

The comparison above shows that the Galaxy S10 uses a lot more image filtering while Huawei does not, but at the end of the day, the 2X optical lens doesn’t give it a ground-breaking advantage. It means that in the 1X-2X range, the P30 Pro’s performance can be challenged by competitors with 2X optical lenses, but it’s probably not a huge deal as we’ve said for years (since Apple introduced its 52mm lens) that 2X zoom isn’t that useful when compared to 3X and 5X. It seems impractical to use data from the 135mm lens here because the 135mm field of view does not cover enough surface on a 54mm shot.

1-2X zoom with the primary 26mm lensĪs the 26-52mm range, the photo data only comes from the 26mm primary lens. This kind of merging can be extremely tricky, especially when it comes having a seamless color integration, but Huawei did it with great success. It’s a great way to handle the 80mm to 135mm zoom range but it also means that at 80mm, the image quality of a native 80mm lens like the Mate 20 Pro and P20 Pro should be more consistent across the image, while the P30 Pro should have slightly better details in the center, but who’s going to complain as long as the edge details aren’t too different. Shows the respective source to put this 80mm shot from 26mm and a 135mm lenses It works by “fusing” (merging) data from photos taken at multiple zoom levels.

The 135mm zoom exploited fully in the “5X” mode, but Huawei can use the 135mm lens data in the 80mm “3X” mode as well thanks to a feature called Field of View Fusion that merges two shots from the 26mm and the 135mm cameras.

If you’re familiar with Periscope lens designs, read our article about the Oppo 10X optical zoom which was announced at MWC 2019 and got an Ubergizmo Best of MWC 2019. This article has a lot of details and explanations now included in the Huawei P30 Pro Camera Review (too much content). The Huawei P30 Pro introduces the first commercially available 135mm Periscope telephoto lens, a record-breaking mobile focal length, when compared to the previous champions: the Huawei P20 Pro and Mate 20 Pro phones (80mm).
