In 2019, the debut of Huawei’s P30 series set off a storm in the field of smartphone photography. The war between the flagship mobile phones also shifted from the performance battlefield to the photography battlefield. The Huawei P30 Pro is undoubtedly a recognized defending player in this field.

Huawei P30 Pro has a lot of challenges, in addition to the Android camp’s several major emperors, and of course, the annual iPhone sent a gauntlet. Last year’s iPhone XS Max did not lose the personality of the Android camp in the field of photography. The more powerful image configuration, combined with intelligent HDR technology, also showed the top image level of the Apple camp.

Then, when the Huawei P30 Pro meets the iPhone XS Max, the other side is the Android video machine emperor, the other side of the iOS camp is the strongest player, what kind of collision will happen between them?

The Huawei P30 Pro is compared to the iPhone XS Max and is asymmetrical war from the beginning. Since the former has a super wide-angle lens and a 5x optical zoom lens, it is clear that the iPhone XS Max is at a disadvantage. To compare in the same dimension, the first is the area where the two are not much different: portrait photography.

In the process of portrait photography, since the main body of the sample is a character, the hardware level of the main camera is tested. At the same time, the portrait mode used in portrait photography needs to blur the characters, and the blur effect is also the embodiment of the excellent mobile phone algorithm. To test the perfection of software and hardware, you don’t have to use a very complicated way to use for portrait photography.

Front: Clear portrait photography, who is amazing

First, we saw the basic parameters. The Huawei P30 Pro front camera uses a 32-megapixel Quad Bayer image sensor, F/2.0 maximum aperture, and supports real-time HDR. The iPhone XS Max features a 7-megapixel camera with F/2.2 aperture, support for a structured depth of field, and smart HDR photos.

Huawei P30 Pro is the first to adopt the industry’s top 32-megapixel front-facing camera, providing clear front-end performance compared to the past several times. It can be clearly seen from the sample, the picture details are quite rich, and the AI ​​smart beauty retains the girl lipstick very well. The original color, the real shot is the performance.

The iPhone’s front camera is one of the girls’ slots, and the reputation of the iPhone’s front-end black is thus available. On the iPhone XS Max, although the front camera is still at 7 Megapixels, the image quality has been greatly improved.

Zooming into the details, each hair is clearly visible under the restoration of the Huawei P30 Pro front camera. Whether it is a user who likes to take a selfie or prefer a late beauty, the higher definition means more room for operation.

iPhone XS Max color saturation is more pleasing, and the skin color is reddened. Although the resolution is somewhat deficient compared to the P30 Pro, it is acceptable to not zoom in to the original image. Under the intelligent HDR blessing, picture tolerance has been significantly improved, but it is not difficult to find that there is a lot of noise in the dark details.

Come to the backlit scene, the smart HDR function of the iPhone XS Max is here to play. However, after comparing the AI ​​HDR of Huawei P30 Pro, we found that there are still many gaps between them.

On the iPhone XS Max, the backlighting environment activated the opening of Smart HDR, but the effect was not very good. Although the facial details of the girl were retained, there was serious smearing and noise in the hair detail. The edge resolution has also been greatly reduced as if it were a self-portrait of the mobile phone a few years ago.

On the other hand, the Huawei P30 Pro successfully preserved all the details of the darkness under the backlight: the hair facial details and so on are restored quite clearly. The AI ​​HDR function reduces the highlights of the backlight background, such as the background details of the iPhone’s self-timer being completely overexposed, and the Huawei P30 Pro can be restored.

In addition, the self-timer function is also superior to Huawei’s P30 Pro. It supports real-time skincare, face-lifting, skin tone adjustment, and other functions. It can also complete the beauty operation while taking a selfie. The iPhone XS Max is very scarce, which means that you have to open a variety of beauty applications.

However, the front of the iPhone XS Max is not completely useless. With the Face ID depth of field function, the iPhone can restore a very realistic depth of field photo with a single front camera.

In the battle of self-timer, in the face of iPhone XS Max’s powerful depth-of-field sensor and intelligent HDR, Huawei’s P30 Pro is slightly better with 32-megapixel front-end and AI HDR. After all, clarity is the first criterion for self-timer.

In the past, the old Master portrait photography had to carry a lot of equipment. Now, the old Masters use a mobile phone to basically solve various shooting needs from flowers and plants to portraits. The iPhone camp portrait mode has been polished for generations. So, in the face of the Huawei P30 Pro with the German-style training, can the iPhone XS Max be free?

In terms of the main camera, the Huawei P30 Pro is equipped with a 1/1.7-inch 40-megapixel lens, upgraded to the RYYB Quad Bayer array, which increases the amount of light by 40% and offers a higher ISO option. In addition, the Huawei P30 Pro main camera is also equipped with F/1.6 large aperture and OIS optical image stabilization to improve the image quality in low light.

The iPhone XS Max continues to use a dual 12-megapixel dual-camera combination with a primary and secondary aperture of f/1.8 and f/2.4, and a single pixel area upgraded to 1.4μm, which also improves low-light shooting quality. Seeing the actual photo proofs, in the outdoor light environment, you can see that both models perform very well.

The contrast will find that the iPhone XS Max is more saturated, the color is more pleasing to the eye, but it also causes the skin to be reddish, which is in line with Apple’s long-standing imaging style. Huawei P30 Pro color is more natural, and the skin color is more white. There are two different styles, and different people may have different preferences.

In terms of details, it is undoubtedly Huawei’s P30 Pro’s resolving power is even better. Under the default output of 10 Megapixels, the parsing performance is even better than the iPhone XS Max’s 12 Megapixels, and the hair details are clearly visible. Thanks to the Huawei P30 Pro rear ToF depth-of-field lens, the portrait mode is more accurate in grasping the depth of field, and the edges of the hair are not blurred, presenting a more natural and realistic look.

In the scene of the backlight portrait, the resolution of the iPhone XS Max further decreases as the light dims, and the depth of field effect achieved by binocular vision also begins to appear. For example, the railing is not properly blurred, and the characters and scenes cannot be effectively separated.

This complex light scene is also an opportunity for the P30 Pro’s rear ToF depth-of-field lens. From the actual proof performance, the P30 Pro’s depth of field processing is quite excellent, successfully separating the foreground portrait and background parts, so the picture is more textured. It also looks more like a photo taken by a professional device.

With the more accurate ToF depth of field camera, the advantages of Huawei P30 Pro in the rear portrait are the undoubtedly overwhelming, correct and true depth of field performance, especially useful for shooting girls to create a picture texture.

Let’s set the environment to be more demanding: In the ultra-low light environment, can the Huawei P30 Pro show its advantages?

Switching to a very low-light indoor scene, I first saw that the iPhone XS Max performance has surpassed most mobile phones, and the rendered image is brighter than the naked eye (the actual light is very dim), and the details of the girl and the background can be correctly restored. In such a low-light scene, the iPhone XS Max upgraded 1.4μm sensor and OIS optical anti-shake have been used for a lot of purposes.

The performance of Huawei P30 Pro is even more surprising. Not only does it restore higher brightness than the naked eye, but even the details that are shaded in the iPhone proofs are presented together, and the picture is less noisy, meaning that at night, you can also use the P30 Pro to produce outstanding portraits. Samples, ignoring lighting conditions.

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Conclusion

From the actual proofs comparison is not difficult to find, today’s strongest iPhone and the strongest Android comparison, at least in the photo has been falling. With its powerful imaging hardware and superior software optimization, Huawei P30 Pro has finally achieved a “all-weather portrait artifact”. The iPhone XS Max performance is quite good, but the opponent is too strong, leaving a lot of still Space to catch up.