you can give me a scenario.

One thing I have noticed on my end is that slow-mo at x8 and x32 seems to experience some form of "snow" effect on the video, it's not noise in the sense of grain or low video resolution, but actual white / blue pixels scattered throughout the video. In x4 mode this doesn't happen....and I'm pretty sure prior to the 107 upgrade this wasn't present.

Can anyone confirm?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] max.barrett:
confirmed. :( that's scandalous!
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] 5nak3:
On the one hand as terrible as it is, and don't get me wrong, it really is!

I'm glad that:

1) I've not gone mad

2) I'm not the only one

Clearly it's a software change that has caused the issue, so I hope they can resolve it. I think I'm going to look to find a means of sending this feedback.

Working in the software field myself, and prior to that QA and customer facing fields, I'm well aware that these things can happen. It's just such a shame that when the one thing the phone is touted for seems to be suffering massively :rolleyes:

If anyone can post their thoughts, or even workarounds should they find them it'd be massively appreciated.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] isko01:
I have S8 and I would like to sell it and buy P20 Pro. Please can you tell me which one is better for video? I know that P20 Pro in 4K dont have stabilization, but I have DJi Osmo Mobile 2. I habe sometimes problem with S8, when you recording people it start to be so much smooth. But everything is very good. But now I nees better.

I need to know which one is better? Focus, detail, shadows and etc...

Thx a lot
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] 5nak3:
Sorry to say I can't help you on this one!

I'm coming from a Galaxy Note 4, so anything I would say probably isn't worth the time to read :p
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] isko01:
Thx a lot man :) i hope someone will help me soon :)
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] max.barrett:
I was told do hardreset the phone by Huawei which didn't solve the probs with slow-mow (x8 and x32) entirely. There's some kind of little visible improvement but it's still disappointing, especially regarding the price & hype of the phone.

Now, Customer Support asked for my IMEI in order to forward the issue to R&D. (Hm, that firmware-bug depends to/on my IMEI? Prolly not. Just wondering.)
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] frewys:
Probably not..

But maybe a bad batch?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] 5nak3:
Hmm ok that's interesting...i mean bad batch could be explained if you had the issues on the older firmware. But these issues only appeared when i was updated to the new firmware on my end.

I've not heard back from them yet, might chase again because again hardware defect I'd expect to manifest itself in other shooting modes not just a specific case x8 and x32
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] max.barrett:
Have you tried a hardreset? Any improvement?

Regarding the bad batch possibility, slow-mo in x4 should be affected also, shouldn't it?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Slash8915:
Does anyone know if Huawei plans on putting out an update that adds stabilization to 4k video? Kind of like what OnePlus did with the OP5?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] 5nak3:
I've not had a chance to hard reset I'm afraid.

I honestly believe batch issues, i.e. hardware, would be affected in other camera modes and all slowmo speeds. The camera is fine for everything but two settings in slowmo video, that to me sounds more like a firmware bug than anything.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] user4001:
The Slo-Mo is awful, like most phones - get over it.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] isko01:
Did P20 Pro have 240fps at 1080?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] vandal4e:
no it has last year flagship specs for video and limited stabilization options
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] bouyhy01:
Most worse smartphone on video section and the selfie shooter is a joke i regret exchanging it for the s9 plus, huge mistake !! Thnksfully tye battery life is awesome pictures also
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] isko01:
Hi bouyhy,

Why is very bad video? I know that 4K don't have stabilization. Is there any other bad thing?

I have S8 and im planning to sell it an buy P20 Pro. I just try P20 Pro in store, for a shot time and I like vide, video is much more sharpness then S8 what is better for me. But how I say I try It for very short time. Please can you tell me what was other bad things in video? For stabilization I have DJi Osmo Mobile, I think that will help me a lot.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] bouyhy01:
I had the s8 for almost a year and sell for tge s9 plus and i guarantee you that the s8 is way way better than this p20 pro on video shooting, stabilization sharpness quality dynamic range everything, i own the p20 pro for about 4 weeks now and tried everything the video shooting is too bad, i prefer galaxy s6 or even s5 videos, but if huawe8 cares about his customers they xill push updraes o fux that with selfie shooter too, but for now they did nothing. Personally if you care about videos keep your s8 or go for the pixel 2 or wait for htc u12
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] musambany:
Hi,

I have the same problem after update. At 8x and x32. Compilation for CLT- L09 model C432 update....

I've attached an image
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Lord Morpheus:
Took this in a dark and dirty London pub on Friday night...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HumrjT5ifmFfM0P1iqKWvHA8hX7vw6IvAg/view?usp=drivesdk
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] dindatwin:
One trick I found when using the phone is that, even though it doesn't support AIS/OIS at 1080p60fps, I usually just record at that framerate anyway and then get Google Photos to stabilize the footage afterwards which it does a fantastic job of BTW. So I get both 1080p at 60fps and it's stabilized really well afterwards for sharing etc.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] AndiThebassman:
That's an awesome idea :D
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] front firing speakers:
didn't realise you could do that ?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] 5nak3:
[MENTION=1477651]max.barrett[/MENTION] [MENTION=791991]musambany[/MENTION] - just thought to let you know that i've just received an update for my phone CLT09C432 to v120. Initial testing suggests that the artefacts seen in x8 and x32 modes have been corrected.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] isko01:
So that's means that 960fps is look normal not like fake slow motion?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] 5nak3:
I'm not sure what you mean by "fake slow motion", to be honest slow motion video is never going to look great, but the issue I was specifically talking about was the snow like artefacts appearing in certain video situations with x8 and x32 videos. In fact you can see an example of this issue here https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=76385648&postcount=21
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] rascal0pl:
In terms of stabilization S8 wins so far even with gimbal. But detail-wise 4k looks better on p20 pro. It's a shame that p20 pro don't have a 4k@60fps mode though. Of course if it comes to photos, there is nothing to compare. P20 pro is cruising S8.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] isko01:
Thx you so much. That I want to know, how is in detail 4K. But is 1080p better in detail then S8?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] rascal0pl:
1080p@30fps looks similar to s8, but 1080p@60fps looks kinda soft on p20 pro.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Frontfiringspeakers:
Took quite a bit of video today (C782. 110). 4k is so shakey and even with Google stabilisation applied it created alot of rolling shutter wobble. Even in 1080p 30fps still considerable roller shutter issues. Not to impressed with video on this phone.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] cornel.atomei:
I updated to the latest june software update, and look what it did to low light video recording...

[YOUTUBE]5bdvJMaNsp8[/YOUTUBE]
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] rowihel2012:
Wow 4k video feels like using old 2000 mobile ??
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] cornel.atomei:
Exactly! It's so frustrating. In good light works very good, but low light is a mess
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] freddyttt:
being a youtuber i have to say im way disapointed in the front camera only shooting in 720p. and its not a very good 720p at that !!
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Frontfiringspeakers:
Front is 1080p. Just take off beauty mode
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] freddyttt:
Thanks just figured that out. that said this phone has already lost me. gonna sell and hope the note 9 is better!
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] cornel.atomei:
[YOUTUBE]tRI85CgBNhY[/YOUTUBE] - Daylight VS Sony XZ2

[YOUTUBE]l8gZPi7qKwM[/YOUTUBE] - Daylight VS Oneplus 6

The video quality in daylight seems ok to me in 1080p, but in 4K there is no stabilisation, and it trully shows...

[YOUTUBE]4VCW73b8igI[/YOUTUBE] - Lowlight VS Oneplus 6

[YOUTUBE]5bdvJMaNsp8[/YOUTUBE] - Lowlight VS Sony XZ2 (.131 update)

In low light after i updated to the June patch (.131 update), all low light video recording went to ****...
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] MrThreeChains:
So video quality was messed up by an update? Are there any news on this?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] szlaga:
Hi, so I would like to buy a new phone. I'm choosing between P20 Pro and Pixel 2 XL.

Anyway, Pixel 2 XL for me takes better photos from the front camera, but when it comes to rear camera I can't still choose. P20 Pro has more pluses anyway, raw export from default camera app, very good zoom, better pictures in low light but when it comes to auto mode Pixel wins for me. Ai in P20 Pro sucks in my opinion. So here is draw for me.

But what about video quality?

P20 Pro: https://youtu.be/DJTfXYYmTRkhttps://youtu.be/3Rc0RH2Pmko

Pixel 2 XL: https://youtu.be/9UCMbJ1XvbM

That's what I found when I was looking for gimbal videos in similiar places (town). What do you think?

I pretty don't mind colors, just overall quality, dynamic range, focus etc. I'll shoot in flat anyway and add colors myself.

I can afford gimbal.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Bp_tec:
Does anyone else notice video jerkiness after recording on the P20 Pro? When I play back the video I get a flicker on the screen.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] nerkomessi:
Yepp, i have the same when I took a video yesterday. Its flickering on the blue sky, very annoying.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Frontfiringspeakers:
Same here, took a video tonight and it's all over the place, flickering etc. Same video exactly a minute later with the S9 plus and not a flicker in sight. It's not looking good for my P20 pro. I like my video

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Dont get a p20 Pro if you want good video. It's really inferior to other phones.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] johseph:
Blurred 4k video

Any idea as to why my video is blurred or looking when i move it ot the computer?

Looks great on the camera, but when i put it on the computer its pure crap
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] elgene:
I just bought DJI Osmo Mobile 2 and now u can turn off P20 Pro software Stabilization - flickering is off. You'll find comparison of Stabilization off, on and gimbal at the end of my video.

[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/Cg9Vvde68vA[/YOUTUBE]
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] joao.feathers:
Hello guys, when we are recording video, it's normal when change to 3x zoom, see camera changes?

It is anoying, and the can see in video. :rolleyes:

Best regards
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Magic-design—:
Terrible video quality when I tested it today. Digital lagging (IS) and the light and brightness kept changing constantly. I was previously using a zx premium which would have wiped the floor with the video I just created
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] XDARoni:
The video quality on the P20 Pro is average at best. Low light video is sometimes unusable. 4K resolution in daylight can look really good though.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Magic-design—:
Until you start moving
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
You're beautiful and everyone knows it. That's why you take selfies. Rate this thread to express how the front-facing camera of the Huawei P20 Pro performs. A higher rating indicates that the front camera produces fantastic results consistently.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Pkkpkppk:
Selphie quality

The quality of the Selphie camera is dire. Please can there be an update to cure over exposed shots ....even with the beauty gimmick turned off.

This spoils the brilliance of the rear camera.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] deepmenace:
agreed - its awful
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] D1G1TE:
One can see they invested all the time into rear cameras. SW update can easily fix front camera performance if they figure this out and will bother.

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But thanks to that really glossy finish on back it's easy to take selfie with rear camera for now.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Bromsoket:
Absolute terrible selfie cam..

Rear camera (portraits) is better but still really really bad.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Noexcusses:
We got an update but still selfie camera is baad
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Gerstark:
v=yIYz9HbzsIw (can't post links yet)

according to this guy (the tech chap) on youtube, if you take selfies in photo mode instead of portrait it's better (4:45)

anyone can confirm?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Bromsoket:
I've had several Huawei phones (p10, p10 plus, mate 9, mate 10) they have never improved the camera In the fw updates so don't hold you breath...

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Better but still really bad...
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] AndroidMilos:
Wow, just got my P20Pro and took some pics in auto mode only and will start to play around with Pro later. So far, I love the camera. It is awesome and very colorful to my liking. To me, this was worth the price for the camera alone! I am not going to compare with my Samsung s9+ as I don't nit pic my photos. They are what they are and it is good enough for me.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] FreddieGH:
Not true...I've tried every single mode. and front facing camera performs terribly awfull. There should be an update to clean this mess. Trying to port pixel 2 camera to the P20 but still no success.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] m.mcrespo:
i have p20 pro in my case i am using app camera+ and using filter cinema,after somes adjusts,i take in good light good selfies really.try and say.dont know if can post photo here.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Theandroidfan:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.an...-camera-improvements-via-beta-update.html/amp Does this improve the front camera?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] manojdemel:
Selfie camera is awful. Doesn't matter you turned off the beauty mode. Photos are too soft and blurry. Pretty much useless. It is a shame, otherwise it is a great phone.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] misterb.ca:
Camera is superior on the P20 Pro, that's what they brag about. how ever the pictures are almost to perfect in auto mode. the AI is very good but maybe a little to much. The Pro mode is very cool, it allow you to control the camera like a full body camera.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] htchd21965:
Google photo app for quick editing

Someone on another thread suggested

Take photo, save and tap on more ....

Advance edit

Google photo

Then click on one of the filters

Auto seem to work much better
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] D1G1TE:
I found solution for selfies in Open Camera. With manual ISO and shutter speed (ISO 50, shutter speed 1/25s in example photo attached, straight from Open Camera app without any editing) 24MP resolution. You have to nail fixed focus distance, for me it's about 3/4 extended arm. I use Open Camera also for 3.5K EIS stabilized video, as 4K does not support EIS. For video I also use manual ISO, continuous focus for both video and photo, 24 fps for video for better low light performance, 30Mbps bit rate. One can also trick F/2.4 80mm zoom lens to work in darker conditions, where stock Huawei camera app already fallbacks to F/1.8 40MP, using manual ISO and shutter speed resulting in very detailed 10x zoom shots even in less than ideal light, with bit more noise as trade-off for higher ISO values compared to stock Huawei camera app. Currently on .152 FW. Maybe if I remember, I'll create some guide for this. :D Cheers. :)

[IMG="FF Camera - No additional post processing"]http://i.imgur.com/hxVPkAx.jpg[/IMG]
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] DJ41:
That is the best selfie quality shot I have seen on the P20 pro so far. But if that is "3/4 extended arm length", you must have T-rex arms. When I take a shot with 3/4 extended arm length I am way further off than you.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] iblastoff:
fake beauty mode is terrible
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Myles_version21:
Same here man

I have the exact same problem. If I take a selfie of myself it's okay. However, the second I'm in that situation where I take a group selfie with 2-3 people I find that someone in the photo will end up blurry. The blur appears to be more down to motion than effects. If someone moves they become out of focus. My friend has the Mate 10 Pro and her phone takes far superior group selfie's with the front facing camera on that device.

One thing I did find though was that as soon as I turned off the 'perfect selfie' setting, my group selfies improved in general. It seems the AI was using my face as the main focus point for everything involving the front facing camera. That's a feature I would have welcomed had it not been for the fact my friends were getting blurred as a result.

That said, i've found myself resorting to blindly taking selfies using the rear camera with no visual reference just hoping it comes out okay. All I'm all disappointed with the selfie camera. :(

If there is absolutely anyone out there that has the complete opposite opinion and are happy to share their precise settings from top to bottom with us then please come forward. I sit here hoping that there's just something I'm not doing right and it can be fixed with just a bit of advice.

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In reply to my own post, here's an example of what I get with most selfie pics. Okay yes I'm on a train but its going slow so minimal movement with my hands. The photo appears in focus when looking at the screen but as soon as you snap you get this happening almost every time.

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https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-xXlWuTTgkAXurBS6wZpR1W2aczndWLC
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] XxReApErxX:
That is right, the Google Photos edition really helps.

Enviado desde mi CLT-L09 mediante Tapatalk

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Please do the guide.

Enviado desde mi CLT-L09 mediante Tapatalk
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] haxel66:
terrible selfie

backgrounds always blur, tried everything, photo mode, disable mods changing software on camera.

looks worse than my old phone with 5mp

whats the point of a selfie cam if you cant see where you are just faces and blurred background.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] ShaKki:
i have a mate 20 x (same camera as pro so i hope you guys can help me), i dont get any bokeh effect on my selfies. Face is recognized and super sharp. but simply no bokeh.. any help?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] maahmd:
what the best app to take selfie now ? for p20 pro
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] totzkitotz:
Yeah, agreed with you guys. Totally out for the selfie of this phone. Hope they will fix it with an update
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] potblack2win:
Too late now to fix anything been waiting a whole year almost LOL

Just bought a Xiaomi Mi 8 for my wife and that selfie camera is insane. Will try to send some comparisons but believe its all to do with Huawei software optimisation on their front cameras.

All of the huawei and Nova series suffer from same issue
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] rheckr:
Selfie quality on newest Android Pie (9.0.0.163) has been finally improved and fixed. Now selfies looks great without any edits ;)
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Myles_version21:
Sounds good

That's good news. Is this specifically for the P20 Pro? Any chance you could upload some examples? The specific problem I always have is group selfies with 2 or more people where it seems to only focus in on the closest subjects and then it blurs out every other face in the shot. Sometimes it even blurs the person directly next to you even when they're at the same proximity.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] b.watson:
I think the biggest issue with the front camera is lack of auto focus. My older P10 Plus front camera had auto focus and the selfies were amazing.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] t.kijas:
Exactly, I cannot understand how Huawei could include fixed focus camera into their flagship, that's just insane... And no, in Android 9 the quality is still terrible, blurred everything incl. faces
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] MeisterGigi:
With Android 9 the selfie "mirror" doent work any more with me. So the Pictures are mirrored, even if i enable or disable it.

Do you also have this issue?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] argh9:
Mirror function works fine here, I did a clean/reset/wipe install of Pie coming from a earlier Pie beta tho.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] RussetStarlight:
My selfies are just fine

In decent light, I get great family and lone shots. I'd post but I have no clue how to post photos on here. I barely just figured out the damn text.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] argh9:
How the fk do i get rid of the lipstick effect... I hate the face detection effect, pink lips, really?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] XDARoni:
The Honor P20 Pro has a 24MP selfie camera and takes really good quality selfies. Makes sure you turn off the beauty effect to get the best results.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] surahyo:
Currently I use EMUI 12.0.0.225 in January 2023 and selfie camera problem still exist. However, I found a solution by using HedgeCam 2 which has exposure compensation menu directly on the screen. Whenever I take an outdoor selfie, I can adjust exposure directly. So far, it helps me.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
There! Something just happened! Did you take a picture of it? Rate this thread to express how fast the Huawei P20 Pro can go from "zero to picture". A higher rating indicates that launching the camera app and taking a photo is extremely fast such that you never miss an important moment, like when your cat attacks the couch again.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] namartlu:
I am interested in this phone, just learned about it yesterday - about the three-camera setup in the back. What is the quickest way to launch the camera on this phone if screen is off? I came from Moto phones, they have the double-twist to launch, and now I am using HTC U11, which has the squeeze feature. I know Android has double-tap on power button to launch camera, but that's just not fast enough for me, compared to the other two ways I mentioned.