Is The Huawei P30’s Camera Any Good?

Is The Huawei P30’s Camera Any Good?

The Huawei P30 has an incredibly competent camera setup that’s quite ok for many users and a marked intensify on the P20 Pro. From a hardware perspective, there are a couple of reasons for this.

• The Huawei P30 has tri-camera setup that mixes 40-megapixel wide-angle, 16-megapixel ultra-wide and 8-megapixel telephoto sensors on its back.
• The Huawei P30 features a 32MP selfie camera
• The Huawei P30’s camera doesn’t match the P30 Pro’s performance, but it’s still excellent.

For starters, Huawei’s tweaked the 40-megapixel sensor to capture using an RYYB (red, yellow, yellow, blue) pixel arrangement. This is often a variation on the traditional RGB (red, green, blue) arrangement seen on most smartphone camera sensors.

The change apparently lets the sensor absorb more light, which can in theory help improve low light performance. Huawei’s also apparently put tons of labor into the camera’s algorithm and added an AI-powered HDR+ mode to further boost image quality when shooting within the dark.

Another key differentiator is that the addition of what Huawei claims is 3x optical zoom. To be clear it’s not actual optical zoom because the glass elements don’t move. It’s just that the third zoom lens has an 80mm focal distance.

Camera performance is superb regardless. Shooting in auto mode images uniformly rush and therefore the camera app is wonderfully fast. Unlike many cameras, there’s next to no delay between pushing the on-screen shutter button and a photograph being taken.

Low light is additionally solid and simply matches, if not beats most flagships, including the Galaxy S10, which features a custom dual aperture feature bespoke made to enhance low light.

The only downside is that it's still a marked step down on the professional. The Huawei P30 Pro features a few key improvements. The most important of those is that the addition of a fourth ToF sensor. This lets it capture 3D spatial information, which successively lets it create more realistic portrait shots and bokeh effects. This is often where the most subject is focused but the background is blurred.

The sensors also universally sport wider apertures, and therefore the zoom lens features a larger 125mm focal distance, which provides it a maximum 10x optical zoom. The tech means, for the foremost part, the Pro’s camera may be a intensify across the board. You’ll see an inventory of comparison shots taken on the P30 and P30 Pro below.

Indoor Low Light

In dim conditions the P30 performs well. But once you compare it to the P30 Pro the difference in aperture is obvious. The P30 photo has less contrast and more noise than the one taken on the professional.

Aperture Mode (Taken at f/4.0 – You'll Adjust This Within The Camera App)

The same is true in aperture mode. The photo taken on the P30 looks excellent but once more detail is lost in a number of the darker areas.

Aperture Mode

The issue repeats during this test shot, where the leaves’ dark areas have less detail on the regular P30.

Mixed Lighting (5x zoom)

Things get a touch more competitive here. The regular P30’s zoom lens dealt surprisingly well zooming in mixed light. Both photos are quite ok for sharing on social media. View them blown up and you'll notice some pixelation though, especially if you concentrate on fine detail just like the pub sign.