Huawei P9 - Change the way you see the world. #OO

[antdroid]

P9 Design story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYaAmhXrNUc

 

[MichaelTan]

Hi guys. I've a preproduction prototype Huawei P9. Here is a picture with the DNG RAW file. This was taken in the office simple shot just to give you a taste of the EV. Please take a look at what you can do. I believe this is the first RAW ever released in the wild.

EV 0
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwItgeYhGyHYQmRnQzczaFFsVmM/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwItgeYhGyHYaFhiUnNlaVhKR0U/view?usp=sharing

EV -1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwItgeYhGyHYcFVPaUtaMHB0ZlU/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwItgeYhGyHYb0EwdDd1V0ZUcmc/view?usp=sharing

 

[johnsonheng]

Can just upload the photo here

 

[MichaelTan]

bro the dng is 22MB HWZ don't allow hosting

 

[johnsonheng]

bro the dng is 22MB HWZ don't allow hosting

On mobile, cannot see also....

 

[MichaelTan]

On mobile, cannot see also....

For the dng file you will just get preview. You need lightroom to do your magic. For the jpg I have no issue.

 

[chickenmedium]

still waiting for news for it to hit our shores...... at least a model set for us to tinker with....

 

[ov2rey]

Guys will Singapore - PLUS version support memory card and sim card? or just Sim card.

 

[MichaelTan]

Guys will Singapore - PLUS version support memory card and sim card? or just Sim card.

Singapore will have the best.

 

[garychengjw]

Singapore will have the best.

Got MT then got the Best.

Sent from LGE NEXUS 5X using GAGT

 

[doki81]

Singapore will have the best.

Mean the most expensive lo... Was hoping to get low end one as spare phone..

Sent from Huawei NEXUS 6P using GAGT

 

[fergsu]

Got best price?

 

[MichaelTan]

Mean the most expensive lo... Was hoping to get low end one as spare phone..

Sent from Huawei NEXUS 6P using GAGT

Bro there is Huawei GR3, GR5 and P8, P8-Lite, and P9-Lite all for your lower end phone. For higher end phone there is the P9

 

[MichaelTan]

Got MT then got the Best.

Don't say until liddat. As mentioned I only touch legendary phone. If you want legendary then you have to have the best legendary.

Got best price?

Let Huawei announce the price lah. Should be quite soon. Based on past indicators I would think that the SRP (with GST) pricing should be better than Europe price without tax.

 

[MichaelTan]

Singapore Straits Times loves the Huawei P9. "The monochrome, or black-and-white, mode on the P9 is fantastic, with picture quality that harks back to the days of film."

Pity they don't do detailed reviews.

http://www.straitstimes.com/tech/smartphones/huaweis-p9-scores-with-leica-camera-maker-tie-up

 

[poor_poor]

Singapore will have the best.

What you mean by Best? can you define?

So Singapore model PLUS will support Memory card + Sim card?

 

[MichaelTan]

best means highest spec. Bro let Huawei announce lah.

 

[MichaelTan]

After using the P9 for just a little while, I just want to comment on the camera.

The P9 is a photograph camera not a snapshot camera.

When you take a snapshot, like picture of your food, testing camera taking watch mechanicals, ugly picture of messy room, you don't care dynamic range, you don't care gradations in brightness, you don't care detail so much, what most people want is ultrasharpening, high contrast, highlights and color saturation blasting at you. Shadow can be black for all he cares, no need detail from there. You need the snapshot to shout at you. All the raw material which is necessary for the photo to shout, it is preserved, everything else is not captured and a snapshot camera does not care about those. For snapshot, the S7 is superior.

When you take a photograph, there is much you want to preserve. You want detail both in shadow and highlight. You don't want too much sharpening, it looks ugly in an art shot. Color should not be oversaturated because it will take away all the subtlety. Too much contrast destroys what the photographer is trying to capture. Photographer spends hours at the shot, developing the RAW, bringing out the detail, then post processing it. You need the camera to capture as much dynamic range as possible for you to get at that detail, you want to recover it. The camera capture is not the end result, but it is the starting point where the most raw material is stored.

So I tell you first. Casual shooters will prefer the S7 camera. I am sure of it. Real photographers who work at shots, they will love the P9 camera. When you have reviewers not understanding this dichotomy then they will persecute the P9 for sure.

 

[kababoom]

any info to share how many bit is the raw file?

 

[White Shader13]

Just popped by Huawei Plaza Sing today to molest some of their phones and casually asked the sales rep if they know when P9 will land. I was quite surprised when she confidently said June! a bit late but still okay I guess!