Huawei Mate 9 Pro vs Huawei P9 Smartphone Camera Review

Huawei is the first time to cooperate with Leica to use the first generation Leica dual camera, the details of photographing and color of photos have been loved much by different kinds of customers. Last month Huawei released Huawei P9 and Huawei mate 9 pro to use the second generation in Leica dual camera.So what’s the difference between the first and second generation?

First, in terms of hardware, what are upgraded features that Huawei Mate 9 and Huawei Mate 9 Pro powered by the second generation Leica dual camera.

1.The first generation dual 12MP(color+black, white) has upgraded to 12MP color camera and 20MP black, white camera
2. It supports OIS function.
3.It supports PDAF, laser, color difference, deep four mix focus technology
4. It supports double times dual camera zoom

Then we compare Huawei Mate 9 Pro with Huawei P9. Just check two generation Leica dual camera photo samples comparison. In this photographing, we use the auto mode, the photos have not made any processed besides the photo info, size narrowing for uploading.

Due to taking photos at the noon, it has enough sunshine, both two smartphone have nice performance, but both have difference in white balance. Huawei Mate 9 Pro tends to cold color, but Huawei P9 with warm color partially. The other two sets of photos are taken under the common mode, Huawei P9 has much brighter color, Huawei Mate 9 Pro looks more natural and real.

In this set of photos, two photos both show well whether in shadow part or bright part. In color performance, compared with the last two set of photos, Huawei Mate 9 pro shows more real, Huawei Mate 9 is more attractive with much brighter color. In details, Huawei Mate 9 pro chooses to slow down the shutter speed, the details in shadow part also show well. Huawei P9 has more obvious level to differentiate the shadow and bright part.

100% zooming, upper is Huawei Mate9 pro, lower part is huawei p9

In camera analysis, Huawei Mate 9 Pro with dual 20MP white+black camera has obvious advantage. After enlarging two photos to 100%, the letters under the logo in the photo of Huawei Mate 9 Pro show richer, the building glass has more level feel, but Huawei P9 is not better than Mate 9 pro in this aspect.

In this macro distance sample, Huawei Mate 9 Pro has much difference from Huawei P9 in white balance and color algorithm, Huawei P9 looks warm color partially to be eye-catching more to make us feel the afternoon beautiful time. In macro distance photographing, two smartphone have nice effect, the effect of blurring is obvious and natural without other noise.

Huawei Mate 9 Pro (Up) vs Huawei P9 (Down) 100% Zooming

The second generation dual camera has improved to 20MP, we can see from this set of black and white mode. Huawei Mate 9 Pro shows richer in details, after zooming to 100%, we can see the texture clearly, in addition, Huawei Mate 9 Pro blurring effect is also more obvious.

Next come to the night scene part, the second generation Leica main camera has added OIS function, which has its own advantage in dim light.

Thanks to OIS, we can see Huawei Mate 9 pro has faster shutter speed in Huawei P9, in addition, it has improved the ISO, so the picture brightness is higher and the dark details are much richer. Huawei P9 has higher picture purity,more transparent. So it will up to your hobby, do you want to take photos in dim light more clearly or more purely?

So for much for the comparison, according to different scene comparison between Huawei Mate 9 Pro and Huawei P9, we can see they have difference in white balance and color performance. Huawei P9 looks more brighter. Thanks to second generation Leica dual 20MP camera, Huawei Mate 9 Pro has better improvement in picture analysis and macro distance photographing. Adding OIS, Huawei Mate 9 Pro can delay the shutter time to ensure the clear photo to improve more dark details, and it still has nice performance under the complicated light. Right now you can enjoy coupon code: A40LITB1 valid for both to catch Huawei P9 at $482.77 and Huawei Mate 9 at $574.11.