Camera shootout - OnePlus 8 Pro vs Galaxy S20 Plus vs Huawei P40 Pro - Android
With 2020 flagship season well underway, photography enthusiasts have a bunch of new cameras to choose from. Three of the best on the market right now are the Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus, Huawei P40 Pro, and the OnePlus 8 Pro. Priced around the $1,000 mark, these phones compete for the same premium crowd, aiming to win them over with the best photography package around.
While the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra and Huawei P40 Pro Plus might offer the very best in-class camera hardware on the market, I’m more interested in the capabilities of the more reasonably priced 2020 flagship. Plus, who really needs a 10x zoom anyway? Let’s dive in and see which can claim the photography crown.
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| Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus | Huawei P40 Pro | OnePlus 8 Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main camera | 12 megapixels 1/1.76-inch sensor f/1.8 aperture 1.8µm pixel size OIS, Dual Pixel AF | 50 megapixels (RYYB) 1/1.28-inch sensor f/1.9 aperture 2.44µm pixel size (binned) OIS, omnidirectional PDAF | 48 megapixels 1/1.4-inch sensor f/1.78 aperture 1.12µm pixel size OIS, Dual Pixel AF |
| Wide-angle camera | 12 megapixels f/2.2 aperture 1.4µm pixel size 120˚ field of view | 40MP megapixel f/1.8 aperture | 48 megapixel f/2.2 aperture PDAF 119.7° field of view |
| Zoom camera | 64 megapixels f/2.0 aperture 0.8µm pixel size OIS, PDAF 3x hybrid-optical telephoto zoom | 12 megapixels (RYYB) f/3.4 aperture OIS, PDAF 5x periscope zoom | 8 megapixel f/2.44 aperture 1.0µm pixel size OIS, PDAF 3x hybrid-optical telephoto camera |
| Fourth camera | VGA time-of-flight sensor | 3D time-of-flight sensor | 5 megapixel f/2.4 aperture Color filter camera |
The Galaxy S20 Plus, P40 Pro, and OnePlus 8 Pro sport the familiar and versatile main, wide-angle, and telephoto setup, providing a camera for virtually every shooting situation. Even so, there’s a large variation between the setups.
Huawei’s custom Super Spectrum RYYB (instead of RGGB) quad-bayer filter is a unique setup in the market, pushing for more light capture than the competition. Combined with the largest camera sensor in the industry and a wide aperture, Huawei’s main sensor should provide sharp images and excellent low light performance. It’s the setup to beat on paper, as Huawei’s P30 Pro and Mate 30 series offered great image quality. Super Spectrum technology now makes its way to the P40 Pro’s periscope zoom camera too, for better long range shots.
The OnePlus 8 Pro packs in its share of improvements, including a healthy sized Sony IMX689 main sensor that should handle low light better than last year’s IMX586 and the Galaxy S20 Plus’ smaller IMX555. Perhaps the oddest camera in this shootout is Samsung’s 64MP S5KGW2 sensor (aka the ISOCELL Bright GW1) used for the S20 Plus telephoto camera. The use of pixel binning enables larger pixels to improve low light performance, while offering more detail potential in bright light. We’ll just have to see if this setup works as well as Huawei’s periscope design.
All three phones boast quad-camera setups. Samsung and Huawei opt for a time-of-flight sensor, designed to improve bokeh accuracy and focusing. OnePlus bucks the trend with a color filter camera that offers a photochrom effect. I’ve already written about my thoughts on this dubious addition and won’t be covering it again in this shootout.
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