The thinnest 5G full-focus image flagship! Vivo X50 Pro evaluation: micro-pan/tilt realizes night shooting counterattack
Looking back at all kinds of flagship new machines released in the first half of the year, it can be said that all major manufacturers have tried their best to "de-homogenize".
Higher refresh rate, bigger speakers, faster storage, better screen ... Manufacturers are looking for breakthroughs that can highlight themselves in all aspects of mobile phone configuration, but in the end, they all focus on taking pictures of mobile phones without exception: ultra-high pixels, ultra-large bottom, ultra-sensitive and ultra-long telephoto ... Almost every top flagship is equipped with a unique customized CMOS or rear camera module without exception, which is a kind of gunpowder.
At the beginning of this 5G flagship rear camera competition, vivo also showed a lot of muscles. Once the concept machine APEX 2020 was announced, it revealed many black technologies, and the brand-new rear camera technology was also among them-the unique micro-pan/tilt anti-shake and 5-7.5 times continuous dimming, which made people look forward to the vivo 2020 5G flagship. What big moves will vivo, which has always attached importance to taking pictures, release on the 5G flagship this time?
But after the concept machine was announced, it was a long wait and silence. During this period, vivo only released a vivo NEX 3S as the flagship of 5G. Although the core configuration has been upgraded to Snapdragon 865, the main camera is still GW 1 with the best optimization performance, but the black technology on APEX 2020 has never appeared. This makes people curious. Can concept machine technology achieve mass production? After waiting for such a long time, what kind of big moves is vivo brewing?
After a long wait, on the first day of June, we finally witnessed the first mass production of black technology on the concept machine APEX 2020-the official release of vivo X50 Pro equipped with new micro-pan/tilt technology.
With the blessing of micro-PTZ, the main camera module will compensate the deviation as a whole, which will bring anti-shake effect comparable to that of professional PTZ stabilizer and make photos and videos more stable. On the other hand, vivo X50 Pro further improves the quality of mobile phone photography.
Of course, although the "micro-pan-tilt" is advanced, its module size is not small, but it is quite incredible that the body thickness of vivo X50 Pro is further reduced to 8mm at the same time, and its weight is only181.5g. ..
When other mobile phones are getting heavier and thicker, the vivo X50 Pro, which runs in the opposite direction, can be described as a clean stream. Not only is a miniature pan/tilt inserted into the body as thin as 8 mm+18/.5g, but the vivo X50 Pro even has a complete full-focus rear imaging system, from super wide angle to five times periscope telephoto, which is realized with four lenses without any supplementary light.
Having said that, let's take a look at the full-focus aftershot effect led by vivo X50 Pro and its micro-pan/tilt.
Second, appearance: 8mm thickness is extremely thin, and the whole machine is small and exquisite.
The front of vivo X50 Pro adopts the screen design of digging micro-surfaces, which is very mainstream at present. The screen ratio is high and the visual impact of digging is small. At the same time, the smaller surface can greatly reduce the interference to the screen display.
The screen quality is also very high. E3 AMOLED panel and DCI-P3 color gamut support a high refresh rate of 90Hz and a touch sampling rate of 180Hz, with peak brightness of 1300nit and HDR 10+.
The top is dug and contains a 32 million front camera. The top is designed with a micro-slit receiver, and the opening is almost invisible.
The chin is undoubtedly encapsulated by the flagship COP, and the four sides of the vivo X50 Pro are quite narrow.
The back is made of AG glass technology, which has unique light effect under illumination and is not easy to be contaminated with fingerprints.
The rear camera configuration is the biggest highlight of vivo X50 Pro. The largest main camera adopts micro-pan-tilt design, which has excellent anti-shake performance. In addition, it is equipped with 2X portrait lens, wide-angle macro lens and 5X periscope telephoto lens, providing a full-focus image experience for vivo X50 Pro.
The top and bottom are deliberately made flat, with only one microphone opening and decorative design at the top, and SIM card slot, Type-C charging port and speaker opening at the bottom.
The volume button and power button are placed on the right side of the phone.
SIM card slot, which can support the simultaneous insertion of two SIM cards.
Charger, maximum support 33W power fast charging. The design of this charger has changed, it is no longer smooth plastic, but frosted plastic, which is more durable.
Third, post-shooting analysis: a new idea of custom CMOS mobile phone photography with micro-single tripod head
In this year's 5G flagship post-shoot competition, "customized outsole" has become the mainstream on the field. Vivo X50 Pro is a new way to improve the image quality of mobile phones through anti-shake, and it also provides a new idea for the future development of mobile phone image configuration.
Whether it is outsole or custom filter, there is only one fundamental purpose, to get more light in the limited space of mobile phone, thus further improving the imaging effect. Then, under the condition of stable anti-shake effect, the exposure time can be greatly prolonged, thus increasing the amount of light entering, which is why vivo chooses micro-pan/tilt as the research and development direction. "Anti-shake" is not only obvious in the video, but also greatly improves the whole image system of the mobile phone.
Problems such as taking pictures and ghosting are easy to occur on models lacking OIS.
But in the final analysis, the design of micro-pan-tilt also belongs to the category of optical image stabilization. The first thing we need to understand is: What is the difference between the new micro-pan-tilt technology and the traditional OIS optical image stabilization?
-Micro-pan/tilt anti-shake
Compared with the traditional OIS anti-shake, the micro pan-tilt on vivo X50 Pro is obviously different in two aspects.
1, the freedom of action is different. Compared with the X\Y-axis optical anti-shake of traditional mobile phones, the yaw axis and pitch axis (pitch and pitch) in the six degrees of freedom use miniature pan/tilt, and the XY-axis jitter that EIS can easily eliminate is handed over to the software for processing, thus achieving better anti-shake effect.
2. The range of anti-shake is different. Compared with the traditional optical anti-shake, the application range of micro-pan-tilt is much larger. Although the tilt angle of 3 looks small, compared with the traditional range of1,the range of action is obviously expanded at normal shooting distance, and even the effect of hand-held photography can be comparable to that of tripod shooting.
The fundamental reason is that the structural design of micro-pan/tilt has changed compared with the traditional optical image stabilization.
The traditional optical anti-shake structures are mainly spherical and catenary. The movement of the lens is controlled by the ball slider or messenger wire like a spring, and the freedom of movement is limited in the XY plane, and the range is small, and only a small range of translational movement can be realized.
Then, there is a brand-new memory alloy anti-shake, but this technology only changes the driving mode of the anti-shake module, and the anti-shake of the lens is still limited to the XY direction, which is not essentially different from the final effect of the first two.
Micro-gimbal anti-shake adopts a very interesting double-ball suspension structure, which changes the dimension of anti-shake effect. Under the action of the magnetic frame, the whole lens +CMOS module no longer moves horizontally, but rotates on the X axis and Y axis, and finally achieves the 3-degree free rotation anti-shake effect that the traditional OIS module does not have.
It may be more profound to actually witness the work of micro-pan-tilt. Under the structure of micro-pan/tilt, the main camera of vivo X50 Pro can not only rotate freely, but also has a wide range. Moreover, due to the integrated design of lens and +CMOS, the edge image quality of vivo X50 Pro will be much higher than that of anti-shake mode with only lens motion.
In actual use, the miniature pan/tilt will cooperate with the gyroscope of the fuselage to detect and adjust the attitude of the mobile phone in real time. The gyroscope of vivo X50 Pro has been strengthened and its sensitivity is higher. The rear main camera will follow the movement of the fuselage and constantly adjust within the effective range of anti-shake. It has a wide range and is easy to observe with the naked eye.
Opening the Anti-shake Assistant in the camera setting menu of vivo X50 Pro can facilitate better perception of anti-shake effect in daily use. With the movement of the white ball, we can know whether there is any deviation in the orientation of the lens module at present. When the white ball only moves in a small circle, it shows that the best imaging effect can be taken at this time.
In daily photography, miniature pan-tilt anti-shake can make hand-held photography have the same effect as tripod photography. During the shooting, the ball is almost stable in the middle of the screen, slightly shaking, but the picture has hardly changed much. With such a stable process of taking pictures at night, you naturally don't have to worry about the final result.
Because the anti-shake effect of micro-pan/tilt is better than the traditional OIS anti-shake, after turning on EIS anti-shake, the range of image cropping will be smaller and more pixels will be used for imaging, so the image quality will be further improved compared with CMOS of the same file.
-custom IMX 598 sensor
In addition to the new micro-pan/tilt anti-shake technology, the main camera CMOS of vivo X50 Pro is also a customized version. However, unlike the soles customized by other manufacturers, this CMOS is much smaller, which is due to the volume limitation of the micro-pan/tilt and the choice after comprehensive consideration.
But this CMOS is not bad. Imx598, 1/2 inches, 48 million pixels, supporting the four-in-one pixel function. From the basic parameters, this CMOS is very similar to last year's flagship CMOS IMX 586. On the filter screen, IMX 598 adopts brand-new technology. On the premise of ensuring RGGB filter, the overall light intake increases by about 10%, and higher light intake can bring better night scene shooting effect.
—— Full focus review configuration
As mentioned in the preface, the configuration of vivo X50 Pro can be described as "the sparrow is small and complete".
There should be many shots from macro to telephoto.
It not only has a very powerful micro-pan/tilt main camera in an 8mm body, but also has 8 megapixel 120 wide-angle and macro lenses,130,000 pixel 2 times portrait lens and periscope 5 times telephoto lens. There is no "catch-up" rear view configuration, and through the relay of multiple lenses, such a thin mobile phone also uses the full-focus photography ability. Vivo X50 Pro tries its best to provide us with the best full-focus photography experience under the limitation of its own spatial structure.
Contrast image of vivo X50 Pro after lens enlargement
On the whole, as a professional image flagship, the configuration of vivo X50 Pro is remarkable. It is not only perfect in the configuration of the rear camera, but also has a unique new technology of micro-pan/tilt. Next, let's take a look at the effects of these shots through real shots.
Fourth, the real shooting experience: win in "stability" to break through the bottleneck of image quality. Full focus photography is stress-free.
Thanks to the micro-pan/tilt, the output rate of the main camera of vivo X50 Pro is much higher than that of other mobile phones, and it is not easy to produce waste films due to hand shaking. In addition, because it can be exposed repeatedly and stably for a long time, although it is not a large CMOS, vivo X50 Pro can achieve a more violent HDR effect through long-term stacking, so that the photo tolerance is not behind other flagships.
-Day proof
Wide-angle lens 0.6 focal length sunny day
Main shot 1 multiple focal length sunny day
2 times portrait lens 2 times focal length sunny day
Periscope telephoto lens 5 times focal length sunny day
Wide-angle lens 0.6 focal length sunny day
First, compare a set of proofs. Vivo X50 Pro has done a good job in multi-shot adjustment, basically maintaining the consistency of imaging style. Because the telephoto end is small, the color will appear lighter and the saturation will not be as high as other lenses. In addition, the overall look and feel of the wide-angle lens is not bad, but the resolution will be slightly inferior because of the low pixel (8 million pixels), but the wide-angle lens itself is to accommodate more scenes, and the overall look and feel is more important.
1, main drawing
Take a double focal length sunset.
At night, the focal length of the main shot doubles.
Main camera dual focal length, cloudy
The main lens benefits from the long exposure advantage brought by the micro-pan/tilt. The HDR effect of vivo X50 Pro is very good, and it is easier to trigger than other lenses. Vivo X50 Pro can also be used in the sunset with high light ratio. In cloudy weather, the details of vivo X50 Pro are also well recorded, and both the background clouds and the foreground scenery can be taken into account.
2, 2 times portrait lens
2X portrait lens dual focal length cloudy
2X portrait lens dual focal length cloudy
Use 2X portrait lens with double focal length at night.
As far as lens quality is concerned, the portrait lens (2 times fixed focus lens) of vivo X50 Pro is very close to the main camera, with excellent color and resolution. And because of the advantage of focal length, the frequency of using it in daily shooting can even be tied with the main lens. Because the HDR trigger at the telephoto end is not as frequent as that at the main camera end, in some cases, it seems that the photos at the telephoto end are brighter.
3. Periscope telephoto lens
Periscope telephoto lens 5 times focal length cloudy
Periscope telephoto lens 5 times focal length cloudy
Periscope telephoto lens 5 times focal length cloudy
A flagship130,000 periscope lens, with 5 times telephoto.
On the thin body, in the compact rear view module, the vivo X50 Pro also inserted a periscope telephoto lens to meet the needs of taking pictures at a longer distance. Because of the space limitation, the hardware quality of this periscope telephoto on vivo X50 Pro is slightly weaker than that of the flagship of the same price, and the imaging effect is slightly weaker than that of the main camera, but the overall picture feeling is still good. Even compared with the proofs of other products, the resolution is slightly worse, but the color is better, which is largely due to the excellent adjustment with vivo.
-night proofing
Taking pictures at night naturally focuses on the main camera of vivo X50 Pro. Due to the use of miniature pan/tilt, the main camera of vivo X50 Pro can achieve a stable effect very close to a tripod when shooting night scenes by hand, and can reduce the tailing of night scenes in post-processing, making the resolution and impression better. In addition, with the long exposure and the improvement of RGGB filter, the vivo X50 Pro can achieve the same night vision effect as the RYYB sensor, and the color reproduction is more accurate and closer to the human eye.
Vivo X50 Pro main camera night scene mode
Night view mode of 64 million main camera of EIS anti-shake model
Because the micro-pan/tilt greatly enhances the anti-shake performance of vivo X50 Pro, vivo X50 Pro can not only achieve longer exposure time, but also have better picture resolution when taking pictures at night.
The model with poor anti-shake performance has higher pixels but lower details because the algorithm in night mode is trailing.
The reason is also very simple. The traditional EIS and even OIS+EIS anti-shake configuration can't completely eliminate the jitter, and the exposure time can't be too long. The camera algorithm will use smearing to eliminate noise and vignetting and make the picture look as clean as possible. But once magnified, it will reveal its true colors.
Main night scene mode
Main night scene mode
Main night scene mode
Main night scene mode
Excellent night scene performance, only the anti-shake bonus brought by micro-pan/tilt is far from enough, otherwise any mobile phone with tripod at night will become the king of taking pictures. Another secret of vivo X50 Pro's excellent night scene is naturally its excellent algorithm. In the micro-pan/tilt mode, after shooting multiple images with different exposures, the synthesized result of the algorithm of vivo X50 Pro can please the users' eyes best.
There is no blindly brightening, and there is no unique color matching. On the one hand, vivo X50 Pro ensures the accuracy of color and white balance, on the other hand, it ensures that the layering of night scenes is rich enough, from the most brilliant close-up to the middle scene, the distant view and even the night sky, the light and shade are patchy, and there is no painting feeling brought by smearing. The night photos taken by vivo X50 Pro are closest to reality but better than reality.
-Extreme Night Mode
Of course, when it comes to night scenes, we can't let go of the "night vision device" effect that many mobile phones are talking about. In extremely dark environment, vivo X50 Pro can really achieve low-light shooting performance not inferior to other products with improved filters and more stable anti-shake.
Dark scenes trigger extreme night mode. By the way, long exposure animation effect is very popular.
Viewfinder picture
Main night scene mode triggers extreme night effect.
Main night scene mode triggers extreme night effect.
Through RGGB filter and micro-pan/tilt, you can take photos in extremely dark and weak light environment, and vivo X50 Pro can be described as a constant surprise at night. It is worth noting that these are the results of hand-held photography. Vivo X50 Pro also supports tripod mode. Even if the hand is stable, hand-held photography can automatically trigger tripod mode shooting. At this time, the exposure time of night scene mode shooting is as long as 24s, and the effect is more amazing than holding it.
-Night filter
In night scene mode, vivo X50 Pro also provides four kinds of filters for users to choose from, and each filter has a different style, which can make night shots have a different flavor.
Black and gold filter in main night scene mode
In addition, the night scene filter can actually be used during the day, and it can also bring unexpected effects when taking pictures.
Black and gold filter in main night scene mode
Main night scene mode green-orange filter
Main night scene mode Lan Bing filter
Main night scene mode Cyberpunk filter
-Video performance
In terms of video, vivo X50 Pro is also quite powerful. Needless to say, with the blessing of the micro-pan/tilt, even if the super anti-shake is not turned on, the picture stability and motion fluency of the vivo X50 Pro are much better when shooting video. In addition, vivo X50 Pro also comes with two functions: movie mirror transmission and motion focus tracking. The former can enable vivo X50 Pro to achieve a certain degree of motion tracking, while the latter can achieve human eye focusing and even object focusing, which has a more stable focusing performance when shooting.
Because vivo X50 Pro right is a traditional OIS anti-shake, they didn't turn on Super Anti-shake.
The optical image stabilization of vivo X50 Pro is equivalent to the feeling of PTZ stabilizer. When shooting, the movement of the lens is always one step slower than that of the fuselage, and the small displacement is fixed and the large displacement is smooth. After turning on Super Anti-shake, you can achieve five-axis anti-shake.
The effect of moving the mirror in the movie is similar to the translation/tilt motion tracking, but the object is always kept in the center of the picture by cutting the picture. Due to the cropping process, there will be some loss of image quality. It is suggested to keep the object in the middle as much as possible to reduce the cropping range.
Although the special customization of CMOS has not improved its focusing performance, with the help of focusing algorithm, the focusing performance of vivo X50 Pro is also very strong when shooting video. Needless to say, it is a function that many high-end cameras have. What's more, vivo X50 Pro supports human body focusing, so it can achieve precise locking even in back-to-back state.
As long as the object is not covered or out of the frame, it can play a focusing role.
When shooting objects, objects can also come in handy, and you don't have to worry about out of focus when locking in real time, especially when shooting close-ups.
Fourth, performance: mainstream mobile games are smooth, 60 frames are stable, and there are more low-temperature surprises.
In terms of performance, vivo X50 Pro is equipped with Qualcomm's sub-flagship chip Snapdragon 765G, so it is not a problem to support daily use. Under heavy load, such as typical scenes of games, Snapdragon 765G can also meet the requirements of many popular online games for high-quality 60FPS full-frame operation. Considering the heating, performance, power consumption, 5G and chip size comprehensively, Snapdragon 765G with integrated 5g chip is a more suitable choice without sacrificing the battery power and controlling the body at about 8mm, with the blessing of micro-pan/tilt full-focus camera module.
In addition, with Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G, the surrounding ecology of vivo X50 Pro is more complete. Let's take the most popular true wireless headset. Vivo is one of the few mobile phone manufacturers that have realized that both mobile phones and +TWS headsets support APTX adaptive transmission protocol, which means that it can enjoy better Bluetooth wireless sound quality and lower game delay at the same time. On a more perfect platform, the user experience of peripheral devices can be further enhanced from the mobile phone itself.
-Game performance test
Back to the performance of vivo X50 Pro itself, under Snapdragon 765G, vivo X50 Pro is enough to realize the smooth running of most mainstream games. Here, three games are selected for testing, namely Peace Elite, the glory of the king and Ace Warrior.
1, the glory of the king
The glory of the king is the most popular mobile MOBA game on the market at present. In this test, we will play in full picture quality for a period of time to see how the frame rate changes.
2. Peace elite
Peace Elite is the most popular mobile phone shooting game on the market at present, which requires a high frame rate. Because I didn't see the option of exceeding the limit frame rate (90FPS), I chose the image quality of HDR HD, turned on the limit frame rate and turned on anti-aliasing for testing.
3. Ace warrior
"Ace Warrior" is an FPS mobile game, which supports the release of various skills, requires high operation fluency and supports high frame rate refresh mode. However, when the character is killed, the game will be automatically adjusted to run at a frame rate of 45FPS, so be careful not to misjudge it as a lost frame.
Playing these three games with vivo X50 Pro, except for "Ace Warrior", the average frame rate performance of the two games can be described as a stable full frame. Although the frame number of "Ace Warrior" will drop occasionally, the average frame number will remain at 58.7FPS, and the number of jams is only 3.8Jank/ 10min, so the daily game is quite smooth. It can be said that it is not a problem to play these games under 765G in Snapdragon.
Sixth, battery life: 33W fast charge and quick return, good battery life under the small fuselage.
Vivo X50 Pro is equipped with 43 15mAh battery and used with Snapdragon 765G, which is better in energy consumption and endurance performance.
-Video battery life
Keep the volume and brightness of online video at 50% and the resolution at 1080P+ by using the software. After playing for a while, observe the power failure.
When the video is played for 20 minutes with 3% power failure, the average discharge power is 1589.2mW, and the estimated video life of vivo X50 Pro is 1 1.54 hours.
-dance academy
The game selected in the game endurance test is the same as the game selected in the performance test. Keep the game settings unchanged and test the power consumption.
Basically, the game life is concentrated in about 6 hours.
—— Charging curve
Vivo X50 Pro supports 33W super fast charge, and the battery of 43 15mAh can be fully charged in about one hour.
Seven. Summary: The mobile phone image revolution won in "Stability" is a rare and thin boutique in recent years.
After rapidly entering the 5G era, thinness and high matching rarely appear together. We saw too many cases and began to think that the weight of 200g and the thickness of 9mm were taken for granted for the flagship.
However, vivo X50 Pro has proved by its own design that good hardware configuration and thinness are never the opposite. Advanced "micro-pan-tilt" anti-shake components, a set of full-focus four-camera system, needless to say, how much space the mobile phone takes up, but vivo managed to fit it into the 8mm body, and its design intention and efforts are naturally self-evident.
Perhaps performance is not the most prominent highlight of vivo X50 Pro, but in fact, the performance of vivo X50 Pro is not enough to become its weakness. Compared with the shortage, vivo X50 Pro may not be so extreme for running a party, but for ordinary consumers, it is more than enough to cope with daily life and games, and the performance gap is not as obvious as expected.
As the flagship of image, the advantage of vivo X50 Pro should be reflected in its good camera ability. Micro-pan/tilt, full-focus four-shot, vivo X50 Pro starts with excellent "anti-shake" and cooperates with the main camera to provide us with excellent video and photo experience. In addition, the intimate design functions such as anti-shake assistant, human eye focusing, motion focusing, and film mirror transportation are not inferior to professional Vlog cameras in terms of ease of use. On this basis, it strives for perfection, using periscope lens and portrait lens to make up for the vacancy of its imaging range. The omnipotent image in the flagship is worthy of the name.
High-quality screen, slim body, excellent feel and even powerful anti-shake, vivo X50 Pro pays more attention to the direct feelings of users in design, and every bright spot is most suitable for the pain points in life. Under the four-shot blessing of the full-focus section led by the main camera of "Micro-Yuntai", it is not only worthy of the name of thin and exquisite products that are rare in recent years, but also worthy of the name of professional flagship. This flagship quite knows how to hit the pain points of the target users.
The appearance of miniature pan/tilt is another revolution in mobile photography. The first appearance of the production version proves its strength with a medium-sized CMOS, which also makes us look forward to the amazing effect of the combination of micro-gimbal and custom outsole in the future. However, it's still early. Let's start with this vivo X50 Pro and feel the future of mobile photography.