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[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] WarVic:
It is certainly a crappy software. Chinese were never good at it. Give Mate 20 Pro hardware to Google and it would be the best camera-phone of all times for sure.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] ccl2003:
I always see complaints about the quality of shots blah blah but the truth is most if not all has something to do with the user itself. Always had taken great shots with Huawei phones from P9 to Mate 10 and now with the Mate 20 Pro so what are you guys talking about?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] grizzlyspid86:
Please....Mi 8 camera quality are inferior than Mate 20, be it on hardware & software side. U gotta check your source back.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] Everlite92:
Don't worry, had both phones the whole day with me and checked it.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] samlis:
Hi:) but what do they all have against the mate 20 pro camera:confused: I find it much better than other :good: that is my opinion:o
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] grizzlyspid86:
Care to post both phone pics here to compare?

Hardware -

Mi 8 - Sony IMX 363, 1/2.55” sensor size, 1.4 micron pixel size.

Mate 20 Pro - Sony IMX 600, 1/1.7" sensor size, 2.0 micron pixel size on 10mp pixel binning.

Hardware checked, Mate 20 superior.

On the software side, i found that Mate 20 produce higher dynamic range, great details, superior contrast, excellent highlight preservation, excellent video recording in 1080p, good 4k video recording. Low light performance? Mi 8 doesnt even come close, and i'm not even talking about the Night Mode.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] ccl2003:
Exactly my thoughts.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] Everlite92:
Will Post them when I am home from work.

The night mode from mi 8 doesn't come close to the Mate's one, that's right.

But honestly, the video recording of the Mate isn't that good. 4k60fps isn't even possible and that's really bad for that phone. The 1080p recordings could be better imo.

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Will Post them when I am home from work.

The night mode from mi 8 doesn't come close to the Mate's one, that's right.

But honestly, the video recording of the Mate isn't that good. 4k60fps isn't even possible and that's really bad for that phone.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] WarVic:
No blah, blah, crooked hands, stupid users etc. I just have both Google Pixel 3 and Huawei Mate 20 Pro at the same time right now. I take shots in the same condition, bring them to 24" Full HD ISP screen, look and compare. I really really want to see the photos coming from Mate 20 Pro better just because I spent more money on it. No luck so far :(. Pixel kills Mate in most situations so far. I hope that Huawei will make software update to improve camera performance. It should be done ASAP because I'm getting pissed of with Mate's inconsistency and photo quality.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] rowihel2012:
I dont have problems with image processing

Except faces details are soo bad

And night mode aome times produce over sharpness HDR

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and front cam is stupid
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] ccl2003:
Never understood the idea of making such comparisons unless you're doing it for online reviews. Pixel 3 is a great camera phone no doubt but considering its from Google, the bugs and issues that comes with it sucks. And Google's after sales support track record is the poorest of them all. You will never be able to enjoy your phone whatever model or brand it is if you're constantly making comparisons. No phone is perfect and that is a fact. Versatility-wise the Mate 20 Pro kills them all even the S10+ with fixed focus ultrawide cam and mediocre low light performance.

Personally, not a selfie guy so I don't really care about the front cam.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] WarVic:
???What are you talking about? Never ever came across a single bug from the very first Pixel to the latest one. The only thing Pixels missing is the camera versatility indeed. Regarding camera quality, I don't always appreciate Pixels tendency to "play with shadows" - adding or making shadows darker where it's not necessarily or underexpose photos / taking darker images. Pixel 3 as the phone itself (OS + hardware) is perfect. Huawei offers a great versatility which I appreciate. BUT what's the point of having it if photos appear are out of focus quite often, blurry in some areas with no good reason, low resolution of details with minimal zooming on 24" screen for instance, "water painting" effect clearly visible on many low light pictures, washed out people faces even with Master AI off etc. I was not expecting to see all of this on highly acclaimed over $1000 phone! In addition, in-screen fingerprint is a clear failure, EMUI is disaster - no email, messages notifications in the top left corner of the screen whatsoever, useless (no notifications) Always-on display etc. Yes, I'm still looking for the perfect phone :). And it appeared that Mate 20 Pro is not even close to it.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] ccl2003:
Not to other Pixel users. Just sell your Mate 20 Pro. That will give you peace of mind.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] WarVic:
This is exactly I've done - put it on sale. I wouldn't make a single complain if this phone had the same price as Pocofone F1 though. Thanks for advice.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] Shipoftheline:
Is this the Mate 20 Pro section or the Pixel, seems to have been hi-jacked
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] Darkat70:
Just sell your pixsell and keep the Mate 20 Pro instead. ???
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] WarVic:
I'm not a masochist, mate. Seriously, I was going to replace Pixel 3 with Mate 20 Pro with full confidence of getting much better camera, faster phone etc. And this is what 95% of online reviews tell - best all-rounder ever, the best camera in business at the moment and so on. But it appeared to be not true at all. I found the only good thing about this phone - the battery life. My very first post was about the firmware version. Currently I've got 9.0.0.183 (AUSC636E10R1P17) and no new updates yet. Maybe this is the culprit of bad camera performance?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] grizzlyspid86:
Best camera quality is subjective. Different people, different opinion. Maybe u just got the feeling that the natural looking photos came from Pixel is the best, which is kind of true, which some parts of it i do agree. What Huawei offer from its camera however is best overall impression image without pixel peeping. Its dynamic range, contrast, highlights preservation are better than the Pixel. Yes its high noise reduction then add sharpening to cover up the noise reduction is the culprit for the lacks of details. Again, thats only if u pixel peep the image. Low light performance? Outstanding from Mate 20, even Night Mode looks more natural than the exaggerate Night Sight. As for me, Huawei image gave that dramatic image than the Pixel does, and thats why i said earlier, its a Leica-style photography. If u own or compare the image on Digital camera Leica Q & Q2, its identical as Huawei image.

Now about EMUI, i dont have problem with it, very fast from day to day usage, stock android was kinda boring. Plus there are reports that Pixel phone tends to slow down after several month of usage, eventhough using Snapdragon 845. Heck even my old Honor 8 Pro, my wife Mate 9 is as fast as day 1, until now. EMUI software is that good. Its the stock EMUI icon that i hate (i suppose everyone hates it lol). No worries, everything can be customized. Take a look at my Mate 20 theme, using Nova Launcher + Sony Xperia 1 looks.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] WarVic:
Huawei EMUI has a very serious issue that I can't understand and tolerate - completely not working notification system. Perhaps, Xiaomi suffers with the same issue as far as I know. I simply not getting notification icons in the top lest corner on the screen despite correct settings. I'm missing important emails, messages because of it. To see them, I have to swipe down the top part of the screen but quite often still don't get the notifications - a HiSearch windows is coming up instead. Also I like using Always-On Display feature to be able to see notifications without touching the screen. Very convenient thing which doesn't work here as well. Another great thing that I got used to on Pixel phones is Google Feed (swipe right gesture). It doesn't work here either - Smartcare screen appears instead. I can live without the last thing though but working notification system is a MUST for any smartphone. I agree that EMUI is fast but it's not smooth and precise as "boring" stock Android one.

Thanks
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] Tomanic:
If you do some research here on XDA you will find that most/all of these things can be tweaked, for example

- you can disable some of the default icons on the notification bar (e.g. Bluetooth, NFC, wifi...) via adb commands and free space for other notifications like emails etc.

- you can disable HiSearch

- you can have Google feed as well - click somewhere in the empty area on the screen, from there go to Home Screen Settings and there is a slider to activate Google feed (on my Mate 20 Pro at least)
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] WarVic:
Not an options on Australian and New Zealand firmwares unfortunately. Huawei has completely disabled Google Feeds for us.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] Tomanic:
That's very unfortunate then. These regional limitations and differences are a pain
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] Darkat70:
That's not true the Optus 9.0.0.122 firmware has the Google Feed.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] grizzlyspid86:
Funny thing is despite many claims notification icon didnt work, mine working perfectly. Using device from EMUI 5, 8 & now 9, no issue. Maybe there are factory settings depends on region i dont know but i know for sure it can be fix in settings. (Maybe inside either app launch in battery settings, notification settings, special access settings or ignore optimisation settings). Agreed about the AOD, its very limited. And by using Nova Launcher, HiSearch automatically disable & can get Google Feed using Nova Companion. I have zero complains about it.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] WarVic:
All New Zealand versions don't have Google Feed and it can't be installed for sure.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] Darkat70:
Definitely have it here in Melbourne
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] WarVic:
You're lucky then. Please have a look at my settings window.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] KennyG123:
Please stay on topic

This thread is a review of photo quality of Huawei Mate 20

Thank you for your cooperation
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] pogi.paul0119:
Berbos kantuchino..
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] Mini Jay:
Where did you buy your Mate 20 Pro ? I have no notification issues it works on all my apps by default without going into the settings.

For the notifications that doesn't appear at the top left corner (instead need to swipe down the notifications bar to see them) yes it's annoying. In fact they copied iOS as it doesn't show like that either. But well we have badges showing the number of notifications unread on the icons so it doesn't really bothers that much.

But your notifications issues is weird.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] WarVic:
Okay. Finally, lets talk about blurry, unclear photos, quite low overall percentage of really good photos (too many blurry, out of focus pictures) and almost always blurry photos of the moving objects. Late evening photos aren't so impressive either - they are also quite blurry and regularly with water painting effect. Can't understand what's wrong. Of course all photos looks great on the smartphone screen but not on 24" - 27" high quality IPS monitor. Have tried different modes with no success. Can upload examples if needed. Any suggestions?

Thanks
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] vandal4e:
it has been the same unreliable experience with P20 Pro, that's how Huawei processing is, the only thing that's changed in a year is a more laid-back AI, which means nothing about image quality. water painting is unavoidable with stacked sensors, sadly this means P30 Pro will meet the same faith, lot's of hype for a little more reach, same processor = nothing can be improved, and with these 40/48MP sensors even GCam can't make wonders 'cause Pixel's don't know what a stacked sensor => can't make full use of it, at the end of the day Xiaomi Mi 9 is the better phone with Snapdragon 855 + GCAM and 4k60 while cost is way less and double less than P30 pro
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] djingonthenet:
I get the odd blurry one, that may be down to hand shake, but some really do look good.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] WarVic:
Natural hand shake shouldn't affect the image quality on this phone because of OIS presence here. But unfortunately blurry photos are coming out a way too often than they should indeed. Even when shooting static objects. Making good photos of the kids by this phone is just a real pain. Maybe 1 out of 5 pictures will be fine if you're lucky enough. That's not acceptable for $1000 phone.

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Exactly, so much hype for no good reason. I feel myself deceived to be honest. I expected to see much better photos from $1000 phone equipped with all this high tech hardware and Leica branded lenses. But it seems not the case here. Poor Pixel 3 makes better photos with no blur and with insane amount of details in most situations with just one camera. Can't understand that. Such a shame.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] djingonthenet:
Do you have the same issue using Pro mode with manual focussing? I think the normal photo mode has issues in trying to apply bokeh to every single shot and for a £900 phone it isn't good enough, although I seem to remember my old U11 having similar issues when I first got it and subsequent updates managed to rectify a lot of them, hopefully further updates to the processing and focussing will fix these issue too.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] WarVic:
I never used manual focusing so I can't say, sorry. Usually I shoot in auto mode with AI off. Sometimes I use manual mode but without playing with settings. Just to exclude extra unnecessary optimizations if any. I must say that results are inconstant and pretty much unpredictable. Sure outstanding pictures are coming out of this phone. I just want to see much more of them, not around 50 - 60%. One thing is for certain - quite obvious and very noticeable decreasing of photos quality in not perfect light conditions. Especially making evening shots in auto mode. Blurry water painted photos are guaranteed. Another thing is quite frustrating as well is focusing issues within one picture - visible blurry areas in places where they shouldn't be at all. So waiting for camera quality improvements with impatience.

Despite all of above-mentioned odds,I still like few thing I like about Mate 20 photos such as color tone and reproduction, the quality of bokeh and overall camera versatility, impressive zoom and macro in particular. Wide angle could be better though.
[Huawei Mate 20 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 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 Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] YakuzaNeko:
Good stabilisation and auto focus, not much more to say
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] Nestacres:
4k video awful. Stutters and judders whenever you move. FHD+ not much better. Quality is also not sharp. A massive let down here.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] staffik:
Video quality not good terrible jittering ,i expecting more from this expensive phone
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] vandal4e:
price asked has nothing to do with quality there are 200$ phones with crisp 4k video on the market
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] DJcOOkie:
I got exact same feelings. The video quality is a bad joke...

Keeping my fingers crossed for a software update soon!
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] ZayaanAhyaan:
I spend a good hour at huawei booth and just couldn't get an explanation why there were jitters and dropped frames at 60 fps especially when panning. Also, 4k had few dropped frames and jitters but there was some sort of warping/bending at the sides of the screen. Again , no explanation.

So wanted to get this phone and am hoping someone has some answers why (perhaps it's ok when exported to pc?) or maybe some setting i'm not aware of?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] terkje:
Same here. Video quality suck and it always want to brighten the video when shot in a sligthly dark room. Hopefully there will be a fix but meanwhile snapchat app actually records better video than the default huawei app... Thats kind of embarrassing for huawei. It seems to be a sofwareissue.

Do anyone know any good external camera app to use?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] cvenk:
Any one have the same problem like me.

No sound when making a video. When I restart the phone than sound comes back , but after a few more videos no more. I have now library of movies with no sound.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] gokkko:
I'm using Cinema FV5, it's having a lot of manual settings, so I was able to shoot a video which looks quite more natural in low light.

Gesendet von meinem LYA-L29 mit Tapatalk
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] rakesh2002:
I am not happy with video recording, pro mode options are limited and there's no dynamic control option i.e., you can't change settings while recording video other than zoom and focus. lot of pixel dropping in 4K, stabilization is good though, 146 has tweaked it well. another thing i noticed is long exposure shots with ISO 50 are giving lots of white dots or burnt pixels which are spoiling the photo shots. this means camera photo-detectors are not well ventilated for heat dissipation. also some of the features that Huawei boasted about such as cinematic mode are useless, low light videos are horrible...

only photo quality is good.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] Rich vgal12:
Slow mo

Hey guys, second post around... I've been testing super slow mo (960 fps) but the quality is a bit rubbish, the lense is the same as far as i know, and at 120 fps it takes good video, despite blurring everything at 0.6x... Do you have the same problem? Is there something I'm missing about slow motion video? Thanks!
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] sajokj:
Slow Motion is far better in Note 9. Big disappoint on Video recording on M20 Pro

Photos are great, Videos recorded are worse than $200 phone
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] gamekill:
I feel the same.

But both on Note 9 and Mate 20 Pro, the lack of manual focus on slow motion is sad. I lose lots and lots of opportunity for nice slowmo videos because they are out of focus (e.g., looking out the winodow of a moving train when entering the station). Simply being able to lock the focus would make it awesome.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] fastturtle66:
4K video works fine for me

As long as you move smoothly the video is very nice as long as you are outside in good light. But first remember to use "performance mode". This is very important! Of corse the stabilization is not as good as in full HD;
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] vandal4e:
4k30fps is not the way to go for smooth footage with any movement involved, let's hope the market still cares about Huawei in 2k20 until kirin 990 comes along
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] Mini Jay:
If you shoot video a lot, download Filmic Pro. It gives you full control on the camera. You'll be able to lock the focus and the exposure. Keep in mind that shooting 960fps video requires lots of lighting otherwise blur effect. The S9 has the same "issue". It is not an issue in fact it's just how it goes even for professional. Slow motion with bad lighting is a bad idea. Hope it helps

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It depends a lot on what you shoot. and what texture you are looking for in your final footage. For more cinematic videos many will recommend 24fps. For slow motion high framerate. Shooting in 60fps you'll get a texture close to "real life". Hope it helps
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] kkfashion:
How's the effect compared with iPhone and Samsung?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] Mini Jay:
Video recording in Iphone XSMax are gorgeous, better than Mate 20 Pro period. For Samsung S10 I don't know but my guess is that they are both better than Mate 20 Pro. Mate 20 Pro just do the work
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] speedstream:
the video recording quality is quite the disaster. i hope it is fixed in an update some point soon. i'm pretty sure my zte a7 has better video quality....sadly...
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] HUNRain:
For video recording, use any other video recorder app from google play. Its faaar better. Huawei cant write a good videorecording script, this is the problem. With a good app, you can record video in samsung note9 quality (in 1080p 30/60/120 and 4k 30).

BUT.

The 960fps was interpolated from a much lower framerate on m20pro. So in 960fps,you dont get the Samsung quality.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] speedstream:
Cool....any recommendations?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] s_o_r_e_n:
Are You using stock camera app for videos? Photos are always great but in my opinion video quality is really poor.

Wysłane z mojego LYA-L29 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] alcurtis93:
I just wanted to bring to your attention the serious issue with mate 20 pro video focusing.

I've made a post on the issue over on the Huawei forum. This is the second model I've had (latest one being brand new from 6th July) and both couldn't focus in this scenario.

https://uk.community.huawei.com/ask...6/mate-20-pro-serious-video-focus-issues-6120
[Huawei Mate 20 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 performs. A higher rating indicates that the front camera produces fantastic results consistently.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Real Life Review] YakuzaNeko:
#BEAUTYGATE once again.

Even with Master AI turned off, Portrait mode seems to want to smooth my skin and make the brightness horribly bright.

It really ruins the image, I feel the selfie camera, if anything, is worse than my S8 Plus.

The live preview of my selfie just as I am going to take it shows my face "beautified" to the point where even my hair is smoothened (I have black hair so it's really noticeable).

When taking the picture in portrait mode, it tells me it's going to sharpen it so I shouldn't move for a few moments.

The image then comes out, a lot better than the live preview, you can actually see my hair a bit better, however the colour is still horribly off, I'm a semi tan shaded person, however using this front facing camera, I Seem to be extremely light and white.

Please someone tell me it's not just me??

It could be a bug that the live image is making my face extremely smooth and then sharpening it up once I take the picture, but for what reason should it be like this??

Also, the additional modes for the funky colourful backgrounds etc, DO NOT APPEAR for me when using the live preview. It's only when I snap the picture will the image in my gallery appear with the additional effects.