Samsung has made all the trade-offs Huawei has to accept on the P30 Pro

Referring to “photography” smartphones have always mentioned a seemingly unbreakable limit: low light shooting. With a slim body just to fit in a pocket, the mobile phone can never compete with travel cameras on the size of the sensor. It was this physical limit that made the photos of the dark become an important battle for the great men to fight together.

Earlier this year, Huawei seems to have found a solution to this eternal problem: replacing the traditional RGGB sensor with RYYB sensor. Compared to green (G), yellow pixels have a 40% higher ability to light. Photos taken on the P30 Pro really surprised the user, because the top Huawei can turn the dark scene into … the picture is visible.

Huawei was hailed to the point that Leica, the “franchise” brand for the camera on Huawei smartphones, also said it would consider putting RYYB on the new camera. In fact, Leica still has no camera to use RYYB, no competitors in the smartphone field use RYYB. The question is, why?

Huawei’s trade-offs

In order to serve the low-light images well, the P30 Pro has made the colors on ALL images misleading.

There are two reasons to mention, and neither is beneficial to Huawei. First, digital cameras use the RGGB sensor for decades, simply because the human eye is sensitive to light R (red), G (green) and B (green). Any other color filter will cause the color to go wrong, unless the manufacturer has to have an algorithm strong enough to “correct” the entire color that is misleading to become more like the human eye. . In the case of a software brand that is not as strong as software like Huawei, this is still an unsurpassable challenge: all photos from the P30 Pro are surprisingly false in color.

The second reason is that, if there is a strong enough algorithm, the trade-offs that come with the sensor may be removed. Huawei uses up to 1 / 1.7 inch sensor, the second largest in smartphone history (probably only losing Nokia Lumia PureView models), and the price to pay Huawei will sacrifice the area for memory chips. : The Kirin 980 is significantly less efficient than the Snapdragon 855. In return, combining a large sensor with a RYYB filter, the ability to shoot in the darker P30 Pro scene is not difficult to understand.

However, the newly released Galaxy Note10 also has the ability to capture low light as well. You can look at the two pictures below to compare, according to you, where is the Note 10, where is the P30 Pro?

Latest evidence

Note 10 is just the latest proof of the inevitable trend of “smartphone photography”: the code will gradually replace the role of physical elements. Not only Samsung, Google also used algorithms to improve the lack of light and digital zoom, Apple also used algorithms to simulate bright conditions in the environment … All of them realized the value of the code: free As the algorithm is good enough, manufacturers no longer have to sacrifice color accuracy or processor power like Huawei .

Because simply if a smartphone has a sensor that is only half the size but still able to capture the low light on par with the P30 Pro, why does Samsung, Apple or Google have to accept trade-offs like Huawei? If there was an infinite power of AI behind, what would you use RYYB for?