P40 Pro versus MFT or APS-C

melodika said:

Sorry to sound rude but P30 Pro is complete garbage when it comes to image quality. I know that by heart because I had one. You have absolute zero control on how JPGs look and RAWs are just awful and made of single frame.

Google Camera with its HDR+ Enhanced can easily match even APS-C if paired with quality sensor. Using multiframe stacking also helps to remedy the high iso problem (see example below, in terms of noise my APS-C camera with F2.8 lens did considerably worse).

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ysbrand g said:

I have a question maybe some of you can help me with. I have an Olympus micro-four-thirds camera, and a Huawei P30 (not the Pro). The image quality of the P30 is much much worse compared to the Olympus, especially indoors. While the Olympus still works fine at ISO-800, the Huawei produces a smeared mess. No detail, just garbage.

Now I would like to replace them both with a P40 Pro, because if I have to believe the reviews the P40 Pro produces excellent quality images. Maybe not quite as good as an MFT- or APS-C-camera, but the differences are not that big anymore. That's what I read.

However when I compare the specs of the P30 and the P30 Pro the main cameras are not that different. F1.6 instead of F1.9, but same sensor and same JPG-engine. And indeed when I go to http://gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3 I see little difference in image quality between the two. Same with P40 Pro: looks about the same image quality. Still my P30 produces a smeared mess.

So if my P30 is so bad, is the P40 Pro really that much better that it is nearing MFT or APS-C image quality?

Second question: the P30 has an incredible lag between pressing the shutter and taking an image. It depends on the situation, sometimes it is quick but it can lag up to a second. This lag is not mentioned in any review, nowhere, apparently these reviewers don't care about lag. But I do. Does the P40 Pro have the same lag?

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TSGames said:

Most of the time I skipped the 50mp ai mode, it takes some seconds, pixel level detail in low contrast areas is often worse than default 12mp mode and dynamic range is greatly reduced compared to 12mp.

However, the out of the box 12 mp photos are quite nice, sometimes a bit hdr like processed but if that's a look you may aim for that's fine. Only the raw files are currently useless, single frame, artifacts and colors are completely off. Still no fix from Adobe or any good software I'm aware of that can handle the dng files.

Still a nice photo tool if you don't need any Google apps or services.

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