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David you're gonna eat it or not no no I am not back in April we decided to start a new video series because of the Huawei P 20 Pro the changes in the camera were so significant that the only way to review it properly was to have a separate video just for the camera features alone but even though the video served its purpose and we learned that the camera was great we also learned that there was room for improvement even with all of its spec sheets and now that we've got a new kit in town with a couple of extra changes how about if we do this one more time I'm primarily that of a pocket now and let's see what the huawei mate xx pro can do from the beautiful Taiwan so curly in a sector called gel fen which is famous for its historical gold-mining and once again a disclaimer this is not a full review that is going to be a separate video mainly because one more time the features on this camera are so significant that in one video is not enough Rebecca in Taipei in our hotel and just to give you a preamble we crowned the Huawei P 20 pro as one of the best cameras of early this year mainly because not just the va's software capabilities but because of all the hardware that was included in the package now I guess I honestly have to give that title to the huawei mate 20 pro mainly because you've got the hardware you've got the software but then there are some added enhancements that I really love Huawei dubs that it's thinking lense tuned by lenka we still have three cameras but they now have some added functionality the primary shooters of a whopping 40 megapixels @f 1.8 aperture and a 27 millimeter equivalent with an interesting play of pixel binning that merges four pixels into one to provide you with more light in a 10 megapixel shot by default but that you can switch to 40 megapixels as an option the second is the return of an 8 megapixel telephoto at F 2.4 ampere and an 80 millimeter equivalent and the new addition of a 20 megapixel wide-angle camera at F 2.2 instead of the monochrome with a 16 millimeter equivalent i've always said that if one company could figure out a way to provide all three angles regular wide and telephoto in one module i would be sold and this is it but let's also praise this module i love this design it is completely unique and I love how the flash just complements the whole array probably one of my favorite things about this phone there's also a strong play of software here with Huawei's new master AI 2.0 in the past scene detection would focus mainly on objects or lighting now the camera is able to detect when using wide-angle cameras more convenient or when a super macro would also help you get a better shot there's also the addition of other AI enhancements like 4d predict the focus object recognition active tracking of subjects in real time etc so now that we've covered the added functionality of the camera in addition to the more mature software how are the photos in a word I would call them fantastic one of the things that I really liked about the May 10 Pro that I thought was missing about the p20 Pro was that like a approach of more true-to-life photos where even grain is a feature the May 20 Pro is more subtle about saturation more balanced about its use of color and less aggressive about sharpening I know the phrase of a phone mimicking a DSLR gets tossed around a lot but if you're accustomed to using Panasonic's which also collaborate with Leica the photos on the May 20 Pro are pretty darn close but with the added functionality that mirrorless cameras aren't really smart about what they see they only meet her and shoot while the main 20 Pro adapts to what it sees and boosts the results where it should there are also some additional modes in scene detection being added to AI like for example we're currently at the golden waterfall in Taipei and the phone detects that there is a waterfall and adapts absolutely everything to take the better shot and then we've got the advantage of how the other camera lenses complement the experience of photography most people question things like the need for a telephoto lens for example sure it's good for zooming into subjects but their best use in my opinion is for street photography the crop serves to help you feel that sort of postcard effect but almost feels like if you were there I'm a 20 protocol zoom and 5x hybrid zoom in up to 10x though that's more digital and this is seriously still the camera that I trust for zoom photography I feel that this is the only case where you get true detail and yes sadly the monochrome sensor is no more if you want to take black-and-white photos there is a mode within the settings to enable monochrome photos but this is pretty much a filter that being said I feel that making the trade-off for a wide-angle camera is worth it in every way see the wide-angle camera serves two purposes first at 0.6 X you can take a wider shot which is a more epic photo in certain sceneries in most cases AI will detect when widest more recommended but I love that it won't adjust unless you accept a switch and then the second purpose is probably my favorite which is super macro where you can get as close as 2.5 centimeters from your subject and take some really awesome close-up shots it's very hard to find this functionality on a phone but if you want to get into the truly epic conversation let's talk about night mode well it continues to impress with its way to allow users to take long exposure shots and stitch together the best parts if you can hold the phone still you might not notice much of a difference between the regular photo and the night mode and that's mainly because the phone will select the first photo this is great because you know you're still getting a good shot regardless of you held the phone still or not but for those times when you were able to do a good job at holding it still this phone can really push out light out of a scene up to the point where there are certain cases where the result looks so real I've noticed that whenever I don't enable night mode some of the photos result that's pretty much whatever my eyes see portrait mode is interesting you don't really have the flexibility to edit a photo after you've taken it but I kind of don't think that you'll actually want to do that I have this photo of my kids that I show everyone where we have a backlit scenario the light was dim and Wow the photo is probably one of my favorites of all time I won't sit here and tell you that the effect is the most natural but it does work really well and it has the advantage that you don't really have to step back to get your shot there are some optional lighting scenarios and gimmicks available but you know I stay away from those and well our experience filming this outside was cut short because it's raining and beautiful Taipei but let's talk about another important feature which is definitely the selfie camera as well the specs here are fantastic we're talking about a 24 megapixel shooter at F 2.0 aperture and a 26 millimeter equivalent photos are good and I love that Huawei now has a setting for HDR on the viewfinder as one of the most common problems with selfies are blown out backgrounds as the camera meters for you and not for the background I won't say that the results are the best and even if you've got all the def sensing technology to allow for really good selfie portraits at the moment it kind of seems like if something's missing because I don't really notice much of a difference between selfie portraits and regular shots but it could just be my unit video recording has received some very significant improvements if you compare the May 20 Pro with the P 20 Pro I have a full separate video about my experience vlogging with this phone during the Porsche experience of the made 20 RS and in a nutshell we now have stabilization in 4k and pretty much every other mode there's also stabilization with selfie video and I like that the crop is not so aggressive to achieve it and then probably some of my favorite enhancements have to do with the filters where you can play sort of like the same effect that you see in Sin City where you select the specific portion of the video and in real time it'll only color specific portions of the video and the rest will be in black and white and then there is the benefit of the larger sensor I took this video in London where the sensor allows this amazing shallow depth of field and video but the only thing that I feel could improve is the codec as video seems a bit over sharpened or overexposed in certain scenarios but I do believe that it has everything to do with fact that I recorded almost everything in a gloomy scenario and not necessarily with the best lighting overall what can I say the huawei mate 20 Pro is really hard to beat when it comes to photography the hardware is here up to the point where it's really hard to find all this package somewhere else and we also have an interesting play of software and sure not everything is perfect but the huawei p20 Pro is proof that the company could update the phone and make it really good a lot of the bugs that I complained about are ironed out right now so definitely it's really hard for me not to recommend the huawei mate 20 Pro this is pretty much one of my favorite picks as one of the best smartphones of 2018 I mean you've got the photography and this sleek design just makes it really hard to beat let us know what you think about this phone in the comments down below and while you're at it make sure you follow us on social media subscribe to both of our channels English and Spanish for more videos like this one you can follow me on twitter and address quarterly that aren't into the ground at high meta data please give this video a thumbs up if you like what you saw I'm how you met early that I think so much for watching we'll see you on the next one