Vivo Xshot is the latest flagship product launched by Vivo focusing on photography and Hi Fi playback. It not only has a strong hardware configuration, but also makes great efforts in camera. Sony's stack type second-generation 13 million pixel camera is used, and OIS optical anti shake technology is also added, which makes its photo taking effect significantly better than previous products. Now let's experience the effect of this camera together.
Capture interface The shooting interface of Xshot is still simple in the past, and there are few adjustments in simple mode. In the function list, we can see that vivo has added more shooting functions to Xshot. What is more distinctive is the children's function and background virtualization, which will be explained in detail below.
In the settings, you can adjust the resolution and shutter mode of videos and photos.
The previous Xplay3S professional photography mode has also been retained. The biggest difference from the previous one is that the slowest shutter of the Xshot can reach 8 seconds, so that compared with the previous one second shutter, the Xshot will face more night scenes more calmly. In addition, there are also a variety of shooting auxiliary composition lines and gradients.
day
The daytime photography performance of Xshot is very good. The overall clarity is relatively high, the overall tone is adjusted deeply, and the contrast is high.
The Sony stack type second generation 13 megapixel camera used by Xshot is also very sharp, which has made great progress compared with previous vivo phones. This is a 100% screenshot of the above figure.
The advantage of high contrast is that the color performance is more attractive and vivid. It makes the object to be photographed look real, without feeling false or unreal.
It's a pity that the weather on the day of shooting was not very good. Most of the time, it was cloudy and the sky was thick with dark clouds.
The 100% screenshot of the above figure shows that the details of the bricks on the wall are still good.
Perhaps you also care about the better shooting effect between Xshot and OPPO Find 7, which also uses the IMX214 camera. Here, the editor selects several photos to make a simple comparison（ You can click the smaller picture to see the larger picture ）：
Both samples are auto focusing. Click the picture to see the large picture.
You can also click the small picture to see the large picture. In this sample, the clarity of Xshot and Find 7 is good, and the details are similar, but the overall performance of Xshot is slightly better than that of Find 7.
The focus of the two samples is the same, and their light measurement can be linked with the focus. From this picture, we can see that the brightness of the debugging of the Xshot sample is slightly higher than that of the Find 7, and we can also see that the color performance of the Xshot is very attractive and the contrast is high, so the overall appearance will give a real and vivid feeling.
This is a 100% screenshot of the edge in the above figure. From here, we can also see that the edge imaging of Xshot is much more than that of Find 7. The Xshot still maintains a certain sharpness, and the closer the Find 7 is to the edge, the more blurred it becomes.
From the comparison of the above samples, we can also see that the daytime shooting part of Xshot is slightly better than that of Find 7. However, don't forget that Find 7 has a unique 50 million pixel mode. From the previous Find 7 shooting evaluation, we know that the 50 million pixel detail capture of Find 7 has improved compared with 13 million ordinary shots, but the image edge effect is also not ideal.
HDR
Similarly, click the small picture to view the large picture. The effect of the ordinary mode of the Xshot is very good. As mentioned above, the contrast is enough, the color is vivid, and the new stack II has excellent ability to capture details. After HDR is turned on, the overall dynamic range will be larger, the shadow details will be more, and the slightly overexposed sky will also be correctly displayed. However, the color representation of HDR is slightly distorted. Generally speaking, photos taken in normal mode are good. HDR can only be turned on when needed.
After HDR is enabled, what will be the impact on the details of the sample? Let's observe a group of 100% screenshots to roughly know. In normal mode, the details of the sample are very sharp, and the noise is not too obvious. After HDR is turned on, there will be more noise than the normal mode, and you can also see a more obvious smear effect, so the overall sharpness will be reduced, and the detail performance of HDR samples will be slightly worse than that of the normal mode. However, the HDR effect of Xshot is much better than that of the previous Xplay3S. The color distortion is not too serious, and the dynamic range is indeed significantly improved.
More Xshot HDR effect comparison:
In the above figure, 100% of the details are compared. Click to view the large picture, and you can see that the stone brick lines behind the wooden frame are fuzzy, which is the phenomenon that the details are slightly smeared after HDR is turned on.
It was dusk when this picture was taken, and the sun basically shone directly into the lens. When shooting in the normal mode with such a large backlight, most of the details of the subject would be wrapped in shadows. At this time, you can start HDR to rescue it.
The 100% detail contrast of the above figure shows that the shadow in HDR mode has more details, and the effect is good. However, there will also be a sense of smearing and obvious noise.
After HDR is turned on, the backlit trees and buildings have more details. Compared with the naked eye, the color of trees will be lighter, but not to the extent of distortion.
Here we also use the HDR of Xshot to compare the HDR of Find 7:
Xshot HDR sample comparison.
Let's take a look at the comparison of Find 7 in the same scene. After HDR of Find 7 is turned on, there will also be a little smearing and noise increase（ More noise than Xshot ）Phenomenon. By the way, the effect of Find 7 is much better than that of Find 5 that Xiao Bian has contacted before.
However, through the comparison between the top and bottom images, we can find that although Find 7 displays the shadow details well, the color distortion of the picture is still serious. Compared with Xshot, it is more stable.
100% screenshot comparison between Xshot and Find 7 HDR mode, click the small picture to view the details of the large picture. After looking at the large picture, it is obvious that the HDR proof details of the two are similar, and there are also signs of smearing. The shadow details of Find 7 are more than those of Xshot, but the corresponding noise points are also more than those of Xshot.
Compared with the sample of the HDR mode, there is another problem with the HDR of the Xshot. The shutter speed after opening the HDR seems to be wrong, but actually it is not as fast as 1/2175 second.
The comparison between the Find 7 normal mode and HDR mode proofs is typical. The detail performance of the shadow part is improved, but the overall tone distortion will be obvious.
Macro
The macro performance of Xshot is really good. The shooting distance is very close. And because of the large aperture, the depth of field is very shallow, and the background is also very natural and soft. Color performance, because the color matching of Xshot is more inclined to high contrast, the color will be a bit heavier than the naked eye, but it also makes the color very vivid and attractive.
In the 100% screenshot of the above figure, the focus will be slightly blurred because there is always wind when shooting. If you are shooting a still object, the sharpness performance will be better.
100% screenshot.
Since the flowers were in the bushes when shooting this picture, there was no wind effect at that time, so the focus was much more accurate, and the sharpness of the shot was also satisfactory.
Handheld automatic night view
The night scene taken in the normal mode of Xshot is still good, and the success rate of focusing is relatively high. Of course, the diagonal speed will certainly be slower than that in the daytime. The ISO of this picture is already 800, but there is no noise on the full screen. The performance is good.
The 100% screenshot of the above picture is good for mobile phones.
The street lamp on the right side of this picture is basically the camera directly shooting at the Xshot, but it still does not produce obvious lens glare. It can be seen that the lens glare control of the Xshot is relatively good.
100% screenshot of the above figure.
Now let's take a look at the samples taken in the handheld night view mode. The manually adjusted night view will be discussed below. When the night view mode of Xshot is started, you will see a difference in the viewfinder, and the brightness of the image will be improved compared with the normal mode. Because the small editor wants to show the billboard in the dark, the focus is set on the billboard, and the metering will be placed on the billboard along with the focus linkage, so the picture brightness will be lowered and the billboard will be displayed first. But even so, it can be seen that the performance of these two samples is different, and the building on the back of the billboard is clearly visible in the night view mode.
More night view mode comparison samples:
The noise reduction effect in the night view mode is very obvious. You can see it directly from this comparison picture. The noise of the right sample has become very insignificant after the night view mode is turned on, and it can also ensure a certain sharpness. Therefore, it is recommended to turn on the night view mode when shooting the night view by hand.
Since Find 7 has been used for the above scenes for comparison, let's also make a simple comparison for the night scene.
However, the sharpness of the night scene taken in the normal mode of Find 7 is obviously slightly worse than that of Xshot, and the noise is also more. Although the nightscape mode is also used to improve brightness and reduce noise, the nightscape mode of Find 7 smears heavily, even affecting details. This problem can be clearly seen by comparing the 100% screenshot of the above Xshot.
Comparison of samples of super multi normal mode and night view mode:
Compared with the 100% screenshot in the above figure, this noise reduction contrast is very obvious. On the contrary, the text performance is clearer after the noise reduction in the nightscape mode is turned on.
By comparing the 100% screenshots of the above drawing, it can be seen that the brightness of the picture is higher after the nightscape mode is turned on, and the noise is indeed reduced very well. The lantern keel in the window is also clearer than the normal mode.
Maybe you are all concerned about the high sense performance. The ISO of these two pictures is already quite high. The ISO in the normal mode has soared to 3000, while that in the night view mode is 2500.
It is also a 100% screenshot comparison between the two modes. The noise in the night view mode has been pressed very well, so the detail performance of the sample in the night view mode is slightly better than that in the normal mode.
Manual night view with tripod
From the sample above, we know that the night view mode of Xshot has a good effect. It can not only improve the brightness and reduce the noise, but also will not affect the picture definition. However, since Xshot has a manual mode, you must experience the fun of manual shooting in detail.
Here is a trick for the design of the shutter time in the Xshot manual mode. After the manual mode is called out, we limit the ISO to 100. At this time, the shutter speed is still automatic, but we can see that the shutter speed has been automatically set to 3.642 seconds by the system. So facing the night scene, you don't know how slow the shutter should be. You can try to let the system automatically set the shutter time to shoot, and then decide to speed up or slow down the shutter according to the sample after shooting.
In addition, the manual camera of Xshot will also prompt you whether the current shutter is suitable, for example, the 1/10 shutter currently adjusted by Xiao Bian. The system detects that the light does not match the shutter speed properly, so it will be displayed in red letters. Of course, this is also possible to shoot, but the result does not meet the requirements of normal exposure.
When you adjust the shutter time to a more reliable shutter time, white fonts will be displayed, which means that the shutter can get a sample with normal exposure.
Finally, the editor adjusted the 4-second exposure, and took this long exposure sample on the tripod on the ISO 100 rack. Of course, the scene environment is much darker than this sample. See the contrast of the penultimate scene of the handheld night scene above, which is as dark as that taken in the normal mode.
100% screenshots, we can see that the stone brick details of the nearby building walls and the grid lines on the glass are still clear. The part-time things across the bank can't be seen carefully. After all, it's too far away. The base of the mobile phone camera is so big that it's unrealistic to shoot too far away.
The same ISO and exposure time are used for comparison with Find 7. The difference between the two images is the aperture, which is F/1.8 for Xshot and F/2.0 for Find 7.
More exposure night scene:
... Don't be frightened by the shutter time behind you. In fact, this is only a 3 second exposure.
Features
There is a more loving child mode in Xshot, which can attract children's attention through some different sound effects, and it can also detect the child's face and automatically shoot, which is very practical when shooting children.
In addition, Xshot also has a dual color temperature fill light. From the fill light shooting of these three mobile phones, it is obvious that the fill light effect of Xshot is the best. From left to right, there are Samsung GS4, Xshot and Find 7. Among them, the double color temperature fill light of Xshot is the best, followed by Find 7. The doll taken by Samsung has completely changed its face.
Doll color photographed under normal light source.
Xshot also has the function of blurring the background, which is actually used to highlight the main subject when shooting portraits or other objects. For example, when shooting a portrait, the left side is shot in normal mode, and the right side is shot with background virtualization. From the contrast, it can be clearly seen that the blurred background on the right side is more likely to highlight women as the subject of shooting. However, this function is not perfect at present. We can see that the background on the left side of the figure has not been virtualized and needs further optimization.
selfie
Xshot has an F/2.4 8 megapixel front camera and a full spectrum LED fill light. In addition, it also has five levels of beauty, real-time makeup, HDR shooting and other functions. In terms of functionality, it can be said that it has everything.
This is the sample shot by the front camera of the Xshot, in which real-time makeup is also used, but the light makeup is used. You can still see the light green makeup effect at the end of the eye.
This is a self portrait without beauty effect.
Due to space constraints, the self portrait effect of Xshot will be introduced in another article in detail. After all, there are many functions that can be said. And I also found different girls to take selfies. Please wait and see.
summary
The appearance of vivo Xshot has indeed overturned people's impression of the photographic effect of domestic mobile phones. From the previous slow focusing, poor focusing accuracy, and blurred images of domestic mobile phones to the current accurate focusing, fast focusing, good imaging effect, and more manual functions, these are the historical witness of the gradual progress of domestic mobile phones.
Xshot uses Sony's stacked IMX214 F/1.8 13 megapixel camera. The excellent lens is one of the guarantees of good photographic effect. Combined with optical anti shake, the imaging effect of this combination is quite excellent. In the daytime, the imaging is fast, the focusing accuracy is high, the focusing speed is fast, the imaging is not delayed, and the shooting is basically completed when the shutter is clicked. In addition, the color palette of Xshot is very attractive, with high contrast and vivid and attractive colors. In terms of macro, it is also quite good. The focusing distance is very close, so you can take many good macro proofs. The shallow depth of field effect of large aperture makes the background virtualization quite natural. HDR has changed the previous distortion style. The HDR hue of Xshot is still more inclined to real color, but the biggest disadvantage is that using HDR will increase noise. In terms of night scenes, the ordinary mode can also be competent for shooting general night scenes in the case of more light. Of course, the effect of the picture is more ideal and the noise is less after using the night view mode. The slowest shutter in the manual mode of Xshot can reach 8 seconds, which has made it easy for most city night scenes, but only if you have a tripod or a place where your phone can be fixed.
When I wrote about the shooting evaluation of Xplay3S, I said that the biggest disadvantage of Xplay3S is that the shooting effect is not ideal. This time, the Xshot can be said to make up for this disadvantage and make the barrel as average as possible. In terms of various shooting performances of Xshot, it is one of the best in domestic mobile phones.
