Since the camera was created 170 years ago, people have invented many different ways to capture a photo. Of them, 11 photographic processes mark the evolution of photography. These include traditional chemical processing methods such as daguerreotype and wet plate processing, as well as modern methods adopted by Polaroid, Leica and handset makers.
Nowadays, smartphones have become the go-to tool for people to capture their daily lives. Mobile photography has seen an explosive growth, and easily enables everyone to be a photographer. However, it has only been 18 years since the camera phone was invented.
In 2000, the first phone camera was installed as a product gimmick — but it would have no practical meaning for today’s users since it was only 100K pixels. No one would have guessed that after four generations of development, mobile photography would become a mainstream function and dual cameras would be a must-have feature of smartphones. Today, camera phones have all but replaced digital cameras.
The introduction of smart operating systems made mobile cameras more powerful, and camera resolution also improved down to the megapixel level. As the hardware advanced, imaging quality improved. Image editing apps such as Beautycam began emerging, which later became indispensable to smartphone users.
Since phone size limits the camera size, it is impossible to capture as much light as a professional camera, which means the development of phone cameras stalled.
However, in 2016, Huawei worked with Leica and together they launched a dual-camera smartphone. With two separate sensors, the image quality of Huawei smartphone cameras has been greatly improved.
The Huawei P20 Pro was released in 2018. With its AI capabilities, the Leica triple camera and super telephoto zoom, the P20 Pro beats its competitors and brings revolutionary changes to mobile photography.
