Honor Magic 6 Lite review: Cameras
The 108MP (f/1.8) main camera puts those extra pixels to good use, producing vibrant and detailed images in good lighting. Strong contrast makes each of the ripples in the water stand out, and the colours in the building and greenery are punchy without getting unnaturally oversaturated.
Those extra megapixels also make for a decent 3x digital zoom. It’s not the “lossless” quality that the marketing claims but there’s a good amount of detail retained, clearly showing each groove in the tree bark.
The night-shooting capabilities are definitely a step up from the Magic 5 Lite, too, with far less blooming from the light sources and solid colour reproduction, but the level of noise in the sky still isn’t great.
Things start to turn sour with the 5MP (f/2.2) ultrawide camera. Colour and exposure are carried over from the main lens well enough but the detail is unimpressive, with the leaves smudging together and barely any definition in the tree trunks.
The 2MP (f/2.4) macro camera is about as tacked on as it gets – Honor even buries the option for it in the shooting menu. Detail is reasonable enough, considering the weedy pixel-count, but the focal lines are fuzzy and the background blur is full of noise.
Video gets a slight improvement, now allowing for 4K at 30fps, as well as adding a 60fps option in 1080p. The extra detail and added frames are appreciated but the lack of any kind of stabilisation still hurts the video offering overall, with footage feeling quite shaky, even by cheap phone standards.
