There are 3 new smartphone photography kings — the Huawei P40, P40 Pro and P40 Pro Plus are the latest addition to the Huawei flagship family. The Huawei P series is known for bringing new photography trends on smartphones. The most significant was the periscope zoom feature that debut on the P30 Pro last year. Well, this year Huawei has kicked thing up a notch with higher end cameras using all the lessons they have learnt from the past with the Mate 30 Pro backing in some AI camera magic to come up with their latest photography centered flagship phones.
The P40 Standard
Just to be clear, Huawei launched 3 phones. The standard P40 has a triple rear-camera setup consisting of a primary 50-megapixel f/1.9 camera, a 16-megapixel f/2.2 17mm ultra-wide-angle camera, and an 8-megapixel f/2.4 telephoto camera with a 3x optical zoom. Like last year’s P30 Pro, which takes some of the best low-light photographs around, Huawei is once again using a RYYB sensor, which it says absorbs more light, resulting in better low-light performance. The sensor is also massive at 1/1.28 inches, which is even bigger than the 1/1.33-inch 108-megapixel sensor found in the Galaxy S20 Ultra. That should help even more with low-light performance. It produces 12.5-megapixel photos by default by combining four pixels into one.
The P40 Pro
On top of the above specs of the standard Pro, the Huawei P40 Pro gets you a ToF sensor and increases the resolution of two out of the three cameras. The main camera is still 50 megapixels, but on the P40 Pro, the wide-angle camera has a resolution of 40 megapixels, and the telephoto lens is 12 megapixels. The zoom on the telephoto lens is also increased to 5x rather than 3x.
The P40 Pro+
The P40 Pro Plus, has two telephoto lenses: a periscope lens with a zoom of 10x and one with a zoom of 3x. Huawei claims this means you’ll get better photos at both medium and far distances. Alongside the two telephoto cameras, which both have a resolution of 8 megapixels, there’s a 50-megapixel primary camera and a 40-megapixel ultrawide. Naturally, the ToF sensor on the P40 Pro is also present on the Plus.
How these phones actually perform in the real word is something we shall test out soon. What do you think on the new Huawei P40, the Pro and Pro + camera specs? Would you buy it given that you will have to struggle to get put some google apps?
