In Xiaolei's cognition,vivo's S series has always been an unusually special existence,In terms of configuration and cost performance, it is definitely not the first echelon,It can even be said that the price is a little misaligned,But it is also one of the mobile phones on the market that understands the needs of consumers best,In the field of ** and portrait shooting,S series is definitely T1 level。
The same is true for the just-released vivo S18, in the process of using it for more than a week, Xiaolei found a lot of exclusive selling points and excellent experience, and also felt some trade-offs made for these selling points. How exactly it will be, we are now starting to officially enter the experience stage.
Since vivo S10, I have always been very interested in the appearance of the vivo S series, the unique color scheme, thin and light body, and excellent grip are no wonder that it will kill the female market. This time, Xiaolei got the s18 flowery brocade color is like this,The official said that the inspiration for this color matching** is the unique light and shadow presented by the sun on the shell and the beautiful moment when the flowers bloom,With a slightly frosted material,The back cover does have a sense of artistic atmosphere。
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However, vivo S18The camera module makes Xiao Lei a little incomprehensible,The top is a camera composed of two camerasDeco,The bottom is composed of a soft light strip and a flash,This makes the black camera above Deco look very abrupt,It doesn't match the entire backplate design of vivo S18,Maybe it would be more beautiful to design the camera separately like S17。
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But I have to say that the body grip of vivo S18 is very good, 7The thickness of 45mm, the weight of 185g, the streamlined curved surface design and the silky connection between the middle frame create a good texture. Some readers may not understand,How good is such a thin and light fuselage if it is made into a straight screen,In fact, only the design of the curved screen can narrow the screen bezel as much as possible and reduce the thickness of the middle frame,It will be thinner and lighter when viewed from the side。
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vivo S18The screen quality is the strongest in the S series,After all, no matter how strong your image ability is,No matter how good you shoot,,The screen can't restore**The original color is in vain。 Its screen parameters are: 2800*1260 resolution (i.e. 1.).5kppi、6.78 inches, 10bit color depth, local peak brightness2800nits, 2000hz instantaneous touch sampling rate, the measured control of this screen in color accuracy and color temperature is very good, but its factory film slightly affects the display effect, it is recommended that users change to a more high-definition and more transparent film when they get it.
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In addition, the highly acclaimed application custom high brush function on vivo has also been devolved toS18,In the screen refresh rate option, you can find this function and adjust it according to your own needs,Of course, Xiaolei personally recommends that all daily applications be locked in a high refresh rate,After all, it's all 2023,Let some applications run in a 60Hz state,It's really unacceptable。
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As early as 2016, vivo implemented a front-facing soft light design on the X7 series, which not only allows users to have a more ruddy and natural skin tone when **, but also effectively improves the image quality when shooting in dark places. When it comes to the vivo S9 series, vivo directly stuffs two front fill lights into the top frame, which perfectly solves the problem of a bright face and a dark background or a bright background and a dark face.
After many iterations and upgrades, vivo S18This set of front soft lights on the vivo S18 once again refreshed Xiao Lei's perception of **: 90° Wide-angle lighting and screen soft light combination, just like taking the initiative to hit a 300W Shenox fill light, as for its actual performance, we will officially mention it in the follow-up experience section.
All in all,vivo S18The feeling that Xiaolei brings in terms of appearance is both worry and joy ,Its feel and back shell design are indeed very eye-catching,But the design of this camera module makes Xiaolei difficult to accept。 However, aesthetics is a matter of opinion, everyone's opinion is different, I believe it can still be the best market to kill the Quartet.
vivo's performance in the field of portraits has been a cliff leader in recent years,Whether it is the accuracy of cutouts、The degree of beautification of skin tones、The simulation of the background or the transition between the character and the background are all considered to be T1 level,The vivo X100 series tested by Xiaolei before can be called professional-level in this regard。
At first glance, the Vivo S18's image configuration isn't impressive, but a closer look reveals that almost all of its configurations are designed to capture good portraits. The 50-megapixel front camera with f° wide-angle focus is quite rare in the entire market, and the dual soft light design amplifies the advantages of this front camera.
The rear camera is composed of50 million pixel main camera and an 8 million pixel ultra-wide-angle lens,Although the official did not specify the model of the main camera,But Xiao Lei relied on its detailed parameters to infer that it is most likely to be IMX 766V This old friend,Its performance is believed to be known without Xiao Lei Duo said。
In order to further verify the performance of vivo S18 in the field of portraits, Xiaolei also specially chose a room with very good lighting and environment for portrait shooting.
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With external light sources illuminating the model as a whole, the overall look and feel of the image is excellent, with the skin tones of the characters, the excessive connection between the subject and the background, and most importantly, the three-dimensionality all come to life.
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There are also several styles and filters to choose from in Portrait mode, but one of the most interesting is the French Impression filter. Because Xiao Lei has also shot a group of French style ** before, but the preparation in the early stage and various adjustments in the later stage are exhausted, and I will not try it a second time in a short time, but vivo S18This built-in filter is really well restored.
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But maybe it's because the processor hasn't been fully tuned,Enter the album after shooting in portrait mode**,You need to wait for a second or two before you can output a complete sample,Although Xiaolei knows that this is using the algorithm for relevant optimization,But this processing speed does need to be strengthened。
Readers who are familiar with photography should understand that if you want to shoot well in poor light, you can basically only rely on a series of operations such as increasing ISO and reducing shutter speed. Therefore, when shooting some night portraits, Xiao Lei usually brings two fill lights or relies on a trigger to fill the light on the face of the character, if there are friends around to help, it is okay, in the case of individual combat, almost every few shots have to stop and rest for a while.
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The vivo S18's soft aura takes on this responsibility very well, in the case of very extreme light conditions, it can still brighten the model's face, and the light intensity of the soft light is also very reasonable, and there will be no overexposure of the face, which not only ensures the clarity of the picture, but also controls the noise and smearing in the picture.
To sum up, the vivo S18 series' fill light system is really a stroke of genius, so that a set of image systems with less top-notch hardware performance can still get good real shooting results in many bad situations through fill light. Of course,S18The camera is not only capable of shooting people,Its main camera performance is not bad,The focusing speed is fast,The focusing speed and picture details are also quite in place,At least it's no problem to record life or something。
Xiaolei thinks that today's mobile phone photography is mainly divided into two development trends,One is the kind of 1-inch super large bottom + periscope telephoto,With this set of excellent hardware, no matter how you shoot, the other is S18This combination of software and hardware,The moment you press the shutter,The mobile phone will adjust ** to look good enough through algorithms and hardware。 In fact, this thing is not the more real the better, the most pleasing to the eye is the best.
In terms of core configuration, vivo S18 is equipped with the third-generation Snapdragon 7 processor, which uses TSMC's 4nm process technology, and the CPU part is 1 263GHz A715 large core and 3 x 24 GHz of A715 mid-core, and 4 18 GHz small nucleus;The GPU part is the Adreno 720. Judging from the parameters, the performance of the third-generation Snapdragon 7 does not seem to be impressive, but this is exactly in line with Qualcomm's positioning for the 7 series processors.
The measured vivo S18 has a score of 923686 in the Antutu benchmark test, and the single-core and multi-core scores in the Geekbench 6 benchmark score are 1203 and 3361, respectively, which is about 20% stronger than the Dimensity 8100 model.
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What surprised me was that vivo S18 actually stuffed a 5000mAh large-capacity battery into the body of less than 8mm, vivo also said that this battery is also equipped with the same blue ocean technology as vivo X100 series, which can effectively improve the battery life and service life of the mobile phone.
Advantages: 1. The fuselage feels very good, probably the best in the same price range;
2. The portrait shooting performance is still at a high level, and there are many ways to play;
3. The battery life performance is beyond expectations
Disadvantages: 1. The feedback of the motor is very bad;
2. There are some opinions on the appearance design.
Since the birth of the vivo S series, the thin and light body and excellent portrait shooting have always been the main selling points of this series, through the in-depth analysis of user needs, as well as the continuous cultivation of portrait photography technology, everyone can think of this excellent enough portrait function when you mention the S series.
The positioning and selling point of the S series has always been the same, it can meet the needs of users in some aspects, and these characteristics are also not available in models of the same price, which is the so-called differentiation and is worthy of our recognition.
After all, not all consumers have to pursue a bucket cost-effective machine, and if you can do well enough at a certain point, there will definitely be a target group that will pay for it, which is more important than always emphasizing your cost performance and performance. This has always been the case for the entire S series, and the feedback from the market and consumers has also proved that the focus of the S series is completely OK, so if you have high requirements for portrait shooting, then the vivo S18 must be a choice you should not miss.