On January 21, the X60 Pro+, the super big cup in the X60 series, was officially unveiled. As the flagship imaging product that also focuses on imaging quality, vivo X60 Pro+ has all-round improvements over X60 and X60 Pro.
How has X60 Pro+ improved in image? Let's take a look together.
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Speaking of the powerful image performance of the vivo X60 series
On December 29, 2020, the vivo X60 series was officially released. Originating from users' expectations of the "Vivo Zeiss Joint Imaging System", the X60 series became the focus of public opinion once it was released.
Public opinion on the "Vivo Zeiss Joint Imaging System" stems from the expectation of the cooperation between vivo and Zeiss on the one hand, and from the comprehensive upgrade of the X60 series of products in professional imaging.
Regarding the comprehensive upgrade of X60 series products in professional imaging, Xi Ge has previously explained in "Zeiss + second-generation micro-head, the determination of vivo from X60 series".
After cooperating with Zeiss, the X60 series has three significant improvements in imaging capabilities: First, the optical lens. According to reports, the system includes a variety of optical lenses such as ultra-wide-angle lenses, professional portrait lenses, and ultra-telephoto lenses. It absorbs Zeiss’s leading optical design concepts and has ultra-high processing and assembly precision. It can suppress dispersion, glare, purple fringing and other impurities. Common optical imaging aspects such as astigmatism and ghost images are excellent, reaching Zeiss optical process quality standards; second, in terms of color and overall image quality, vivo combines its rich manufacturing experience with Zeiss’s outstanding optical quality to make the X60 series The optical lens improves the sharpness and clarity of the image, obtains more accurate colors, and the overall image quality is higher, reaching the Zeiss imaging quality standard; for professional portraits, vivo restores the classic Biotar portrait style of Zeiss. Biotar is a legendary Zeiss lens. It was originally designed for movie cameras in 1927. It is famous for the swirling out-of-focus pattern behind the subject. It has been sought after by professional photographers and photography enthusiasts for decades.
The powerful image performance of the X60 series comes not only from the support of the "Vivo Zeiss Joint Imaging System", but also from the second-generation micro-head of the entire series.
Vivo’s "Micro PTZ" technology was first released in APEX2020 and officially applied to the vivo X50 series. It is an innovative technology for mobile phone imaging. The first-generation micro-panel used black technology such as special-shaped magnetic frame and S-shaped FPC cable to break through the space limit of the motherboard. The main camera and the motherboard were cleverly stacked in space. Finally, the micro-panel was successfully "squeezed" into the mobile phone. With the help of third-party equipment, the effect of lossless anti-shake can be achieved. Excellent anti-shake effect, coupled with a large aperture, makes the night scene shooting ability of the X50 series very good. Vivo's micro-pan-tilt technology breaks the inherent optical image stabilization of traditional mobile phones and opens a new era of image stabilization for mobile phones.
Through cooperation, vivo introduces the top optical concepts and standards represented by Zeiss into the mobile imaging system, and combines traditional optical technology with computational imaging research and development, making the X-series imaging capabilities a comprehensive breakthrough.
On January 8, 2021, the vivo X60 series was officially launched, and the scene was very hot. According to media reports, the vivo X60 series on the three major mobile e-commerce sales platforms of JD.com, Tmall and Suning all achieved double sales and sales champions. At the same time, of course, it won the veritable double championship of the whole network sales & sales.
The data also shows that the first sales data of the vivo X60 series is 2.4 times higher than that of the vivo X50 series during the same period, setting a record for the price of vivo mobile phones above 3500 yuan, and the vivo X60 Pro is 2.8 times higher than the previous generation products.
The powerful image performance of the vivo X60 series has finally turned into a powerful purchasing power.
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From vivo X60 Pro+ to see the advanced image strength of vivo mobile phone
In vivo X60 and vivo X60 Pro, we have seen the powerful imaging capabilities of vivo mobile phones, but that is not the upper limit of vivo mobile phone images.
In the history of mobile phone imaging, many of vivo's products are regarded as benchmarks in the imaging field.
In 2014, vivo released the world's first vivo Xshot with f/1.8 large aperture + optical image stabilization + the first dual-color temperature dual-LED flash solution. In 2016, vivo once again innovated in imaging, adding a new Moonlight soft light to the vivo X7, and pioneering the concept of "soft light selfie". The backlight HDR technology of the vivo X20 released in 2018 solves the pain points that have long plagued users to take pictures with backlighting. In early 2019, vivo NEX launched a highly innovative liftable front camera, bringing mobile phone imaging into the "retractable" era. Also in 2019, vivo positioned the "X series" as a professional imaging product line, and added an industry-leading "equivalent 50mm focal length portrait lens" to the X30 series released in the same year. In 2020, vivo has launched the highly innovative micro-head technology mentioned above.
The vivo X60 Pro+, launched on January 21, has raised the imaging capabilities of vivo to a new level.
The image selling point of vivo X60 Pro+ can be summarized as dual main camera + micro pan-tilt super outsole + Zeiss lens.
X60 Pro+ is equipped with a dual main camera system consisting of a 50-megapixel super-large bottom sensor main camera and a 48-megapixel super-wide-angle micro-head main camera. Among them, the 50-megapixel main camera has a GN1 "ultra-large bottom" sensor with an area of 1/1.3 inches, which has better camera quality in low-light environments at night. The other ultra-wide-angle main camera, supported by the second-generation micro-pan-tilt technology, brings users a super anti-shake image experience of sports capture and walking while shooting.
As mentioned above, the Micro PTZ is a mobile imaging innovation technology launched by vivo in 2019. The vivo X60 Pro+ pioneered the ultra-wide-angle micro-head main camera. It combines the 48-megapixel IMX598 sensor and the second-generation micro-head to have a 14mm equivalent focal length, enabling 114-degree ultra-wide-angle shooting without correction. With the second-generation micro-head and night scene algorithm adjusted for ultra-wide-angle, you can easily shoot ultra-clear and ultra-wide-angle night scenes.
X60 Pro+ is equipped with the vivo Zeiss joint imaging system, which is a comprehensive manifestation of the miniaturization, differentiation, and maximum efficiency of the optical system by vivo and Zeiss. As mentioned above, the system includes an ultra-large base lens with a GN1 sensor, an ultra-wide-angle micro-head lens, a professional portrait lens, and an ultra-telephoto periscope lens. It has high-resolution characteristics that can improve dispersion, glare, purple fringing and ghosts. Various optical problems such as shadows. According to vivo, the X60 Pro+ also uses Zeiss T* coating technology, which can greatly increase the transmittance of the lens, reduce glare, and significantly improve image quality.
Comparing the vivo X60 and the vivo X60 Pro, the vivo X60 Pro+ has upgraded almost every camera . For example, the X60Pro’s 48-megapixel micro-head camera (f/1.48 large aperture) is upgraded to a 50-megapixel micro-head camera. (F/1.57 ultra-large aperture, 1/1.3" ultra-large bottom sensor GN1), X60Pro’s 13 million pixel ultra wide-angle lens is upgraded to a 48 million pixel ultra-wide-angle micro-head main camera (4-axis OIS anti-shake, 114° wide-angle, IMX598 Sensor), X60Pro’s 13 million pixel portrait lens is upgraded to a 32 million pixel portrait lens.
A more powerful lens, coupled with micro-head and Zeiss T* coating technology, has advanced the imaging capabilities of the vivo X60 Pro+ to a new level, a realm without fear of competitors.
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Image performance is becoming the core competitiveness of vivo mobile phones
In 2018, Vivo positioned "image" as one of the company's core long tracks in its plans for the new technology cycle and the next 10 years. After that, it continued to increase the number of mobile phone imaging tracks, and established 7 imaging research and development centers in the global core imaging talents or technical resources gathering place, with more than 700 research and development personnel.
On December 17, 2020, vivo announced the conclusion of a global imaging strategic partnership with Zeiss, and deep integration and cooperation on multiple levels of mobile imaging to further promote the implementation of mobile imaging strategy.
After the release of vivo X60 and vivo X60 Pro, Xi Ge once said: The X60 series is a major leap on the vivo imaging long track, but it is only the beginning of the determination of vivo imaging! Vivo's goal is to build imaging technology as its core competitiveness and become the world's leading technology company in the field of mobile imaging.
I originally thought that it would take some time for Vivo’s mobile phone imaging technology to catch up with its main rivals, but from the imaging performance of X60 Pro+, Vivo’s goal of making imaging technology its core competitiveness is becoming a reality.
In recent years, Huawei mobile phones are undoubtedly the benchmark for mobile phone imaging. In 2018, Huawei released the Huawei P20 Pro equipped with three Leica lenses and a combination of 40 million color + 20 million black and white + 8 million telephoto lenses. It relies on the advantages of a 1/1.73 inch outsole, QuadBayer structure, and f/1.8 aperture lens. , P20 Pro slaughtered DxO photos overnight; in 2019, Huawei released a four-lens ultra-sensitive Leica lens, with 40 million pixels ultra-sensitive + 20 million pixels ultra-wide angle + 8 million pixels telephoto + ToF lens, support dual OIS optical image stabilization , P30 Pro, which supports periscope 10x hybrid zoom and 50x digital zoom, with "outsole" + "large aperture" + rare RYYB array, Huawei has once again become a leader in mobile phone imaging. To this day, Xi Ge still remembers the exclamation of the audience when Yu Chengdong used the P30 Pro to demonstrate the super night scene at the P30 series conference. In 2020, Huawei released a new and upgraded super-sensing Leica quad camera with 50 million pixels RYYB ultra-perceptual wide-angle + 40 million pixels ultra-wide-angle movie camera + 8 million pixel zoom + 8 million pixels RYYB telephoto + 3D deep-sensing lens + LED flash, support 10x optical zoom, 20x hybrid zoom, 100x digital The zoom P40 Pro+ has once again refreshed people's understanding of mobile phone images.
Huawei's mobile phone image is very powerful, but vivo's mobile phone image is not weak. On the vivo X60 Pro+, Brother Xi saw the dual main camera, the 1/1.3-inch GN1 "ultra-outsole" and the f/1.57 ultra-large aperture combination, and the more powerful second-generation micro-head technology..... Some of these technologies are unique to vivo.
Objectively speaking, vivo mobile phones are still a little bit behind Huawei in terms of imaging, but Xi Ge believes that as vivo continues to increase in the field of mobile phone imaging, vivo will definitely create its own superior technology and develop it into its own Competitive advantages.