ISSUE 63 • ANDROID ADVISOR 59same field of view. Most of its rivals zoom in which,
while not a damning problem, can be a bit irritating.
However, it’s the zoom capabilities that really set
the P30 Pro apart. If you think a 2x telephoto lens is
adequate, you’ll quickly change that opinion once
you’ve use the P30 Pro’s 5x lens.
As before, there’s a hybrid mode that uses the
extra detail available from the main 40Mp sensor
along with the 8Mp sensor behind the periscope
lens to offer what Huawei terms ‘lossless 10x zoom’.
It’s a different way of doing things than Google’s
Super Res Zoom. We think it’s more effective, but
it’s obvious just from looking at the photos at 1:1 in
Photoshop that it is not lossless.
Close scrutiny aside, it’s impossible not to be
impressed by the detail the P30 Pro can capture. In
our sample shots, we use St. Pancras Renaissance
Hotel (see overleaf) and there’s a surprising amount
of detail and clarity in the 10x photo. Even at 5x, the
P30 Pro blows everything else here out of the water:
there’s simply no contest from the 2x zooms.
What’s even more impressive is when you consider
the range on offer, from the 16mm equivalent
ultra-wide-angle lens to the 125mm equivalent 5x
telephoto: no other phone is that versatile.
By default, Master AI – the ‘artificial intelligence’
image processing – is switched off, and for the most
part you’ll probably leave it that way. There’s still a
tendency to over-saturate everything when it’s on,
but not to the extent that it did on the P20 Pro.
What we haven’t even talked about yet is the
upgraded 40Mp ‘Super Sensing’ camera. Huawei
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