Xiaomi's New Astrophotography Mode Brings Pro-Features to the Masses

First revealed by XDA developers, Xiomi’s MIUI 12 is supposedly a long-exposure mode, allowing users to capture long-trail photos of moving objects. Despite being called the “Astrophotography” mode, long-exposure shots have been proven to have many uses from capturing large crowds of people, traffic at night, water movement and much more.

Furthermore, in the same leak, XDA developers has unveiled photos of the feature already being utilised in a beta build of MIUI 12 running on a Redmi K30 Pro. The screenshots shows many different settings users may choose in order to get the best results possible, ranging from light painting, silky water to a starry sky mode.

While other phone manufacturers - specially in the higher end market - have already implemented this feature onto their devices, Xiaomi’s implementation brings us new excitement. For the first time, users who own entry level devices will be able to perform camera tricks that have been long locked behind a pay wall.

This announcement does not only bring a pro feature to the masses, but reassures us that Xiaomi’s main goal remains the same: accessibility. In a time where the company has aimed to innovate its design language, using more premium construction techniques and offering increasingly expensive devices, this announcement shows us that Xiaomi still cares to offer top of the line features for a lower place.

Or at least we hope so - besides the existence of this feature, not much is known in terms of which devices will and will not support this feature. If the company’s history of introducing features such as night mode across their entire range of devices is anything to consider however, then we can’t see this new Astrophotography mode being any being.

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Redmi K30 Pro Camera Test

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Redmi K30 Pro Specs That Matter And A Shocking Price

The Redmi K30 Pro was launched today in China and the specs of the Redmi K30 Pro are quite shocking for the price. We are going to cover some of the specs that matter for the Redmi K30 Pro. and finally some of our thoughts.

Screen:

Now the Redmi K30 Pro is quite a controversial device because unlike the base variant of the Redmi K30, the Redmi K30 Pro doesn’t have a high refresh rate screen. This is what the Redmi K30 Pro’s screen has:

• The Redmi K30 Pro has a 92.7% screen to body ratio which is in the top of it’s class.

• The screen of the Redmi K30 Pro is a 6.67 inch Samsung E3 display

• The Redmi K30 Pro screen gets bright, really bright, like 1200 nits peak brightness which is on par with the current iphone.

• HDR 10+ comes on both models of the Remi K30 Pro

• 180hz touch sampling. This means the Redmi K30 Pro screen is reading you finger movement 3 times per picture generated by the GPU.

Cameras:

• The main camera of the Redmi K30 Pro is a a 64MP Sony IMX686 primary sensor with OIS

• An super wide ultra wide camera with 13MP Ultra wide-angle 123-degree FoV lens

• The K30 Pro can also shoot video with it’s an 8MP telephoto/ macro lens with OIS.

• A depth sensor for portrait photos

Battery:

• The Redmi K30 Pro should get excellent battery life with its 4700mah battery

• The device will ship standard with a 33w charger in China. The Redmi K20 Pro was able to utilize the Xiaomi 27W wired charging so the Redmi K30 Pro is an improvement but not flagship level

• Redmi claims that the Redmi K30 Pro will go from 0-100% in one hour and 3 minutes

Final Thoughts On The Redmi K30 Pro

The Redmi K30 Pro is Redmi’s attempt at making compromises that most users want for their everyday smartphone. Many recent studies suggest that people are often unable to tell the difference between the high refresh rate display and a 60hz panel. Xiaomi have leveraged this and given us a device with specs that people can tangibly grasp. Like the cameras. Overall I think this smartphone is an excellent choice for most people and a big upgrade to the already good K20 Pro.

The Redmi K30 Pro And Redmi K30 Pro Zoom To Launch With 2 IMX686 64mp Cameras

As leaks roll out about the Redmi k30 Pro a lot of things about the Redmi k30 Pro have already been revealed. The Redmi K30 Pro is going to have a 60hz Super amoled display. Even though the Redmi k30 and Redmi K30 5g have 120hz LCD, the Redmi k30 Pro is going to go in a different direction. If you want to read about our thought about the Redmi k30 Pro screen check out this article here.

Another area the Redmi K30 Pro and the Redmi k30 and Redmi k30 5G will be different is their cameras. The Redmi K20 and Redmi k20 Pro had nearly identical cameras. The only difference between the Redmi K20 Pro camera and Redmi K20 camera was that the ability for the Redmi K20 Pro camera to record 4k60

30x Hybrid zoom

The Redmi K30 Pro and Redmi K30 Pro Zoom is set to have a flagship camera arrangement. The three cameras on the Redmi K30 Pro and Redmi K30 Pro Zoom are set to compete with other flagship cameras currently being offered. It has been confirmed by Redmi on Weibo that the Redmi K30 Pro and Redmi K30 Pro Zoom Camera. The Redmi k30 Pro & Redmi K30 Pro Zoom is set to ship with 4 camera’s. We know that 2 of the camera’s will be the Sony IMX686 64mp camera. This emphasis on cameras could unseat the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Pro as the best phone for most people.

The Redmi K30 Pro & Redmi K30 Pro Zoom will use one Sony IMX 686 for it’s main camera. Another area the Redmi K30 Pro & Redmi K30 Pro Zoom cameras will be different from the Redmi K30 & Redmi K30 Pro Zoom is that it will include OIS on not one camera, but the Redmi K30 Pro will have OIS on two camera’s along with EIS to give us a super steady video. The Redmi K30 Pro & Redmi K30 Pro Zoom telephoto camera will also feature OIS and give us up to 10x Hybrid zoom.

We are going to get an ultra wide camera with the the Redmi K30 Pro quad camera. The Ultra wide camera for the Redmi K30 Pro will not have OIS but OIS is less important on ultra wide angle cameras. What do you think the fourth camera on the Redmi K30 Pro and Redmi K30 Pro Zoom will be?