“Huddled in the back row of the stands, holding up mobile phones and clicking the shutter wildly, the playback is all blurry spots.” This is probably the common nightmare of all music fans.
But last night, Honor Terminal chief imaging engineer Luo Wei’s Weibo post caused a stir in the digital and fan circles: He posted a sample photo of Wang Leehom’s concert taken by Honor Magic8 Pro, with the caption “We don’t need a teleconverter.” The singer’s hair in the center of the stage was clear, and the facial details under the spotlight had no sense of smearing.
What makes engineers so tough is that the core is hidden in the image stack of Magic8 Pro. This flagship, which will be released on October 15, is equipped with a 200-megapixel periscope telephoto lens, and the sensor size reaches 1/1.4-inch outsole. You must know that a larger outsole means more light, which can easily suppress noise and retain dark details in a dark concert environment.
What’s more important is its anti-shake black technology. Luo Wei revealed that the Magic8 Pro’s OIS optical image stabilization reaches the CIPA level 5.5 standard. “Currently, only one company in the mobile phone industry except us can achieve this, and most models are still around level 2.”
How beatable is this set of data? For every CIPA level difference, the exposure time can be doubled, which means that even if your hands shake when you are excited, or even a patient with nervous hand shake, you can still capture a clear picture through a longer exposure, completely overpowering EIS electronic image stabilization that relies on cropping the picture.
Compared with flagship models on the market, the 5x telephoto of the Samsung S25 Ultra still relies on cropping, and the 48-megapixel telephoto of the iPhone 17 Pro Max loses obvious details in dark light. The Magic8 Pro’s 200-megapixel + high-standard anti-shake combination directly solves the three major pain points of concert shooting: “long distance, chaotic light, and easy shaking.”
While the image is powerful, the performance of Magic8 Pro is even better. The 4.16 million running score posted by product manager Li Kun directly broke the industry record. Behind this is the fifth-generation Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition. The chip is made of TSMC’s third-generation 3nm process. It is equipped with two 4.6GHz Oryon v2 ultra-large cores and a new generation Adreno GPU of 1.2GHz. It can accurately capture even the fast-beating stage moments.
Luo Wei explained: “The focus of concert capture is ‘fast, accurate and stable’. Phones with weak performance will either focus half a beat slower, or freeze after taking a few shots in a row. But Magic8 Pro’s focusing speed is increased by 20%, and with AI scene recognition, dynamic images of singers turning and jumping can instantly lock the focus.”
It is worth noting that Magic8 Pro does not sacrifice all-round experience for imaging. The large 7200mAh battery is nearly 2500mAh more than the iPhone 17 Pro Max. The 120W fast charge can quickly recharge the battery. With the 10bit Dolby Vision screen, you can lie down and watch high-definition playback after watching the concert.
The red maple multi-spectral sensor revealed by Luo Wei also improves the accuracy of skin color restoration under stage lighting by 15%, avoiding the embarrassment of “pale face” and “fluorescent face”.
There are still 5 days left before the press conference on October 15th. This set of sample photos has already made netizens unable to hold back: “Finally, I don’t have to carry a heavy camera to go to the concert” and “Stars with trembling hands can squat directly for the first release.” Judging from the information currently exposed, Honor has really welded the “image flagship” and “performance flagship” together this time.
