In recent years, mobile phone photography has roughly experienced three direction battles, the first is the dispute between Huawei's outsole and Xiaomi's high-pixel dispute. Now it's clear that Huawei wins. The second is the battle between Huawei computational photography and Xiaomi optical photography, and it seems that Xiaomi has obvious advantages at present. After the release of Huawei P60Pro, there was a third direction battle between Huawei and Xiaomi, or it is more appropriate to say that it is a continuation of the second direction battle. That is, the battle between Huawei's small bottom + variable aperture and Xiaomi's one-inch outsole.
However, the newly released Xiaomi 14Pro abandons the one-inch imx989 outsole on the previous Xiaomi 13Pro, and puts on the OV50H cropping customized version of the Light and Shadow Hunter 900 plus OFILM's new generation of 1024-level variable aperture (automatic four gears, manual ten gears) scheme. This shows that Xiaomi has also begun to follow the path opened up by Huawei and has become a follower of Huawei's imaging ideas.
Light and Shadow Hunter 900 is a 1/1.31 midsole, naturally it can't compare to the one-inch outsole on the 13Pro, and even the 1/1.12 Samsung gn2 on the Xiaomi 11U can't compare, it can only barely be higher than the 1/1.32 OV48C on the Xiaomi 10U, which is almost four generations backwards. But Lei Jun said that this solution is very difficult, which can be regarded as a disguised recognition of the previous Huawei P60ProThe process difficulty of variable aperture. However, many photography enthusiasts who previously supported Xiaomi because of the one-inch outsole were disappointed by this, thinking that compared to the 13Pro, this is a reverse upgrade.
However, at the same time, another wave of people quarreled over whether the main camera of Xiaomi 14Pro adopts the same idea as HuaweiP60Pro. Some people say that Huawei has predicted the future of mobile phone photography, and Xiaomi is learning from Huawei. Some people also say that why do you say that using a small bottom + large aperture is to learn Huawei?
First of all, let's talk about my point of view,This time the Xiaomi 14ProThe main camera is indeed the same idea of using P60ProSmall bottom + variable aperture,There's nothing to deny,I really don't understand why this is also quarrelsome。 If the direction is wrong, the direction is wrong, just change it, whether it is following other people's ideas or not, it is a good thing to be able to benefit your own fans.
But some people may want to quibble,Say that Huawei image does not exist to lead anyone,Say HuaweiP60ProYou can't buy a big bottom with a small bottom + variable apertureCOMS can't do it,Say that Xiaomi 14ProLight and shadow hunter on the 900 is good enough, and you don't need a variable aperture to make up for anything,Variable aperture is just to improve video capabilities,Different from Huawei's variable aperture thinking。
Since you say so, I'm going to ask a few questions:
First, there is no one who leads whom, so why didn't Xiaomi insist on 100 million pixels after the battle for the direction of 100 million pixels that year? Now, why is the more than 100 million pixels only used on Redmi and CICI and not on Xiaomi's digital flagship?
Second, you said that Huawei can't use a small bottom + large aperture, so which is more promising and has more exploration potential in the future of computational photography with small bottom + variable aperture and optical photography with large bottom alone? Without sacrificing other aspects of the experience, can you still have a bigger bottom than an inch on your phone? You Xiaomi is not sanctioned like Huawei and can't buy outsole COMS, if it's not to change your thinking, why upgrade it in reverse?
Third, you said that the Light and Shadow Hunter 900 is enough to take pictures, and you don't need a variable aperture to make up for anything, and the variable aperture is mainly to improve the ability of video shooting. Don't you feel sorry for that? Who said that the bottom level crushed people to death? Light and Shadow Hunter 900, who can crush the bottom of the OV50H cropped version?
If you compare the Xiaomi Mi 14 without a variable aperture, you will know how much the variable aperture has improved the 14Pro's photo capability. If the Xiaomi 14 Pro does not have a variable aperture, it will not be comparable to the previous generation 13Pro, which does not have a variable aperture but has a large insoles, in terms of photography.
Here I really have to complain about Xiaomi's image strategic positioning. Xiaomi 12 and 13 generations took the photography route in order to engage in differentiation, and photography enthusiasts frantically boasted about optical photography and belittled computational photography. But this time, I came back to learn Huawei, why?
If I come here, I will either go all the way to the dark, or I won't advertise blindly. I want to learn from others to differentiate and don't have the strength to achieve technological breakthroughs, so in the end I can only change my route and go back on my fans. How can you be worthy of your loyal fans and how to go high-end?
Pure optical photography is basically at the end of the mobile phone, and it is difficult to plug a larger bottom on the mobile phone without continuing to increase the thickness, which is a physical limitation that cannot be changed. For example, the one-inch outsole on Xiaomi 13ProThe default mode is to crop to23mm focal length, and the actual utilization area is equivalent to gn2.
However, continuing to increase the thickness will sacrifice the appearance and feel even more, many rice noodles are not only photography enthusiasts, but also game enthusiasts, and the feel is also an important factor affecting the user experience. The bad feel brought by the three-level ladder of 13U has been complained by many people, and it is basically a matter of going crazy to continue to engage in extreme thinking.
Xiaomi is very aware of this problem, so it began to change its thinking and explore the path opened up by Huawei. HuaweiP60ProMain cameraCOMS has not announced the specific model,But according to the disassembly, it is likely to be 1/1.43-inch imx798,In the current era of one-inch outsole, it is definitely a small bottom. But HuaweiP60ProIt is this small bottom and the first half of the year that many one-inch large bottoms have been played back and forth,The effect is quite good。 And there are no shortcomings such as the need to sacrifice the thickness of the fuselage and the high power consumption of one-inch outsole.
But this does not mean that Xiaomi will definitely abandon the one-inch outsole directly in the future. If you put aside the shortcomings,One-inch outsole does have a lot of advantages,If you have 13ProYou can go to the offline store and 14ProCompared with 14Pro,The same conditions13ProNoise is significantly less,This is one of the benefits of the outsole。 There is a high probability that the Xiaomi super large cup will still take the path of extreme image, and of course, a one-inch outsole is also essential.
Xiaomi saw that Huawei had a good effect and began to change its thinking to learn from Huawei, which is a good thing, and it is rice noodles that will profit in the end, after all, no one wants to bring a brick to the street. But some extreme rice fans don't admit it, as if admitting that Xiaomi has followed Huawei's line of thought is how much of an insult to Xiaomi.
It's not the first time that Xiaomi has misjudged the direction,Back then, I insisted that 100 million pixels was better than people's ryyb+outsole,Now it's not the outsole used to fly? Xiaomi's fundamental problem is that the algorithm is not enough hardware to make up, and it also ridicules people that ryyb is no longer useful, do other brands have the strength to engage in ryyb? Household ryyb has really increased the amount of light by 40%. Have you forgotten the comparison between the night shooting of the Honor 30Pro+ and the Xiaomi Mi 10Pro?
Also, what is the problem with Huawei's prediction of the development direction of mobile phone photography? Anyone who knows a little bit about the history of mobile phone photography knows that this is true. The P9 series has a dual camera system, the P10 series has portrait photography, the P20 series has a super night mode, the P30 series has a periscope zoom architecture, and the P40 series has a full-time, full-range ultra-clear image. What other ToF lenses, outsole sensors, ten-fold light variation, computational photography, free-form ultra-wide-angle lenses, etc., are not what other manufacturers are chasing after Huawei's first launch?
Huawei has always been ahead of its time in the understanding of mobile phone photography, and its leading role in mobile phone photography is irrefutable, which is nothing that cannot be admitted. In recent years, although COMS has fallen behind in photography because of sanctions, it has also been rumored that it is working hard to break the situation in self-developed COMS. Huawei is originally a big man in the field of optoelectronics, and I believe this rumor should be true. Starting from the P70, Huawei, which leads mobile photography, should slowly return.