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Huawei P9 Leica phone: Less than glowing review


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That's pretty much the reason any company does anything, isn't it?

 

My thought was that in entering in to this joint venture with Huawei, Leica is putting its reputation on the line and is gambling a fair amount of prestige capital, for lack of a better term.  I hope it works out well for them in terms of finances and reputation. 

 

If Huawei sells 200 million phones and Leica gets $2 USD (or perhaps more) per phone sold, the reward will have been worth the risk I would think.

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I beg to differ.

The test's pretty much unfair as it takes into consideration OOC jpeg files only. As the P9 is one of the few phones capable of producing RAW files, one should focus on what's possible to squeeze out at the best of the hardware possibilities.

That's what I did. Here http://forum.xda-developers.com/p9/how-to/huawei-p9-camera-thread-t3362644 there's a guy who shared a bunch of DNG files and I took the liberty of downloading, postprocessing and examining them.

For what is worth, I believe that for being a mobile phone the P9 produces outstanding results which are quite comparable to those one could obtain from a point-and-shoot camera.

The only other mobile phone enabled to produce DNG files I know of is the LG G4 and as far as I'm concerned, image-wise it's well below the P9.

For the non believers and those who do not want to waste their time repeating what I did, here's a sample I postprocessed with RAWTherapee:

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And here's a 100% crop. Not that bad, huh? :D

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According to unofficial views at Leica, the Huawei P9's camera results would only be second to the top-end Samsung, and the reason for that rests solely with the software processing, not the actual camera. Samsung obviously still has more experience in that department than Huawei. But Huawei may surely catch up as the software can be improved without changing hardware :)

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Just developed a couple dng files my usual way (C1). iPhones 5 and 6 aound me are blown away i must say.

 

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100% crops out of the same.

 

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