The Vivo X200 Pro boasts impressive camera upgrades, including a new Sony LYT-818 sensor for sharper photos and a groundbreaking 200MP telephoto camera with a Samsung ISOCELL HP9 sensor. These advancements aim to elevate smartphone photography, challenging the dominance of traditional cameras.
Table of Contents I have fancied cameras on phones for as long as I can remember. My fascination perhaps stems from the fact our phones, despite continued diligence from brands for almost 20 years now, haven’t fully replaced actual cameras. Over the years, however, phones have come dangerously close to mimicking actual cameras, and Vivo is among the brands leading this crusade.
The star of the show, however, is the new 200MP telephoto camera on the Vivo X200 Pro. It packs a Samsung ISOCELL HP9, 1/1.4-inch format CMOS sensor specially designed for telephoto cameras. The sensor’s biggest highlight is its ability to combine 16 pixels into a single giant pixel, resulting in much brighter and more detailed images, even at high levels of zoom. Paired with a 3.7x periscopic lens, this telephoto camera can take crisp shots even at high zoom values.
In this article, I will focus on two modes — Landscape and Street Photography — that are meant to let you tame the phenomenal hardware without much effort. I like to compare the Landscape mode with an iPhone’s camera. With fewer options than the standard Photo mode, you’re less likely to feel paralyzed by the number of choices. Moreover, it automatically judges if you need to use the Night mode and also gives you a host of options for color filters suited for different scenarios along with several long exposure settings to capture trails of moving objects in a smooth fashion.
The first thing I want to emphasize is how well the Vivo X200 Pro re-creates colors, preserving the soul of the pictures. The algae on the building in the first image is distinct from the plants growing over the old, probably 19th-century, structure in the leftmost image. Would you be surprised to know I took that at 30x zoom?
In the rightmost image, the X200 Pro is face-to-face with the sun but still manages to capture some colors instead of completely foreshadowing the hand-knit kite in the front. While it may sound like I am raving about the phone’s camera and overlooking its flaws, it is for a reason. I have yet to see a use a phone that takes consistently good images, and almost none of them require corrections or edits in post-processing. That said, I took hundreds of photos and only chose the best dozen from the lot.
Vivo’s Street Photography mode, newly introduced with the X200 series, is designed around solving that problem. It is meant to empower you to snap photos instantly without worrying about finding the right settings right before each shot, especially in moments with sparks of inspiration. Vivo has mastered a few aspects to ensure the mode delivers the experience it promises.
Accessing the Street Photography mode is also simple; you just tap the upward-facing arrow at the bottom of the app when it is in Photo mode. For even quicker entry, you can press the volume down button in two quick successions and the mode opens up by default. The Camera app also remembers whether you closed it in the Street Photography or the regular Photo mode and opens it the next time you open it.
Aligning with Vivo’s claims, there is almost zero shutter lag, and X200 Pro captures these scenes without any major blurring due to the movements — not to forget the unspoiled colors in the images. The images below capture a blend of intense action and the hope for an impending change, and the same shots in color would probably not do the same justice to these scenes.
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