Amateur Photographer

Huawei P20 Pro

- £649 www.huawei.com

THeRe’s likely nobody pushing harder for your business than Huawei at the moment. Happily, its excellent duo of flagship smartphone­s has widely impressed reviewers and consumers alike.

The p20 pro is the older of the two models here, and has been on the market since March 2018. At the time of writing it is still sitting at the very top of DxoMark’s smartphone ratings.

A triple camera set- up gives you a wideangle lens, 3x telephoto lens and, uniquely in this group, a dedicated monochrome sensor which can be used in its own mode. The wideangle lens is coupled with a 40- megapixel sensor, but by default, files are output at a much more manageable 10 megapixels.

The native Huawei camera app is extremely well featured, with a range of different shooting modes. in the standard photo mode, artificial intelligen­ce (Ai) kicks in to recognise a wide variety of different scenes and apply appropriat­e settings accordingl­y. There’s also a pro mode for raw-format shooting and manual control.

Huawei’s Night Mode made its debut with the p20 pro and produces extraordin­ary results – especially as it can be used handheld. in essence, it merges a series of short exposures to give the effect of a longer exposure.

otherwise, image quality is similarly fantastic in other shooting conditions – switching off Ai in some conditions is a good idea to avoid oversatura­tion in blues and greens. Monochrome mode produces superb results too, making it appealing for those users who are particular­ly fond of black & white.

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The P20 Pro’s fantastic night mode is especially useful in low-light situations
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