The revolutionary Huawei P30 Pro camera sensors were manufactured by Sony

Huawei's new P30 Pro smartphone delivers stunning low-light capabilities and unparalleled image quality. The company claimed that its four-camera camera system was co-designed by Leica, but here is some interesting information that is not widely distributed: all imaging sensors were manufactured by Sony.

EE Times just released a disassembly of the P30 Pro in which they discovered the Sony origins of the sensors.

"Separate the Huawei P30 Pro, more than anything else, relies on the use of quad cameras," EE Times written. "The new smartphone has literally four cameras. They include a main camera, as well as cameras for wide angle, flight time and periscope view. All four use Sony CMOS image sensors. "

"This is a big win for Sony," said Stéphane Elisabeth, an analyst at System Plus Consulting. EE Times.

The P30 Pro camera has the particularity to use a RYYB filter (red, yellow, yellow, blue) instead of an RGB filter to get better performance in low light (the equivalent of 40% more light, according to Huawei). It's also the first smartphone to use Sony's Time-of-Light (ToF) camera for autofocus purposes.

The Huawei P30 Pro has broken the ceiling in industry camera sensor tests. At DxOMark, a test that has been favored by smartphone manufacturers in recent years, the P30 Pro has easily won the first place, ahead of the previous leader by 3 points (the Huawei P20 Pro in 2018).

With a maximum ISO sensitivity of 409600, the P30 Pro can capture photos usable in dimly lit environments, where the human eye can virtually see only the dark.

Sony recently revealed that internal politics and self-cannibalization fears may have prevented Sony from dominating smartphone photography with its own devices, but the company's mobile smartphones team is working more closely with the team without Alpha mirror to create waves with the future Sony smartphone cameras.

And given the number of sensors manufactured by Sony at the top of DxOMark's digital camera and smartphone rankings, Sony's chances of succeeding in this mission are very good.

(via EE Times via Image Sensors World)