Two phones are going all-out to take amazing bokeh photos, but are they better than the Pixel7Pro and iPhone14Pro? We find out in an unusual camera test.
Two new phones are doing something different with their cameras to create a stronger, more versatile depth of field effect, where the background is blurred around a subject. It’s a complicated technical endeavor on a phone, as to replicate the effect naturally, it normally requires a DSLR camera with a large sensor and manually adjustable aperture.
Related The Huawei Mate 50 Pro has a manually adjustable aperture, where you can vary the main camera’s aperture using a slider control in the app between f/2.0 and f/4.0. The Tecno Phantom X2 Pro has a pop-out portrait camera with a large f/1.49 aperture that’s ready to take photos with a deep, natural depth of field.
How we took the photos you’re about to see Before we look at the photos, there are a few things to know. Most of the photos taken with the iPhone and the Pixel 7 Pro were shot using the optical zoom modes, which emphasizes the depth of field effect. This made them all easier to compare. The Tecno’s photos are all shot at 2.5x, as this is when the Portrait Camera pops out of the phone, while the Mate 50 Pro’s photos were shot using 1x or 3x zoom in the camera app.
Previous Next 1 of 4 The car is black, and while there is a lot of reflection, it’s only the iPhone and the Pixel that truly show the car’s color, with the Tecno giving the finish a gray/blue tint, and the Mate 50 Pro slightly lacking the depth of the black in the iPhone and Pixel’s photo. The Pixel gets the required depth of field and the color exactly right, but the Tecno’s beautiful blur makes it a very close second.
Previous Next 1 of 4 The iPhone and the Huawei phone perform similarly, although the iPhone’s color balance is spot-on in comparison to the blue tint visible in Huawei’s photo. The Pixel 7 Pro and Phantom X2 Pro get the effect I want, and while the Pixel’s color balance is wonderful, the Tecno phone shoots from further away for a wider view, and it’s an effect the other phones couldn’t quite match.
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