Zoom battle: Galaxy S20 Ultra vs Huawei P30 Pro

Smartphone cameras have come a long, long way over the last decade, but they are still developing, getting more potent and useful, as manufacturers find ways to cram more parts into a smartphone and improve imagery with a plethora of software algorithms.

Last year, Huawei wowed us with a 50 times magnification on its Huawei P30 Pro camera. It was capable of delivering 5x lossless optical zoom, then 10x hybrid zoom, and then 50x purely digital crop. Aggressive sharpening in post-processing gave us some pretty usable images. Yes, grainy, flat, and smeared at 50x, but still — that’s quite a ...

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