The Chinese electonics giant posted the image on its Google+ page but has since taken it down.
When CNET’s Andrew Hoyle reviewed Huawei’s P9 smartphone, he found the camera to be quite spectacular. But now Huawei has come under fire for implying that the camera is better than it actually is.
The Chinese electronics giant uploaded the picture above to its Google+ page, writing alongside it in a now deleted post:
“We managed to catch a beautiful sunrise with Deliciously Ella. The #HuaweiP9’s dual Leica cameras makes taking photos in low light conditions like this a pleasure. Reinvent smartphone photography and share your sunrise pictures with us. #OO”
However, Google’s social media platform makes EXIF metadata available for all pictures posted on it. That data, unearthed over the weekend by Android Police, stated the picture was actually taken by a $2,600 Canon EOS 5D Mark III DSLR, paired with a $1,900 lens.
“It has recently been highlighted that an image posted to our social channels was not shot on the Huawei P9,” Huawei said Monday in a statement. “The photo, which was professionally taken while filming a Huawei P9 advert, was shared to inspire our community. We recognise though that we should have been clearer with the captions for this image. It was never our intention to mislead. We apologise for this and we have removed the image.”
The need to upsell the P9’s camera, which has stamp of approval by from renowned German photography company Leica, isn’t clear. However, Huawei isn’t alone in questionably marketing a smartphone’s photographic abilities.
In 2012, Nokia released a promotional video showing off the image stabilisation technology of its then-flagship Lumia 920 — only to be found to have used a proper video camera to shoot footage ostensibly captured by the 920.
Source: cnet.com
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Leave it to a Chinese company to straight out lie in an advert.
My Huawei phone is a piece of garbage which I just replaced with an Iphone.
Although I still own a chinese made phone it is not a Chinese manufacturers design like the throwHuawei is.
@ShyteHeed So you downgraded at the worst or did a lateral at best on that move. Definitely not an upgrade.
Company lying about its product? China is mastering capitalism. Funny how they “unearthed” it. All they did is looked at it.
It was absolutely their intention to mislead. It was not their intention to get caught.
“The photo, which was professionally taken while filming a Huawei P9 advert, was shared to inspire our community. We recognise though that we should have been clearer with the captions for this image. It was never our intention to mislead…” HAHAHAHAHAHA!
When that day comes when you can take THAT pic with a cell phone, I’ll sell my SLR in a heartbeat. Today is NOT that day when an incredibly tiny piece of glass and an unbelievably tiny sensor can do even remotely that. Way to go Android Police for busting their asses!
@gerardb63 We were heading that way with the Lumia 1020 and 808 but so few of us cared (I did) that they seem to have stopped pushing the envelope in that respect.
The 1020 was released in 2013, and had a 1/1.5 sensor. While I still use my DSLR for night shots and distance I’ve found that my 1020 (I have a 950XL which is almost as good as 1020) did replace my DSLR for macro shots.
@vanquished…again @gerardb63 But it will still be a while (I honestly can’t see how it could ever) before a cell phone could replace a mid/high end SLR with an 85mm f1.4 or even f1.8 lens (or in that photo, I suspect it was taken with Canon’s 85mm f1/2 judging by the bokeh). There are just simply elements of “big glass” that can’t be replicated if you need to keep the phone small enough to fit in your pocket. Sure, they can increase the size of the sensor, but not enough to replicate a full frame one. Unless you eliminate things like…oh, the ability to make phone calls?
@gerardb63 @vanquished…again I mean, it probably won’t. Because DSLRs keep getting better…
At some point people said that a digital camera could never replace film. We’ve definitely reached that point.
@vanquished…again @gerardb63 For a great many photos we absolutely have, but again, not for the stuff with big glass, or big apertures (yes, cell phone aperatures have come way down, but for instance, on my Galaxy S7 it’s f1.7, but that’s on a tiny sensor, [maybe 6mm x 4mm], so it doesn’t remotely equate to f1.7 on a 24mm x 36mm piece of film. So that 1.7 would have to be multiplied many times over to be the equivalent, that’s just physics). Certainly the ubiquitous nature of cellphones now because everyone has a camera pointed at everything is something film could never have accomplished! And don’t get me wrong, I take some great snap shots with my cell phone, but for me photography is art, not merely snap shots.
@gerardb63 @vanquished…again Oh, no. I wasn’t suggesting that a cellphone camera is better than film. I was saying DSLRs are now better/as good as film and it seemed like a longshot that they’d pass them at one time.
I think since they gave up on the big sensor phones like the 1020 and 808 we’re in for a long wait for a phone that is as good as a current mid-range DSLR. Like I said, as DSLRs keep improving I doubt a cellphone cam will pass the best DSLRs out there.
@vanquished…again @gerardb63 They certainly have massively eaten into the sales of the low end DSLR’s, that’s for sure! Why carry 2 cameras when 1 will do a good job (and let’s not forget, just about all cell phone camera images are used for is posting or printing relatively small, but even that is going the way of the dodo! lol). Having a 16 mega pixel camera on a cell phone is, for the most part, massive overkill for what 95% of the images are used for! And hey, I still use my cell camera way more than my DSLR, just because it’s always right in my pocket anyway, and I don’t have to carry a big bag of gear or pull it out of the bag. Just point and shoot.
@gerardb63 @vanquished…again I still use my DSLR when I’m going on a trip and plan on taking photos but my Lumia 1020 with the 41mp camera (35+6) and now my 950XL with the 20mp camera have entirely replaced my Sony Cybershot point-and-shoot that used to use.
Remember when Nokia did something similar?
@derekaw You mean the fact they mentioned at the end of the article?
Oh no! Pulled up by the internet police!
Sorry Officer, it was TLDR, I was in a hurry, I know I broke the internet law and you are only doing your job. I promise not to do it again. Please please don’t cancel my internet licence.