Huawei P40 Pro CAMERA Walkthrough! (+ Hidden Modes!) | The Tech Chap By The Tech Chap

Hey guys I'm Tampa Tech Japanese, probably heard that the camera on the Huawei p40 Pro is very, very good. I've done a bunch of camera comparisons and I would generally say that people who Pro has the best way camera for photography of any smartphone right now, and it's not just me, it even got the highest score on DXO mark at 128. So when we got in touch and asked if I wanted to make a video of my experience using the camera so far, I thought it could be fun and I particularly want to focus on the photography elements and to be clear. Every photo and video that I'm going to show you in this video I've taken on this phone. No filters, no edits and, as always all opinions are my own. So we get four lenses: a 50, megapixel, F, 1.9, main lens 40 megapixels, F, 1.8, ultra-wide 12, megapixel, F, 3.4, telephoto lens and the time-of-flight 3d lens for depth sensing and between the three main lenses. You can go from 0.7 times zoom, with the ultra-wide up to 5 times optical zoom 10 times hybrid. And then you can pinch in all the way up to 50 times, digital zoom, but, as you guys know, it's not all about megapixels, so the p40 pro also packs in a brand new one over one point: two eight inch sensor, always our BYB technology instead of a usual RGB and it uses pixel binning to combine four pixels into one which all works together to give us brighter sharper and better looking photos.

For me, at least a big part of having a good camera on my phone is that I can just whip it out, as they say and point and shoot and take a good photo without you know, grabbing my DSLR and making a whole meal of it, and the truth is with the p40 pro. It is just as simple as opening the camera app and tapping the shutter button. The cameras master AI, automatically optimizes the settings based on scene and object, recognition, blue skies, greenery flowers, pets, stage, performances text, even portraits, so you don't have to jump between different modes if it detects the face, it'll switch automatically. So you get that nice bouquet blur now to be fair. A lot of this isn't new, but Huawei keeps improving the AI and together with a new camera hardware, it means that p40 pro is one of the best point-and-shoots you can buy.

You can, of course, turn master AI off if you prefer just tap a little icon in the camera app, and it turns off anyway, if you switch to the moving picture mode which you need to have on for a couple of features. I'll come back to in a second and, of course it's turned off in pro mode, so you can still take full control if you want. What I would suggest, though, is jump into the settings menu and then turn on the assistive grid and horizontal level. It just helps make framing your photo a little easier. So in the camera app we have the usual range of modes, but there's a few I want to highlight.

Firstly, we have aperture, which is basically portrait mode, but not for people it's for when you want that bouquet blur, when just taking a picture of any object, and you can adjust the aperture, so the depth of field can be as shallow or as deep as you like, Pro Mode, which, as it says on the tin, is for those of you who like to tinker with the settings adjusting things like the ISO focus, white balance and shutter speed. Plus you can shoot in RAW and at the full 50 megapixel resolution. So if you want the highest quality photos possible that you can then edit and pull even more detail from pro mode. Is your best bet swiping over to the more tab, reveals a bunch of extra modes, and you're, probably familiar with most of them, I, really like the high-res mode, which lets you shoot in the full 50 megapixels, like you can in pro mode, but without worrying about all the other settings. Then we have dual view, which is actually a video mode, but it lets you shoot with two lenses at the same time, and you can also just the zoom on a telephoto lens I'm, not sure how often I'd actually use this.

But it's a nice option to have light painting is pretty fun as well and here's one I made earlier. We've also got slow motion and well yes, it isn't on a video mode, and I'm, mainly focusing on photography here. I just had to show you. This I was just playing around with slo-mo on my walk yesterday and I managed to get this shot. I know it's a touch and I focus, but it's incredible.

What smartphones can do these days- and this is at 960 FPS, but we could always take it to the next level of 7680 FPS, which basically makes the world stand still technically. It's interpolating frames from nineteen eighty FPS, but still that's the slowest slow motion you can get on a phone, and I'm expecting a call from the planet. Earth team asking me to help shield Nick series any time now on the p40 pro whether you're taking photos portraits or selfies. While you still have lots of beauty options and filters to play around with its just one tap to turn it off, and it's all off now giving you more realistic photos which I do appreciate, although with my face, maybe I could do a little of beautifying there's a couple more nifty things. I want to show you, and it's part of Huawei's golden snap features for the camera.

So two of these need moving picture to be turned on and first up, there's a I-best moment. So when you tap the shutter button, it actually records two seconds of 4k video, select, 60 frames and then recommends the best few shots. You can see, there's a little crown and what the AI thinks are the best ones for lighting and where it detects I'm, not blinking. The second gone Snap feature is remove passerby and to avoid any unnecessary risk join this social distancing period. This is a clip from Huawei, and it's similar to a I-best moment.

But this time it'll suggest a photo, but without anyone getting in the way, or you know photobombing it, then we have removed reflection, and this is one of my favorite features and I haven't seen it on any other phone. So, for example, taking photos through windows. You can just jump into the Edit menu in the gallery. App and tap. Remove reflection.

How well it works, varies and depends on the photo. But you can see it does make a difference and I can't wait to try this next time, I'm on a plane and there's an awesome view out the window so far so good, but one of the real standouts of the p40 pro's camera is how light performs in low-light. Really it was far away who pioneered night modes in phones with a p20 pro with its longer exposure. But what's fascinating about the p40 pro is night mode, isn't always better than just taking a normal photo and without waiting for a long exposure. I have to say my experience with night mode has been a little inconsistent, for example, I'm taking three photos now, one regular photo one with night mode and an 8-second exposure and one night mode on a tripod with a 45-second exposure, but bizarrely the longest exposure is darkest and least detailed.

In some examples, I've also noticed the regular photo mode, taking a great low-light shot, but in a night mode with a 5 or 10. Second exposure adds a huge amount of noise and doesn't really improve the photo. However, in other situations, I found night mode worked well, I couldn't even see my shoes in real life, but 9 modes definitely picked up more detail and in the case of this flower photo, the night mode shot is brighter, and we get more natural colors. It's a similar story with this baseball. To be honest, though, while the inconsistency can be a little, frustrating sometimes I think the people he pro handles low-light better than any other phone in its regular photo mode, which is probably what we'd be using most of the time anyway.

It's fun to play around with, though, and genuinely in low-light I'll. Take both a regular and a night mode show anyway, as they'll often come out quite differently, although I do just want to show you this moon photo, which I took from my back garden straight out of the people he Pro handheld, no tripod, not even in night mode. It's insanely good, but is there anything I'd like to see improved, say for the mate 40 pro coming up late yeah? Well, it would be good to see maybe a dedicated macrophotography mode, like Google did with a pixel where it had multiple long exposures, I've also found when shooting video the slider to change the zoom can be a little finicky, it's hard to just switch between the three lenses without having to manually zoom in and out fully, and perhaps some built-in tips for how to use night mode most effectively, but other than that. The people who Pro has a terrific camera and I think for me, it is the biggest selling point of this phone. But what do you reckon? What do you think of the Kwame's camera and also are there any camera innovations that you'd really like to see in the next-gen phones? I? Think for me, I'd love to see a built-in ND filter, that'd be pretty cool, but if you've got any ideas, let me know in the comments below don't forget to hit that like and subscribe button below, if you're, not 40 sick of my face, and I'll see you guys next time right here on the tech jab thanks for watching.

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