Which mobile phone will take the best photos in 2020, Samsung, Apple or Huawei? Evaluate 5 mobile phones and you will know.

In 2020, many manufacturers released many excellent smartphones, some of which have excellent performance.

In the past 12 months, there have been many favorite mobile phones by netizens at home and abroad. Here, I only chose five companies to test the water for mobile phone photography.

They are:

Start with color, exposure and white balance.

The first lens chooses to display color and exposure through light.

The photos taken by five mobile phones are equally beautiful, but there are also many differences. In other words, even from these very similar images, some subtle differences can be found.

For example, Sony Xperia 1 II is underexposed indoors, and its shadow is deeper than other mobile phones. Secondly, Huawei Mate 40 Pro is slightly green in outdoor scenes, but it works well indoors. Samsung's outdoor color part is very active, but the indoor shooting is a bit black.

In the second shot, we can test the color processing and exposure of each mobile phone more.

First of all, we can clearly see that iPhone 12 Pro tends to have brighter exposure, but at the cost of color saturation.

Sony Xperia 1 II is also very eye-catching in the woodland picture. However, in terms of shadow depth, it is more realistic than iPhone 12.

The color balance and earthy tones of pixel 5 are very obvious. Galaxy S20 Plus will over-render colors, especially green, which is very unrealistic for these winter scenes.

Huawei Mate 40 Pro is located between these two groups. It is the best of its kind, can accurately expose, and the dynamic vision is obviously superior.

Summarize color balance and exposure:

IPhone 12 Pro: brighter exposure and smoother images. Generally speaking, it is accurate, but there may be some problems with color and dynamic range.

Google Pixel 5: It tends to deal with darker black, very accurate color and pure white balance than several of its mobile phones.

Huawei Mate 40 Pro: Best dynamic range and most flexible exposure. But sometimes it's a little too complicated to balance color and white.

Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus: The oversaturated color and shadow contrast are sometimes a little dark. The white balance effect is not so good.

Sony Xperia 1 II: Usually it has accurate colors and good white spots outdoors. Tend to underexpose image processing in a dark environment.

HDR is a real test for the processing ability of any camera, so we choose some mobile phones with strong backlight to adapt them to different shooting environments.

Most of these outdoor HDR pictures are a continuation of the themes we have seen before.

Google's algorithm can get the deepest black, which is a usually true color and white balance method.

IPhone is familiar and bright, with extra color rendering, which helps to enrich images. However, the HDR effect is not the most powerful.

Huawei's dynamic range looks more comfortable, the balance between shadow details is better, and highlights are rarely trimmed.

Samsung further improved the color, but it was too saturated. Even so, the Galaxy S20 Plus still has a very powerful HDR effect, comparable to Huawei's shadow depth and limited highlight clipping. However, there are also some obvious lens halos.

Summarize the handling of HDR:

IPhone 12 Pro: enhance color and brightness, and shoot vivid HDR. Reliable HDR technology, but not the best balance between shadows and highlights.

Google Pixel 5:HDR processing is good, but compared with other competing products, there are problems such as underexposure and dim color.

Huawei Mate 40 Pro: provides the best HDR balance for the highlights and shadows of the shooting scene. The color is also good, full of vitality.

Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus: Powerful HDR technology dominates the processing process. Supersaturated colors and strong contrast.

Sony Xperia 1 2: HDR is not very good, and exposure is equally difficult. The color is realistic, but it still looks a little insufficient.

In 2020, many mobile phones are equipped with special wide-angle lenses, and the five mobile phones compared are no exception.

IPhone 12 Pro and Galaxy S20 Plus provide the largest views, followed by Sony Xperia 1 II, Google Pixel 5 and Huawei Mate 40 Pro. The latter also shot the aspect ratio of 16: 9, which is different from the common 4: 3.

Ultra-wide lenses on iPhone and Galaxy phones bend and extend the appearance of chess pieces. These phones are reasonable in correcting lens distortion, but obvious bending is found at the edge of the lens.

Pixel 5 and Xperia 1 II have slightly narrower lenses, so there is less distortion. There are some strange perspective changes in the lower left corner of pixel 5, which looks like an overcorrection error.

Also for Mate 40 Pro, there will be some distortion and swing in the straight line of the photo. Sony's lens correction looks cleaner, but there are still some expected curvatures, especially in the lower left corner.

To sum up the wide-angle camera:

IPhone 12 Pro: The edge quality of the lens is obviously reduced, but it is acceptable in view of the very wide field of vision.

Google Pixel 5: The lens is obviously deformed and the backlight halo is bright. Very noisy sensor, but with realistic colors and good HDR function.

Huawei Mate 40 Pro: the best of its kind. More colors are saturated than the main sensor. But the vision is narrow.

Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus: Wide field of vision and good distortion correction effect. The dynamic range is good, but the color is too saturated.

Sony Xperia 1 II: the main sensor is very close to exposure and color mapping. The lens with realistic color has the least distortion, but the exposure is not perfect.

Because each mobile phone has a different optical zoom point and technology, these mobile phones have the best position to take long-distance photos.

In order to avoid any deviation, we choose to zoom in 2 times and zoom in 5 times at a long distance.

The resolution of 5 times is very different, and the processing effect of iPhone 12 Pro (especially Google Pixel 5) is much better. Obviously, the lack of telephoto camera will hinder the image to the greatest extent in a wider range.

While the other three phones are equipped with telephoto lenses, it is difficult to distinguish too many significant differences, especially on the screen of small mobile phones, even if they are shot at 5 times resolution in sunny conditions. The most obvious difference is color and exposure, not details.

Summarize the amplification process:

IPhone 12 Pro: it has good zoom performance under strong light, but it is difficult under unsatisfactory conditions. 2x telephoto hardware can't handle it effectively at a longer zoom.

Google Pixel 5: Under ideal conditions, short-distance zooming is possible, but Google's software-based zooming can't keep synchronization in long-distance and low-light environments.

Huawei Mate 40 Pro: It is not perfect in terms of exposure, but it can provide excellent details in a short distance by mixing zoom and unparalleled image quality of more than 5 times.

Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus: Excellent hardware/software hybrid zoom, up to 4x. Even under harsh conditions, it performs well in a short range.

Sony Xperia 1 II: In low light, the software zoom of 2x is insufficient, but the telephoto lens performs well in 3x and 4x. Under good lighting conditions, the long-distance zoom quality is better.

To start shooting scenes at night, go back to our first image sample and see how limited light affects color and dynamic range.

Weak light will lead to worse color capture than good light, but the night mode of multiple exposures can provide obvious help.

Huawei's RYYB sensor can take beautiful photos without night shooting mode. In fact, compared with rapid shooting, Huawei's long exposure night mode usually lacks details and presents an ugly yellow color.

The level of software enhancements seen in the iPhone is also somewhat surprising. Compared with the older Pixel 5, its single-shot dark image is very dim and faded.

All these phones look good when night mode is enabled, especially considering the darkness of the scene. However, in terms of exposure and color, Sony's solution

To sum up the low light and night shooting:

IPhone 12 Pro: excellent low-light performance with strong colors and details. In terms of dynamic range and noise, its performance is worse than its competitors.

Google Pixel 5: Excellent dynamic range capture in low light conditions. However, it is obviously louder and usually darker than the other four sounds. It's good, but not the best.

Huawei Mate 40 Pro: Excellent low-light shooting, independent of slow night mode. First-class color, detail and dynamic capture in the dark.

Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus: Extremely powerful night mode, which can handle color, white balance, dynamic range and details in the dark.

Sony Xperia 1 II: underexposed, shooting vivid low light. The dynamic range is obviously worse than other mobile phones.

These camera bags have their own advantages and disadvantages, but I think two mobile phones are definitely weaker than others.

Oogle Pixel 5 and Sony Xperia 1 II are a little behind in this year's competition.

People who like wide-angle photography will want to choose between iPhone 12 Pro and Galaxy S20 Plus.

I personally prefer Huawei Mate 40 Pro, which can take the best photos.

It performs well in fast low-night shooting, portrait and unparalleled zoom quality, and has five most powerful HDR implementations so far.

The most important reason is to support domestic production!

After the evaluation, I still want to hear your voice

What do you think of the photo-taking ability of the five best smartphones in 2020? Please cast your precious vote!

Which of the following mobile phones do you think takes the best photos? Radio 0 0 0% iPhone 12 Pro 0 0% Google Pixel 5 0 0 Huawei Mate 40 Pro 0 0 Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus 0 people 0% Sony Xperia 1 II vote.