In the past few years, the biggest feeling of personal use of mobile phones is that the ability to take pictures is indeed getting stronger and stronger, in the past, when going out to play, they will prepare SLR photos, but in the past two years, when going out to play, basically do not take SLR, the portability and image ability of mobile phones are enough for general shooting scenes.
This Xiaomi 14 ultra press conference,The author watched the whole process,The overall feeling is Xiaomi's ability in the image,It's not Xiaomi a few years ago,A research and development team of thousands of people and a professional imaging research institute with Leica,The big investment is to bring Xiaomi's ultra series to a big step in the image generation。
When the previous generation of Xiaomi 13 ultra was released, the author already felt that its imaging capabilities were already very outstanding, and it could even meet the use of light scenes for some photographers, but I didn't expect that on Xiaomi 14 ultra, Xiaomi brought new technology and imaging capabilities, and this time the direction was to achieve a good sense of hierarchy through mobile phone photography.
People who like to take pictures know that the use of SLR cameras, thanks to the large aperture and professional lens of SLR cameras, is easy to take photos with a strong sense of hierarchy, but mobile phones are limited by the lens module, in order to shoot a layered **, in addition to the hardware specifications of the lens, but also rely on the powerful computing power of the mobile phone.
However, the biggest difficulty in computational photography is how to shoot out what is not fake**, the author has used different brands of mobile phones to take pictures, many mobile phones shoot out**, such as portraits, although there is a bokeh effect, but the background is smeared very strongly, and the whole **portrait and background transition is stiff.
Xiaomi found Zhang Yimou as an image consultant this time,In the official disclosure**,Zhang Yimou does have a very professional understanding of images,For example, if you want to shoot**good-looking,Can't render transitions,It's slightly better than what you see with the naked eye,It's not too distorted,And can't be too ordinary。 In addition, when shooting the subject, the subject and the background should not be stiff.
These are all challenges to the hardware and computing power of mobile phones,But this time Xiaomi has indeed brought a very exciting effect on the 14ultra,For example, the official children's capture**,Personally, I think this**Whether it is the processing of tones,Portrait expression,Background blur and transition,It has reached a very high level,This**Send it to the circle of friends,It will definitely get a full screen of likes。
In addition, this press conference, another highlight is another keynote speaker Xu Fei, this is Xiaomi's veteran employee, who was responsible for the development of MIUI back then, and people who have been product managers make speeches that are really different, whether it is the fluency of the speech, the degree of professionalism is very powerful, and the other is an off-script speech.
From this level, it can also be seen that Xiaomi is indeed the land of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and now it can be comprehensively improved in the fields of image, chip, system, ecology, etc., which is not unrelated to these capable employees, who have been hacked for more than ten years, Xiaomi is indeed getting stronger and stronger!