THE pursuit for the ultimate camera phone began with the X60 Pro+, the first imaging-centered smartphone from vivo developed with a collaboration with image expert Zeiss. The lens maker’s expertise combined with the proprietary vivo V1 chip to create the X70 Pro+. The upgrades came one after the other, the powerful and high resolution V1+ chip combined with the image engine of the X80–arguably the finest camera phone in the market to date.
vivo is outdoing itself with the upcoming X90–combining the clarity of Zeiss lens technology with the speed and composition processing of the latest V2 chip. Between all this time, ten years have passed as vivo continue to perfect its camera technology–a permanent pursuit it has not relented from.
“The vivo X90 Pro+ should not only be the main camera for most users but also become a spare camera for professional photographers,” vivo Product Manager Dian Zhao said explaining that because of this directions the vivo X90 series continues to beef up its camera specifications from its predecessors.
In order to become the second or alternative camera for professional photographers, vivo’s improvement to the vivo X90 series include lenses–using an upgraded version of Zeiss T* coating as a standard configuration as one layer and introducing “ALC sub-wavelength bionic structure coating,” combined with SWC, which is more conducive to eliminating flare and ghosting.
vivo has reconstructed and upgraded the hardware of the vivo V2 chip, bringing more video shooting superpowers based on computational photography to the vivo X90 series, including a 4K ultra-sensitive “night vision device” and colorful night scene video.
The ultra-low distortion ultra-wide-angle camera combined with Zeiss miniaturization and bokeh enables tilt-shift photography. vivo uses low-dispersion and high-transparency glass in its 1-inch T* main camera lens. The company claims that this, combined with a wide f/1.75 aperture, lets an extra 24 percent more light into the lens than the “public” version of the Sony IMX989 sensor. The process almost duplicates the sensitivity of the X90 image system to a high-end DSLR or even a mirrorless camera.
The icing on the hardware however is the super HDR function is added to the vivo V2 chip. It claims to be able to restore what the human eye sees even in complex light sources and awesome backlight scenes–which is by far, an AI-prompted task because of the complexity of clearing through the photon clutter. At the same time, vivo developed “zero delays” capture and a new generation of motion detection algorithms with shutter delays as low as 30ms–again as close as possible to a real camera.
The post-processing section of the photo has not been ignored. vivo X90 Pro+ supports 14bit SuperRaw and video log mode function, these can provide professional photographers with better material quality for post-processing. In line with this, vivo X90 Pro+ can also realize the complete experience of Dolby Vision video ecology, bringing the full workflow of Dolby Vision from shooting to display up to editing.
In addition to the main sensor, vivo X90 Pro boasts not just one but two telephoto cameras. The first one is a 50mm prime master camera that can capture the portrait with vivid color and delicate skin texture. The 90mm medium telephoto portrait lens is good at creating spatial compression and bokeh, especially suitable for humanistic street photography.
The X90 is coming soon and vivo in the Philippines is expected to make announcements of its availability soon.
