vivo has been one of the pioneers of mobile portrait photography. They combine the power of advanced hardware and their proprietary software to allow users to take high-quality portraits, without the need to buy an expensive DSLR camera or hiring a professional photographer.
The best part is, you don’t need to buy the best, most high-end vivo phone to have such incredible photography features. Their latest sub-flagship device, the vivo V30 Pro, boasts a couple of high end features and a triple camera setup engineered by renowned German company ZEISS.
Today, we’ll detail the key hardware and software features of the vivo V30 Pro that will allow you to take your best portraits. Let’s begin.
The hardware
As said earlier, the vivo V30 Pro 5G boasts a ZEISS Triple Main Camera system. There’s the 50-megapixel VCS True Color Main camera with a 1/1.49-inch sensor and OIS, a sharp 50-megapixel AF Ultra-Wide Camera, and a 50-megapixel ZEISS Professional Portrait Camera with a 50mm focal length for 2x lossless zoom. Yes, you heard that right, that’s three 50-megapixel cameras on a non-flagship smartphone.
Compared to its predecessor, the main 50MP VCS camera offers 200% better light intake, 25% better image purity, and 7.7% improved color accuracy.
Meanwhile, the sharp 50-megapixel ultra-wide camera has a wide 119-degree field-of-view that lets you cram up to 30 faces on a single frame. Perfect for those 0.6x group shots.
Of course, it’s also great for travel photography, scenery, infrastructures, and more.
Lastly, the 50mm focal length of the sharp telephoto lens was really made to take portrait shots. That’s the same focal range found on dedicated DSLR lenses for taking portraits of subjects: from humans, and animals, to objects.
The 2x zoom lets you get close enough to a subject to highlight its features and eliminate unnecessary elements from the background to ensure the subject is in focus.
More than the camera sensors, one of the key components in taking great photos — even in low light — is lighting. Hence, we have the Aura Light 3.0, which uses a much bigger soft flash to make sure your subject is evenly lit, even at night.
In fact, the Aura Light is so large you can light up a subject from a pitch-black room. It illuminates the subjects evenly, without being overexposed or overblown like on traditional LED flashes.
All the images are processed in a jiffy by the MediaTek Dimensity 8200 processor, aided by 12GB of RAM, and a large 512GB of storage so you can take a bunch of photos and videos without having to worry of running out of storage.
The photos are then displayed on the fancy 6.78-inch 2.8K AMOLED screen that has a high 120Hz refresh rate and HDR10+ support. You can also shoot all day with the help of the large 5,000mAh battery and 80W fast charging.
The software
To take great portraits, vivo has included different styles that are based on actual ZEISS lenses. There’s the ZEISS Biotar Style Bokeh, which is based on the classic ZEISS Biotar with a swirly bokeh on the background.
We also have the ZEISS Planar style with a sharp background blur, ZEISS Distagon Style with a hexagonal background, ZEISS Sonnar with a creamy blur; ZEISS Cinematic with a tall 2.39”1 aspect ratio, oval flares, and blur trail effect; and finally, the ZEISS Cine-flare that’s great for a bright background and creates a movie-like flare.
Oh, and of course, don’t forget to brag about your smartphone’s photography prowess by using one of the many watermark designs available on the settings. It showcases the camera settings you’ve used and, of course, showcases the iconic ZEISS branding.
As you just saw, the vivo V30 Pro 5G is well-equipped inside and out to let you take the best portrait you can get from a smartphone camera.
So if you want to have a portrait studio right in your pocket, go to your nearest vivo physical store and get the vivo V30 Pro 12GB/512GB for only Php34,999. You can also get it at and .