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Different from the telephoto end of the domestic mobile phone manufacturers, and also different from the ultra-wide-angle end that the big manufacturers strategically ignore, everyone's ideas on the main camera end are very consistent - since they can't surpass the blue factory, let's do some special projects.
So around the "super" players of the blue factory, there are Huawei, Xiaomi, and Green Factory, all of which are "strong" players with one-inch sensors.
So what is the strength of the main camera of the blue factory? And then what are the main camera features of Huawei, Xiaomi, and Green Factory? Let's start with the analysis of "how strong" and see what the battle situation is in the traditional field of the main camera.
1. Analysis of the main camera of the "strong" green factory
The recent popularity of the Green Factory's super-large flagship Find X7 Ultra is unprecedented, after all, the "model worker"-like firmware update directly gives full play to its imaging strength, coupled with the cost-effective advantage brought by the "price plunge", the "real fragrance" degree can be said to be overflowing!
First of all, due to its first release of Sony LYT-900, it has the deepest skills in the corresponding polishing, combined with the new firmware push of the new "25 million pixel ultra-clear mode" - these full details of the green factory optimization directly captured the hearts of users!
Of course, the details it originally had were already different. For example, the "Instant Double Frame" technology, which allows you to fuse long and short exposures directly in the preview stage, and save the capture directly after pressing the shutter.
Other features include the exploding "Master Mode" with a strong Hasselblad flavor, which is fully benchmarked against the Hasselblad X2D in terms of color and tone, and supports 16-bit RAW MAX to maximize the ultra-high dynamic range of the LYT-900.
In addition, the hardware configuration of the green factory is not bad, for example, it has the same "1G+7P" glass-plastic hybrid lens as the flagship main camera of the blue factory (the only two companies have the frame), so it enjoys the optical characteristics such as ultra-high transparency and ultra-low dispersion brought by the glass lens.
However, although the green factory said that each lens of its lens adopts a complex coating process, from the perspective of the effect of pressure highlights, the level of its lens coating is at most a grade with Xiaomi's super large cup, which is significantly weaker than that of the blue factory and Huawei.
2, "How strong" is the analysis of the main camera of Xiaomi
The next Xiaomi 14 Ultra is different from the green factory, first of all, the most obvious thing is that the Xiaomi main camera is equipped with stepless variable aperture technology, and its maximum aperture value is still pushed to the height of F/1.63 under the limitation of a one-inch sensor!
After all, the aperture value of the main camera on the green factory has only advanced to F/1.8, which means that the maximum light intake of the main camera on Xiaomi's side is 22% larger than that of the green factory, so in the night mode performance in extreme low-light scenes, Xiaomi's detail performance will be slightly better.
Of course, the use of variable aperture does not stop there, it can not only meet the needs of small aperture in scenes such as backlighting, group photos, and close-up shots, but also get interesting "starlight" gameplay, and achieve correct motion blur in movie mode with fine adjustment of the aperture.
The Leica tone of the Xiaomi Mi 14 Ultra is actually quite similar to the Hasselblad tone of the green factory, both of which are the kind of realistic image styles that pursue the ultimate relationship between light and shadow, and even the image aesthetics of the two main "layering" and "midtones" respectively are similar!
So you can see that some of the features of the two have something in common, such as the 16-bit Ultra RAW output based on multi-frame RAW compositing, which retains as much original detail as possible to facilitate post-production, and the "Master Portrait" function, which focuses on light and shadow details.
However, Xiaomi has a different understanding of snapshots, which is based on the strong computing power supported by the AI large model combined with the advantage of light intake, so as to ensure that the algorithm will not be dropped in the case of 150 shots at a time, and provide more choices with as many high-quality output as possible.
3, the "strong" Hua is the main camera analysis
As can be calculated from Huawei's official light intake comparison data in the figure above, the Pura70 Ultra, the main camera with a maximum aperture value of F/1.6, is equipped with a Sony IMX989 sensor with a customized RYYB filter array.
Even the Xiaomi Mi 14 Ultra, which has a slightly smaller aperture than the main camera, has a 45.3% advantage over light intake! So what is the use of Huawei wanting such a large amount of light?
As shown in the figure below, Huawei has made perfect use of this large amount of light intake, combined with the newly developed XD Motion motion engine, to build a complete set of hardware and software foundation for the "Wind Speed" function.
Flash Shot is a feature that supports all three rear cameras in permanent photography, and it also plays a role in "super image stabilization" - it can automatically correct pasted images in the case of large shaking! For more extreme capture, there is also a separate flash shooting mode.
The specific principle: short exposure and long exposure are responsible for the details and background information of the subject respectively, and then the local features of the double exposure image are matched through AI motion vector calculation to restore the local motion blur, and finally generate a high-quality motion photo that can take into account the clarity of the moving subject and the rich contrast information of the background.
Combined with the powerful quad-focus motor, the flexible and agile sensor displacement stabilization, and the IMX989's all-pixel octa-core focusing, the capture ability is worthy of the strongest in the circle!
4, the main camera analysis of the blue factory of "one super".
The blue factory camp is naturally the latest super-large cup flagship X100 Ultra, which has the hardware advantages of the super-large cup main camera compared with other large manufacturers, and the blue factory has listed it at the press conference - that is, the three major hardware differences shown in the picture above.
Among them, the "precision transition technology" is a lens optical calibration technology that can improve the resolution of the image by correcting and compensating for the deviation of the light in advance, thereby solving the tolerance problems caused by assembly and manufacturing.
Based on the original micro gimbal technology of the blue factory, this generation of main camera is also equipped with a new gimbal stabilization - the hardware stabilization angle alone is as high as 1.5°! Combined with other stabilization technologies, you can have CIPA4.5 SLR-level comprehensive stabilization capability!
As for the "1G+7P" lens, the main camera of the green factory super-large cup is also available, and the Sony LYT-900 is the super-large cup of the green factory and Xiaomi, so it is inconvenient for the blue factory to blow more in these two aspects - at this time, it is the turn of the blue factory's best Zeiss T* coating to appear.
The previous X100 Pro was based on the IRCF pigment spin coating, ALC coating, and SWC coating, and added Multi-ALD coating and super-hard AR coating, where the super-hard AR coating and SWC coating were present on the front and back of the cover glass, respectively.
In terms of coating, only the blue factory itself can surpass the blue factory, so you can see that compared with the X100 Pro, Thanos has made the industry's first microscope-level GLC nano coating, which successfully solves the fogging problem that was incompatible with the ghost problem before!
Summary:
In terms of the strength of the main camera hardware, the advantages of the blue factory are very obvious, combined with the V3+ image chip and its leading portrait algorithm and night scene algorithm, there is an imaging effect close to 2 times the portrait lens 50mm main camera cropping, and the ancestral "night vision" title.
As the least advantageous of the four flagships, the green factory responds with the pre-processing capture strategy of "instantaneous double frames", and gives full play to the "midtone" aesthetic of its Hasselblad shadow to reduce the calculation traces, so it is in a class of its own.
The rest of Xiaomi and Huawei have applied variable aperture technology to the main camera, and Huawei has relied on the huge leading light intake advantage and the new XD Motion motion engine to play the capture function!
Of course, this huge light intake advantage also comes at a price, that is, the color cast problem of RYYB. However, Huawei also has a "High Quality Mode" similar to the Green Factory's 25-million-pixel ultra-clear mode, which is automatically triggered when it is turned on in well-lit scenes.
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