Four months after its launch, DxOMark has released its camera review of the Mi 11 flagship phone. The first of the Mi 11 series which has a 108MP camera was awarded a score of 120 points, thus tying with several phones such as the Pixel 5. However, this score puts it way behind its sibling, the Mi 11 Ultra, which tops DxOMark’s smartphones list with 143 points.
The breakdown of the overall score shows the Mi 11 score 127 points for photo, 59 points for zoom, and 107 points for video. When compared to the Mi 10T Pro which also has a 108MP triple camera setup, the Mi 10T Pro 5G scores higher in zoom with 61 points and in the video category with 110 points but has a lower photo score of 121 points.
According to the review, the Mi 11 usually exposes properly but sometimes underexposes in some cases which results in clipped shadows. However, these are rarely problems due to the phone’s fairly wide dynamic range.
DxOMark praises the main camera’s highly detailed images, it even earns a new high score of 111 points for texture. The autofocus is not great when compared to some other flagships as it slows down in low light but is fast and accurate when there is sufficient light. The ultrawide camera also does a good job but some of the drawbacks are softness in the corners and color fringing.
The Mi 11 would have scored higher if it had a telephoto camera which would have helped its zoom score but Xiaomi decided to go with a 5MP macro camera instead. The side effect of this is that you begin to lose details when you begin to zoom in.
For portraits, the Mi 11 does a good job with subject separation from the background but the results can sometimes be inconsistent and artifacts often appear in the images which throw off the illusion of a shallow depth of field.
The high-resolution main camera also helps the Mi 11 with its high video score. The noise levels are said to be “impressively low” and there are lots of details when recording in 4K. Unfortunately, it suffers from a drop in color accuracy when recording in low light.
If you want more details, you can read the full review here.
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