The reason for the different image results when using night mode is that you were focusing on a darker area of the scenery. When using night mode the AI will use the focused object/area as base for the intensity of the exposure optimization. You can easily try this at home and even during the day. Point the camera at your TV, activate night mode and focus on the black TV screen. The camera will try to perfectly expose the dark screen and the rest of the picture will become quite bright. Now take the same picture again also with night mode, but instead focus on the white wall behind your TV. The overall picture will look much darker. The same thing happened when you chose to focus on something "more contrasty" when using the night mode. Next time focus on a lighter area of the scenery and you'll not get an over exposed picture 😉

The problem with the most of us is...we could afford the phone but can’t afford that view. You really are lucky to have that amazing view.

3 picture with masterAI on really blows me away... Great job!

Loved this video. Real person, real test. Great narration, great voice. Natural and not acted. I very much enjoyed this review. Thank you. I learned a lot from this.

F number is the aperture value. The lower the number the best for low light. If you shot in a bright day the F number would be high, probably between f16 to f22. It's like your eye, in bright sunlight you squint, and in darkness your eyes open wider to gain more light. Nice review by the way, well done 👍

Even thu i dont have a knowledge on photography but in what you delivered from that photos is, very impressive... You just satisfied my mind on thinking what thus p30pro has to offer on us unknowledgeable on photography

Fabulous video. Have ordered this phone today. Excited to see the camera features.

when you use the night mode(auto), meaning you did not make any adjustments on the ISO and shutter speed, the phone will automatically calculate the shutter and ISO in order to produce a balanced photo. like lowering the highlights and bringing up the shadows. the moment you adjusted the shutter and ISO in Night mode, the AI algorithm does not kick in. hence you get a brighter photo but has blown out the highlights.

Very experimental and practical video! Great Job!

I want more photos at night time. Thanks for the great video.

Vevey, my hometown :) Are you taking the picture from the Mont Pélerin or Chardonne ?

Hi.. Nice info bro... R u aware of any ND filters or clip mounts that can be used on an Mate 20 Pro..?? Much appreciated..

You should not focus on the far background (hyper focal distance).

I'm in Croatia right now where I have an amazing view over the mountains and bright stars. Trying to make some nice shots on my P30 pro. They look pretty nice but they're still a bit noisy. Any tips to fix this?

I think I know what happened: The night mode captures multiple images and stiches them together to create a final image: that's what you're seeing when it's slowly getting brighter. If you put the shutter speed on 20 seconds it will capture multiple different (with different ISO and shutter speed) images for 20 seconds When using night mode on auto the phone will calculate the right ISO and shutter speed and use it's own algorithms to balance highlights and dark areas. When manually selecting night mode settings the phone will still capture the multiple images but wont use the smart algorithms for balancing the shot which will result in blown out areas. When using the pro mode the phone takes a "real" long exposure (which is why you can't see the progress while its taking the picture) resulting in a brighter image but with even more blown out parts.

Very good job! Well done!

could you please leave the drive link to raw images in description?

Can't wait the P90 Pro and Jupiter photos 3:)

I think in night mode you were supposed to make it focus on the city lights to balance it out

Hi there. Awesome video. Just need a little help..... I don't have the option to change the resolution from 40 to 10 (only ratio options such as 4.4 1.1 full screen) .. Have the exact phone.... Any ideas why? Thanks

Thank you for the amazing video! I would like to watch other videos like this, maybe if you can try with the ultra wide angle len (for landscape like that) and telephoto len (for the moon).

Sometimes I use the Huawei camera app's Light painting modes (e.i. Silky water) to get dark long exposure shots. With that, I get to choose when to stop the shutter.

I used this last night on my p30 pro NEW to test. WOW it was so dark and the picture looks as it was day.. lol no CLUE how useful that is but LOVE IT! That was just the 5 sec waiting.

On the second picture the camera took a broader range of shots each having different exposure levels and then stitched them together so you got a brighter picture normally this happens when the HDR is activated. F is the focus length. Also if you look at the histogram when looking at the metadata you can see where the light range has been gathered from. If the histogram is bunched up to the right or the left the camera sensor has only picked up light from low or high areas of the spectrum when you see it as a long curve from one end to the other the camera sensor has picked up not just the low or high tones, but it has also picked up the mid tones which gives you more of a complete picture. The aperture or focal length can be the same on different pictures as can the ISO but there are other factors that can increase the range of light the sensor gathers

really nice for a mobile phone

Great job👍👍👍

Photo mode + AI master + smooth, I think that will be the best low light photo. 👍💚

The 2 have same settings. But the night mode is AI process stack. So we recognize the kind of pictures and select the appropriate elements in pictures to stack. The manual. Is the natural rendering of shutter open

Huawei phones are the best for night photography.. Amazing what P30 Pro can do on auto mode ! I own p20 pro very happy with it, i will skip P30 Pro and get next year Huawei flagship :)

F means the Aperture. The main lens of the p30pro is f1.6

Amazing camera

A very gd experience sharing👍👍👍 any tripod recommended for smartphone? i usually taking photos when hiking, there are windy most of the time. Thanks for suggestions and looking forward to it.

8:10 the difference between the auto night mode pic and the manual is In The auto night mode the Shutter starts from a very low ISO to higher to 100 (like from Low to High) But as in manual you've selected the 100 ISO so the camera system will start the Shutter from taking 100-100 ISO from start to end As per my Thinking I can be different!!

The difference is that the night mode shot is computational where as the pro mode is shutter open for 20 seconds. Computational shot is multiple shots at varying exposure levels stitched together and the software tries to balance out the highlights, shadows and contrast.

hi for your question about the exposure, that’s because the exposure parameters of modern smartphones cameras are all simulated all “fake “. They use multi shot tragedy to improve IQ which is different from traditional digital camera

Thank you so much 👍🏻

I got my p30 pro can you teach me more about pro mode what iso and shutter speed is best for dark areas and for bright locations thanks need help

The reason why we see such different results accross all the different modes isn't because of the focus point as another user pointed out, as you were picking focus at roughly the same area. Instead, you should keep in mind that this technology can be used both with and without a tripod, so Huawei has made sure that you can still get impressive pseudo long exposure night shots by just holding the phone in your hands. That means that, while in night mode and using auto settings, the phone will cancel the motion that is caused by your hands shaking, while preserving that long exposure look but also reducing the overall brightness of the image. This is why you're also able to see the preview and the countdown, it's pretty much shooting a lot of pictures and combining them (doing so called photo stacking, as popularized by Google's HDR+ on Pixel phones). When you input manual settings in night mode, the countdown goes away and the phone works just like in manual mode when you have a tripod. If you had the phone in your hands, you would have seen that the image was shakier.

Good video :) keep up the good work!

I'd be interested to see how this compares to the new night modern on the Galaxy S10.

f1.6 is for the close up subject, to obtain a blurred background, for landscape usually use f8-12, that is why your images have not focused area blurred

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i am kinda late but I think that in the photo mode it takes 2 pictures and stacks them together to reduse noise. so it takes 2 12second exposures ,while in night mode it takes 1 24 second exposure

Woah, where are these mountains?

Interesting to see how the phone makers have used clever processing to get some very good results. Of course as photographer I would always be a camera user, but I can see for many people that this is plenty good enough or them. Perhaps not surprising how badly camera sales have fallen since phone makers have improved greatly their processing. Most phones I have used (and some cameras not all) bias exposure to the AF point so that explains the differences. Would I buy this? Probably not but for users who are into photos and want a small size then I can see they would mostly ignore a dedicated camera good enough is enough for most! I'd be fairly worried if I were a camera company!

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Very interesting video and it's something I noticed with my P30 Pro Seem to be some inconsistencies in the camera software which I'm sure will get updated. Heard there's a Beta release in China of updated software, so will see. Great informative video 👍🏻

Hi! I have a question. Can you switch between the lenses when on pro mode? Because the s10 cant... you can only use the 3 lenses on auto mode, which is a deal breaker for me, so im considering this phone. Thanks!!

For the different image result: a camera take pictures in raw format, the jpg is the edited picture. The camera edit a picture like you do it in lightroom or Photoshop, Kontrast, lighting, sharpening, colors, all this parameters will edit from camera in the raw file and save as jpg, if you use a different mode so the camera edit it different but it's from exif the same raw file, go pro mode and activate save as raw so you can edit by yourself

I have the normal P30 without Pro. Do you think I can shot the same quality with the mainsensor? I think thats the same sensor like P30 Pro.

What city is that?

Beauty

Hello plz take photo with moove object, or use only 1shot with short shatter speed like 1/30seconds and high ISO

I love p30

the night mode is using stacking method to increase the exposure. Just like HDR mode, when enable the night mode the camera actually take multi photo(frames) than the backend software using multiple frames of photo stacking to increase the details without over exposure. The exposure time show in the "info" of night mode photo is not the "real" time, is a total photo stacking exposure time. Hope you understand what I explain

F: 1.6 i think its about the native aperture of the camera y are using, main camera, or wide angle.

Come on the best one is the one with the night mode(auto), which has the best dynamic range and lighting balance(non blown away like the rest) but was out of focus. The one with auto mode and AI you said that is the best, it is only a lucky shot on focus but still burned the city lights.

mathphotographer hello, I would like to learn from you how to use well my Huawei p 30 pro to take pictures.

Very nice work... keep it up.. thanks for sharing..it

its not strange at all in the night mode. in auto you picked brighter point as a focus point and in the manual mode you picked much darker point so ai made a much brighter picture overall to brighten the dark focus point

If you have the correct information, you might understand, the difference between those two same metadata images with long exposure is just because, Huawei like many other phones relies on post processing and it plays a big role here. You get an enchanced image always and not the exact as in the exposure data. Which obviously you get with a normal camera.

Can you still use wide angle lens or telephoto lens while using night or pro mode? Thanks

If you could see at your 2nd picture, the 10mp with the AI mode on, the city in the foreground is blown by the lights, but with your 3rd picture, the night mode it settles that light to a natural(ish) view. And idk what you said when viewing the 3rd photo (the night mode) telling us that it is worse than the 2nd photo without even processing the picture.

can you do this again to Xperia 5V pls?

Good morning, thank you. i have a Huawei p30 pro but I don't know how to take pictures at night because it's always dark.

I think the normal mode bump up the iso but the night mode make the exposure longer

I am unable to getting Zoom with front camera...

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Gutes video ;)

Could you do moon shots using the telephoto? And milky way or star trail shots? I'm planning on getting the p30 pro for this

So I just took photos of tonight's blue moon. Anything above 5x zoom has no raw file setting. So I had to settle for jpgs. It takes great photos of the moon nonetheless. Will tell you more once I inspect the jpegs.

F is the aperture the amount of light let in

Very nice 👌

F is for F-stop, photgraphy terminology. See F-number in Wikipedia. It is the aperture.

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esses vídeos que informam sobre o p30 pro da Huawei estão sendo censurados e aparece a frase "vídeo indisponível"... tenho que ficar clicando várias vezes para conseguir assistir

The software is the reason for all the results I too observed the different results with the same iso and shutter time. But I did that in a honor device.

Anyone have here can give link to a video about how to vlog using a phone in a best way like cinematic? please? Too much to ask?

hi, please increase the ISO to 800 or 1600 and take the Shutter Speed to 4 or 8 seconds on night mode. keep playing with it also with Pro mode. you gonna love it more than you do it now. P20 pro user from Switzerland (german part)

Have you tried to shot in RAW mode?

thanks

I think the difference is in software rendering. Same metadata but different settings for ai computation in each mode.

I Spend a lot of time in my garden. So I need as true a color as possible. So. What's the best phone for me please?

I want to see the results of the maximum iso from this camera, can it be ISO 409k ?

Delicious 👌🏼

Auto night mode will increase the dynamic range & Control the Exposure. Manually tuned night mode will not control the exposure. As a normal photo with same meta will not match the quality of a hdr photo with same meta values.

Great video, but could you make the focus on the city next time?

Wow

Thumbs-up 👍

Try with lighting painting star track wait for 4 sec

more p30 experiments pleaseee

That photo is dope reminds of the Lord of the Rings Scene

Try testing f11 pro please

I actually like the normal photo better than night mode. If it's night time it shouldn't look like day. Just want to be able to see details in darker areas instead of pitch black.

night mode combine multiple exposures photo. using AI mode : the city is overexposed night mode : thr city is well exposed

Put the 40 megapixels back to get as many details as possible then use the night mode

Now Oppo Reno3 Pro has this feature too👍

wow. less noise. nice o.o

I guess f1.6 stand for aperture value. As main sensor is exactly 1.6. could be coincidentally something else with the same value but most likely it is aperture

The photo is bright becouse you focus it in darker area and the software try to bright that part all parts of the photo become bright