Honor 5X packed with feature rich camera carrying 13MP rear camera with single LED flash, Sony IMX214 sensor, and 5MP front camera. Honor 5X has f/2.0 aperture on the rear camera and f/2.4 on the front camera. Honor 5X comes with advanced settings which are present in the professional camera. So it is not necessary to have a camera while carrying Honor 5X. It is good to take images by adjusting features like ISO, White balance and Image adjustment. It gives a new look to the images.
1. ISO
ISO is the sensitivity of the sensor to light. The use of ISO settings depends on the amount of light in the scene when you take the photo. With increased sensitivity, your camera sensor can capture images in low-light environments without using a flash. But higher sensitivity comes at an expense – it adds grain or noise to the pictures.
Honor 5X ISO speeds include 100, 200, 400 and 800.
ISO 100 are suitable for bright light (like outdoors on a sunny day).
ISO 200 is great for overcast or cloudy days.
ISO 400 and ISO 800 are used when the light is getting dim but it is not yet night.
To adjust ISO values Go to Camera Settings -> Select ISO
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2. White balance
White balance is the process of removing unrealistic color casts so that objects which appear white in color are rendered white in the image. That is, normally white balance option is used to adjust the camera so that whites are truly white and other colors are accurate under whatever light source you are using for shooting.
Auto
White balance is adjusted automatically.
Incandescent
This Feature gives a feel like you are taking images under incandescent light bulb. If you are shooting under incandescent light, your images may be objectionably warm, with orange skin tones and whites that are not white.
Direct light
If you are shooting outside under direct sunlight, the color is somewhat neutral and tends to be warm. The Direct light setting will balance your camera for shooting under direct sunlight.
Fluorescent
Fluorescent lights have lower color temperature than those of flash lights. It has a deficit of blue, so your images will come out looking greenish.
Cloudy
On a cloudy or overcast day the light has a blue tint that can make images seem cool. When you set the camera to cloudy white balance, it adds red (warmth) to the image so it looks more natural.
To adjust White balance values Go to Camera Settings -> Select White balance
3. Image Adjustment
Honor 5X gives you tools to adjust image quality which includes levels of Exposure, Saturation, Contrast, and Brightness.
- Exposure is the amount of light per unit area. That means it is the unit of measurement for the total amount of light permitted to reach the electronic sensor during the process of taking a photograph.
- Saturation increases the separation between colors. It is used to describe the intensity of color in the image. A saturated image has overly bright colors.
- Contrast is defined as the separation between the darkest and brightest areas of the image. High contrast images will have bright highlights and dark shadows, bold colors, and show texture. Low contrast images will have a narrow range of tones and might, therefore, feel flat or dull
- Brightness is the quality of visual perception that varies with amount or intensity of light that a given element in visual field or optical component appears to send out or transmit
To adjust the levels of Exposure, Saturation, Contrast and Brightness Go to Camera Settings -> Image adjustment
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Hi once again, everyone.
I've noticed that when using the flash on our Desire HDs, there is an extreme increase in warm colours. In other words, the picture will come out very yellow. This tip is only meant for indoors and macro shots, where lighting is needed, as outside pictures are balanced beautifully. To resolve the green-yellowish hue, hit the menu button while you're in the camera app. Go to White Balance, and touch Flourescent. Now take a picture, the picture will come out with more realistic colours. Do bear in mind that if pictures are not to your liking, you can use Photoshop, or for faster results, the built-in effects for our phones. Oh, and turn your ISO down to 100 when taking macro shots, or outdoors on a sunny day. Pictures are much more impressive and high quality.
Edit: it would seem ISO 100 images are better quality but overexpose extremely close macro shots. ISO 800 is recommended for this procedure
Remember to consult hamdir's guide for other problems
nice, ill try your flash tip tonight, if it works ill add it to the guide, if you don't mind
its seems your enjoying your camera as much as i do
autofix in the gallery effects improves tinted and badly contrasted pictures quit nicely
hamdir said:
nice, ill try your flash tip tonight, if it works ill add it to the guide, if you don't mind
its seems your enjoying your camera as much as i do
autofix in the gallery effects improves tinted and badly contrasted pictures quit nicely
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Of course I won't mind, we're both equally interested. You're my xda brother I guess xD anyways if I find other solutions i'll let you know, that way your guide can be a solution-for-all for everyone who not only has a Desire HD, but also any modern camera
awesome! it works well thanks
I am glad it did
guide update
i've added this to the flash section
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thx again
You're welcome
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Hi once again, everyone.
Edit: it would seem ISO 100 images are better quality but overexpose extremely close macro shots. ISO 800 is recommended for this procedure
Remember to consult hamdir's guide for other problems
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sorry but that is wrong.
turning the ISO up would surely cause it to be more likely to overexpose? unless its a bug in the firmware.
you got to remember the exposure triangle. aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. our aperture is fixed, the shutter speed automatic, but the iso user controllable. increase the ISO and the camera increases the shutter speed to maintain the correct exposure. lower iso, longer shutter speed.
ISO is used to increase the sensors sensitivity to light. higher ISO number means more sensitive but more noise, low number means less sensitive with less noise.
so in summary, ISO 100 should not cause the photo to overexpose unless the firmware is buggy. ISO 800 is more likely to cause overexposure.
ISO 800 should not be used for macro since it destroys fine detail very quickly, thereby giving a poor quality picture.
ISO should be left on auto unless lighting is poor (change to high ISO 800) or unless you believe the camera is using a shutter speed significantly faster than neccessary, and that picture quality is suffering due to ISO noise and/or noise reduction (change to low ISO 100/200)
good tip on the white balance though.
I agree, there seems to be a bug. The flash light is not compensated for. In real terms, what I am trying to say is...setting the ISO to 100 causes the camera to slow down by approximately 50% There operations are also slowed down. When the camera takes a macro picture at ISO 100, it does not compensate for the flash fast enough. As a result, the picture comes out overexposed. However, at ISO 800, there is no such decrease in operations. Thus, the flash can quickly be compensated for. You will understand if you try for yourself. Try very close macro shots. Set your lighting mode, and then set your ISO to first 100, and take a few pictures. Now try again with ISO 800. What happens?
With a more compact smartphone body, fitting complex components for image stabilization is almost impossible. One the other hand, carrying a tripod on the go would be unrealistic as it is bulky and cumbersome. It is no surprise then that image stabilization is a thorny issue to get right in smartphone photography.
Typically, there are three categories of smartphone stabilization technologies: Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS), Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) and AI Image Stabilization (AIS).
EIS (Electronic Image Stabilization) is generally used in videos. Due to handheld shakes or movements, videos can come out blurry. EIS technology counteracts these jitters/movements through real-time calculations of the movement and rotation of the camera. Hence, the video would appear steady.
OIS (Optical Image Stabilization) refers to actual lens adjustments to counteract hand jitters. Compared to EIS, OIS does not crop the image and power consumption is kept to a minimum. However, the range for OIS is narrow and can usually cancel out 1~2° of jitter.
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AIS (AI Image Stabilization) is a perfect blend of EIS and OIS. By identifying jitters with an AI algorithm, a series of images are aligned before being merged into one single unit to achieve stabilization.
The recently-unveiled HONOR 20 PRO is one of the few flagships smartphones available that supports EIS, OIS and AIS altogether. Furthermore, the quad camera system allows for basically any conceivable shooting scenario, including telephotography, macro and night photography, as well as videography. The HONOR 20 PRO scored 111 on DxO’s comprehensive camera test, the 2nd highest score for any smartphone camera. We will explore several scenarios to explain image stabilization on the HONOR 20 PRO.
1. Handheld Camera Shake
OIS works best in cancelling slight tremors that blurs photos. The in-built gyroscope detects jitters and generates adjacent movements in the opposite direction. This cancels out the jitter and generates clear and precise photos despite tremors in the photographer’s hand.
The following figure serves as an example. ‘A’ depicts the camera when it is kept stationary, but when light emitted from objects shift, the camera senses the jitter and the image becomes blurry. OIS, however, detects even the slightest movement and adjusts the lens real-time to ensure that the light hits at the correct position nevertheless.
Both the 48MP main camera and 8MP telephoto camera on the HONOR 20 PRO supports OIS, offering users a superior photography experience by balancing hand jitters.
2. Motion Blur
By definition, motion blur occurs when the subject moves during photography or videography. Just imagine taking a photo of a moving car, it is highly likely that your picture will come out blurry.
The solution would be to increase the shutter speed, which is to get a quick snapshot rather than prolonging exposure. However, increasing the shutter speed leads to decrease in image brightness, making it impossible to take clear pictures of fast moving objects in low-light conditions.
The HONOR 20 PRO features an F/1.4 aperture, the largest ever on a smartphone. It guarantees an average of an additional 50 % light reception, when compared with the standard F/1.8 aperture commonly seen on the market. HONOR applies an unique algorithm to achieve an ultra-high ISO value of 204,800, effectively minimizing noise that typically comes with high ISO. The HONOR 20 PRO’s outstanding photosensitivity further boosts the shutter speed, reducing the distortion brought about by motion blur.
3. Blurriness Caused by Image Synthesis
Night mode on smartphones has become commonplace. In principal, a series of photos taken within seconds apart are merged seamlessly into an integral unit. Through manipulating exposure time, the AI ensures that brighter areas are not overexposed, while darker regions are kept bright. However, since the user’s hand will inevitably shake within that few seconds, visual elements will “move” across the images, resulting in blurriness in the synthesized image.
The HONOR 20 PRO’s AIS image stabilization technology is the answer to this issue. By locating the pixels on each image, the AI algorithm detects and corrects discrepancies by the pixels, producing a sharp synthesized image
The following are sample photos taken by the HONOR 20 PRO.
The recently unveiled HONOR 20 PRO seamlessly integrates four rear sensors that allows for basically any conceivable shooting scenario including night photography, ultra-wide angle, telephotography and macro photography. It was also accorded 111 points by DxOMark, the 2nd highest score attained by any smartphone, the gold standard benchmark for camera quality in the industry. Above all is the HONOR 20 PRO’s exceptional night photography capabilities, which is demonstrated below simply by comparing the same image taken under different lighting.
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As you can see, the differences are staggering. HONOR 20 PRO continues to outperform its competitors under low-light conditions, capturing images in ultra clarity. Let us delve into the shooting process and look into detailed analyses to understand HONOR’s superior night photography.
1. Analyzing the Photo-taking Process
To conduct the test, we first identified our shooting location. We made sure it was as dark as night, so it was virtually impossible to see with a naked eye. This is a sample photo of the results you’d achieve with our counterparts’ flagship smartphones.
With the HONOR 20 PRO, all we did was aim at the object and tap the shutter, choosing the default mode without any professional AI processing. Despite the poor lighting, the HONOR 20 PRO captured the object perfectly.
The HONOR 20 PRO is no doubt your most trust-worthy partner. All you need to do is tap on the shutter and know that you will get a perfect photo even in low-light environments. You do not even need bulky gadgets such as a tripod, which is often used to stabilize the camera for long-exposure photography.
2. Analyzing Photo Specifications
We did a comprehensive analysis of HONOR 20 PRO’s images. Uncover HONOR’s two secrets to night photography with us through its exceptional specifications!
The HONOR 20 PRO features an F/1.4 aperture, the largest ever on a smartphone. It guarantees an average of an additional 50 % light reception, when compared with the standard F/1.8 aperture commonly seen on the market – the more light a lens can receive, the better the image resolution and quality.
The ultra-high ISO of 102,400 is also worth highlighting, since the ISO of images taken on other smartphones merely reach 1250.
A higher ISO value can effectively increase the brightness of the picture, but it has a down side: prominent noise. Therefore, most smartphones limit the ISO value within 10,000. The HONOR 20 PRO, however, has a maximum ISO value of 204, 800, which is more than 20 times higher than other smartphones on the market.
More importantly, there is limited noise in pictures taken by the HONOR 20 PRO. Despite its ultra-high ISO, the image is kept crisp and precise. HONOR confirmed that it applies a unique algorithm to achieve such an ultra-high ISO value, only supported on Huawei and HONOR smartphones.
Some may question why flashlight photography isn’t used instead. In fact, flash itself can be problematic when lighting is uneven or when the object is too up-close. There are many limitations to flashlight photography. For instance, you won’t be able to use flash to capture an infant’s smile when he is asleep. Likewise, it may not be appropriate if you are at a museum trying to get a close-up of an exhibit.
HONOR 20 PRO manages to deliver fine-quality photos under extreme testing conditions, demonstrating its efforts in camera hardware and algorithm development. As seen below, results under normal night light also prove to be phenomenal.
Even with today’s amazing mobile cameras, smartphone photography keeps evolving. One may argue that the quality of daylight pictures has seemingly stalled, but as hardware and software evolve beyond the megapixel race of yesteryear, we see continuous improvements in new, key areas. Of course, it is often the vanguard of expensive flagships pushing the envelope of computational photography, with “night mode” ultra low-light pictures being a new key talking point. With the Honor 20 Pro’s excellent combination of hardware and software, you can get the impressive results in a premium but affordable package.
The Honor 20 Pro has received glowing reviews for its camera capabilities: XDA’s camera expert Daniel Marchena found that the phone has “camera tuning down to an art”, delivering stunning shots that have amazing detail and, most importantly, a natural feel to them. Other camera reviewers, like DxOmark, praised the phone’s excellent exposure, achieving the joint top score for this category at the time their review was published.
This isn’t too surprising given that the device packs an extremely complete quad-camera setup, offering a Sony IMX586 48 MP main camera lens coupled with AI-powered software and hardware, allowing users to shoot pictures with excellent clarity even in dimly-lit environments. Low-light performance also benefits from the inclusion of Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) and Artificial Image Stabilization (AIS), but the phone also offers AIS Super Night Mode, which can be activated by setting the camera mode to “Night.” This mode is excellent for city skylines at night, or dimly-lit back streets, yet it’s not where the phone’s ultra low-light photography capabilities stop. We’ve found the phone to have excellent exposure in low light even in auto mode. So how does Honor achieve such well-exposed pictures, and how does it stack up to competitors?
Exposure on digital cameras is controlled by the f/stop, the shutter speed, and the ISO setting. The Honor 20 Pro has no shortcomings in either regard, with a wide-aperture f/1.4 lens on the powerful main camera — the aforementioned 48MP 1/2″ Quad-Bayer camera sensor by Sony. Beyond that, though, the Honor 20 Pro features what Honor calls “Auto Ultra-High ISO.” In this particular regard, the 20 Pro stands head and shoulders above some of the top competitors in the mobile space.
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In digital photography, an ISO number indicates how sensitive a camera is to light, which is dependent on the signal gain of the camera’ sensor. A higher value indicates greater sensitivity, and in turn, better low light captures. On the Honor 20 Pro, you can adjust the ISO manually when using the versatile and powerful Pro mode, but their automatic ISO tuning for regular shots is still capable of achieving extremely high ISO numbers, making for tremendous low-light shots. The Honor 20 Pro’s ISO of 204800 dwarfs that of the Galaxy S10+, which cannot surpass 6400. This upgrade over the Honor 20’s 102400 ISO even puts the Pro’s ISO number ahead of that of SLR cameras like the Canon 5D Mark IV.
See sample photos here
The 20 Pro will adjust the ISO automatically whenever you are shooting in auto, so in practice, you do not need to think about the ISO number and how to tune it to the particular scene. The Auto Ultra-High ISO algorithm automatically kicks in under 1 lux of brightness, at the point where most detail can’t be perceived by the naked eye. As expected from modern low-light mobile photography, this mode can bring out hidden detail and color. While turning up the ISO usually comes at the expense of additional noise, the 20 Pro can also keep noise within acceptable ranges, with DxOMark noting that some results offered by the Honor 20 Pro’s noise control in low-light scenes are “comparable to those of the best performers.”
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Intro Building on the successful of the OPPO Find X3 Pro, OPPO released the new flagship smartphone OPPO Find X5 Pro, it has 2 colors, Ceramic White and Glaze black, I received the White model for the review.
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Build Quality/ DesignOnce glance at it, OPPO Find X5 Pro's back design looks very characteristic, you can easily recognize it from another smartphones. It is one of the most beautiful designed smartphones I have seen, its streamline design feels very natural, compare with glass, the new OPPO Find X5 Pro rear is made of ceramic material which is more gentle, warmer and reliable.
Here is my OPPO Find X5 Pro unboxing video:
Performance/GamingFor today’s mobile phone products, the screen display become more important. OPPO Find X5 Pro’s screen is a 6.7-inch AMOLED panel, very high resolution 1440 x 3216, with this display we can have a good contrast and nice color. And up to 120Hz dynamic refresh rate, this higher refresh rate display makes moving content looks smoother, also makes a big difference when it coming to gaming. when I am playing League of Legends: Wild Rift and Brawl Stars, it can handle very well, and also you hardly to find the rear is hot it because of ceramic material that can maintain effective cooling under game pressure.
League of Legends: Wild Rift
Brawl StarsBest ColorOS FeaturesOPPO Find X5 Pro has a huge range of customization options, I particularly like the Always-On Display function, Adaptive Sleep function and Air Gestures function. For example, I use Air Gestures function to switch the channel when I play TikTok, no need to touch the panel.
Camera ReviewOPPO Find X5 Pro camera system equipped with MariSilicon X chip and co-developed with Hasselblad, as a photographer I will be more expecting the camera performance. The coolest thing is to check out the flagship sensor on triple cameras, wide and ultra-wide with 50 megapixels cameras, telephoto with 13 megapixels camera, so we can have a pretty decent improvement in low light performance and significantly 4k ultra night video.
I've spent two weeks to test the OPPO Find X5 Pro camera performance mainly in 3 situations.
1. To test camera performance in difference period, such as to capture in the daytime, sunset & night.
2. To test camera performance in difference environment, such as to capture in outdoor or indoor.
3. To test camera performance in difference subject, such as landscape, nature and food.
Here are OPPO Find X5 Pro two sample videos took in Singapore,
1. 4K 2160P 60fps Merlion Park day walk:
2. 4K 2160P 60fps Marina Bay night walk:
When you open the camera, you can easily to see a Hasselblad orange shutter button and when you press the shooting button, a Hasselblad shutter sound will be heard.
SLR-Level-5-Axis Image Stabilization
This time OPPO Find X5 Pro comes with a real 5-axis optical image stabilization, this new stabilization technology can occur on 5 different levels and let it reach DSLR-level. If you are using DSLR cameras, you probably know how useful and powerful the 5-axis stabilization is to taking picture or doing videography in low light environment.
It can improve stability, sharpness and color performance, to produces a perfect night photos and videos, even though at the image corners, it also can provide a good quality.
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Usually I will on HDR AUTO setting that phone will detect the environment and use HDR automatically, when I shoot in HDR mode, the camera takes several pictures in quick succession, each having a different exposure value. The phone inside software then merges the images into a single photo.
Compare with non-HDR photo, HDR photo provides sharper details from the darkest and brightest areas.
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