"Leica to re-invent smartphone photography" with Huawei!

[Pioneer]

Photography is all about the image, but for too many people it is all about the tool that was used to create the image.

Of course this attitude is definitely not new. It has been going on for a very long time.

The miracle of photography is very much alive and well around the world.

 

[raid]

I got 2 days ago an iphone 8 plus. It has a 28mm lens as the standard lens, plus a 56mm lens ("portrait") for 12MP images. Just awesome.

 

[james.liam]

I got 2 days ago an iphone 8 plus. It has a 28mm lens as the standard lens, plus a 56mm lens ("portrait") for 12MP images. Just awesome.

Have had the iPhone X for 2 weeks; by far the best phone camera I've ever used; has optical stabilization of the long lens as well as the short.

As for Huawei, I have intentionally shied away from their items ever since serious security concerns arose about their devices back in 2012. IIRC, Google phones were/are made by them. I'll take a pass no matter who designed the optics. No disrespect to our blog friends from Red China. (Yes, I know the iPhone is made in the People's "Republic")

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...-national-security-cyber-surveillance-hacking

 

[v0sh]

We all love cats! Please show us your pics!!!

Here's a quick snap of one of my other pets. I have to admit I did not put much effort in neither the making of the shot, nor the PP. Most PP was done with the apps that came with the phone, only resize was done in PS.

 

[kuuan]

Here's a quick snap of one of my other pets...

this looks good! what's the name of your model?

IQ of my portrait, besides the catching effect of the shallow dof, isn't all that good: many artifacts, over contrasty, over saturation

here a test shot done during day and low ISO


first daytime / low ISO test shot with Huawei Nova 2i by andreas, on Flickr

in comparison, Voigtlaender Super Wide Heliar f4.5/15mm on Ricoh GXR M ( the handphone sample is out of "phone" without any PPing, the GXR photo I had taken on another day as RAW had been edited, if I remember right mostly upping lows and downing highlights )


Untitled by andreas, on Flickr

 

[v0sh]

this looks good! what's the name of your model?

thanks. It's the P9.

 

[raid]

phone images may require some apps to improve the final results.

 

[BillBingham2]

You are both partly correct. It has two rotary dials, one for slow calls and one for regular calls. However there are only a limited number of numbers you can dial, plus something called B, which I think is for operator connection.

It works as a prepaid, in that you have to pre-load credit cassettes called "film" before you can make a call. The magneto-thingy charges the phone with the next credit. For some reason calls to most numbers last only a fraction of a second.

My guess is that would make the Kodak Stereo Realist the Party Line camera?

B2 (;->

 

[kuuan]

phone images may require some apps to improve the final results.

I upped the lows a bit

IMG_20171128_160842.lr by kuuan's lens tests, on Flickr

the "bokeh" function well could use an app for better control. look e.g at the half sharp / half blurred face ( left behind "main face" ) in the first sample,
and at the fan to the right on the second ( as it is at has negative effect on the state of my stomack 😉 of course there may be controls that help that I have not yet found / investigated! )


IMG_20171125_192544 by kuuan's lens tests, on Flickr


IMG_20171125_192551by kuuan's lens tests, on Flickr

 

[valdas]

the "bokeh" function well could use an app for better control. look e.g at the half sharp / half blurred face ( left behind "main face" ) in the first sample,
and at the fan to the right on the second ( as it is at has negative effect on the state of my stomack 😉 of course there may be controls that help that I have not yet found / investigated! )

yeah, that "selective focus" seems to be all over the place 🙂

 

[kuuan]

yeah, that "selective focus" seems to be all over the place 🙂

Right! outcome often a bit weird, a bit towards the grotesque but also often with its own appeal.
A 35mm camera + lens combination hardly could create such narrow dof at this angle of view, it's 25mm equivalent and one can choose f0.95, the samples below are set at f1.4
the biggest boon of using a handphone that I had hoped for so far has been proving right, people react much more relaxed towards a handphone than towards a dedicated camera, even if I get much closer with it.

All three are cropped, quite obvious #1 and 2 with the handphone, #3 with M-Rokkor f2/40mm wide open on Sony A7


Untitled by andreas, on Flickr


Untitled by andreas, on Flickr


Untitled by andreas, on Flickr

Out of phone jpegs in "normal" mode with low ISO result in very (over) contrasty and saturated photos with impressive sharpness and dynamic range


Untitled by andreas, on Flickr


Untitled by andreas, on Flickr

May try to show later edited samples using RAW, otherwise I shouldn't bother you with too much with these here (unless anyone requests, e.g. a more controlled comparison at 24/25mm equiv.)

for anyone interested in the handphone pics please see the dedicated "flickr album": https://www.flickr.com/photos/kuuan/albums/72157681339638803