Latest Best Vivo X60 Pro Detailed Review in 2022
The Vivo X60 Pro is coming of age for Vivo. This smartphone states that Vivo can make a smartphone out of an incredible camera stack as the partnership with Zeiss has yielded very impressive results. The new Gimbal 20 stabilization works ridiculously well too, and the overall camera experience is so good that you’ll want to take more photos and record more videos. All of these work together to deliver impressive speed, giving an air of extreme responsiveness. This is also partly due to the 120Hz AMOLED display that comes with a 1080×2370 resolution but suffers from poor color adjustment across the wide color gamut. Another disappointment is the battery life, which offers almost a day’s worth of use. This is understandable though, given that the phone’s ultra-sleek form factor wouldn’t have allowed for a bigger battery. If you are a person whose primary means of taking photos is the smartphone, then the Vivo X60 Pro, even with all its flaws, is still the best option for you.
VIVO X60 PRO CAMERA PERFORMANCE
Vivo X60 Pro
We have a trio of cameras here, a 48-megapixel main camera with a Sony IMX598 at its heart. This sensor was also present in the Vivo X50 Pro and frankly, it is more than capable of delivering impressive results. It also comes with an aperture of f / 1.5, making it an ideal candidate for shooting in low light. Plus, you also get a 13-megapixel ultra-wide camera and a 13-megapixel portrait camera with a 2x field of view. So, this is how they all perform. Before getting into the details of camera performance, I want to point out one very critical detail. The Vivo X60 Pro is producing images in the Display-P3 color profile and not the typical sRGB. What this means is that these images not only contain many more colors, but they will also be more saturated to the eye. This is not the same as “increasing saturation through an algorithm”. If you were to view the images on a screen that confirms the sRGB color space, you will notice that the saturation drops considerably.
The main camera on the Vivo X60 Pro evokes a wow factor that I last experienced when using the Lumia 920, the first smartphone with optical image stabilization. Gimbal 2.0 stabilization is ridiculously effective, allowing you to take shots with complicated compositions with relative ease. I was able to walk with the phone in hand and still didn’t notice any shaking in my videos. The only other smartphone to offer this kind of stabilization is the iPhone 12 Pro Max, but stabilization isn’t the only area the Vivo X60 Pro excels in. Just look at the samples included below.
One thing that is clear is that the partnership with Zeiss has paid off in the form of incredibly sharp optics. Last year’s Vivo X50 had an aperture of f / 1.6, while this year it increased slightly to f / 1.5. Increasing the aperture size is quite a feat to achieve at given sensor size, while still maintaining all other aspects of good lens design, such as sharpness, reduced internal reflections, and of course, the elimination of any type of stripes. Even on DSLRs, prime lenses with wide apertures tend to be less than perfectly sharp at their initial aperture, becoming sharper only when stopped. Smartphones don’t enjoy that luxury, so lens design is very important. While there is a lot of improvement in the software, it always works to start with the correct RAW data.
Moving on from the main camera, we have the ultra-wide lens, with an output of 13 megapixels. Daytime shots from the ultra-wide camera reveal excellent sharpness throughout the frame, even at the extreme edges. We also see that a strong contrast curve is being applied as well, imposing a dynamic range penalty by squashing shadows. However, this behavior is not constant in all shots and only manifests itself in situations where there is strong lighting. Images of subjects that are backlit will see a crushing of shadows in the background for sure.
The third camera is a 50mm telephoto lens with an f / 2.5 aperture with a decent output when shooting in good light, but progressively getting less than stellar as the light fades. This is because the camera switches to use the main sensor for low-light telephoto shooting, and in this case, you can’t enjoy the benefits of binning.
