Huawei P40 Pro in-depth evaluation once again subverts the all-round flagship of mobile phone images.

Compared with the invention of words, it is more difficult for human beings to explore the technology of saving images. From ancient rock paintings to hand-painting, until the birth of the camera, what you see is what you get, which really fixed the beauty of the world. With the continuous evolution of technology, with the advantages of portability, interactivity and algorithm, mobile phone images have gradually become the new mainstream of users' photography choices, inspiring the creative inspiration of many ordinary people, making photography no longer an ivory tower, and more excellent works can also flood into the people.

For the author, the first time I experienced the charm of mobile phone photography was Huawei P20 series, which opened the era of mobile phone photography 2.0 with the absolute advantages of artificial intelligence and super photosensitive components. Next, Huawei P30 Pro made a stunning appearance last year, leading the field of mobile phone photography with 50x digital zoom, which made us admire and love.

On April 8, 2020, Huawei released its first flagship this year-Huawei P40 series. This is also the first time that Huawei P Series has released three models of Huawei P40/P40 Pro/P40 Pro+. Next, let's take a look at the new breakthroughs in imaging of Huawei P40 series.

A smooth and tense work of art

Speaking of the fuselage design of Huawei P series, I believe everyone must be full of praise. Excellent technology and precise color matching control make the products of past dynasties a model of current trend design. Last year, Huawei P30 series sky color matching led the gradual color change upsurge of domestic mobile phones.

This time, Huawei P40 series has taken a different approach in the back design, changing the colorful gradient design in the past and returning to the color itself, making it more calm and elegant. This time, I got the cream and silver color scheme, which is also one of the new color schemes introduced by Huawei. Exquisite AG frosted glass combined with silver gray of modern technology gives people a mercury-like metallic wind, revealing two words: advanced.

When you look directly at it, the back is pure metallic silver, but when you look from the side, there will be a gradual reflection, plus a bright silver metal frame, which is full of science and technology.

In the upper left corner is the iconic image system module of Huawei P40 Pro. Especially, the small logo of "Leica" was added to the black module, which instantly improved several grades in flagship machine with the same price.

The front of Huawei P40 Pro is equipped with the industry's first 6.58-inch four-curve overflow screen, which brings a more balanced visual experience with curved borders. Due to the four-curve design, the R-angle processing of Huawei P40 Pro is also special. The natural curve perfectly blends the display area with the radian of the screen side, bringing a more comfortable screen experience.

The advantage of making the screen curved is that it will not only increase the grip of the mobile phone, but also avoid the cutting feeling when using it, such as touching the silk, which is smooth and smooth. That kind of delicacy and smoothness can only be felt after you get started.

Generally speaking, when I got Huawei P40 Pro for the first time, the sense of exquisiteness was hard to describe in words, and it could even be exaggerated to say that it was a handicraft.

Sure enough, Huawei P40 Pro once again refreshed the scoring record of professional evaluation agency DxOMark, and was ranked on the DxOMark list with a comprehensive score of 128.

First, let's look at the hardware. Huawei P40 Pro is equipped with four extrasensory Leica cameras, including 50 megapixel extrasensory main camera, 40 megapixel movie camera,12 megapixel 5x optical zoom camera and 3D depth camera.

In addition, Huawei P40 series comes standard with11.28-inch extrasensory sensor, and the pixel size of 2.44μm further improves the light input. At the same time, Huawei P40 Pro used RYYB super-sensitive filter array in telephoto lens for the first time, which increased the light input by 40% again and improved the imaging ability in dark environment.

The parameters may be too abstract, so let's show you a set of samples directly.

Let me show you a normal photo I took upstairs, and then compare the photos after I turned on the 50x zoom.

1 zoom mode shooting

50x digital zoom shooting

After consulting the data, it is found that Huawei P40 Pro adopts a periscope zoom module horizontally placed in the fuselage, and skillfully rotates the optical path by 90 through the optical prism, which can achieve 5 times optical zoom, 10 times hybrid zoom and 50 times digital zoom.

In addition, when shooting telephoto scenes, the picture often shakes seriously. It is difficult to control the longest telephoto lens if it is not a "ruthless iron hand". Therefore, Huawei P40 Pro ultra-sensitive periscope telephoto camera supports OIS anti-shake and semantic-based AIS intelligent anti-shake, which improves the stability and filming rate of high-magnification zoom.

Let me show you another picture of the moon in my hand. I can tell you responsibly that this photo was taken by me, but it was not a full moon. If it is a full moon, it may be more impactful.

Next, let's take a look at taking pictures at night. It is no exaggeration to say that Huawei has almost no rivals in night shooting. As long as you don't encounter extreme night scenes, normal mode can also take very good photos.

As you can see, I used automatic mode to take these photos at night, and the dark details were well preserved. Although it was taken at night, the overall color reproduction is basically the same as that seen by the human eye at the scene. The highlight suppression on both sides of the stairs is also excellent, and there is no halo phenomenon that appears on many mobile phones.

Do you think this challenge is a little simple for Huawei P40 Pro night shooting? Come on! We collected a sample of the last extreme night scene.

This photo is the scene of my downstairs garden. I might as well compare it with my iPhone 1 1 Pro Max. Although it was not opaque at the time, it was still very challenging to take pictures on mobile phones. It can be seen that even if the iPhone 1 1 Pro Max has turned on the super night scene mode, the picture still has obvious tailing feeling.

On the other hand, Huawei P40 Pro has almost achieved the level of rolling. Even if ISO is raised to 25600, the purity of the picture is still high, and no noise can be seen. At the same time, small flowers can still be photographed vividly.

The reason why the daytime proofs are put at the end is because the performance of Huawei P40 Pro in the daytime can be described as almost perfect. Look at the proofs directly.

If I can sum up the imaging system of Huawei P40 Pro in one sentence, it is "the comprehensive achievement of dxo mark 128 is worthy of the name", which not only continues the consistent excellent standard of Huawei P series, but also adds a lot of new gameplay of 50x telephoto shooting. At the same time, the daily shooting during the day is still the crushing level.

Soft and hard combination, showing the ultimate powerful performance.

When it comes to performance, Huawei P40 Pro is also quite brilliant. After all, the performance of Kirin 990 5G chip need not be described too much. Innovative design of CPU three-speed energy-saving architecture, 16 core GPU super cluster, integration of the industry's highest 103 billion transistor, 7nm+ EUV process, few figures tell us the power of this chip.

In addition to powerful hardware configuration, the combination of software and hardware can better bring users a smooth experience. Huawei P40 Pro's latest EMUI 10. 1 system continues the concept of "quality enjoying life", and the redesigned themes and icons are more concise, colorful and bright, and at the same time, it has greatly improved its vision and practicality.

In addition, Huawei P40 Pro has a built-in 4200mAh battery, which supports 40W Huawei wired super fast charging; According to the actual measurement, it can charge 75% in half an hour, and it takes about 62 minutes to fully charge.

In terms of battery life, it is absolutely excellent. I normally use it all day, including socializing with WeChat, Weibo and other software every day, playing two hours of large-scale games, and then turning on Netease Cloud Music to listen to songs on my way to and from work. To 10 pm, the final remaining power is about 38%. It basically meets the needs of most people for moderate and heavy daily use, and there is still electricity all day.

Summary:

This time, Huawei P40 Pro can be described as both military and civilian. Excellent achievements have been made in image strength, screen competition, interaction and design. Therefore, we have reason to expect what surprises Huawei P40 Pro+ can bring us.