This week renders of the Huawei P40 and Huawei P40 Pro were posted on the web. The images revealed not only the design of the two phones but also the color variants that will be announced. Now we have the camera configuration for the two phones.
According to @RODENT950, the Huawei P40’s three rear cameras are a 40MP Cine (ultrawide) camera with a 1/1.5” sensor size, a 52MP main camera with a 1/1.3” sensor size, and an 8MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom.
40mp cine 1/1.5"
52mp main 1/1.3"
8mp 3x teleBelow is Pro https://t.co/nSD1dtIv7W
— Teme (特米) (@RODENT950) January 16, 2020
The Huawei P40 Pro will also have a 40MP Cine (ultrawide) camera with a 1/1.5” sensor size and will pair it with a 52MP main camera with a 1/1.3” sensor size. Rather than a telephoto camera, Huawei is going with a periscope zoom lens like that of the Huawei P30 Pro. This will offer more optical zoom, at least 5x, and of course more digital zoom. The P40 Pro will also have a 3D ToF camera.
It is interesting to see that both the standard and Pro models will have the same Cine camera but probably have different aperture sizes. And if it is the same sensor as that of the Mate 30 Pro, it should also have auto-focus.
However, one of the drawbacks of the Cine camera of the Mate 30 Pro is its field of view which is not as wide as that of the ultrawide angle camera of some other phones. Huawei sure must have listened to feedback regarding its last flagship as a follow-up tweet by the leaker says the cine camera will be getting a wider field of view.
The camera configuration of the front cameras are still unknown. Both phones will have dual front-facing cameras housed in a pill-shaped punch hole at the top left corner of the display. If Huawei decides to tow the same line it did with the Nova 6 5G, then the front cameras should be a primary sensor and a secondary ultrawide camera for wide-angle selfies.
Huawei is expected to announce the two phones in March at an event in Paris. Both devices will come with the Kirin 990 processor with support for 5G. There will also be a P40 Lite but a leak from last year revealed it will be a re-branded Nova 6 SE.
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