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Great video! A wonderful illustration of the photographic capabilities of the modern phones, but also an illustration of the fact that a true photographer can create a masterpiece with a pinhole camera. There is a hidden gem in the huawei camera app. One that I am sure you would be blown away by. Silky water filter, its essentially a long exposure without nd filters while keeping the exposure from blowing up. Give it a try, and if you like it - share with us, I'd love to see what you can do with it.

I’m very impressed with the P40Pro camera performance also, they have squeezed a lot of performance from a smaller sensor.

This grey color is so pretty and elegant

Have had the P20 Pro for nearly 2 years and been fairly happy with it. Just wished the Pro mode setting allowed the zoom function to work but other than that been solid and battery life especially has been great

I only sold my Nokia Lumia 1020 last year. The 40MP DNG files from that were amazing. Unfortunately the processor was so slow that it took an age to take shot. Some of my favourite photos were taken with it though.

You have to try the Silky Water mode under Light Painting. It lets you shoot long exposure jpg images at day without using any filters, and the results are great. You need to mount the phone on a tripod though.

Lot of haters on here for the Huawei. I have the P30 and the main benefit is that it is always on me, so I always have a camera. I do struggle with some of the modes, but the AI is amazing. OOH I have a Fuji XT-2 and an Intrepid 4x5 both of which I used today. The P30 also acts like viewfinder, exposure meter, DOF calculator, Shoot planner, route planner too for my other cameras. So it is something of a photographic Swiss Army knife.

Pretty much agree with most of what you say. Previous user of P20P, M20P and nowadays P30P. What I do not agree with is obsolence of RAW. Albeit 50MPix is not really 50MPix of dataworth - it is a QBayer sensor so one has to be very carefull when processing the DNG (artifacts). For most situations 12MBit file have plenty of detail, however for high demands (I am retired PRO photog) you cannot beat the DNG just because of rendering (sometimes digi-look, sometimes watercoloring in smooth areas, sometimes oversharpening etc. Whatever HUA and the rest done so far, the rendering, smoothness of transitions between detail and out of focus areas and quality of Denoising (meant areas with details vs areas without details especially transitions) is just not there. And DNG (to an extent even 50MPix JPG) can eliminate this. Obviously you have to use as best as possible tools for managing this as there is no AI help. Nevertheless until going beyond 800ISO the quality of output (using Topaz AI Denoise and Topaz AI sharpen) is so good that my 20MPix mirrorless is having a hard time to beat it. This is not gonna happen with OOC JPG. Well being so demanding - you might say- use real camera - but no, I cannot take my Panny mirrorless everywhere unlike phone - precisely as you said. What holds me back with this camera is lack of Google services and lack of true macro as with P30P. Because 20MPix macros or closeups frome let´s say 10cms and using DNG are truly amazing. The same has to be said about 125mm lens when used in DNG mode - outstanding - no match for OOC JPG. But - although you have OIS here and there depending on mode you use - you do not have it in PRO mode (P30P) and that sucks. Is it different with P40P? You have something like EOIS but that takes time to take a shot and you can easily miss the moment. And that is another problem - as HUA cameras can take 6FPs with a buffer of around 100 pictures - and is something very important when you try shooting action. To cut the story - I am still tempted by this phone and had it Google Services I will probably switch immediately - until then P30P does as good for my needs and in autumn there will be M30P with new fluid lenses tech - so maybe wait is my best bet so far.

Mobile phone photography has come a long way. One of my favourite images which I actually framed and hung in my living room was shot from a Samsung Galaxy S8+. It is as you say it...it absolutely stunin'.

Really impressive that this phones beats the Samsung S20 Ultra that costs around 400 euros more (shows that the 108 megapixel is just a number and the the P40 Pro takes better pictures with 50 megapixels), so happy I bought it, no problem with apps, just get alternative apps and use shortcuts to websites :)

For me whatever the developers will make for the smartphones, the smell of the leather of my 10 years old camera will still the best 😁

His videos are always top notch in quality

Wait, this isn't LinusTechTips! The beard fooled me!

I purchased the P30 pro after a fellow photographer friend showed me some of the images he had taken with it. Superb! My Sony RX 100 series cameras now see little use as the p30 pro is of course always with me.

I watched this video a few weeks ago before I bought my P40 Pro (which arrived a few days ago) and I wish I had paid more attention of your dismissal of the raw files around 8:00, and in particular, your attempt to get rid of the green tint around 8:14 where you wiggled the mouse pointer around the tint slider, which was already maxed out at the magenta side. I now understand that wiggle of frustration a little more. I feel that if this video wasn't promoted by Huawei then you would have mentioned that all the raw files have a green tint. The camera uses a RYYB sensor, instead of RGB and essentially has twice the amount of "green" pixels (captured as yellow), which (I assume) is the reason all the raw files have a massive green tint to them. I feel that you definitely glossed over the fact that the raw files are essentially unusable, although you did slightly kind of lean that way. I think it's a bit devious for Huawei to claim that the phone will shoot 50MP raw files, but they don't tell you that they are basically a gimmick. Maybe Lightroom, in the future, will put out a better profile for this phone, or maybe increase the range of their tint slider, or something, but at the moment raw files are useless. Still, the phone does shoot great jpegs, but I did feel a little bit hard done by when I opened all my lovely raw files in Lightroom only to find they were useless, and that nowhere in any of the reviews I watched was it mentioned. Reviewers generally just say "it shoots raw" but never bother to give any more info than that.

Got the P40 Pro myself, upgraded from the P30 Pro and certainly have not looked back ! Thanks for your insight to the camera btw..

I am using the Huawei P30 Pro now for half a year. The image quality is also fantastic especially in low light situations. The funny thing is that I come to the same conclusion for the Pro Mode. After testing the Raw mode and comparing it to the jpeg, I thought I don't need the Pro Mode. Also the filter function - smooth water etc) produces good results. The phone doesn't replace my mirrorless but in fact it will replace my RX100.

As impressed as I am with newer smartphone cameras, I'd still go for a point n shoot if I was worried about zooming. My 8 year old point n shoot still works when I get nostalgic....which isn't very often. My iPhone camera gets used almost daily for reference pics. Awesome image.

Good moment with your super video! Huawei the best 💪

Been using H P40 Pro for 2 years great quality esp the monochrome. Its a great small camera with a cell phone. Thinking about upgrading to H P50 Pro

Infrared focus assist has been used on Canon cameras since long time ago. And I believe other DSLR brands use the same technique as well.

I stopped taking photos for 10 years. I got fed up of lugging heavy cameras around. When I picked up an iPhone 3GS it was like a door had been opened and exciting sky had leapt in. It was pure joy to use and gave me new life and appreciation. Sadly the app that I found for the phone at the time is no longer available but there’s always the likes of Snapseed. If I ever am stuck in a rut and need a boost I always turn to a smartphone.

Wow! Thomas that beach photo beautiful. I must say you live in a beautiful area and thank you so so much for still producing quality content, it's very much appreciated. Can't wait to see another classic camper van adventure. Hope you and the wife are well and keep safe.

If i'm not wrong, normally there's night mode in these phones, you should try it out with a small tripod or something, will give a different photo experiences.

The video that I was looking for!!! Thanks for sharing

Nice to see you out with Monty. It would only be my tool of choice in a pinch. Probably fine for social media and scouting. Thanks for the bonus upload. Stay safe! Rock on!

Seriously, I've been repeating that opening throw for too many times now. Holy moly!

Glad to see 'beautified' Thomas Heaton btw...

Phone photo quality now a day is absolutely stunning and you don’t need shoot raw at all as the jpeg are already beautiful . Phones have much more versatility than cameras and most of the time you can’t see much difference especially if photos are just for social media purposes. I want see phones technology where will arrive on the next couple of years

It's the same b.s. with photo scanners claiming to have 6.400 dpi or more - while in reality there's no more detail to be found beyond 1900-2000 dpi. But with interpolation they blow up the image and give inflated numbers.

I use a P30 Pro and the only time I ever use it over the Lumix G9 is when I don't have my Lumix. That's the only reason to use it.

Ive been a fan of Huawei phones for a long time because of the cameras. I have the P20 Pro now and am itching to get my hands on the P40 p[to upgrade asap.

that is an impressive phone when i got my Samsung S10 i was amazed

Thanks for the timely video Thomas, I too was wondering just how good these phones are. Earlier this week I pulled the trigger on a Realme 6, a 64mp wide angle & an 8mp ultra wide angle. Delivery is promised next week. Now I've seen your cracking images I can't wait to give it a go!

Yes! Photography i can finally do...oh wait....still too expensive..

Thomas Heaton, you can also see from the infrared camera with an app called Night Vision by Lubos Vonasek. Works with my P30 Pro, terrible resolution but cool to see what the lens can see, also fun as it's true night vision.

New subscriber here from the Philippines. Keep up the good work! 🙂

Just wondering if you might use this as your vlogging camera too when out on your adventures....just thinking that in selfie mode, you’d have a large screen to help frame yourself & the background that you’re going to shoot I have had little interest in mobile phones, I have an emergency pay as you go one, that was given to me by a friend around 2013, and it was his wife’s cast-off three or so cameras before her latest, so I don’t know where that puts it, maybe 2008 ish?

Tom, did you try processing the RAW file as usual and then downsizing to 12MP yourself to compare to the camera generated jpeg?

Since my Ultra burnt itself up from the inside out, I'm considering the P40 pro+ with the larger Telephoto lens

This was the most honest and sincere video about latest mobile phone cameras...Wonderful, smooth and relax speaking...Thank you so much...

99.9 percent I shoot pictures in pro mode end in RAW with my phone.

huawei and xiaomi are the best

8:10 The sensor has a different color filter, which leads to much less detail than Bayer sensors. They need to rearrange ("remosaic") the pixels artificially in order to get the Bayer array. This also leads to a lot of artifacts. Fuji's X-trans has a similar issue (Lightroom and Adobe's dng converter rearrange X-trans pixels artificially as far as I know). In Huawei's pixel binning mode the pixels don't need to be rearranged.

Useful information and of course amazing photos! Thank you for the video Thomas. You too stay safe.

Have Huawei mate 20 X love it since I have it, never change back to my iPhone XS and galaxy note 9

Also für mich hat Huawei einfach die Beste Kamera der Welt👌🏼 ich freue mich auch schon Tierisch auf das Mate 40 Pro❤️❤️❤️

Thank you for fixing the horizon it was driving me nuts right from the beginning :D

All the negative comments miss the point that the ‘AI’ and processing power in smartphones needs to be incorporated into cameras. Tony Northrup has made exactly the same observation. Serious photographers get very defensive when it comes to smartphone cameras but they have replaced cameras for the majority of people. Not to mention 4K video, how many KZfaq videos are shot on smartphones ?

beast of a camera

Mop!! I've got the P20 Pro and dig it. Don't use the camera often but I love the phone.

A Friday night video cup of tea time 👍

I pressed the subscribe button because I always have this idea that a printed image will always be better than images shown in any screen. You seem to look underwhelmed with the quality of the printed image so it made me rethink about the notion that "dedicated cameras like DSLR and Mirrorless cameras are nearing its end because of these advancements in mobile phone photography."

Wasn't expecting to see my hometown on a review for the Huawei P40 Pro's camera. Definitely gave me a better idea and perspective of what it's capable of using familiar sights

The 50 megapixels aren’t true size megapixels like dslr megapixels, yes there’re 50 megapixels, but they’re crammed in microscopic photosites, which is how they get away with marketing bs to make you think that it takes photos like a 50 megapixel dslr

Awesome camera work here in all You just pop that beast out of pocket

I am so happy you printed it to give your final verdict! Now I am going to listen to Driftwood by Travis since you mentioned that word🙂

I can't wait for the huawei Mate40, which will be my next phone

beast.... huawei is the best... i bought mine 760 euros... looking to buy the plus

Literally DSLRs had the IR focusing beam but then mirrorless came along and that was no longer needed. It's old tech, but re used in something that needs it more than ever having lesser low light capabilities than a full fledged camera.

Times are tough, i undersand.

Thanks. Sub here. Just bought it today with damaged glass not display ... Thou camera & display no damages ... Mint ones were too much $

Oh, this channel also turned into infomercials, times are hard!

I would love to see you try astrophotography with this phone !

I have the p30pro and I get amazed everytime over the nightmode. As a m43 shooter, there are times where it falls short or where for whatever reason Im forced to leave the tripod home. A few times, to my great suprise, the H-p30pro really shined and I could still document night events without the tripod... As you say, it doesnt substitute dsrl/mirrorless but it surely is a complement..

No way. This phone, REALLY, can produced such quality? Your review wow me, bro. My 11 Pro Max can't match this phone. Plz, do, do the video review as well. Great review. I may get this phone, bro.

I loved this video 🥰🥰 and I love HUAWEI

Last December I participated in a review of the latest Huawei camera. Several of us crowded onto the 52nd floor of the Shard at sunset with our dslrs to play with, (whilst enjoying cocktails and canapes). Then they gave us all the new phones and let us go to town (they did lower the interior lights for us). Honestly, as I had no tripod, my night shots were not as good on my dslr as they were on the Huawei.

Lol, Huawei phones from China are so popular, and impressive and powerful when you are not really going out to take pictures. They really create unexpected images. When I first used P40 Pro camera during a hiking, I was not planning to take any picture of course, the moment I saw what it gave me I was totally shocked!!! Happy to see you use it doing landscape photography. generally it’s powerful enough for people who don’t usually use a camera. The truth is however the quality can not compare with camera photos’

Great video Tom! After all the videos I've done about the S20 Ultra, I've gotten 1000s of comments and requests to do that phone, but since I don't have one, I can now defer them to this video! 😄 Also, I'm glad you have a nice beach area to get out and unwind a bit. Cheers from New Mexico!

If you’re going to do a paid commercial, you should probably tag it as such. This honestly felt like one long advert. I know you’ve got bills to pay, but this is the least sincere I’ve seen you and it made me a little bit sad. If I’m wrong then I apologise, but you just didn’t come across as genuine. 😔

I'm sure these will be the end of compacts, especially if given for free like Tom's 😉

Phones have gone a long way, thanks partly to computational photography. That phone takes HDR images most of the time to preserve the dynamic range of the scene. The HDR setting just forces it to run all the time and does it more aggressively. Night mode is not a long exposure; it's many short exposures stacked in software... that's how it prevents the image from blurring. I can't wait for the processing technology to make its way to dedicated cameras.

Huawei 🔥🔥😍

Carefull, the Chinese government now knows what you had for breakfast via your Huawei. ;)

You haven’t tried 50 megapixel jpg file! Just turn of the raw and turn on the 50mp option..you will love it! Big size file!

jesus why you throw the phone like that aaaaaa

Evil Huawei gets Thomas with flattery!

Nice to see St. Mary's again!

I shot the supermoon like two days ago with my P30 Pro. It's insane what these puppies can do. I haven't used my Panasonic LX100 premium compact since the P20 Pro. Can't wait to upgrade to the P40 Pro+ in due time.

Awesome review!

I own a RealMe 5Pro, which has four back cameras including a 48MP one, with lots of additional options (macro, telephoto, wide etc). It produces very nice images during the day, but has a mediocre performance during low light. It is not a substitute for my DSLR, just an additional option whenever I don't have my camera with me or when I want to share an image fast I don't think that phones will ever take over professional cameras mainly because not everyone has the interest in photography and all the fine work that comes with it.

I have a P30 Pro and find that the sky breaks down too easily with any exposure editing. Otherwise great.

On the point and shoot front, trying out a Ricoh GR-3 or a Fuji X100 series for landscape work would be interesting to see. Definitely light enough to make a difference in your camera bag, plus a truly superb lens.

Does it blur the foreground as well as the background? That’s what a real DSLR does in high aperture.

Wasn't Huawei that where caught using a canon camera for there promo photos and then passing them on as being taken from there phone?

by the way u could use the IR blaster on your phone to activate and control your DSLR!

Did you try shooting people? For shooting people, which is a better choice between shooting with protriat mode or photo mode on p40 pro? Are there any differences?

could you tell me which is the model of the printer ?

never say never!

great channel, has a cool vibe

Very good review thx

Love your photography, especially when you were in Iceland. The photo of the ice was brilliant. I live in Gran Canaria and in the north there are some great places for photography. I have used your name in my email to your recommended printer DigiLab I think it was. I take your point on printing costs. I have a Canon 500D with various lenses. Once is a 200-500 Tamron lens which is very good but too heavy for my tripod. If you can recommend any around 100GBP which could also house an attachment for a Huawei P40 Pro mobile (saves carrying around two tripods) Thanks and I wish you well. Be good if you could flach your ISA, aperture and other settings on your vids on your highlighted photos. Bye

Great review

Sometimes the photo you want to take isn’t the photo your phone camera wants to take. Phone cameras have come a long way, however, I cant see how they can get around the advantages large sensors and glass lenses offer.

New subscriber cause of this video!🙂

The Lg G6 has laser guided focusing as well. Its awesome

You looked pretty underwhelmed by the print at the end

00:40 It's fifty mega "pickels".