Huawei Mate 30 Pro camera review - Low-light king! - Android
Last year’s Mate 20 Pro was an incredible device for smartphone photography thanks to its three great rear camera sensors and powerful software. Thus the Mate 30 Pro had some big shoes to fill. With the competition focusing more and more on great camera systems, Huawei faced intense pressure to knock its flagship out of the park.
Has Huawei succeeded, has it made the Mate 30 Pro the best? Find out in Android Authority’s Huawei Mate 30 Pro camera review. (Our full review of the featured device is available here.)
Full-resolution camera samples are available via Google Drive.
Having three focal-lengths is standard in 2019, thanks to LG making it mainstream, but Huawei has made some interesting decisions that let the Mate 30 Pro stand out from the competition. Its 40MP main sensor isn’t the 12 nor 48 that we see from the current flagships, and even more interestingly the sensor size is far larger, too. The 1/1.7-inch sensor allows for more light to be captured, leading to increased low-light performance.
The 40MP 1/1.54-inch ultra-wide camera is a cut above the rest of the industry, right now — not only in the pixel-count but also the sensor-size. Typically, the main camera will have a bigger sensor than the other lenses on a given phone, but not this time. The ability to shoot UltraHD video at 60fps is also available on this ultra-wide lens, making it the most powerful in a phone thus far.
What made the Mate 20 Pro’s camera so appealing to me, personally, was its feature-rich camera app — packed with modes and settings, it satisfied my inner shutterbug. I didn’t like that it was covered in tacky textures, which made it look dated.
For the Mate 30 Pro, Huawei cleaned up the interface — tossing the dated design details and introducing a much cleaner look with simpler buttons and text.
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The mode carousel should be familiar to those coming from almost any other recent phone. Below the mode selector, you’ll find the shutter button front and center, flanked by the gallery preview to the left and camera-flip button on the right. Quick toggles and the settings button are on the top of the phone when the phone is in portrait orientation, with the zoom slider on the right-hand side.
The total number of shooting modes is staggering — 17 to be exact: aperture, night, portrait, photo, video, pro, slow-motion, panorama, monochrome, AR lens, light painting, HDR, time-lapse, moving picture, stickers, documents, and dual-view.
Performance in the app is fantastic, with super-smooth mode switching. We did notice a weird issue that happens when taking a picture and quickly switching to the gallery to view it. The phone displays a “Processing” message and sometimes it needs a few seconds to load the image. This may be a software issue and hopefully it’s going to be fixed by the time the device hits global markets.
There is a particularly useful feature that lets you use the waterfall display as a shutter button when taking selfies, just in case you were using the opposing hand. The problem is it’s pretty awkward to use in real-world scenarios since the phone is so slippery. It’s responsive, sure, but just unergonomic.
Master AI, which is Huawei’s scene-detection tool, is enabled by default. It adjusts colors and contrast based on the scene at hand. It works quite well, but can sometimes push the colors a bit too much in my opinion.
The Mate 30 Pro really shines in daylight. Its processing chops allows it to retain details across the entire image, even in bright light. Colors pop more for a far more fun image, overall.
Even the rescued shadows retain accurate color.
A great example of this is the photo of my yard (the first). The phone captured detail in the sky, with light clouds and cables, along with the markings on the wall, the neighbour’s door, and the bushes in the garden. Accurate colors span the image, even in shadows cast by the bright sky.
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