Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Night Mode on a BUDGET Smartphone Camera!?”.
We always hear about the camera night mode when it comes to flagship phones, but the Huawei p30 light is 329 pounds or 320 dollars. So how good could it possibly be so to test it? We came out to Leicester in the UK, not exactly the heart of the country, but at the same time a new and interesting playground, and it turns out there are two different regional variants of this phone. The one I’m using here has got a 2 megapixel depth, sensor, 8, megapixel, ultra wide camera and then a 48 megapixel main camera, alright. So to keep things off Abbey Park, one of the main public spaces in the city – and it was affair going on.
Whilst we were there, which was kind of perfect, also sidenote, take a look at what the back of this phone looks like with this much light around. It’S honestly, unlike anything, I’ve ever seen before the first shot, I got was of a ride in motion. It was going round and round in a circle, and you can see that in the final image, because the shutter was open for a full 6 seconds for this photo, you can quite clearly see the contrast between these sharp fences on the outside and the wheel in Motion on the inside this is the second shot and bear in mind.
You can probably tell there is still some light in the sky at this point. Does not reach pitch black yet, but I felt like this image in particular would really benefit from bringing out the darkness. So I pretty much just grabbed the contrast. Slider threw it up till the end, and this is what we got.
The final photo in this fairground was taken in the lowest lighting condition of all of them. We found this little wooden hut style building, and this is the shot I actually found. I was still getting that magic moment when you checked the photo after you’ve taken it that you get with the p30 Pro, even though this camera is not as capable it’s a lot better than I thought it was gon na be you can see the grass over Here is a little soft, but then, wherever there is light in the image, the phone really takes advantage of that. So before we headed to central Leicester, we actually headed further out. This is the National Space Center and let me tell you is a weird place to be in the dark.
The whole thing shuts at 5 and so we’ve pretty much the only people there it’s eerie. I found the classic spot where people take photos when they go into the center and there’s a runway. That’S really well lit, but then the building itself has pretty much no light on it.
So this was the most challenging photo we’ve taken so far, and after a quick edit, I added a vignette. I massively increased the contrast and i used a bit of noise reduction. I was very happy with the all right central Esther, and this is a Friday night. We’Re filming it on so there are tons of people, cars, traffic and interesting looking buildings.
So this is the perfect place to test the camera. Oh yeah, and by the time we got there, it was pretty much pitch black, so the only lights we did have what either from the street or from the building’s themselves. First up was high cross, a giant shopping center with over a hundred shops inside of it, and this is the classic angle we took this photo from and you can actually see if you look carefully the traffic trails on the roads. Here’S that same photo with a bit of extra pop at it, there’s also a car park specifically for high cross and it’s an interesting building in its own right. But there’s not exactly any standout color feature. So I feel like this one actually works better in monochrome with a bit of extra sharpness. We also went inside as it was closing up for the day and there is a fair bit of artificial lighting inside of here. So it’s not exactly a scenario.
You even need night mode for, but nonetheless the photo did come out pretty bright and pretty evenly exposed. It was kind of annoying me that I’d taken it from a slightly off-centre position. So with a little bit of post correction, this was the final result. There’S a casino here too, and it’s a bit of a weird one, because it’s a beautiful building with this LED wall. But then everything else around it is pretty bland looking, but nonetheless, we’ve got a photo of it and it’s a pretty good example of what the phone’s mean lens does to any source of light in the dark.
There is a massive amount of lens flare, maybe not forever on, but personally I think it adds to the image. In a similar vein, we found a casino called Genting, and this was also in a street where pretty much nothing else was happening, so the building really stood out and seeing, as there was very little color apart from that building. Why not just remove all of it? So we ended up with this photo. I was pretty happy. There are two buildings left.
They are right next to each other and it was kind of something I was saving till the end, because I was secretly really looking forward to it. We’Ve got Athena, which is a conference centre and you probably agree a pretty strange, looking building and it was kind of a perfect fit for another one of these photos where we just remove all the colour but the Reds and finally is Lester’s fairly self-explanatory, curved theatre. I feel like the base image turned out, okay, but I wanted to use this as an opportunity to see just how much we can push the image, how much detail and color could we extract from it the Furby there’s no raw image, but at the same time, The difference between the before and after here is pretty substantial, there’s not much more to say, apart from the fact that I came all impressed, this is more than I thought it would be able to do considering the price, considering that this feature is barely even advertised On this phone, the p30 light is coming to pretty much all major retailers in the UK on May the 10th, and if you enjoy this video it’ll be massively appreciated. If you could subscribe to the website, my name is Aaron. This is mr.
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