Xiaomi Mi 10 Camera Review: Is the 108MP camera worth it for 50k? By Digit

Hey guys welcome to digit dot in and our topic of discussion today is the Xiaomi meet 10. This is the first flagship smartphone from Xiaomi in India in years and like more shutter high-end smartphones in 2020, the 10 also sports 5g support and the snapdragon 865 under the hood, and that's because this is a smartphone priced under rupees 50000. That is bringing the 180 MP sensor for the first time, Xiaomi is using the Samsung Ispell bright, AMX sensor, that is the largest camera sensor available for smartphones right now, and you get 108 MP in resolution with 0.8 micron pixels, which are then Bend four by one to produce sharper images. The logic behind the sensor is actually the same as the 48mph 64 m. Pk Durr?s you find in smartphones these days, but the sheer number of megapixels in the sensor should make things interesting. The same 108 MP sensor also lets you take photos at 1x and 2x, even in the 108 MP high-res mode, while by default it takes 25 megapixel photos which is acquired by pinning the pixels four by one.

The file size of the photos measure from anywhere between 25 and 40 megabytes when you're using the 108 MP mode, while at 25?m P mode, the photo file size tend to be around 15 to 20 MB other than that there's an altar wide lens, a 13 megapixel ultra-wide lens and ? 2, megapixel, sensors, 1/4, depth measuring and another for macro photos. So that completes the quad camera setup. At the back on the front you get a 20, megapixel punch hole camera which is to be used for selfies. So that's the camera setup on the meet 10. Let's quickly take a look at how these cameras actually perform, but before we get there, don't forget to hit the bell icon so that you can stay up to date with the latest and greatest in text from us.

So, let's start with the hundred and eight megapixel sensor. First there's a dedicated 180 MP mode that lets you shoot in 2, X, 2 take a shot and quite expectedly. The camera takes a good two three seconds to process the image before you can shoot another one. Here's how they look. The hundred a DMV photos when taken under adequate lighting come out super sharp with good dynamic range.

The details are also quite commendable to an extent, but at 100 percent prop they may look a little washed out. The results are similar at 2x zoom as well. The sensor achieved this by using interpolation and lets you zoom in a little closer and the details and sharpness doesn't really suffer all that much. But then again we took another photo in the 100 MP mode, but this time with a bit of tricky lighting where part of the frame was lit up, and the other part was a little dark and that's where my ROG was sitting and as you can see, the camera couldn't really get all the details on the face of my ROG quite well. Ending in the area that is dark has a lot of noise when you zoom in, so the verdict is that you can use 300 an empty mode.

If there's uniform lighting all around to get the best results, anything else will result in photos that may not look the best, but you still, it's still quite commendable at what Xiaomi manages to achieve the bin mode is where the magic happens. This is where Xiaomi has deployed all its algorithms and optimizations to make the photo look good. The AI Scene Recognition also kicks in automatically when turned on, and it creates a distinguishable difference in the photos. But the fact remains that the camera does sometimes take a little too long to shoot the photo, even when you were in the bin mode, so you may just miss a shot if you're taking, if you're, trying to take one of an object that is moving or the one where you just need to quickly whip out a camera and take a photo. That's when this camera is going to, let you down a little.

Here's a photo in the bin mode taken with AI off and here's one with a turned on. Do you notice how this huge changes in the sky with when the AI is turned on? That's what we are talking about, but more than that I like the color of the camera, produces it does look a little saturated, but one can't deny improves the photo to a large extent, particularly for sharing on social media. However, if we look at the details, a hundred percent crop there's a lot of noise in areas that are not well lit. This shows Xiaomi is using its own detail, enhancing algorithm on top of winning the pixels for din one, but that's something: you'll only notice, if you nitpick on face value, the 180-degree primary camera, even when it's in build mode, produces some perfect photos. Verdict.

The bin mode quickly became my favorite mode to shoot photos on from this phone and right down from the color to the dynamic range and the sharpness as well is pretty good and is probably some of the best that we have seen in this segment. Having said that, the shutter lag that the camera experiences does tend to Mar the experience to an extent. But if you can look past it, this camera is perfectly usable to take really high-quality photos. Now, let's talk about the ultra-wide and macro lens, these are standard sensors that Xiaomi offers in most of the budget phones. But the difference here is the image processing thanks to the snapdragon 865.

It helps maintains parity and consistency with 180 MP sensor and the ultra-wide lens. You can see how the color reproduction is almost similar from both modes. The ultra-wide lens is also able to retain details to a good extent and the photos come out nice and sharp. Now. The macro lens, as a matter of fact, is the weakest link in this camera setup.

The two megapixel resolution just can't match up to the likes of the 13 MP and 808 MP, my resolution that the other two lenses offers, and that shows, when you try to zoom in on a macro, shot. Having said that, the colors and the sharpness are more or less on point. If you don't try to nitpick a lot. The macro lens also lets you shoot 1080p videos using the lens so that you can go really up close to a probably a product that you're shooting with the camera and get some poke gauge results enough to share, probably on Instagram or Facebook now coming to low-light photos. The night mode works, like all other smartphones.

You won't be able to use the mode to take close-ups or shoot moving objects, but the larger sensor helps in making some well detailed, low-light shots of landscapes. The camera does sometimes overexpose the sky and make the photos look like they were taken in the day, but in most cases they look just fine, the light mode only with the underneath MP lens at 1x and to exhume, and not with the ultra-wide lens at 2x. The details are commendable, but zoom in, and you'll notice. It's mostly achieved in post-processing now. Moving on to videos, the 10 can also shoot 8a videos, and since we didn't have a display of that resolution to see how the videos turn off, we don't really know how the 8k videos actually look on that large screen.

But on the phone it does look like any other video taken from the phone it'll be a little less sharper. The 10 also comes with a steady video mode, which I actually found quite useful. I have a habit of taking videos while I am out walking my ROG and keeping my hands steady can be a problem, so I turn down the steady video mode on the 10 and try to shoot a video which you can see on your screen right now, and the mode was able to cancel out all the big shakes quite well, but at the cost of a cropped out frame, there's also a track object mode under videos that keeps the focus locked onto the moving object. Like my ROG in this case in this video now there are a lot more features in the tend to explore like a well detailed portrait mode, a short video mode and a vlog mode which we're gonna. Let you guys take a look at when you get the chance to have the phone in your hands.

There's also a very detailed pro mode that lets you shoot twenty-five megapixel RAW images. That's also quite useful if you want to take your photography beyond the amateur level other than that the camera UI will be familiar to almost everyone who is used to Xiaomi smartphone before everything is right, where it should be on a Swami, smartphone and there are no surprises here whatsoever. To sum up, Xiaomi seems to have a winner in their hands with the 10. As far as the cameras are concerned now before we have tested the one plus 8 or even the 8 Pro or the iPhone SE to the, 10 is right now, my favorite when it comes to taking photos in this price range, the camera is quite consistent across all the three lenses. I won't count the macro lens, because that is something that you tend to use the least, but other than that Xiaomi is giving you a lot of options to shoot, including for videos and for photos.

So that's that, and the images also come out quite sharp and well detailed, with a good mix of color and dynamic range. Having said that, there are a few downsides as well number one. Is the shutter lag that we have experienced even in the bin mode, that might end up marring the experience to an extent. The second leap is something that's minor, but something that did help me. A lot was the fact that I could see a lot of colors in the viewfinder while I was taking the photo, but when the actual photo came out, those colors were missing, maybe that something Xiaomi can work in a future software update to make the images look much more vibrant, but from what I already saw with the camera, the camera is quite good and perfectly worth the price tag.

That Xiaomi is charging for the 10. So that's it from our side. With this camera review, we're going to meet you guys again in another video, don't forget to hit the bell icon and don't forget to share and like this video and to leave your comments down below and for more videos like this stay tuned to digit art in. Thank you.

Source : Digit