Ryan Amor

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Huawei is 'able to make splendid things'...

The front-facing camera shoots at up to 32MP with a 4:3 aspect ratio, although this drops down to 20MP if you want full-screen images. You can set it to shoot when the subject smiles, and to shoot when you tell it to -- handy if you want to run around and be in shot, and don't want to use the self-timer.

The main Leica Quad Camera array will shoot up to 40-megapixel images, although the default is 10MP. The quad array consists of: a 40MP sensor with an f/1.6 wide-angle lens and optical image stabilisation (OIS); a 20MP sensor with an f/2.2 ultra-wide-angle lens; an 8MP sensor with a 'periscope' f/3.4 lens, 5x optical zoom and OIS; and a time-of-flight (ToF) camera that delivers the information needed for depth-blurring effects.

Huawei has taken a novel approach to capturing colour information with the 40MP sensor, replacing the standard RGGB (red, green, green, blue) array with a RYYB (red, yellow, yellow blue) setup. The idea is that yellow allows more detail to be captured, resulting in higher-quality images -- especially in low light. The maximum ISO rating is now a massive 409600, compared to 102400 for the previous-generation P20 Pro (https://www.zdnet.com/product/huawei-p30-pro/)

Translated, Huawei according to Wikipedia means ‘splendid act’. It can also mean ‘China is able’. So let me mash those together and say that Huawei is really ‘able to make splendid things’ like perhaps the most spectacular camera-phone ever made yet. Let’s face it- phones are now cameras in which we all communicate in visual short-hand via emojis, Instagram, Snapchat. I have always been after the perfect image, the most compelling shot and in in lieu of the written word, I take photos instead.

And so now, I carry two phones with me which is kinda stupid isn’t it?