hey what's going on people hope you guys are doing good today we're going to be talking
about the cameras on the vivo x80 pro in case you guys don't know the vivo x70 pro plus was
one of my favorite phones of last year the camera system was incredible and i just really enjoyed
all the photos that i was able to take on that phone and with the vivo x80 pro it builds on
that camera system including the zeiss partnership which i really feel makes this phone and the vivo
x70 pro plus stand out from other phones we're gonna go over several camera tips and tricks for
photos in this video so um let's go ahead and get started i know we're inside typically i would just
shoot the video outside but it's way too bright it's way too hot you can't make out anything on
the screen so we got to do this one indoors the first thing i want to talk about is the zeiss
partnership so zeiss actually has a mode built into the camera for more natural looking colors
or just basically a giving you zeiss color science so if you go into the camera app and then go under
photo mode up at the top you can see zeiss if you toggle that on it's going to give you a natural
look so it's going to mute the colors a little bit and overall i find it to be more pleasing
than using the ai or just basic ai computational photography so right here right off the bat you
can see it so right now zeiss is turned off and ai is turned on and you can see the colors are more
saturated now watch this i'll go ahead and toggle it on and you can see the colors became more muted
here's a few examples of exactly what i mean and this is going to come in handy if you're
trying to take a portrait shot and you want the skin tones not to be so red or so vibrant you
just want a natural look toggle on zeiss and that's definitely going to help your photos
look as natural as possible so not only do you get the zeiss natural color mode you also get
some really awesome features inside of portrait mode when it comes to zeiss portrait options so
what you're going to do is you're going to go into portrait mode then you're going to tap on
this little diamond looking thing over on the right hand side tap on that and that's going to
pull up your different styles now of course vivo does have their own natural camera vintage film
french emulation or french film i can't really make out what that says french imaging flash
port party so those are all regular vivo filters but then you have the zeiss ones so zeiss has and
i'm excuse me but i'm about to butcher these like crazy we have biotar i think that's how you say it
sonar planar distagon and cinematic and all you have to do is just go into these select them and
you're going to get a different type of look to your portrait shots the bokeh is or bokeh
is going to be different the colors are going to be different and it just i don't know i really
like it it adds a very unique look to your portrait mode shots they almost look like they
came straight out of a mirrorless here's a few examples and these are examples for every single
mode so you have a couple for biotar a couple for sonar a couple for planar a couple for
distagon and of course cinematic i really like them all and again this is one of my favorite
camera systems on any phone and it's specifically because of this the next thing that i want to
talk about is effects master this is really cool what you're going to do is go into the camera app
go under the regular photo mode tap on the three lines in the top right and then you see the option
for effects master tap on that and this is really cool because it allows you to adjust your exposure
and the saturation of the image prior to taking the shot so if you take your finger and then you
slide up it's going to increase the exposure and then swiping down decreases the exposure
then if you swipe from left to right so if we go to the left we actually decrease the
saturation in the image as you can see and then if we swipe to the right we increase the saturation
and you can really dial in your shot exactly how you want so if you want a black and white image
but you don't want it completely black and white so say something like that to where it's really
muted and then you want a darker image you can just crank down the exposure or if you want it
really bright you could do something like that so it's really cool that you could do this prior to
taking your shot so now let's talk about hdr when it comes to hdr processing most smartphones are
really good because of computational photography and the multi-frame stacking that happens as you
take a shot however if you want fine-tuned control of hdr such as if you're doing a real estate shoot
and you want to manually control the amount of hdr that's being applied to the photos then you're
going to want to use something called exposure bracketing which this smartphone comes with
so what you're gonna do is go into the camera app go under pro mode tap on the three lines in
the top right and then select bracketing which is right here in the middle you can adjust your
bracketing limits so you could take three shots five shots or seven shots and then you can adjust
your ev interval from point three point five to one so i'm gonna go ahead and select point
five we'll do five shots and i'll go ahead and take the photo and you can see it's it's capturing
five shots so if i go into my gallery there's one it's overexposed there's another slightly
less exposed or less overexposed and then another that's less overexposed another that's less
overexposed and then finally one that's pretty underexposed minus the um the window lighting
and then you're going to take all of these photos and then you're going to put them in your photo
editor on your computer and then you're going to stitch all the frames together and adjust your
hdr like i said this isn't for everybody but if you're doing real estate shoots then you probably
have a lot of experience doing this anyways and this is how you're going to get the best hdr
image when it comes to manually processing that photo the vivo x80 pro has a pretty good macro
mode it doesn't get as close as the galaxy s 22 ultra or the iphone 13 pro but the image itself
looks really clean so what you're going to do is go into the camera go under the photo mode
and then just get your phone really close and you'll see it automatically click on
and it does a pretty good job so this is using the auto macro mode or the auto super macro mode
i'm gonna go ahead and snap this shot and you can see it looks pretty good however i've noticed that
if you're using the macro mode in auto sometimes it could be a little wonky and it glitches a
little bit so you might want to manually control this so go up top tap on the little flower and
then just tap on now you're automatically in the macro mode now if you bring it close you
can see it's not switching or anything like that so i can get really close and then snap the shot
and i found that if i manually control the macro mode i can get a little bit closer the next tip
or trick that i have for you is stabilization we talk about stabilization a lot in video mode
which i do have a separate video for that but the stabilization in photo mode on the vivo x80 pro
is out of this world like it literally freezes your subject no matter how much you're bumping
around it works really good but there's another feature that pairs with this stabilization
to allow you to hold your phone as still as possible it just helps out with that go up
in the top right corner tap on the three little dots and then tap on stabilization you'll see this
little circle up here and if i move the phone you can see it's basically the gimbal doing its thing
like it's it's really really cool so if i go like down really fast the circle kind of like flattens
out and if i go up you can see it kind of flattens out up top if i go right it turns to the right
i don't know it's really neat let me give you an example with just how good the stabilization works
so let's just say i'm on like a dirt road or something like i know i'm in the house this is
kind of like far-fetched but um we're gonna have to use our imagination on this one i'm on a dirt
road and i'm bouncing this kind of looks really weird but i'm bouncing and i want to get a picture
of my dog so watch this my phone is bouncing up and down i'm going to go ahead and snap the shot
and look at how clear that image is i almost forgot before we move on from stabilization
there's one more feature i want to talk about so if we go into the main settings inside the camera
app so tap on the three lines in the top right tap on settings you have micro gimbal calibration so
if you notice that your stabilization is a little wonky maybe the gimbal the internal
gimbal is messing up because the vivo x80 pro and the x70 pro plus do have internal gimbals you can
calibrate it so just tap on that and then right now it's calibrating you can see the camera is
moving itself around calibration is complete and now it should be a little bit more stable although
i really didn't have any issues to begin with but if you notice that it is a little wonky you can
just go ahead and calibrate it and it should fix any issues the auto focus on the vivo x80 pro is
really good so if i put my hand in front of the camera and then move it around you can see it
does a pretty good job at keeping my hand in focus but if you want to extend the capabilities of this
auto focusing system there is something called motion autofocus to get to it tap on the three
little lines in the top right go under motion auto focus and then once you're inside of here
you have auto focus tracking which basically just gives you the ability to spot focus so you can tap
just like so and it will lock if you touch and hold so it's basically just manual focusing by
tapping but if you go under motion autofocus and then also enable manual focus tracking well now
you can touch your subject and then double tap and then now it is tracking in real time
so no matter where i move my hand is going to continuously track my hand even if i leave the
frame and then come back on it's going to pick up from where it left off so my hands off the frame
come back in look at that it works like a boss the vivo x80 pro has a really good night mode
so let's go ahead and dive into that and go over a few things the first thing i want to cover is
the night mode panorama feature which is up here at the top so once you're inside of night mode
select the little icon that has like a picture and then two lines next to it and then that enables
panorama night mode and it's incredible here's an example of a couple panorama night mode shots
that i took and i gotta say they look really really good i was blown away by this feature
another thing that i want to talk about are the filters inside of night mode so as i showed you
vivo does have their own special filters but if you go under night mode there are some unique ones
specific to this mode so if you tap on the little triangle or diamond thing on the right hand side
and pull up the filters you have black and golden cyberpunk dreamy spotlights
texture black and whites blue ice green and orange dark red blue orange and silver orange
some of these filters look really good depending on what you're trying to capture
if like you're in a city cyberpunk adds a really cool look and of course you can dial back the
filter with this slider until you get it to where you want so if you're doing something
for social media this is a good way to spice it up before you take your shop if you don't want to
do any editing or anything like that so it's just something that's really nice that you should look
into when using night mode staying inside of night mode another thing that i want to cover is tripod
detection so if you have your phone on a tripod it will automatically detect it and then give you a
really long exposure giving you a crystal clear night mode shot which is awesome if you want to
disable this just tap the little tripod symbol in the top left and it will turn off tripod detection
honestly i just recommend leaving it on because it does a great job at recognizing a tripod
on its own but if you notice there's any glitches or anything like that you can toggle it off
the next thing i want to talk about is the long exposure feature so if you want to do a long
exposure of like traffic or other lights just toggle on the little symbol that has like a box
and some lines next or inside of it just toggle that on you'll see long exposure pop up and then
it gives you a bunch of different choices including flow of traffic night graffiti
waterfalls mysterious mist fireworks and star trails so it's really nice that they have these
presets dialed in for you and you can see the seconds over here on the bottom right so it'll let
you know exactly how long that long exposure is going to occur if you're doing a lot of these i do
recommend using a tripod you're going to get the best results or at least have your phone propped
up to where you're not touching it to take out any motion but it's really neat and you can capture
some really awesome shots using these little presets the other thing i want to talk about
is super moon so if we tap on the little moon icon and then tap on super moon it gives you like a
you know a moon shot similar to the galaxy s22 ultra it's not as zoomed in because it doesn't
have a hundred times zoom but it does blow up the moon and it looks really good so if we go back
into the little menu with the moon up here we also have an astrophotography mode so this is going to
capture a long exposure of the stars and then it's going to enhance the sky to really bring out those
stars here's a couple examples of what i mean and you can see the stars look pretty good and i gotta
say like by the naked eye or what i was seeing myself there wasn't that many stars in the sky so
it definitely brings out some of those features and details and i think it looks pretty cool
so let's go ahead and bounce out of night mode and then go under more then we're going to jump
into double exposure this is the next thing i want to talk about now chances are if you open
it up for the first time you're greeted with a bunch of flowers but don't worry we can switch
this up by tapping on the little box in the top left we can either choose from multiple exposure
front and rear exposure which is going to capture a photo from the front camera and the back camera
or we could do two exposures which allows you to use the rear cameras to capture one photo
and then another photo the idea behind this is to capture two shots at two different exposures
and then it blends those shots together they give you a really creative shot i suck at this here's
some examples of what i've done and you can see i am not very good at it but um nonetheless like
if you're really creative and you know how to take advantage of this you can get some really
interesting shots the next feature that i want to talk about is inside of portrait mode so let's go
ahead and bounce back into there the feature is called portrait framing and it's great for people
that are just getting started in photography and know nothing about framing so we're going to tap
on the three lines in the top right we're going to go under settings scroll all the way down until
you see portrait framing and then toggle that on what that's going to do is give you some cues
and guidelines on how to frame your shot whenever you're capturing a portrait mode shot of a person
it has to have a face in the frame and it works really well here's a quick look at what it looks
like once you line everything up it will go ahead and start a countdown and automatically take the
photo for you i've been using portrait framing for all of the portrait mode shots that i've captured
so far and i gotta say the guides are on point and it actually does a great job at lining everything
up for you so i definitely recommend using it if you're not good at framing or if you want to get
more comfortable with framing staying inside of portrait mode there's a couple other things that
i want to go over and they have to do with beauty mode now typically i would advise not using beauty
mode but these are really unique features and i think they could be really useful so over on
the right hand side you have like a circle with a person with long hair and like a little star
if we tap on that it's going to pull up beauty mode typically this is the beauty things that
i don't recommend using like buffing skin tone whitening things like that but next to beauty
there's posture if you tap on that it gives you framing ideas for taking portraits so if you're
taking a picture of say a couple of your friends you can tap on it and you can see it gives you
an outline of how they should pose or if you go to downtown you have some options of like
city posing you have stylish sport travel like there's a lot of different posing ideas in here
that could really help you out if you're trying to capture some you know instagram
shots or more lifestyle shots they even have different selfie poses that you can do
for females for males i don't know i think it's really neat and i've never seen this
on any other phone let me know in the comment section if you've seen this before outside of
vivo smartphones and what you think about it i think this is like really useful the last thing
that i want to talk about inside of portrait mode or more specific beauty mode is not found in the
typical beauty mode settings instead we have to go into the main settings so let's go ahead and dive
into there scroll all the way down and you see the option to remove moles as long as beauty mode is
turned on and this is enabled it will literally remove moles from photos and i'm not talking
about like the animal mole i'm talking about like moles on people's faces it's kind of crazy
so the last thing that i want to talk about is pro mode now by now most phones have a pro mode built
into them unless of course we're talking about the iphone which come on apple but in terms of
android most android phones do have a pro mode and you can do a lot of things inside of here
you can adjust the exposure compensation the iso shutter speed white balance your auto focus so you
can switch it to manual focus you also have your metering modes you have different aspect ratios
and grid lines and things like that that you can do you have your zeiss colors but the thing that
i want to focus on is something called super raw so right next to zeiss you can see raw and it has
a line through it that just means that raw is disabled if you tap on it you can turn on raw
which gives you the ultimate flexibility when it comes to editing photos however we can take that
a step further by enabling super raw so super raw gives you all the benefits of a regular raw
image however it also gives you some computational photography to go along with that so it kind of
gives you a great looking image right out of the camera that you don't have to do a lot to minus
like some sharpening and things like that but overall super raw just gives you a
lot more information to play with and i definitely appreciate it so here's a couple examples of raw
versus super raw let me know what you think so there you guys go that was 15 plus camera tips
and tricks for the vivo x80 pro specifically for photography stay tuned for one on video because
that will be coming up next like i said i really love this camera system it's one of my favorite
camera systems in fact it might be my favorite camera system for photos so far i just love the
way the images come off of this camera and it just looks great plus the phone itself is really good
so stay tuned for my full review on this as well as the video tips and tricks comment
down below and let me know what you think of this camera system like i said it's really underrated
and um if there's any comparisons that you want to see me do with this um also comment down below and
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