HTC U11 is the first mobile phone with a DxOMark score of 90 points. With HTC OEM Google Pixel, the top three DxOMark mobile phones have been won by HTC. After a long period of downturn, HTC's sudden efforts in the field of photography have made people curious about the photography performance of the new HTC U11. In this comparison, Google Pixel XL and the popular belief representative iPhone 7 Plus were chosen as rivals for a simple test on the night scene.

The focus of all the samples below is in the middle. Auto focus and light metering. Pixel XL and HTC U11 are both forced HDR/HDR+. iPhone chooses the best sample between automatic mode and forced HDR as a representative. PS: If the Love to play computer games Browse the PC version page, click the picture to view the large picture.

Sample of indoor lighting

Indoor scene 1

Indoor scene 1 central magnification

Zoom in at the top right of the center of indoor scene 1

Indoor scene 2

Indoor scene 2 central magnification (details at backlight)

Indoor scene 3

Zoom in at the bottom right of the center of indoor scene 3

Enlarge the left center of indoor scene 3 (at the point light source)

Outdoor light and weak light proof sheet

Outdoor lighting scene 1

Central amplification of outdoor light scene 1 (HTC U11 reduces brightness detail and color saturation due to light exposure)

Zoom in below the center of outdoor light scene 1 (U11 exposure is slightly brighter, dark parts will benefit from it; Pixel is still full of noise)

Outdoor lighting scene 2

Enlarge the center of outdoor lighting scene 2

Zoom in at the top of the center of outdoor light scene 2 (at the light source, HDR with very light U11 cannot represent the hierarchy of light sources)

Outdoor lighting scene 3

Enlarge the center of outdoor lighting scene 3

After the light gets worse, other machines have more noise and less discrimination. Pixel XL's HDR+algorithm starts to show its advantages. The discrimination and noise have not changed much, and it has successfully reversed.

Outdoor light scene 4 (with color changing neon light interference, white balance contrast is not available)

Outdoor light scene 4 Zoom in at the top left of the center

Large contrast weak light point light source, U11 noise control and details are amazing; This scenario is the most obvious case of HDR+side effects of Pixel XL. However, Pixel XL has the best control over highlights.

Outdoor lighting scene 5

Outdoor light scene 5 central magnification (dark details)

The contrast of the iPhone drops more obviously than that of the other two machines after the light becomes worse. The Pixel is almost unaffected, and the saturation and contrast are still very high, while the U11 is in the middle type.

Outdoor light scene 5 Zoom in at the top right of the center

Outdoor lighting scene 6

Zoom in at the top of the center of outdoor lighting scene 6, and Pixel XL still does the best in suppressing highlights.

Central magnification of outdoor light scene 6 (although the contrast of U11 is not as distorted as Pixel, the noise smearing and sharpening algorithms are quite good)

The white balance of HTC U11 has an obvious tendency of yellow and warm, the light measurement is bright, and the appearance of the proof is pleasing to the eye. In addition to the loss of some bright details due to the light HDR, as long as the light is not very bad, the discrimination can be strong against iPhone and Pixel. It can also maintain good color saturation and contrast under low light, noise control is good, the overall performance is really amazing, and there is no pressure to take photos to rank first.

Pixel XL has the advantage of high color Color saturation, contrast and brightness details, but the noise control is general, and the granular noise at the weak light source affects the appearance; The iPhone has a slight underexposure, the white balance of the proof is accurate, the color saturation is close to the naked eye, and it looks relatively flat. It is a classic bucket player who cannot find major shortcomings or obvious highlights.

What is interesting here is their HDR algorithm bias. The heavier the HDR, the richer the details in the light and shade, but the noise will be prominent. At this time, the heavier the smearing algorithm, the part of the details brought by HDR will be smeared out, and the noise will be caused if it is not smeared Moving. The different choices of the three manufacturers stopped the HDR of the three machines in three different stages: U11 gave up some highlight details from the beginning, the HDR intensity was light, and the color and details at the light source were lost; Pixel XL's HDR+is very hard and tries its best to keep details. The price of tolerance against the weather is that noise control is slightly poor; The HDR of the iPhone is also very powerful at the light source, but the noise is smeared vigorously for the appearance, and the details at the light source are lost to a certain extent. The difference in imaging characteristics caused by their choice basically runs through the whole night scene test.

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