DxOMark camera wars: The Magic 6 Pro dethrones the Oppo Find X7 Ultra،
If you like (mobile) photography, you have surely come across the DxOMarkthe notes of at a given time. It's up to you to decide whether you trust their review system and consider them a credible source for your next purchase. Some say that DxOMark is “not what it used to be,” and there is a lot of information on the Internet about this. Others say it's okay. It doesn't matter: there is a new DxOMark king for the camera category! And… it’s the Honor Magic 6 Pro. This handset is one point – no more, no less – ahead of yesterday's DxOMark champions: the Oppo Find X7 Ultra and Huawei's Mate 60 Pro+.
Under “Pros,” the platform has this to say about the Honor’s Magic 6 Pro:
- Excellent image quality for all types of photography, especially indoors
- Excellent for taking portraits of family and friends, with fast, accurate focusing and good skin tone rendition
- Portraits feature very natural segmentation that makes the subject stand out
- Optimal zoom performance, especially when shooting ultra-wide, with highly detailed images at most zoom ranges
- Overall smooth experience when shooting videos outdoors in bright light
- Excellent overall display performance in all use cases
- Top-notch display motion handling
- Excellent rendering for HDR videos in low light
- Impressive overall quality of the front camera in photos and videos, with sharp details in group photos
- Excellent recording and powerful playback for all use cases
- Better performance in wind noise and audio zoom
- Excellent autonomy, lasting more than three and a half days with moderate use
- Fast wired and wireless charging times
There are also some “disadvantages”:
- Some instabilities when taking videos, especially in low light and with autofocus
- Immediate color change when viewing screen content from an angle
- Noticeable distortion in audio playback
- Slight distortion in noisy concert recordings
- Inconsistent front camera stabilization when shooting videos
The Magic 6 Pro comes with three cameras on the back.
The top one is a periscope zoom, using the Samsung Isocell HP3 180MP 1/1.49″ sensor, f/2.6 aperture.
The main camera packs the Omnivision OV50H 50MP 1/1.3″ sensor, f/1.4-f/2.0 aperture with PDAF and OIS.
The ultra-wide camera is again 50 MP with a 122-degree field of view (1/2.88″ Omnivision OV50D sensor). All this hardware is supported by new AI algorithms; we left the system lit, because today's smartphone photography is primarily computational.
