Honor released its annual flagship Magic3 series on August 12, which is also the first flagship model released by the Honor brand since independence. In the second quarter of this year, Honor ranked fifth in sales of domestic mobile phone brands with its Play and Play series products, and in July, Honor has returned to the third place in domestic mobile phone brand sales. The advantages of Honor mobile phones are both the strong technical support of the group and the independence of the product. The positioning of the Honor Magic series has always been a top product created by combining cutting-edge technology, and the Magic3 series has brought a rather exaggerated combination of camera lenses, as well as LOG videos aimed at professional user groups, as well as 8 LUT presets for the pursuit of high image quality and personalized tone style. Not only is the still image further upgraded, but the video concept is even more huge. The result? That's what we care about, too.
First, the glory Magic3 Pro highlights quick glance
Before reviewing the Honor Magic3 Pro, what attracted us the most was the luxurious image module. The rear quad camera, the main camera is a 1/1.56-inch outsole, providing 50 million pixels, with a 64 million black and white camera, assisting in rich tone. The telephoto is a 3.5x optical telephoto lens with 64MP and supports 10x hybrid zoom and 100X digital zoom effects. The ultra-wide-angle lens is 13-megapixel-equivalent 13mm, making the actual experience even more shocking when shooting. In addition, in the camera module, there is an 8×8 dToF laser focus system, which also makes the focus speed of this phone significantly increased. If the still photo effect is closely related to hardware, in terms of video, Honor has increased its soft power. Honor Magic3 series mobile phones are the world's first IMAX EHANCED certified smartphones, and together with hollywood's well-known film team to create Honor Magic-Log and film-grade 3D LUTs. While adding a LOG record to a mobile phone is not new, adding a custom LUT does improve the convenience and fun of mobile video creation. In the past, the LOG format required the creator to make post-adjustments, but 3D LUT makes it all as simple as using filters.
Honor Magic3 Pro
Second, the appearance display and the introduction of the main functions
In terms of appearance, the Honor Magic3 Pro adopts a hyperboloid design as a whole, and the fuselage is rounded. We got the glazed white version, let's take a look at the details of the exterior design.
Honor Magic3 Pro glazed white version
On the front of the fuselage, honor Magic3 Pro is equipped with a curved screen with a curved rate of 89 degrees of 6.76 inches, and the border is further narrowed, making its screen account for up to 94.86%, and due to the existence of ultra-high curvature screens, the grip is extremely rounded.
Honor Magic3 Pro out-of-the-box accessory
On the arrangement of the front lens, the arc long strip digging design is adopted, which is not a dual camera, but in addition to the common front camera, it is also equipped with a front 3D deep sense camera, which can be used to unlock, and can also realize 3D face payment, which is more secure. In addition, compared with the design of some waterfall screen mobile phones without physical volume buttons, Honor Magic3 Pro adopts a more inclusive design, that is, while retaining the physical volume buttons and power keys, it also supports virtual volume buttons and power keys, giving users more choice.
Honor Magic3 Pro front dual camera
In terms of the backshell process, the glazed white glory Magic3 Pro uses the material of bright glass, and because of its white design, under the illumination of the light, there is even a certain mirror reflection effect, which is very pure and beautiful, but in the process of daily use, if the bare machine is used, it is easier to contaminate the fingerprint and affect its perception.
Honor Magic3 Pro screen display effect
In the design of the rear camera module, the Honor Magic3 Pro calls it the "Eye of the Muse" design, that is, a camera is placed in the center of the circle, and other cameras and flash components are located around it, and the overall black circle is arranged in the center, which is very integrated.
Honor Magic3 Pro camera module
Overall, looking at the back of the Honor Magic3 Pro, it has a very symmetrical aesthetic and a very comfortable look. This also makes the Honor Magic3 Pro have a relatively good recognition.
Third, the camera module configuration and effect display
In the live-action experience link, we are more concerned about the multi-lens linkage effect of the Honor Magic3 Pro, including the naturalness of the portrait mode, so we came to the ancient Temple of Heaven to experience the static image performance of this mobile phone. No matter which phone, what must be shot must be the contrast effect of each shot in the same scene. At the Temple of Heaven we shot live with ultra-wide angle, main camera, 3.5X telephoto, 10X hybrid telephoto and 100X digital zoom effects respectively. Contrast can see that the color performance of the Magic3 Pro ultra-wide angle lens is more vivid, the main shooting style is more faithful, the 3.5X telephoto does not see too many features in this scene, although the 10X is a mixed telephoto, but the magnification is still good. The 100X telephoto still has certain reference value without amplification. The magic3 Pro's rich variations of multiple lenses are quite practical when it comes to traveling records.
Take a photo multi-lens zoom switching demo
Ultra wide angle shooting
Lead shot
3.5X telephoto shooting
10X hybrid zoom shooting
100X digital zoom shooting
The ultra-wide-angle lens has an equivalent focal length of 13mm, which is also a very wide configuration in the current horizontal comparison of commercially available mobile phones. The center pixels of the photograph are very good, and the performance of the corners is not bad, although it is not as good as the freeform lens in terms of distortion control, but it is already a good performance in the conventional ultra-wide angle lens.
Ultra-wide angle live action
Honor Magic3 Pro main lens with 50 million pixels, the color performance is very faithful, and will not be exaggerated color, nor deliberately strengthen the tone, simply put, it is a very comfortable performance. Although the size of a 1/1.56-inch sensor is not comparable to a sensor nearly one inch, there is still a good degree of detail reproduction when zooming in on the image.
The main camera shot is real
The 3.5X telephoto lens I wasn't very optimistic about before, the sensor size is 1/2 inch, with OIS optical image stabilization. After the audition of the Temple of Heaven, I did not expect that this lens was the most used by me, and the shooting angle was also the easiest to be creative. Whether it's shooting details of the Temple of The New Year or recording red walls and green tiles, this telephoto lens is flexible enough and has a straight field of view to provide good image detail.
3.5X telephoto live shot
10X hybrid zoom real shot
In the special scene I also tried the 10X mixed telephoto effect, although the picture quality under the 10X is not as good as the 3.5X telephoto, but in many occasions I am still very happy to experience the effect of the 10X hybrid telephoto, in the case of not too much imaging details, the picture taken by the 10X is also of usable value, and the circle of friends after a simple retouching is still enough to praise.
Portrait effects are also very concerned about us, after all, when we shoot in daily life, portraits will account for a very large proportion. Honor Magic3 Pro portrait mode, providing 1X and 2X two gears of view options, we use 1X in most cases will be more, after the shooting is completed, the phone will be the portrait background through the operation of the buckle map bokeh, including the arm bend inner area can also be well handled, the background is soft, the edge of the buckle map is also more natural.
Portrait mode real shooting
Comprehensively experiencing the still image performance of the Honor Magic3 Pro, what impressed me the most was the high-resolution color performance. Although I turned on AI the whole time during the shooting, the style of the actual shooting was not too colorful and exaggerated, but left a real impression on me. The 3.5X telephoto delivers better quality than expected, and it feels very comfortable when shooting in daily life. The 13mm ultra-wide angle performance is also good, especially the ultra-wide field of view capture ability, which is enough for me to ignore its slight barrel distortion. Portrait mode will be more intense than the normal mode, which can provide a good portrait buckle and background bokeh ability. However, if you want a richer color effect, there is no real-time color filter, and you can only rely on the post-production adjustment.
Fourth, upgraded LOG video and LUT effect
Video function should be said to be the biggest highlight of the Honor Magic3 Pro, in the mobile phone to provide 3 kinds of video shooting modes, including the most daily "video", as well as the honor Magic3 feature "movie" mode, in this function we can choose to shoot 4K HDR video, and can be applied to honor customized 8 kinds of movie-level 3D LUT in real time, so that the video atmosphere instantly improved. There is also a file, is to select the video shooting in professional mode, you can directly shoot the LOG video, that is, the film that looks "gray and gray", after shooting, you can apply the preset LUT file when editing, which preserves the most original high-quality video file for the creator, and is also more conducive to the unified adjustment of the tone of the whole film.
Three video modes to control the demo
During the test, we used the pro mode to shoot a number of LOG videos, and later applied THE LUT file and edited a 4K short film to share with you, from which you can see the quality performance of the Honor Magic3 Pro LOG video and the effect of LUT color grading.
When shooting, we use the highest specification 4K format throughout the whole process, the stability of the continuous shooting of the mobile phone is still very good, and with the manual focus in the professional mode, it is still easy to shoot a "feeling" short film. It is also necessary to say again, the Honor Magic3 series is the world's first IMAX EHANCED certified smartphone, although we have almost no opportunity to use mobile phones to shoot real movies, can not experience the film industry standardization process on the mobile phone feel, but Honor this move still reveals our strong determination to impact the video high-end machine.
Honor Magic3 has high-speed autofocus capabilities in both photography and video
In addition to LOG video, Honor Magic3 Pro also provides 4K HDR video shooting capabilities, and directly in the interface to give the preset LUT, we can use HDR video wider shadow tone level, with the help of preset LUT to better play the charm of rich shadow tone.
Fifth, experience summary and prospect
We focused on the strength of the Honor Magic3 Pro in still and dynamic images, and this honor provides the new flagship with complete imaging hardware, from 13mm ultra-wide to 10X hybrid zoom to 100X digital zoom. If the hard power of taking pictures has been "good", then the performance in video can be called "excellent". The first Honor Magic-Log and film-level 3D LUT provide better imaging quality and richer tone style for mobile movie creation, and the shooting ability of 4K HDR video also makes Honor Magic3 comparable to other image flagship mobile phones, and can use 8 preset LUTs to make the post-adjustment of 4K HDR videos simpler.
In addition to the image strength that this article focuses on experiencing, honor magic3 Pro is also very good in other aspects: in terms of hardware configuration, honor magic3 pro adopts the top Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus chip, with superconducting hexagonal crystal graphene technology and ultra-thin VC liquid-cooled stereoscopic cooling system, which can ensure enough smooth frame rate in the game while temperature control is also very good; honor magic3 Pro is equipped with screen support 120Hz high brush, true 1.07 billion colors, HDR 10+ Certification, DCI-P3 wide color gamut, Delta E<0.8, hardware level 4096 screen brightness adjustment and 1920Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, etc., the comprehensive top specifications give this screen a realistic and natural color performance and a comfortable look of use; Honor Magic3 Pro is equipped with a 4600mAh large-capacity battery, and supports 66W wired fast charging and 50W wireless fast charging, which completely solves the user's battery anxiety problem; the product also supports IP68-level dustproof and waterproof, In terms of application security and privacy, it realizes five major principles such as minimization, transparency and controllability, end-side processing, identity anonymity, and security protection.
In short, in addition to professional imaging capabilities, Honor Magic3 Pro has also achieved extremely high quality in other aspects, and the comprehensive ability can be said to be outstanding in the current flagship products. The birth of the Honor Magic3 series has indeed brought new ideas for mobile phone products to the industry, brought enough new surprises to users, and provided enough reasons for consumers to choose to buy.