Hi guys, it's MTG here, and today I have a highly requested video.
I'm going to be comparing the cameras found on the OnePlus 6 with the cameras on the Huawei
P20 Pro.
In this video I'll be comparing the cameras in various lighting conditions, and I'll also
take a look at the video and audio qualities of both phones.
Make sure to stick around to the end of the video to see how the two cameras perform in
more challenging lighting conditions, and to see what's so special about night mode.
Let's get right into it.
The Huawei P20 Pro has a triple camera setup with Leica optics.
The main camera is 40 Megapixels, the monochrome camera is 20 Megapixels, and the telephoto
camera that allows for 3x optical zoom and portrait mode pictures is 8 Megapixels.
They have apertures of F/1.8, F/1.6, and F/2.4 respectively.
The camera can record 4K video at 30 fps, 1080p at up to 60 fps, and 720p at up to 960
fps.
The main camera has optical image stabilization, but can only utilize it at 1080p at 30 fps.
The P20 Pro's front camera is 24 Megapixels with an f/2.0 aperture, and can record video
at 1080p at 30 fps The OnePlus 6 has a dual camera setup.
The main camera is 16 Megapixels.
The secondary camera has the same focal length, is 20 Megapixels, and is said to help with
portrait mode pictures.
They both have f/1.7 apertures.
The camera can record up to 4K at up to 60 fps and 1080p at up to 240 fps.
The main camera utilizes both gyroscope-based electronic image stabilization and optical
image stabilization.
The OnePlus 6's front camera is an impressive 16 Megapixels with an f/2.0 aperture.
It utilizes gyro-based EIS and has auto-HDR capabilities.
It can record video at 1080p at 30 fps.
First I'm going to take a look at the pictures shot on both phones in great lighting.
I turned off intelligent AI on the P20 Pro because the pictures just look like someone
put a filter on them.
Both phones perform great, as expected, in great lighting.
Here, we'll start to see the trend that the OnePlus 6 will tend to produce the brighter
image overall, whereas the P20 Pro appears to produce the image with the richer colors.
In my opinion, the P20 Pro does the better job with colors.
We can see the gradient in the sky in the P20 pro's image, whereas the OnePlus 6's image
seems to be slightly overexposed.
Here, the main difference between the two images appears to be the color of the sky.
The sky just seems more blue in the P20 pro's image.
If we zoom in and look closer to the free wi-fi sign, we can also see the advantages
of a 40 Megapixel sensor.
There is simply more pixels, which leads to less pixilation when we zoom in.
As we look at more side-by-sides, we can see that the P20 Pro really wants those colors
to pop.
A lot of people will prefer the look of the P20 Pro's images, but some of these images
end up looking slightly oversaturated and unnatural, so keep that in mind.
When I look at the portrait modes of both phones, note that both phones are able to
maintain a wide-angle.
The P20 Pro seems to do the better job with maintaining details on me, whereas the OnePlus
6 does the better job of maintaining the blues in the sky in the background.
Both phones struggled with the plant leaves beside me, but both phones did an overall
pretty good job with edge detection around my body.
With its recent update, The OnePlus 6 can now take portrait mode pictures on its front
camera like the P20 Pro can.
Whether in portrait mode or not, the front cameras of both phones pick up a tremendous
amount of detail, and the selfie camera you prefer will come down to the color temperature
and saturation levels you prefer.
As I shift into video, know that the OnePlus 6 is capable of recording 4K at 60 fps, but
I set it at 4K at 30 fps because that is what this video is uploaded at.
*video montage* The P20 Pro's 4K video has great quality.
It is highly detailed, has rich colors, maintains a wide-angle, and does well with dynamic range.
But the lack of video stabilization makes the 4K video almost unusable if you want to
be moving at all.
The OnePlus 6 has highly saturated video and might have slightly unnatural and jittery
panning due to its aggressive electronic stabilization, but the forward walking looks so smooth.
The 4K stabilization on the OnePlus 6, just makes the P20 Pro's 4K video look terrible.
What's crazy is that when I switched the phones to 1080p, the stabilization on the P20 Pro
was among the best I've ever tested.
Forward walking was extremely smooth, and it didn't do a bad job at all with the pans.
So if I needed to shoot video with the P20 Pro, I would keep it in 1080p because of how
bad the un-stabilized
video looks.
In terms of the front video quality of both phones, the OnePlus 6 has the much more stable
video, but as a result, has to crop in quite a bit.
The P20 Pro is able to deal with the harsh shadows on my face better, whereas the OnePlus
6 was able to pull out more colors in the foreground and background of the video.
In terms of audio, the P20 pro's audio sounds a little more natural, in my opinion.
Whereas the OnePlus 6's audio sounds slightly tinny.
The 6 is able to pick up more audio it seems, which makes me sound much louder in the OnePlus
6's video.
Both phones performed great when the lighting was great, but that is expected.
So for the rest of this video, I wanted to look at how the phones performed in more challenging
lighting conditions.
I took this picture to take a look at the HDR capabilities of both phones.
Both phones do a pretty good job with capturing their images with minimal noise, but the OnePlus
6 seems to do the overall better job of maintaining the colors and brightness of the foreground
of the image.
Here, both phones were able to maintain a good amount of detail in the foreground, but
the P20 Pro wasn't able to maintain all of the blues outside, like the OnePlus 6 was
able to.
Here, the sun was setting, and again the OnePlus 6 was able to produce the overall brighter
image.
However, the P20 Pro was able to pick up much more of the colors in the sky.
In this next image, the two phones performed very similarly.
This time, the OnePlus 6 appears to be the phone that produced the more saturated image.
Both images are great given the poor lighting conditions.
In the same lighting conditions, I also tested the portrait modes of both phones.
Again, both phones did a pretty good job with edge detection.
The P20 Pro was able to maintain more of the colors in the sunset, and did a great job
with minimizing noise while maintaining detail.
Whereas the OnePlus 6 was able to produce the much brighter image overall.
Both phones' front facing cameras also did a pretty good job in low lighting.
When it got really dark outside, the OnePlus 6's slightly larger aperture and software
was able to keep images bright, whereas the P20 Pro did a good job of minimizing noise
and dealing with light fixtures.
The biggest difference came when I changed the P20 Pro to night mode.
Now, pictures where the OnePlus 6 might have been slightly brighter, pale in comparison
to the P20 Pro's night mode images.
The P20 pro is able to open up its shutter for 6 seconds to gain as much information
as possible, and with help from its AI and image stabilization, it is able to produce
probably the best lowlight images I have ever seen come from a smartphone.
Yes it take six seconds as opposed to fractions of a second to take a picture, but I think
the results are very much worth it in the end.
It is undeniable that both camera systems are great.
The P20 Pro has the advantages of a really well implemented night mode and a whopping
40 megapixel sensor.
On the other hand, the OnePlus 6 has the advantages of a wider aperture and great dynamic range.
Also keep in mind that the P20 Pro is three to four hundred dollars more expensive than
the OnePlus 6.
In the end, a lot of it comes down to the specific look that you prefer.
In the next couple of days, I will be posting another camera comparison with the S9+, and
then after that I promise there are some full reviews and comparisons in the works.
Let me know in the comment section your thoughts on this camera comparison, and as always,
thanks for watching and I will see you in the next video.