Xiaomi Mi 9 Review - Featured

Xiaomi Mi 9 Review – Simple Yet Incredible!

Camera & Samples

Still benefiting from the evolution of the Snapdragon 855, Xiaomi Mi 9 receives the new Qualcomm Spectra 380 ISP, which integrates a large number of hardware-accelerated computer vision (CV) capabilities to support real-time video capture at 4K HDR@60fps along with object classification and object segmentation.

In addition, the flagship also has excellent camera hardware:

It uses Sony’s 48 MP wide-angle macro triple camera configuration. In details, it’s a 16MP ultrawide + 12MP telephoto + 48MP Laser/PDAF combination. Among them, 48MP Sony primary camera uses Sony IMX586 sensor, pixel size 0.8um, 1/2” photosensitive area, F/1.75 aperture, 6P lens, support 4-in-1 pixel size (12MP 1,6 μm). The only downside is that there’s no OIS. Mi 8 had OIS.

Meanwhile, on the front, we have the 20 MP Sony IMX576 with an aperture of F/2.0.

DxOMark Score of Mi 9 rear camera

DxOMark released the photo score of Xiaomi 9, with a total score of 107 (photographing 112 points, video 99 points). It’s slightly behind Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus (photographed 114 points, video 97 points), Huawei Mate 20 Pro (photographed 114 points, video 97 points) and Huawei P20 Pro (photographed 114 points, video 98 points).

Camera DxO Score

However, we can’t deny that fact, that:

Xiaomi Mi 9 is Ranked 1st in Video Shooting

Here are some of the camera samples of Mi 9:

Daylight Samples

Macro Mode

In the macro mode images, the blur outside the focus has a natural transition, even the first version of the ROM has no problem in terms of algorithms.

Super Wide-Angle Mode

The wide-angle camera ability of Xiaomi Mi 9 is obvious to all. And under the wide-angle effect, it gives a strong visual impact. It is worth noting that the image quality at the far edge of the photo in the super wide-angle mode is not distorted at all.

Xiaomi Mi 9 Review - Wide Angle On
Wide Angle Turned Off
Xiaomi Mi 9 Review - Wide Angle Turned On
Xiaomi Mi 9 Review – Wide Angle Turned On

Nightlight Samples

The handheld night scene mode of Xiaomi 9 is slightly mature with the generation of MIX3. However, we do see the slightly inaccurate light distribution at night (a problem with most cameras), however with the night view it’s much better, but still needs improvement.

Xiaomi Mi 9 Review - Nightlight Camera Samples 2
Night view disabled
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Night view enabled

Indoor Samples

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Ultra-Clear Mode

Xiaomi Mi 9 Review - Ultra Zoom

This is an artificial flower shot using the 48 MP ultra-clear mode.

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