Zoom battle - Galaxy S20 Ultra vs Huawei P30 Pro - Android

Smartphone cameras have come a long, long way over the last decade, but they are still developing, getting more potent and useful, as manufacturers find ways to cram more parts into a smartphone and improve imagery with a plethora of software algorithms.

Last year, Huawei wowed us with a 50 times magnification on its camera. It was capable of delivering 5x lossless optical zoom, then 10x hybrid zoom, and then 50x purely digital crop. Aggressive sharpening in post-processing gave us some pretty usable images. Yes, grainy, flat, and smeared at 50x, but still — that’s quite a lot of zooming ...