xiaomi has just launched the 12T Pro it has a 200 megapixel sensor from Samsung the hp1 with
Optical image stabilization and an F 1.69 8p lens to it so does it live up to the hype 200
megapixels will it have noticeable shutter lag will there be some slowdown some delays can it
compete with other flagships can we actually take a photo with the full 200 megapixel sensor readout
I'll be answering all of those questions along with the other cameras that this phone does have
in this detailed camera review of the xiaomi 12T Pro using the stock camera application we
have a lot of options here from xiaomi if you're unfamiliar with their camera app so you see on the
left here we've got AI controls now I normally do not enable this because it will often overdo
the photos I find personally with oversaturate things and sometimes the colors are just way too
Punchy so I keep that disabled but it's personal choice there then we're going to our HDR options
you can set that to Auto you can force it on or turn it off I normally just keep that on auto let
it decide and we've got different options there too as well that you can select up here you can
see so you've got voice shutter movie frame you've got your macro which is only 2 megapixels a timed
burst shot and your timeouts are there and I have guides on normally just to help me make
sure I've got the Horizon level so with this sensor here this is the 200 megapixel it's F
1.69 the aperture then we have an 8 megapixel Ultra wide so this one not very good quality it
can only shoot 1080p video unfortunately so we've got digital zoom up to two times here
now is there any Shadow lag I know a lot of people are probably asking that no okay when
you take a photo it's pretty much instantaneous now if you tap here and tap again you can use a
five times or a ten times digital Zoom but once you go over about three times it tends to look
a little bit washed out like an oil painting I personally would not use it so we have our
portrait mode you can select the aperture right here the blue amount of blur you want night mode
not my works on all of the cameras it also works on the front facing camera too under more we've
got the various different other options as you can see like time lapse long exposure Vlog and Ultra
HD a lot of people probably have this question so by default when you go into it it's 50 megapixels
however on the left you see this option here 200 megapixel tap that and you can take what is called
by xiaomi a 200 megapixel Ultra HD photo then you can easily just disable that now under video let's
take a look at the options we do have so with the main sensor we've got this uh 1080p 60 30 4K we've
got 60 and 30 and then 8K it's only 24 frames per second you can also shoot low quality 2 megapixel
macro videos that are just hopeless not really worth it at all and there is no higher speed
modes there okay for what we're looking at there's a 60 frames per second no 120 there unfortunately
so with the documents that's the document mode they've probably taken that from xiaomi and the
pro mode finally this is my favorite they've got a lot of options here I really do like it so you
can see here we've got our exposure peaking there we've got audio peaking audio levels you can tap
here on the upper left hand corner you can set what resolution you want what frame rate you want
you've got a large option which is really good if you need to grade the video if you wanted to
do that I've got focus peaking so turn that on now exposure verification and of course 8K 24 you can
actually use the manual settings here too now the iso this goes all the way up to let's have a look
it goes all the way up to I think it is 6400 and our shutter rate we can take that all the way up
to 30 seconds so there's lots of options there you can do this with both the camera mode and
the video mode and also if you're in the camera mode you can shoot raw right there as you can see
the main scene says my first time testing out the sensor so we've got 4K 30 4K 60 8K
24 frames per second and it does have Optical and electronic image
stabilization so just walking ahead here to test it out that's stability
seems to be reasonably good and I've had no issues with the focus at least not in these lighting
conditions it's very bright so the aperture is f 1.69 and I can apply some digital Zoom here
so that is now two times it's 2.1 and if I pull back uh it won't go over to the ultra y because
the ultra wide camera can't shoot 4K so that is a bit of a letdown just like the audio quality
the ultrawide does not look nearly anywhere as good as that main camera it just looks all
washed out because well it's only 1080p as well but the lens look at the edges very blurred so it
does use electronic image stabilization and I'll just jog up these stairs here
can see it's uh it's all right the stabilization but I certainly won't be using this 8 megapixel
sensor a lot at all so I think they should have gone with a 13 megapixel Ultra wide and perhaps
give it auto focus it could be used as a macro camera there but it just seems that
they've cheaped out here when it comes to the ultra wide so the front-facing camera is a 20
megapixel camera that was seen a lot of and it has an F 2.4 aperture lens it's only 1080p that's all
you can shoot with maximum the electronic image stabilization as you can see as I'm walking along
here is not too bad but really xiaomi needs to up their game there should be 4K at least now
being on Flagship phones 4K 34k 60 would be good audio bitrate is also disappointing it is only
96 kilobits per second I need to address this with a firmware update 8K video sample now so
this is only 24 frames per second so as I pan around even though it's really slow it probably
looks a little bit choppy now it is not using electronic image stabilization just the optical
and you can shoot a maximum of only six minutes at 8K it's probably to stop the phone from
overheating it does seem quite steady as I walk along here with that Optical image stabilization
better than I thought it would be 4K 60 frames per second so obviously this is a lot smoother
a lot of people do like this just Smooths out the motion more than a
course 30 frames per second but it's going to jog our head here
and it's looking pretty good over to our photo quality now during daytime here so this is a
200 megapixel photo it is a whopping huge 57 megabytes it allows us to crop into the photos
and still get an amazing amount of detail as you can see now I've cropped in quite a bit
here the more you crop in is do start to see a bit of noise coming to play here I've seen the
same with 108 megapixel sensors and you notice there's more noise but you're just gaining so
much more in detail so if you're someone that loves to crop into photos a lot you
are going to love the sensor and the 200 megapixel mode by default the sensor does
give us a 12 megapixel pixel Bend photo and they are excellent lots of detail just look
at the little fine hairs around my cat Vera's nose here it's looking great and this photo
to me is starting to look almost like is this actually taken on a cell phone or was it a DSLR
portrait photos have been really good on this phone and I am really impressed with
the color rendition here the stitching seems to be excellent and even this shot that's indoors
not the best lighting conditions and then Outdoors you can see the stitching again look at that the
outline of my daughter's shirt around her here it's done a really good job excellent I do like
the colors they're using for portraits even the selfie portraits so this is just a standard shot
here then the portrait mode it has blurred the background nicely good stitching and it
even got it around my sunglasses this Samsung HP one can take some stunning photos very clear
lots of detail but what about digital Zoom this is two times now very usable it looks good and
they'll even go as far as five times now which is okay I wouldn't say it's an amazing shot but for
some people that's still going to be usable not bad considering it has no optical zoom cameras
now if there was any camera that was disappointing it would be for me the ultra wide camera now it
does have 120 degree field of view on a good day it can take a very good photo but when you crop
in when you take a look at the edges you look at the overall shot it's lacking a little bit it's
not up to the standard of the main camera so it is a bit of a letdown for me so the main sensor
does take really good photos but it does have one area of weakness I have noticed and that is
the processing of very bright flowers so this red flower here it's clipping it's over saturated it
is overdone so not an amazing shot if you plan to take lots of photos of bright flowers you're going
to be disappointed then our night photos they are very good now the difference between a night shot
and a normal shot there's barely anything I would just use the normal photo mode you can see from
these samples it's looking good now the ultra wide is the weaker camera as you'd expect for low light
it doesn't hold up very well at all often looking quite blurry just lacking details and not amazing
it's only an 8 megapixel sensor it's not a high quality sensor either and no I haven't forgotten
the macro camera two megapixel images they look terrible we don't even need this camera I don't
know why they have it now that main sensor it really does have huge potential now xiaomi hasn't
really had a lot of time on with it have they it's just come out this phone we're on the basically
the first firmware and even now I'm seeing some scenarios where the sensor with xiaomi's
optimization has actually competed or gone head to head with some top Flagship phones that are
a lot more expensive the iPhone 14 pro Max the Galaxy s22 Ultra and in a couple of scenarios
there it actually did end up I feel beating them so that's why the sensors got a lot of potential
to it and no it's not actually all hype really good to see considering the price point of this
phone being cheaper than those others there now there are some areas where software can
improve things so I hope that xiaomi can fix the audio bitrate for video quality it's terrible no
96 kilobits per second is just not acceptable at one point they were using 320 kilobits per second
with phones like their me 11 Ultra but they seem to have dropped that for some reason they forgot
to change that single line of code which I know it actually is the front-facing camera well no
4K video with it and the ultra wide it's not a great camera really and then we have a 2
megapixel macro camera which really no one's going to use it's not that good at all it shouldn't be
there so they should focus on giving us a better Ultra wide I hope with future models so of course
there are gcam ports you could probably test out you can probably squeeze more out of that
main sensor or just a different style of photo but really good to see where things are going and the
direction that they're taking xiaomi at least with the 12T model here so we do have another
video I do have sorry of a camera comparison of this up against the s22 ultra the iPhone 14
pro Max which I briefly showed you in the this video and then it's the full in-depth review of
the 12T Pro if you want to know the rest of the story of this phone how's the battery life what's
the screen like what is its performance like does the ROM have bugs is it fast I answer all of that
in those videos so do check them out and thanks a lot for watching this camera review of the 12T Pro