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so I've just got the qua weight mate 20 profe is the latest flagship for par way and on the back you will see it has got three cameras and a flash in this square thing here now I want to see what these cameras can do so I'm going to take this out across London see what sort of shots we can get now you may also notice that I've covered it in horrible brown tape so this phone looks like a piece of crap right now that is my fault because we need to make sure this is hidden from view when we go walking around London just so we don't get mobbed by Huawei fans trying to take it from us okay want this shot of this wide seen across London and already actually I'm looking that this phone uses the AI scene detection mode that we've seen before and so already it's showing me that it's detected blue sky and it's boosting those blue skies a bit and looks like it's doing a bit of HDR stuff down here on these buildings to bring up those shadows I'm going to take that shot okay because it at the moment is shooting in standard mode and it gives just a nice reasonably wide view at the scene but there is an option to go even wider and that brings in so much more of the scene including the building that you'll see on the right okay I think it's time to hit the streets we've actually got here multiple zoom mode you've got either the super wide at naught point six times which gets us this shot we've got the regular view which will get us that shot a three times zoom which gets us up there and a five times which gets right in on that underground side now the AI mode has recognized that there's a bicycle in this picture I don't know why that matters I don't know what settings you'd apply to a shop that has a bicycle in it particularly one that's stationary like that but hey ho it's very clever that it's managed to do that so one of the cool things that's new in the video side is this selective color mode so you can see that we've got our guy here standing in the middle and if you turn to a site you can see that it will start tracking its face it knows that there's a person there is really handy but if we go into the different scene modes as one called AI color and when AI color is activated what it will do is actually it recognizes it as a person in the scene and it will pretty much keep only them in color even if they move the bar or if we move about it will track them track their position the background will stay in black and white as we saw before this is a scene that is packed with color so it's doing a really good job of isolating him there in this scene as he's walking around and I can move the phone about keep him on one side of the screen or in the other and it still keeps him tracked and with an exception of a few couple of little blips it keeps everything in black and white which yeah may not be affected when I use all the time but it's pretty cool when it works like this of course when you do see a nice bright wall like this you will probably want to take a selfie in front of it now there is a 24 megapixel front facing camera and there's plenty of effects that they put into this like HDR modes and various lighting effects kind of similar to what we've seen on like the iPhone 10 so let's give those a try see how they compare I can take a shot at you working hard so trying to get this shot with this really really bright sky the sun's there was a bright blue sky and obviously the front of this building is falling to shadow so I want to see how well things like the HDR mode will help so bring up those shadows of it now the AI is detecting at the moment it's gone from building to bicycle to blue sky and now it's not giving me anything at the moment I think there's so many different things going on in the scene I didn't really know what's best to lock onto so I'll take a shot and see what that looks like this is a very very challenging scene for even a professional camera to take so I'm not expecting miracles from just a phone nothing for pigeons I was hoping for feathered rats getting right up close on this leave it has autumn leaves if you use the wide-angle mode you can you can focus extremely close as well up to about two two and a half centimetres which I'm doing here and when you do that you see a lot more of the background as well so it really puts that leaf in context but for me I do prefer using the five times een to really isolate the object from its background I prefer that shop here's one when I am using the really super wide angle lens to get close focus on this face but still get all of the street going in the way into the background which looks really cool on a shot like this okay definitely time for some food photos now we finally got everything that we want to eat we're gonna start on this is this chicken it is chicken all right obviously they're telling me it's food so it's worked that much out more food and the bagel is food okay and then top down and no longer knows its food time to eat it and of course no photoshoot around London would be complete without one shots of some beers in a dark pub so here we go and that's also just try one more selfie with the beer in lower light conditions good beer brought our wonderful model James in you're going to take some photos of him now using regular portrait mode if I can turn the camera around so there we go portrait detector the face there he is again we can do Beauty level what do I complete Beauty level 10 I think BT level 10 much better that's a 10 great and I think that brings us to a close via time I think overall I'm pretty pleased with what the mate 20 pro managed to achieve on my little photo tour the AI steen recognition does a good job of helping boost colors and saturation and contrast giving photos a nice punchy look some of the lower light indoor shots did look a little bit soft so I'm keen to explore that further particularly as the Huawei p20 Pro was such a low light champ but for much more on the huawei mate 20 and the 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