Honor 50 Overview | Images Weblog

Introduction

Ease of Use

With its 120Hz 6.57-inch OLED display screen, the Honor 50 is on the big facet for a smartphone, however nonetheless suits comfortably within the hand – and it is not as ridiculously large as a tool just like the Samsung S21 Extremely, which has a good bigger 6.8-inch display screen.

We have been utilizing the “Midnight Black” color method for this Honor 50 evaluate, which is probably the most understated of the 4 totally different colourways which might be out there – there’s additionally Emerald Inexperienced, Frost Crystal and Code, the latter being emblazoned throughout with the Honor brand.

The show takes up just about all the display screen, with only a small round cut-out within the top-centre for the selfie digital camera. As such there is not any “notch” within the conventional sense, however there’s at all times a small quantity of show that is completely reserved for the cellphone settings when viewing something in full display screen.

Launching the native digital camera app requires a easy swipe up from the underside proper hand nook of the lock display screen. Anybody who has used a Honor or Huawei cellphone earlier than will already know that the native digital camera app may be very well-featured, supplying you with plenty of capturing modes to experiment with, so there is not any want to put in a third-party app to make the most of every little thing that it has to supply.

By default, the digital camera app launches in the usual “Photograph” mode, however you’ll be able to swipe proper or left to decide on totally different capturing modes. To the left you will discover “Portrait”, “Night time”,and “Aperture”, and to the proper you will discover “Video”, “Multi-Video”, and “Extra”. We’ll undergo most of those in additional depth because the evaluate continues.

The Honor 50’s default Photograph mode might be what you will use for almost all of your pictures. On the display screen you will see the zoom choices, which vary from Huge (extremely broad digital camera) to 2x digital zoom choices. . In between you may have the 1x (commonplace digital camera) possibility.

Though it is not instantly obvious, you may also digitally zoom in as much as 10x. Ranges of zoom in between 1x and 10x are created by a mix of optical and digital zoom utilizing synthetic intelligence. You’ll be able to pinch out and in to zoom at totally different focal lengths, or run your finger up and down the slider.

On the high of the display screen there are just a few choices to be aware of. The primary icon is to modify on the AI Lens – that is one thing which lets you take a photograph of an object and have the cellphone discover comparable gadgets on the market on-line.

The second icon is to modify off or on synthetic intelligence. When you’ve got it switched on, the Honor 50 will alter its settings to greatest match the scene in entrance of it – the show will present what it thinks it has detected (for instance, canines, flowers) so that you could be certain the proper settings are prone to be utilized.

The subsequent icon is a flash icon, which you’ll be able to change to off, on, automated or “at all times on”. Subsequent is an icon for selecting between numerous digital filters, and at last, there is a settings icon the place you can also make extra in-depth modifications, akin to to side ratio, switching on audio management and deciding on a video decision.

You’ll be able to faucet across the Honor 50’s display screen to pick out the main focus level you wish to use, and once you’re able to take a shot you’ll be able to both use the digital shutter launch button, or the bodily quantity up and down keys on the facet of the cellphone.

Portrait mode is one thing you need to use with human topics to create a shallow depth of area impact by enabling the Bokeh possibility and/or to use a Magnificence filter, with a scale working from 0-10.

If you wish to create shallow depth of area results with non-human topics, that is the place the Honor 50’s Aperture mode comes into play. With that, you’ll be able to {photograph} no matter you want, whereas additionally setting the aperture impact to between f/0.95 and f/16. A bonus of this mode is that you could make changes after the very fact by tweaking the aperture settings in playback.

Night time mode is one thing we have seen on just a few totally different iterations of Honor and Huawei telephones now, and because the title suggests, it is one thing you utilize after darkish. It primarily works by merging collectively a sequence of quick exposures to create the impact of a protracted publicity.

You’ll be able to solely use it in utterly automated mode, although – you’ll be able to’t modify the ISO and the shutter pace. It merges all the photographs collectively robotically and really rapidly, and better of all, the photographs could be taken handheld and with out the necessity of a tripod.

Video mode is fairly self-explanatory, with as much as 4K decision out there and a quickest body price of 30fps. There’s additionally a 1080/60p mode that is enabled by default.

Multi-video is a model new mode that we have by no means seen earlier than. It splits the display screen into two and makes use of two totally different cameras on the similar time to offer two totally different viewpoints inside a single video. You’ll be able to select from Entrance/Rear, Rear/Rear, Image in Image, Rear and Entrance choices.

The primary one might be most helpful because it means that you can movie a topic and speak to digital camera about it on the similar time, while Rear/Rear employs the wide-angle and commonplace lenses on the similar time, with the latter offering as much as 5x zoom, so you’ll be able to movie an ultra-wide and close-up view of the topic concurrently.

Within the Extra sub-menu, Professional mode is fascinating and one thing that lovers will doubtless be very concerned about. With this mode you can also make modifications to the metering mode, ISO pace (100-12800), shutter pace, publicity compensation, AF mode and white stability.

You’ll be able to solely report photographs in JPEG format, although, not additionally uncooked format (DNG) as on another Honor/Huawei gadgets.

The Tremendous-macro mode allows you to deal with a topic that’s simply 4cms away from the Honor 50, though there isn’t a auto-focusing out there on this mode – you simply have to make sure that you are holding the digital camera on the optimum distance with the intention to get a pointy picture, which is usually a little hit or miss.

The Excessive-res mode produces a a lot higher-resolution picture – 12032×9024 pixels to be actual – which is simply over 3x greater than the default 12 megapixel 3904×2928 pixel photographs that the Honor 50 information.

The opposite choices out there within the Extra menu are Panorama, HDR, Time-Lapse, Stickers, Paperwork and Story.

Picture High quality

We now have lengthy been impressed by the picture high quality of Honor and Huawei gadgets, and the Honor 50 is not any totally different.

In good mild, colors from the primary 108mp digital camera are vivid, vibrant and punchy with a satisfying quantity of element within the ensuing 12 megapixel pixel-binned photographs.

On the entire, exposures from the Honor 50 are well-balanced, whereas the AI setting within the “Photograph” mode does job of choosing the right settings for the state of affairs.

We imagine that most individuals can be completely happy to stay in that mode for almost all of their pictures, solely heading to one of many different modes – akin to Professional – in sure eventualities.

The 10x digital zoom is appropriate, however we wouldn’t advocate utilizing it too usually when you can keep away from it.

In low mild, the very spectacular Night time Mode comes into play to ship wonderful hand-held pictures even when little or no mild is current.

The wide-angle lens shows little or no distortion and is especially helpful for structure and panorama pictures.

The Macro and Bokeh lenses are considerably hampered by their meagre 2 megapixel decision – we frequently bought higher outcomes by utilizing the primary digital camera and cropping in for macro pictures, for instance.

Aperture and Portrait mode are nice for creating shallow depth of area results. They do job of simulating the kind of shot you possibly can count on to realize with a “actual” digital camera, particularly when you don’t study the photographs too intently and are solely sharing them at comparatively small sizes on-line.

Focal Vary

Huge

1x

2x

10x

Macro

Bokeh / Aperture Mode

Concentrate on background

Concentrate on foreground

Aperture Mode – f/0.95

Aperture Mode – f/0.95

Filters

None

Sentimental

Affect

ND

Valencia

Blue

Halo

Nostalgia

Daybreak

Night time Mode

Off

On

Flash

Flash Off

Flash On

Flash At all times On

HDR Mode

Excessive-Res Mode

Off

On

Off

On

Panorama

Pattern Pictures

This can be a choice of pattern photographs from the Honor 50 digital camera, which had been all taken utilizing the 108 megapixel JPEG setting. The thumbnails beneath hyperlink to the full-sized variations, which haven’t been altered in any method.

Pattern Films & Video

Product Pictures

Conclusion

The Honor 50 is a stable if finally uninspiring smartphone for photographers that’s greatest seen as a reliable all-rounder, moderately than excelling at something specifically.

As a photographic system, it is honest to say that the Honor 50 may be very, similar to earlier Huawei telephones that we have reviewed, just like the P20, 30 and 40 Professional sequence, proper right down to the person interface which is uncannily comparable.

It is fairly apparent that regardless of the divorce of Huawei and Honor at a company degree, the latter clearly owes lots to the previous in the case of the digital camera facet of issues. The native digital camera app may be very nicely functioned and user-friendly too – there is not any want to put in a third-party digital camera app.

This consists of the wonderful Night time Mode that we have beforehand loved utilizing on the Huawei P-series gadgets and the Aperture mode with its bokeh-producing f/0.95 setting.

Sadly, a number of of the modes on the Honor 50 are curtailed considerably when in comparison with their Huawei equivalents – the Aperture mode, for instance, makes use of the Bokeh digital camera module which solely 2 megapixels of decision, one thing that additionally afflicts the Macro mode.

There’s additionally no help for the RAW file format both, though the Professional mode does present extra granular management over what the Honor 50’s digital camera is definitely doing.

The usual 108mp digital camera module is pixel-binned by 9x to supply 12 megapixel photographs which look nice however actually no higher to our eye than the Honor 50’s most important mid-range rivals.

4K/30p video is a typical providing for gadgets that use the Snapdragon 778G chipset, however Honor have not less than innovated just a little with the Multi-Video mode.

This can be a quirky and in some conditions genuinely helpful addition which we’ve not seen earlier than, though it may be difficult to make use of in observe when attempting to precisely body two totally different topics or viewpoints on the similar time.

The precise system itself is simply on the proper measurement of huge with out being ridiculously huge. It presents day-long battery life, an excellent 120Hz OLED display screen and snappy efficiency and, when you select any color apart from the moderately sombre black one which we examined, a glitzy and glamorous feel and look.

Fortunately, the primary Honor system to achieve Western markets since 2019’s Honor 20 additionally sees the return of Google’s Play Retailer, a authorized omission that just about blighted the industrial enchantment of final yr’s higher-end Huawei P40 Professional mannequin.

Total, the Honor 50 is a likable, if unremarkable mass-market smartphone that will fulfill informal snappers moderately than extra severe photographers or videographers.

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