This time, we have brought the three most concerned 1000 yuan machines—— Meilan Note3, Hongmi Note3 and Le2 Take photos and make comments. Their starting prices are 799, 899 and 1099 yuan respectively, but their 3G memory+64G storage versions are 999, 1099 and 1099 yuan (there is only one version of Le 2).

Since the release of the first generation of red rice in mid 2013, the attention and configuration of the 1000 yuan machine have been soaring, and more and more flagship configurations have been released to the 1000 yuan market. From 4-core CPU to 8-core CPU and 10 core CPU, the camera has reached 16 million and almost has standard phase focusing, which gives many users the illusion that the 1000 yuan camera is not much worse than the flagship. But in fact, how much difference will the 1000 yuan camera have between the 1000 yuan camera and the flagship?

Test description

• Meilan Note3 is 13 million pixels , f/2.2 aperture. Hongmi Note3 All Netcom and Le2 are both 16 million pixels , f/2.0 aperture, the former sensor is Samsung S5K3P3, the latter is unknown. The direct size contrast of the film is shown in the figure above. In addition, The wide angle of Meilan Note3 is larger than that of other machines Some will have a certain impact on the power of discrimination.

• The three machines in the test are all the latest versions on June 13, and Hongmi Note3 All Netcom is the development firmware. The focus is at the center of the picture, which is in automatic mode. In low light, only the samples with better performance in automatic mode and night view mode are selected as representatives.

• S6 edge joined the test as the representative of standard sample and flagship machine , the test machine is the latest version of the system, and the core is Android 6.0. Its basic ranking is below LG G5 and Note5, but above iPhone 6s Plus. his Imaging characteristics are The white balance is slightly warm and yellow. The photometry should try to simulate what the naked eye can see. The color saturation is slightly high, with a certain degree of sharpening. The discrimination is good, but there will be obvious white noise under weak light. You can refer to these known features and compare them with the following three machines to get your own perceptual cognition.

Photo experience

All three machines have phase focusing, but none of them has HDR and night view modes that can be automatically triggered. Their extreme focusing speed is slightly slower than that of the flagship, but the gap is not large There is a clear gap between the enthusiasm and speed of pre focusing and the flagship 。

Their shutter response is very fast, the HDR and night scene processing speed is average, and the speed of Zhongle 2 is slower. The low light flaking rate is low, and The success rate of focusing has declined significantly, especially in the case of Meilan Note3.

Overall, The photo experience of three thousand yuan machines cannot open a big gap In strong light, it is not much worse than the flagship, but the problems of speed and focusing success rate will be highlighted if the light is slightly weaker, and there is still much room for progress (the subtext is really ordinary).

HDR and panoramic mode  

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Automatic mode of Meilan Note3 HDR mode of Meilan Note3

Automatic mode of Hongmi Note3 All Netcom HDR mode of Hongmi Note3 All Netcom

Automatic mode of Le 2 HDR mode of Le 2

The HDR of Hongmi Note3 All Netcom and Meilan Note3 will cause the deviation of white balance or metering, and the edge of the object will have "fogging blur", which will affect the discrimination. Among them, the HDR severity of Hongmi is higher than that of Meilan. LeEco is relatively much better. Although there is a certain decrease in contrast, the effect is not obvious.

In terms of panorama mode, if the availability of Xiaomi's HDR is very low, the panorama mode of Hongmi Note3 All Netcom is disabled. I don't know whether it is due to a problem with the development version system or a common problem. The tester can only run at 1/2 of the prompt angle. Once it runs at the full angle, it will flash back, so the rotation angle of the whole piece is only about 150 degrees. The resolution is only about 2200 * 800, the size is about 350KB, and the availability is too low.

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The angle of Le 2 is about 270 degrees, the resolution can reach 10528 * 2416, and the sample size is 6.6MB. The analytical power is the most complete among the three machines. The stitching trace and light dark transition are natural, and the performance is good.

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The Meilan Note3 film is close to 360 degrees, with a resolution of 13440 * 2404, but the sample is only 4.29MB. The compression ratio is too large, and the sample has a serious loss of discrimination. However, the stitching trace and light dark transition are well handled.

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The flagship S6 edge has an angle of nearly 400 degrees and a resolution of 19152 * 2816, 17.6MB. Splicing traces, light and shade transition, Heyue 2 and Meilan Note3 can not open the gap, but the advantages of discrimination are very obvious.

Daytime proof sheet

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Scenario 1

Scenario 2

Scene 2 central zoom in

Scenario 3

Scene 3 central zoom in

Scene 4 central zoom in

Scenario 5

Scenario 6

Scene 6 central zoom in

Scene 7 Central zoom in

Scene 8 central zoom in

Scene 9 Central zoom in

Indoor proof sheet

Indoor scene 1

Indoor scene 1 central magnification

Indoor scene 2

Indoor scene 2 central magnification

Indoor scene 3

Indoor scene 3 central magnification

Indoor scene 4

Indoor scene 4 central magnification

Weak light proof sheet

Weak light scene 1 central amplification

Weak light scene 2 (pay attention to glare at the light source)

Weak light scene 2 central amplification

Weak light scene 3 (pay attention to glare at the light source)

Weak light scene 3 central amplification

Weak light scene 4

Weak light scene 5 central amplification

Weak light scene 6 central amplification

Weak light scene 7

Low light scene 8

Weak light scene 8 central amplification

The film gap between the three machines is far larger than expected:

• The metering of Red rice Note3 All Netcom is uniformly dark, and the color palette is rich and colorful. The white balance has a very obvious green tendency, and the green saturation is obviously high (an important reason for the color bias of the white balance), which will be more attractive when shooting buildings and outdoor vistas. The obvious sharpening algorithm is added, and the daylight discrimination is excellent, close to the S6 edge of the same pixel, but the detail noise control is poor.

• The white balance of light and complex environment is unstable, and the anti glare and anti fog effects are OK, but there will be obvious light spots at the strong light source. Slightly weak light will significantly affect the discrimination. The nightscape mode noise reduction algorithm will erase noise and details together, which will create the illusion of not focusing... As long as the light is weaker than the normal indoor light, the proof is basically unavailable, which belongs to the degree of shooting bright.

Le 2's photometry is slightly brighter than that seen by the naked eye, and its color is light and elegant. The white balance has an obvious yellow tendency. On the contrary to red rice, the image can hardly be sharpened, and even has obvious noise smearing traces. There is no obvious fine noise like red rice, but the analytical power is compromised.

After the light weakens, the performance is the strongest among the three thousand yuan machines, which not only exceeds the red rice Note3 full netcom, but also has a relatively more accurate white balance, normal saturation, slightly dark metering, complete discrimination, and noise control far better than red rice and magic blue. The performance is amazing. The biggest slot is that the anti glare effect of the lens is really ordinary. When encountering a strong light source, there will be a large circle of radioactive light.

However, the flaws do not hide the merits. Le 2 must be the best and most balanced imaging machine among the three thousand yuan machines, and it has been widely abandoned. The software algorithm is obviously more attentive.

Meilan Note3 is not a standard at all, and the gap is far greater than the number of pixels. The white balance in the daytime is obviously yellow, the contrast of the picture is low, and the color saturation is also low, just like the color has been bleached and covered with gray. In addition to the smearing algorithm and greater wide-angle, the power of discrimination is thrown away far, far, far.

The white balance under weak light is slightly better than red rice, which is also yellow and red in dark places. The lens quality is above Le 2 and below Red Rice Note 3. The discrimination under normal light is still worrying, but the noise smearing algorithm is far more reasonable than red rice, and the extremely weak light discrimination can even surpass red rice Note3 All Netcom, which is quite unexpected.