Like Nova 8i, Honor 50 Lite is equipped with a dorsal photo block with four sensors. The first, with a wide angle lens (f/1.9), displays 64MP and produces 16MP shots based on pixel binning. It also combines it with an 8-megapixel sensor with ultra-wide-angle optics (f / 2.4) and two 2-megapixel sensors each, one for macro and the other for depth measurement (f / 2.4 optics). Tools already seen during Huawei smartphone testing.
Unit principle: 64 MP, éq. 26 mm, f / 1.9
Our tests show that the Honor 50 Lite fails to perform better than the Nova 8i and lags behind its competitors. If the colorimetry of the test scene captured during the day is less yellow than the Vivo Y72, it is clearly at the cost of greater smoothing and a lack of contrast. The colors are nice and the outlines of the small items lack subtlety.
The difficulties in image processing are more pronounced in the case of night scenes. This smartphone obviously struggles between smooth textures, digital noise, and color desaturation.
Mode 64 MP
Honor 50 Lite hides the settings in the More section, and then the option High resolution, which is enough to take photos at the maximum quality. This choice pays off when the brightness is sufficient, as evidenced by our test scene. Mapping details, eg almost completely smoothed out at 16 MP, then reappear.
At night, on the other hand, switching to 64 MP does not make it possible to find the sum of the details that disappeared in battle. So it is better not to use this mode and save the storage space (not expandable) of the smartphone.
Ultra-large angle unit: 8 MP, éq. 14 mm, f / 2,4
The secondary unit of the 50 Lite is not comfortable, even during the day. The uniformity he admits makes a large number of details disappear, and there are also the colors lacking in vibrancy, even if we note that the reflections on the playing cards have the advantage of being almost absent. We would have liked more contrast. These visible defects in the center of the image are more so at the ends, where significant distortion is added.
Night doesn’t do much better for this unit which then combines low exposure and big digital noise, not to mention distortion. So it’s hard to use smartphone shots when the light isn’t there.
Front and video unit
On the front, the Honor 50 Lite is decorated with a 16-megapixel sensor (f/2 wide-angle optics). Recognized as high-resolution, however, this unit recognizes great smoothing and relies heavily on skin beautification options that make natural shots lose. On the front and back, minimal service is provided in terms of video as it is possible to shoot in 1080p at 30 frames per second, without stabilization.
