“Almost blindly, you can automatically take great pictures” – Kommersant FM

Kommersant FM columnist Alexander Levi talks about the flagship smartphone, which received five DxOMark gold awards.

The flagship Honor Magic6 Pro as a camera phone received five DxOMark gold awards at once. As part of the rating, the achievements of the new product are still record-breaking, which is why I will tell you about my observations while testing the cameras of this smartphone. The first vivid impression is made not even by the main unit, but by the biometric sensor (analogous to Face ID) packed into the Magic Capsule (a feature akin to the “Apple” dynamic island). It functions so reliably that it can be used in banking services. And fast enough to almost leave the fingerprint sensor idle. Although the manufacturer protects itself with a warning about false positives, Honor’s solution is definitely safer than facial recognition login on any other Android smartphone.

The triple main camera of the Magic6 Pro received its own name Falcon or “falcon” in Russian. I guess because she can work far, quickly and with focus. A 180-megapixel periscopic telephoto camera is responsible for “far”; such a high resolution is used for the first time in the industry. And it is needed for impressive detail with any of the designated zoom levels: 2.5x (optical), 5x (hybrid) and in case of desperate experiments – up to 100x (electronic). Real high-quality application is limited to the hybrid value. And it is so successful that I want to use it on the Magic6 Pro so often. This applies more to the normal mode; in portrait, my favorite was the 2.5x zoom.

The conditional 50 MP main camera with the H9000 sensor works great in HDR scenarios. This optics has a variable aperture, but only within two values: f/1.4 and f/2.0. Autofocus and optical stabilization perform excellently; by the way, the latter is only absent on the ultra-wide-angle camera. This 122-degree, 50-megapixel sensor isn’t the most exciting, but Honor’s engineers should be commended for setting identical white balance on all three cameras. To sum it up, this is a smartphone in the category of those flagships, when almost blindly, you can automatically take cool pictures.

In the era of the heyday of artificial intelligence, Honor managed to introduce several AI technologies into the flagship’s algorithms. In cameras, for example, this is AI Motion Sensing, which recognizes a dozen sports activities, and therefore can automatically take good pictures of people or some animals in motion. The function is difficult to recognize as popular, but it will help out well with targeted interest.