The full review of the $250 Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro is linked here, but this article is about hosting my camera samples taken from the phone. Also check out my other blog post about MiUI which can be found here.
48 MP Wide Camera
I want to say that photos the Poco X3 Pro takes are good, especially for a $250 phone, but even the photos can be quirky just like the software. Most of these photos have good exposure and sharpness, but there are a few problems. I think contrast is fine but it could be better in some areas, but I suspect dynamic range is its biggest weakness because I would have wanted shadows to look more realistic. Saturation is a weird hit or miss because sometimes the saturation looks good, but other times it's on really thin ice from being too much to WAY too much. This can be seen with the second photo as the greens are too saturated and it almost makes the plant look fake, almost. White balance can be a little bit warm, but it's accurate like what I saw on the OnePlus 8. Overall, daytime photos look good for the main camera, in a lot of aspects, except maybe saturation levels.
8 MP Ultrawide Camera with 119 Degree FOV
I'm just disappointed in the first photo where the sky is properly saturated, but the tree and house look very bland compared to the sky. The ultrawide has less dynamic range than the main camera, but it's just weird that the processing decided to have this saturation imbalance. In the second photo, this isn't the case as the entire photo is more or less evenly saturated. However, we go back to square 1 in the last photo where the greens look a lot more dark than it was in real life, but at least the sky looks somewhat realistic though it's a bit darker with its blue. A pretty cheap ultrawide sensor, but I'm glad to see that it doesn't have that much lens distortion or color bleed. Kind of a hit and miss situation with this camera overall.
2 MP Macro
Well you have pretty ok white balance, but since it's 2 MP and pretty cheap overall, you don't have that sharpness to compliment the white balance. Exposure needs to improve with the second and third photos. And although the cat is clearly too warm, at least the sky isn't affected by that warmth which was seen on the OnePlus 8T. Though the 8T has a better macro sensor.
But yeah! Macro video! Pretty cool. I would like to see this on other phones (though you can get away with ultrawide video with auto focus as just use that as macro video, but it's the thought that counts!)
Portrait Mode
Portraits are assisted by the 2 MP depth sensor, and the depth effect somewhat reminds me of what I saw on the TCL 10 SE. There's a lot of blur, and it's good blur, but sometimes the heavy amount of blur is taken away by the weird cutouts that can happen sometimes. The TCL has a lot more blur, but the X3 Pro also has a good amount of blur. At least it's better than the OnePlus 8 because that phone didn't have enough bokeh in my opinion. The only problem I have is that it cuts out my glasses in the majority of photos I sampled. What a shame that the processing doesn't account for glasses.
Lowlight with Main and Ultrawide
First three sets are on the main camera with the first photos being without night mode and the second with it on, and the remaining sets are of the ultrawide with the same off to on trend. I was very surprised that the regular photos on the main camera captured a lot of light, but all of these photos are just bad. Bright but bad. They are soft and white balance can be off, but they still try to push the saturation levels to more unreasonable amounts. They are usable photos are were taken pretty quickly, but the softness is just what makes everything look weird. Night definitely helps restore lost detail and even correct white balance and add more light to the image, but I've noticed that night mode didn't help certain scenes where there was already "enough" light. This can be seen with the picture of the street and of the outside light bulb where the normal and night photos have the same amount of brightness, but the only things corrected are sharpness and white balance. So it may seem like night mode truly "shines" when you have a completely dark scene as seen with the outside wall. Unlike the main camera, normal ultrawide photos are really dark, and they will need night mode to become brighter and better balanced photos. Those ultrawide night shots are still soft, even with night mode. I think if you have this phone, try to shoot as much as you can in night mode because the normal shots are way too bright and soft. They are not really usable photos.
Night video on the main camera looks alright, and I'm satisfied that there is good noise reduction. While not noise free, the video made my scene bright like what I saw on the OnePlus 8. Ultrawide video is still dark, but it's brighter than what I expected to see.
Video on the Main and Ultrawide
First is main then ultrawide. Both videos look ok but main camera video is a little bit on the warm side, and the ultrawide video has some magenta tinting. Dynamic range should be suitable for most scenarios. Main video is capped at 4K 30 FPS and ultrawide is capped at 1080p 30/60 FPS.
Super Steady Video Mode
First is with is off then on. I don't know what was the problem here, but with steady mode turned on even at 4K, it looks like 720p footage until I get really close to the wall. The video might have been out of focus, but then out of focus video still looks detailed at 4K. No idea what happened. The mode works especially since there is no OIS.
20 MP Selfie Shooter
Selfie quality is pretty good with good sharpness, but I think saturation is a bit lacking from what I would expect from the Poco X3 Pro. Contrast is also lacking with my skin and the green wall. Depth estimation is still off with my glasses. Selfie video is capped at 1080p 30 FPS, but my main problem is that selfie video is super cropped in. I had to extend my arm out a lot to make myself in frame.
Zoom and High Megapixel Mode
Zoom looks got and there is good noise reduction and good sharpness overall. Capped at 10x digital zoom with no optical telephoto camera. Taken on the 48 MP main sensor.
Unfortunately for me, I cannot upload a file past 25 MBs and the 48 MP photo I wanted to upload is 30 MBs so I'm out of luck until I find a solution next time. Although I can upload a cropped shot of what it looks like, I'll just add my thoughts to it. The 48 MP shot is of course very clear, but it has very very very slightly cooler white balance while the original is more warm and hence more true to life. Both are good photos. Not as drastic white balance difference that something like the 8T. Sorry for the situation.
AI Scene Detection
Top row with AI scene detection turned off and bottom is on, with the first two sets being taken on the main camera and third set is with the ultrawide. I just think that this implementation is very sloppy and doesn't do a lot of good things to improve the photos. X3 Pro photos were already saturated enough to begin with, but the AI set is just bad. The only good photo is the second one because contrast was already low in the regular photo.
Xiaomi Photo Filters and Creativity
I'll let my talking points in the video review explain itself for this section, but just know that I have respect for Xiaomi giving us so much creativity and freedom with the many different filters and effects and camera settings altogether. Enjoy these "fun" photos as I had fun taking them.
Last two videos were taken on the selfie camera, and the rest were on the main camera.
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